Ep 58: Evangelos Mourkas, campylobacter & urbanization. Probiotics & AMR. Plasmid-chromosome cross-talk.
Welcome to 2025! We are so happy to be starting one more year with you, our 8th year! On this episode, we bring you the story and work of Dr. Evangelos Mourkas, a veterinarian-turned-computational biologist who loves to also do the field work himself! In this interview we dive deep into his motivators, reflections and how campylobacter can be used as a marker for AMR spread.
On the news section, we bring you a recent paper looking into the potential risks of probiotics through the lens of AMR, and the latest publication by a previous guest, Alvaro San Millán, exploring the cross-talk between plasmids and the carrier’s chromosome.
We hope you enjoy this month’s content, and are ready to share an awesome 2025 of learning and exploring new themes!
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Relevant links:
- Dr. Evangelos Mourkas page at Uppsala University
- Dr. Evangelos Mourkas LinkedIn
- "Birds, Bugs, and Resistance:The Impact of Urbanization on Pathogen Spread" - Recorded Webinar at the UAC webinar series.
Further Reading:
- Proximity to humans is associated with antimicrobial-resistant enteric pathogens in wild bird microbiomes. Article by our guest mentioned during the interview.
- One Health: Urban birds peck up resistant pathogens. Dispatch on the previous paper.
- Evaluating the health risk of probiotic supplements from the perspective of antimicrobial resistance. First article covered in the news section.
- A plasmid-chromosome crosstalk in multidrug resistant enterobacteria. Second paper covered in the news section.
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