The Johnson Lab was featured in an article on the UMN College of Veterinary Medicine’s profiles publication. Looking good, everyone!
Link to the full article here.
Lab News Headlines
Salmonella surveillance research featured in CVM’s Profiles
Salmonella surveillance research featured by UMN
Dr. Johnson was featured in a UMN “Expert Alert” article where he discussed our work developing comparative genomics tools that will enable poultry producers to identify high-risk Salmonella in their flocks before it enters the food supply chain.
Link to full article here.
Minimum spanning tree of turkey-source Salmonella Reading isolates using cgMLST.
Full article can be found here.
Salmonella research highlighted in Brainerd Dispatch
Dr. Johnson was featured in an article by the Brainerd Dispatch discussing our research on using comparative genomics to identify newly emerging strains of Salmonella. Our ultimate goal with this research is to “provide this pipeline to producers in a ‘plug-and-play’ format, capable of quickly telling a producer if a new, high-risk strain of salmonella has emerged in their system”.
Link to the full article here.
Liz Miller Examines Antimicrobial Resistant E. coli in Wild Giraffes
Postdoc Liz Miller’s research on transmission of antimicrobial resistant E. coli in Kenyan giraffes was recently featured on the Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences webpage and the College of Veterinary Medicine News & Events website.
Link to VBS article here.
Link to CVM article here.
Emily Smith tackles infectious disease in poultry and Canada geese
Our graduate student, Emily Smith, and her research were recently featured on the Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences webpage!
Link to the full article here.
Turkey probiotics research highlighted by UMN
The lab’s recent paper in mBio on how “Antibiotics and Host-Tailored Probiotics Similarly Modulate Effects on the Developing Avian Microbiome, Mycobiome, and Host Gene Expression” was highlighted as a Research Brief on the University of Minnesota’s News & Events website.
“Our results show that customized probiotics for food animals may be beneficial, which could be a game-changer for veterinary and human medicine.”
Professor Tim Johnson, College of Veterinary Medicine
Link to the UMN Research Brief here.
Link to the mBio paper here.
Wildlife AMR research highlighted on Science Daily
Our lab’s post-doc, Elizabeth Miller, in collaboration with Dr. Kimberly VanderWaal, published her work entitled “Assessing Transmission of Antimicrobial-Resistant Escherichia coli in Wild Giraffe Contact Networks” in Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Her research was highlighted in Science Daily and the paper was also an AEM Spotlight and cover article!
Network of giraffe association strength. Enlarged nodes outlined in red indicate giraffe yielding at least one antimicrobial resistant E. coli isolate.
Link to the Science Daily article here.
Link to the paper here.
Dr. Johnson speaks at New York Academy of Sciences symposium on AMR
Dr. Johnson gave a talk entitled “Microbiome Manipulation: Probiotics and Prebiotics” at the New York Academy of Sciences day-long symposium on minimizing the risk of antimicrobial resistance from food animal production.
Link to the symposium website here.
Report calls for more data on alternatives to antibiotics in food animals
A report from the Pew Charitable Trusts on alternatives to antibiotics in animal agriculture finds more research is needed. Dr. Johnson was one of the experts consulted for the report.
Link to the UMN CIDRAP article here.
Link to the full report here.
Dr. Johnson quoted in Scientific American
A write-up in Scientific American about the livestock industry and antimicrobial resistant bacteria, included several quotes from Dr. Johnson about the risk of plasmid-localized resistance genes.
Link to the full article here.