These individuals received funding in the 2009/10 period to visit an institution in another country and expand their knowledge.
Jon van Aartsen
Leicester, United Kingdom
Project title: Characterization of a Klebsiella pneumoniae genomic island bearing a novel type 1-like fimbrial operon
Project location: Department of Surveillance and Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
training report
José-Luis Navarro Laredo
Aranjuez, Spain
Project title: Training in Tropical Parasitology
Project location: National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology Network, Hanoi, Vietnam
training report
Alicia Gomez Lopez
Micologia, Majadahonda-Madrid, Spain
Project title: Training in PK/PD with antifungal agents
Project location: School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
training report
Carina Valente
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Project title: Detection of multiple colonization with Streptococcus pneumoniae by microarray
Project location: Bacterial Microarray Group, St George University of London, London, UK
training report
Minna Karden-Lilja
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
Project title: Vancomycin-resistant enterococci: S1 nuclease plasmid characterization
Project location: Department of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North-Norway, Tromso, Norway
training report
Angela Somodevilla
La Princesa Universitary Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Project: Identification and Characterization of pathogenicity factors in Spanish strains of Helicobacter pylori
Project location: Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham, UK
Kati Vuorenoja
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Turku, Finland
Project: S1 nuclease digestion followed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis and southern blot hybridization
Project location: Dept. of Microbiology and Infection Control, University Hospital of North-Norway, Tromso, Norway
training report
Ana Silva
University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
Project: Elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying azole resistance of C. parapsilosis
Project location: School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
training report
