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2026 Annual 涩里番 AMR Symposium

Theme: One Health AMR

Monday, June 8, 2026听| 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM (tentative)
In-Person | Registration required
Networking reception to follow听

Plaza Centre-Ville, Regency C
777 Boulevard Robert-Bourassa, Montreal

The 涩里番 AMR Centre hosting it's 6th Annual Symposium on Monday June 8, 2026!听We are inviting you to join this in-person event to network and discuss AMR-related topics, AMR community research interests and needs.听Special guests Sabrina Sholts (Smithsonian Institute) and Ed Topp (INRAE) will be the keynote speakers.听Preliminary program will include faculty talks, poster presentations, trainee flash talks and "Career Insight" luncheon for trainees.

Sabrina Sholts, PhD
Curator of Biological Anthropology
Department of Biological Anthropology
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Bio: Sabrina Sholts听is a Curator of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian鈥檚 National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), where her research uses One Health approaches to explore intersections of human, animal, and environmental health in the past and present. She received her PhD in Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara and was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley in the Department of Integrative Biology and the Human Evolution Research Center.鈥疕er first book,听The Human Disease: How We Create Pandemics, from Our Bodies to Our Beliefs听(MIT Press,鈥�2024), won a PROSE award and a Smithsonian Secretary's Research Prize in 2025. Sholts was Lead Curator for the exhibit 鈥淥utbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World鈥� at NMNH in 2018-2022 and scientific advisor for the exhibit 鈥溍塸id茅mies, prendre听soin听du vivant鈥� at the听mus茅e听des Confluences鈥痠n Lyon, France in 2024-25. She was named a World Economic Forum Young Scientist in 2019 and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2025.听

Ed Topp, PhD
ANR/INSERM Senior Research Chair, Priority Research Program on AMR
Research Director, Agroecology Mixed Research Unit, INRAE, University of Burgundy, Dijon, France
Founder of the EDAR conference series and Co-Chair of EDAR8

Bio: Since July 2023, Ed Topp has held the ANR/INSERM Senior Chair, in France鈥檚 Priority Research Program on Antibiotic Resistance, and is Director of Research at the UMR Agroecology at the INRAE research center in Dijon. Before his arrival in France, he was a Principal research scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). He was also the scientific coordinator (2016-23) of the Federal genomics research and development initiative on antimicrobial resistance [GRDI-AMR], a key element of the Canadian federal action plan against antimicrobial resistance. He holds adjunct faculty positions in the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario. Ed is an environmental microbiologist and chemist and conducts research on animal and crop production practices that are protective of environmental and human health. A particular focus is the mitigation of the development and transmission of antimicrobial resistance. Ed has co-authored over 325 peer-reviewed publications and has an H-index of 91 (Google scholar 11.2025). He co-authored the 2023 United Nations Environmental Program report 鈥溾��. He is a past president of the Canadian Society for Microbiologists (2011), and was on the JPIAMR Science Advisory Board (2019-21). He was awarded the AAFC Gold Harvest award for Career Achievement (2015), and the Government of Canada Public Service Award of Excellence for Scientific Contribution (2016). He was elected a corresponding member of l鈥檃cademie d鈥檃griculture de France (2016) and was appointed a Fellow of the Soil Science of America (2022).

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