Outreach

Talk by Daniel Salamonsen: "Functional trade-offs of penicillinase and cephalosporinase activity in the carbapenemase enzyme OXA-48", CANS seminar , UiT, 27.4.23.
Talk by Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros to high school students from Karasjokk entitled: “Hvorfor Norge trenger kjemikere", på UiT 20.1.23.
Talk by Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros to high school students at Kvaløya VGS entitled: “Hvorfor Norge trenger kjemikere",14.12.2022.
An interview with NRK.no, Troms og Finnmark (12.08.22) "Kor ofte skal du ta antibiotika? Kanskje oftare enn vi gjer no, ifølge forskarar".
Article at UiT Forskerhjørne: "Vi må kanskje ta antibiotika hyppigere". By Christopher Frøhlich and Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros. 11.08.22.
Talk by Christopher Fröhlich ECCMID, april 2022, Lisboa. "Positive epistasis drives the molecular evolution of the carbapenemase OXA-48". Co-authors: C. Frohlich, A.H. Bunzel, A.J. Mulholland, M.W. Van Der Kamp, H.K.S. Leiros, P.J. Johnsen, N. Tokuriki.
Poster at Poster: ECCMID, april 2022, Lisboa. "Co-selection reduces functional trade-offs in the carbapenemase OXA-48". By Daniel Salamonsen, Christopher Fröhlich, Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros
Talk by Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros to high school students at Kongsbakken entitled: “Bruk av 3D enzymstrukturer som bryter ned penicillin-lignende antibiotika, i kampen mot antibiotika resistente bakterier.» 25.2.22.
Article in pest-POSTEN, Legeforeningen. ”LacZymes”: Hvordan kan den tre dimensjonale strukturen til resistens-enzymene hjelpe å forstå beta-laktam resistens?" 2021, page 24 here.
Poster at German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) annual meeting. Jia, Y., Schröder, B., Arkona, C., Pfeifer, Y., Deng, L., Kuropka, B., Fröhlich, C., Ataka, K., Wolber, G., Leiros, H.-K. S., Mielke, M., Werner, G., Rademann, J. "Zinc-dependent inhibitors of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) re-sensitize multi-drug resistant bacteria for carbapenems." 28.09.2021.
The PhD thesis of Dr. Christopher Frøhlich is published here. The PhD thesis has the tittle: "On the Evolvability of OXA-48. A comprehensive study of new functions within the β-lactamase OXA-48".
Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros gave a talk to the Norwegian Chemical Society (NKS), avd. Nord-Norge, 28.01.0221, with the tittle: "Et tredimensjonalt blikk på enzymstrukturer som bryter ned penicillin lignende antibiotika. Hvordan kan vi bidra i kampen mot antibiotikaresistente bakterier?".
Christopher Frøhlich gave a talk entitled: «Ceftazidime drives the evolution of the carbapenamase OXA-48», on the GW4 Multidisciplinary Approaches to AMR: From Bench to Bedside and Beyond 2020, UK, 03.12.2020.
An article in Norwegian where Hanna-Kirsti is interviewed entitled: "Vil ha 40 prosent kvinner i toppstillingar".
Hanna-Kirsti is part of the digital Sciencesdays (forsakingsdagene) 2020.
Annette Bayer at forskning.no presentes: "Små hjelpestoffer kan få gammel antibiotika til å virke igjen"
Article in Norsk Farmaceutisk Tidsskrift: "Kjemikerne prøver å stoppe kjeften på antibiotikadreperne" as part of several articles on groups in CANS.
Poster at ECCMID 2019, Amsterdam, "Sub-inhibitory concentrations of ceftazidime drive evolution of the OXA-48 carbapenemase", by C. Frøhlich, H.-K.S. Leiros, P.J. Johnsen and Ø.Samuelsen.
Hanna-Kirsti gave a talk to the NT-fakulty "Antibiotika resistens er et globalt problem. Nye inhibitorer og velkjente antibiotika, kan de sammen bli ny behandlings metode?"
Annette, Susann and Hanna-Kirsti were at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India, as attending the AROHP 2019 workshop on Antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
We have been present at the science days for many years.
Leiros was in the newspaper iTromsø: "Utfordrer stereotyper om kvinners karrierevalg".
We have been part of the exhibition "Trodde du?", 08.03.2018 with Prof. Leiros.
Here is a film on YouTube about “My occupation as a chemist”, made for advertising the Department of Chemistry, UiT.
The UiT magazine Labyrint wrote a long article on “The fight” against antibiotic resistance where the LacZymes project part of chapter 3 “The life threatening resistance”.
This YouTube film presents the LacZymes research project and it was made by UiT 3.4.2017.
Another YouTube film of Professor Karen Bush, is from her visit to Tromsø in 2017.
A presentation of the project was filmed by NRK TV by Schrödingers katt, called “Krystaller mot antibiotikaresistens”.
Forskning.no a scientific web based newspaper, presented the PhD work of Susann Skagseth as “Forskere vil gjenreise effekten av antibiotika».
The PhD work of Susann Skagseth «Superbugs" skal ikke lengre få herje i fred» is presented here.
The PhD work of Bjarte Aarmo Lund «Bekjemper antibiotikaresistens" is presented here.
PhD student Bjarte Aarmo Lund has written popular since paper in Naturen 2016: "Lego i kampen mot antibiotikaresistens" shown here.
We have given popular science lectures to school classes.
The PhD student Bjarte Aarmo Lund have had chemistry shows for school classes.
A popular science lecture have been given at the senior university.
This readers’ letters (leserinnlegg) in Aftenposten, 28.3.17, by Professor Ørjan Samuelsen and others, is entitled «It is not enough to reduce the use of antibiotics- we need new ones. And someone has to pay".
A new paper article in VG, VG 6.12.2013 and in Aftenposten, 22.12.2015 describes the ZinChel project where several group members are involved.
PhD student Bjarte Aarmo Lund have a blog on good chemistry https://blogg.uit.no/blu002/
Exhibition at Tromsø Museum. 100 years with crystallography. Poster (see below) and Exhibition.
Exhibition at Tromsø Museum. Marine bio-prospecting. Hunting molecules in the deep North Sea. Poster (see below) and Exhibition.

Exhibition at Tromsø Museum. 100 years with crystallography. Foto: Ellen-Marie Beck og Hanna-Kristi S. Leiros

Exhibition at Tromsø Museum. Marine bio-prospecting. Hunting molecules in the deep North Sea. Foto: Ellen-Marie Beck and Hanna-Kristi S. Leiros