CANS | UiT

Centre for new antibacterial strategies (CANS) is a large interdisciplinary centre at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway for research, education, innovation and dissemination related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). CANS currently involves sixteen research groups located at three faculties and covers topics within marine bioprospecting – identification and characterization of new antibacterial activities, design and synthesis of new antibiotics and resistance inhibitors, the evolution and molecular epidemiology of AMR, host-microbe-drug interactions, and antibiotic stewardship.

The centre aims to strengthen current activities, but also support new basic research in novel concepts for sustainable antibacterial activities in AMR-prevention and treatment strategies through new permanent and temporary (tenure-track, postdoc and PhD) positions.

CANS is financed through UiT and Tromsø Research Foundation (TFS).

CANS seminars

CANS Day 2025
Mars 27. 2025 – Mars 27. 2025

CANS Day 2025

Where: Radisson blu – Tromsø
When: Mars 27. 2025 at 08:30 – 16:00

Annual scientific update for members of CANS - Centre for New Antibacterial Strategies. Save the date! The programme will be updated on this page.

CANS Day 2025

Photo: Mostphotos/Aiman Dairabaeva

Dear all CANS members, researchers, students, PhDs, postdocs and associates! This year's CANS Day will be held in SAS Radisson Blu in Tromsø city centre on 27 March.

The registration is now closed and we invite all participants to get ready for an exciting day packed with presentations, poster sessions, cross disciplinary discussions, networking, lunch and dinner!

PhDs and postdocs have been invited to submit abstracts (max 300 words). The authors of the best abstracts will be invited to participate in the poster session or to give an oral presentation onstage.

There is no registration fee. Lunch and dinner at the hotel will be covered by CANS.

Programme

We are working on the scientific programme. It will be updated on this website.

The conference starts at 08.30. Scientific programme including poster session until 17.00 (5 PM).
Dinner is at 19.00

Keynote speakers

Timothy Walsh:
"The human burden of AMR in a global context"

Independent Chief Scientific Consultant, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance solutions (ICARS- Partnering for impact). Director of Biology, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research; Professor of Medical Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of Oxford.

Sílvio Santos
“Bacteriophages in the Fight Against AMR”