The Prendergast Challenge-Based Project Awards, which enabled research teams to recruit PhD students to work on projects which address global challenges. These challenge-based awards were made possible through the generous philanthropic support of the Provost’s Council, a network of leading Trinity alumni and supporters who act as advisors to the College.

Antimicrobials are critical resources for human, animal and plant health. With emergence of antimicrobial resistance and lack of new antimicrobials, we face an unprecedented global environmental, food security and human health threat. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, the team including 4 PhD projects and expertise from plant scientists, clinical and environmental microbiologists, geneticists, antimicrobial resistance specialists, computer scientists/statisticians, bioengineers and sociologists, will study environmental and human ‘resistomes’ from agricultural and clinical settings and analyse agricultural stakeholders’ practices and policies to identify institutional reform implications.

Lead Principal Investigators:

Prof. Trevor Hodkinson, Botany, School of Natural Sciences

Dr Marta Martins, Assistant Professor in Microbiology, School of Genetics and Microbiology

Dr Sinéad Corr, Associate Professor in School of Genetics and Microbiology

Dr Julie Renwick, Assistant Professor in Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine

Dr Elaine Moriarty, Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Co-Investigators and Collaborators:

Dr Michael Monaghan, School of Engineering

Prof. Rose Anne Kenny, & Ann Hever, School of Medicine

Prof. Simon Wilson, School of Computer Science & Statistics

From left to right: Dr Michael Monaghan, Dr Sinéad Corr, Prof. Patrick Prendergast, Dr Marta Martins and Dr Julie. Renwick