Robert Söderlund

Title Researcher, PhD

Research area New sequencing techniques and bioinformatics to improve our ability to find the sources and routes of transmission of bacteria

This includes both animal pathogens and infections spreading from animals to humans, with a particular focus on EHEC and Salmonella. He is also trying to figure out the relationship between genotype and tendency to cause more severe forms of disease in animal and human pathogens.

Research projects

• Sources and transmission routes for shigatoxigenic E. coli in foods of plant origin

  Start/End: 2024 - 2027

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Cervids Birds - wild Wild boar 2. Zero hunger 3. Good health and well-being 15. Life on land Disease control Zoonoses One Health Epidemiology In progress

• The silence of the lambs – aggressive anaplasmosis a growing concern in sheep on pasture

  Start/End: 2025 - 2027

  Project manager: Dinah Seligsohn

  Sheep 2. Zero hunger 12. Responsible consumption and production 15. Life on land Epidemiology AMR and other antibiotic-related questions In progress

• Tracing the emergence and spread of swine dysentery in Sweden

  Start/End: 2026 - 2027

  Project manager: Marie Sjölund

  Pig Disease control In progress

• DisPersal of AntIbiotic Resistance and antibiotics in Water ecosystems and Influence on liveStock and aquatic wildlife

  Start/End: 2021 - 2024

  Project manager: Karin Persson Waller

  Cattle Birds - wild Completed

• Large grazing birds as a potential source of salmonella and shigatoxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in the food chain

  Start/End: 2022 - 2023

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Birds - wild In progress

• Occurrence of EHEC bacteria in Swedish wheat flour

  Start/End: 2020 - 2022

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Sheep Goat Cattle Completed

• Mapping of chicken leukocytes with single cell RNA-seq

  Start/End: 2022 - 2022

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Poultry Completed

• Coccidiosis control in broilers

  Start/End: 2019 - 2022

  Project manager: Eva Wattrang

  Poultry Completed

• Erysipelas in layers - prophylaxis and prevention

  Start/End: 2020 - 2022

  Project manager: Helena Eriksson

  Poultry Completed

• Mapping of chicken leukocytes with single cell RNA-seq (1)

  Start/End: 2022 - 2022

  Project manager: Eva Wattrang

  Poultry Completed

• Colibacillosis in laying hens - characterization of isolates and data collection from outbreaks in Sweden

  Start/End: 2021 - 2022

  Project manager: Désirée Jansson

  Poultry Completed

• Molecular typing of STEC strains from slaughterhouse prevalence studies and for tracing sources of infection

  Start/End: 2020 - 2021

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Sheep Goat Cattle Completed

• Erysipelas in laying hens - epidemiology, pathogenesis and immunity

  Start/End: 2016 - 2021

  Project manager: Helena Eriksson

  Poultry Completed

• Improved national capability for early detection of atypical genetic signatures in pathogens recovered during food-chain related outbreaks

  Start/End: 2019 - 2020

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Completed

• Assessing the role of the acute phase protein and opsonin MBL in protective immune responses against erysipelas in chickens

  Start/End: 2018 - 2019

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Completed

• Erysipelas - an emerging disease in animal friendly production systems for poultry and pigs; EryPoP

  Start/End: 2016 - 2019

  Project manager: Helena Eriksson

  Pig Poultry Wild boar Completed

• Effective vaccination of layers - a prerequisite for a sustainable egg production and animal welfare in flocks with outdoor access

  Start/End: 2019 - 2019

  Project manager: Helena Eriksson

  Poultry Completed

• The role of gulls and corvids in local transmission of Campylobacter, Salmonella, Yersinia and VTEC

  Start/End: 2017 - 2018

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Completed

• The chicken immune response to Erysipelothrix rhusiopatiae

  Start/End: 2018 - 2018

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Completed

• Association between sequence types of equine herpes virus 5 (EHV-5) and equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis (EMPF)

  Start/End: 2017 - 2017

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Completed

• High resoultion typing of bacterial zoonoses for tracing the sources of outbreaks and human cases of infection

  Start/End: 2015 - 2016

  Project manager: Robert Söderlund

  Completed

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