Prof. Anne-Merethe Hanssen

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMetabolism, Biochemistry, and Genetics of Microorganisms,Microbial Ecology and Applied Microbiology,General Genetics, Functional Genome Research
KeywordsMicrobiome, Clinical metagenomics, Staphylococcus aureus/MRSA, Antimicrobial resistance, Host-microbe interactions

Current contact address

CountryNorway
CityTromsö
InstitutionThe Arctic University of Norway
InstituteDepartment of Medical Biology, Bachelor Programme in Biomedical Laboratory Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Priv. Doz. Dr. Elisabeth GrohmannFachgebiet Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2006

Programme(s)

2006Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2008V. Vorobieva, T. Bazhukova, Anne-Merethe Hanssen, D. A. Caugant, N. Semenova, B. C. Haldorsen, G. S. Simonsen, and A. Sundsfjord: Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from the Arkhangelsk region, Russia: antimicrobial susceptibility, molecular epidemiology, and distribution of Panton-Valentine leukocidine genes. In: APMIS, 2008, 877-887
2008B. Walther, L. H. Wieler, A. W. Friedrich, A.-M. Hanssen, B. Kohn, L. Brunnberg, and A. Lübke-Becker. Short communication. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from small and exotic animals at a university hospital during routine veterinary microbiological examinations. In: Vet. Microbiol , 2008, 171-178
2008B. Haldorsen, B. Aasnaes, K.H. Dahl, A.-M. Hanssen, G. S. Simonsen, T. R. Walsh, A. Sundsfjord, and E. W. Lundblad. The AmpC phenotype in Norwegian clinical isolates of Escherichia coli is associated with an acquired ISEcp1-like ampC element or hyperproduction of the endogenous AmpC. In: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2008, 694-702
2007Anne-Merethe Hanssen and J. U. Ericson Sollid: Multiple Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosomes and Allelic Variants of Cassette Chromosome Recombinases in Staphylococcus aureus and Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci from Norway. In: Antimicrob. Agents Chemother , 2007, 1671-1677
2006Anne-Merethe Hanssen and J. U. Ericson Sollid: SCCmec in staphylococci: A genetic portrait of genes on the move. In: FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology , 2006, 8-20