Amulya Baral

Doctoral project: AntibiotiKu: Antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in Norwegian cattle

• Built and validated a corrected dataset from the national VetReg prescription database; produced the first complete description of antimicrobial use in Norwegian cattle (2018–2023) using DDDvet metrics
• Characterized fecal resistomes from 551 cattle (HUNT One Health cohort) via shotgun metagenomics, linking resistance genes to animal metadata and microbiota
• Secured 50,000 NOK additional grant from NORM for sequencing and sample processing
• Board member for 2026 and responsible for all communication channels at SoDoC, a free interest organization for PhD candidates, postdocs, and temporary researchers at NMBU.

Research stay at the Rare Microbe Bioinformatics Lab (RamBio, Patrick Munk)

• Profiled bovine fecal resistomes; analyzed resistance genes, diversity, and genomic contexts
• Joined NoMoReAMR consortium; developed nomoreamr.org, a knowledge base for Nordic AMR/AMU surveillance
• Developed the PanRes database ontology viewer

PLASTPATH - metagenomics of plastisphere microbial communities; characterizing resistomes on plastic particles across freshwater and wastewater environments

• Bioinformatics & Biostatistics — Master's in Applied Biotechnology
• ICT & Applied Bioinformatics — Bachelor's in Bioengineering

• nomoreamr.org — Knowledge base for AMR and antimicrobial use surveillance systems across the Nordic countries
• panres.rambio.dk — Ontology browser for the PanRes pan-resistome database
• swiftomics.com — No-code bioinformatics platform that runs locally (work in progress)