Siamak Yazdankhah

Stilling

Prosjektleder for faggruppen for mikrobiell økologi i VKM.

Utdanning

1997 – 2001: PhD, Norges miljø- og biovitenskapelig universitet (Veterinærhøyskolen).

1993 – 1995: Cand. Scient. Norges teknisk-vitenskapelige universitet, Cellebiologi

1988 – 1991. Bioingeniørutdanning- Bioingeniørhøyskolen, Rikshospitalet

Arbeidserfaring

2016 – dd: Prosjektleder, Vitenskapskomiteen for mat og miljø

2009 – 2016: Seniorrådgiver, Statens legemiddelverk, faggruppe for antibiotika

2004 – 2009: Prosjektleder, Vitenskapskomiteen for mattrygghet

2002 – 2004: Postdoktorstilling, Folkehelseinstituttet

Øvrig faglig bakgrunn

Medlem av faggruppe for hygiene og smittestoffer – VKM (2010-2016)

Referee for flere internasjonale journaler innen antimikrobiell resistens, probiotika, …..

Utvalgte publikasjoner

Yazdankhah S, Rudi K, Bernhoft A. Zinc and copper in animal feed - development of resistance and co-resistance to antimicrobial agents in bacteria of animal origin. Microb Ecol Health Dis. 2014 Sep 26;25.

Yazdankhah S, Lassen J, Midtvedt T, Solberg CO. The history of antibiotics. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2013 Dec 10;133(23-24):2502-7.

Hegstad K, Langsrud S, Lunestad BT, Scheie AA, Sunde M, Yazdankhah SP. Does the wide use of quaternary ammonium compounds enhance the selection and spread of antimicrobial resistance and thus threaten our health? Microb Drug Resist. 2010 Jun;16(2):91-104.

Yazdankhah SP, Asli AW, Sørum H, Oppegaard H, Sunde M. Fusidic acid resistance, mediated by fusB, in bovine coagulase-negative staphylococci. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2006 Dec;58(6):1254-6.

Yazdankhah SP, Scheie AA, Høiby EA, Lunestad BT, Heir E, Fotland TØ, Naterstad K, Kruse H. Triclosan and antimicrobial resistance in bacteria: an overview. Microb Drug Resist. 2006 Summer;12(2):83-90.

Yazdankhah SP, Kriz P, Tzanakaki G, Kremastinou J, Kalmusova J, Musilek M, Alvestad T, Jolley KA, Wilson DJ, McCarthy ND, Caugant DA, Maiden MC. Distribution of serogroups and genotypes among disease-associated and carried isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from the Czech Republic, Greece, and Norway.J Clin Microbiol. 2004 Nov;42(11):5146-53

Yazdankhah SP, Sørum H, Oppegaard H. Comparison of genes involved in penicillin resistance in staphylococci of bovine origin. Microb Drug Resist. 2000 Spring;6(1):29-36

Nilsen H, Yazdankhah SP, Eftedal I, Krokan HE. Sequence specificity for removal of uracil from U.A pairs and U.G mismatches by uracil-DNA glycosylase from Escherichia coli, and correlation with mutational hotspots. FEBS Lett. 1995 Apr 3;362(2):205-9.