Lists of Speakers
Igor Mokrousov
Pasteur Institute
St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Russia
Brief Bio
Dr. Igor Mokrousov, Ph.D., D.Sc., is Head of Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics at St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute (Russia). His research is focused on phylogenomics, evolution, drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its coadaptation with humans and experimental evolution in vitro and in vivo. Dr. Mokrousov co-authored more than 190 peer-reviewed articles (H-index 42; >6000 citations), including papers in Clinical Microbiology Reviews, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Nature Genetics, and book chapters published by Cambridge, Oxford, Elsevier, and Springer. He received Scientific Prize from International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (2004), Marie Curie fellowship (2007), and several Honor Awards from the Russian Health Service. He is serving as Senior Editor in Infection, Genetics and Evolution and BMC Microbiology.
Prasit Palittapongarnpim
Center for Microbial Genomics
Bangkok, Thailand
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Taane Clark
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
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Qian Gao
Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University
Shanghai, China
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Katsushi Tokunaga
National Center for Global Health and Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
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Director of Genome Medical Science Project, National Institute of Global Health and Medicine (NIGHM), Director of Central Biobank, National Center Biobank Network (NCBN), and Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo. His research interests are genomic studies for immune-related complex diseases, including infectious diseases, particularly HLA-disease associations, as well as human genome diversity and personalized medicine. In recent years, he has led the National Center Biobank Network and large-scale whole genome sequencing projects for rare and complex diseases. He is a member of the Science Council of Japan and a Councilor of the International HLA and Immunogenetics Workshop. He had served as a board member of the Japan Society of Human Genetics and as President of the Japanese Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. He also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Genetics, advisory editor of several academic journals, and the founding editor of Human Genome Variation. He has published 767 peer-reviewed original English articles, including those published in Nature, Science, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Nature Genetics, and Nature Medicine.
Urvashi Singh
All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and Head of National TB Program
New Delhi, India
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Oleg Ogarkov
Scientific Center for Family Health and Human Reproduction Problems
Irkutsk, Russia
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Danila Zimenkov
Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia
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Egor Shitikov
Federal Medical-Biological Agency
Moscow, Russia
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Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
Prince of Songkla University
Songkla, Thailand
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Nawamin Pinpathomrat
Prince of Songkla University
Songkla, Thailand
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Sayera Banu
International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research,
Dhaka, Bangladesh
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Dr. Sayera Banu is a Bangladeshi scientist and medical doctor with advanced degrees in Microbiology, specializing in mycobacterial infections. As a Senior Scientist at icddr,b, she leads the Program for Emerging Infections and has dedicated over 25 years to tuberculosis (TB) research and programmatic initiatives. She is also leading a well-equipped Mycobacteriology laboratory. Dr. Banu’s work has had a significant national and international impact. She established the cutting-edge icddr,b TB laboratory, conducted Southeast Asia's first multidrug-resistant TB sentinel surveillance, and introduced new tools and technologies to advance TB research. Her studies on TB prevalence and transmission in confined prison settings in Dhaka and the development of an innovative public-private model for TB diagnosis and management have been incorporated into Bangladesh's National Strategic Plan.
