Program
Please note: The schedule is subject to change without prior notice depending on the situation
| February 2, 2026 | |
| 08:00-09:00 | Registration |
| 08:50-09:00 | Opening Remarks by Prof. Piyamitr Sritara, President Mahidol University |
| 09:00-09:10 | Opening Remarks by Prof Igor Mokrousov, Saint Petersburg’s Pasteur Institute |
| 09:10-09:40 | Keynote Lecture – Taane Clark (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK) What can ’omics tell us about tuberculosis? |
| 09:40-10:00 | Invited Speakers - Christophe Sola (Université Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, FR) Reconstructing a global evolutionary history of tuberculosis: what are the still unanswered questions ?? |
| 10:00-10:20 | Invited Speakers - Kiatichai Faksri (Faculty of Medicine, Khonkaen University, TH) Application of Genomics and OMICS Approaches for the Diagnosis and Control of Mycobacterium and Related Pathogens |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:10 | Invited Speakers - Amador Goodridge (INDICASAT-AIP, City of Knowledge), PA)
Endemic transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sublineage L2.2.M3 within Panama |
| 11:10-11:35 | Co-Chairs - Igor Mokrousov (Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute, RU)
Genomic insight into Mycobacterium tuberculosis adaptation to external stress in the in vivo and in vitro models |
| 11:35-12:35 | Presentations sponsored by Qiagen
Speaker 1: Vanitha Palaeya (QIAGEN, MY) Transforming TB Genomic Surveillance and Resistance Profiling with QIAseq xHYB Mycobacterium tuberculosis Panel Speaker 2: Zirwatul Adilah Bt Aziz, (National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory, MY) Culture-Free Whole Genome Sequencing: The NPHL Experience with QIAseq xHYB Mycobacterium tuberculosis Workflow |
| 12:35-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | Poster Session 1 |
| 14:30-14:50 | Invited Speakers - Danila Zimenkov (Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RU)
The hidden diversity of Mycobacterium |
| 14:50-15:10 | Invited Speakers - Nawamin Pinpathomrat (Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, TH)
TB vaccine platforms and delivering system |
| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee Break |
| 15:40-16:55 | Oral Presentations 1
Oren Tzfadia - A next-generation Mycobacterial knowledge base Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin - Genomic insights into drug resistance and transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis strains in Bangladesh John Carlo Macasaddug Malabad - A molecular epidemiologic analysis of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates derived from the Third Philippine TB Drug Resistance Survey 2018 and community-based study Pundharika Piboonsiri - Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals emerging bedaquiline resistance variants in Thailand Motunrayo Badejo - Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles perturb mycobacterial homeostasis and unveil gene expression signatures of antimicrobial action |
| February 3, 2026 | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Keynote Lecture – Qian Gao (Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, CN) Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China |
| 09:30-10:00 | Keynote Lecture – Katsushi Tokunaga (National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, JP) Genomic approach to infectious diseases |
| 10:00-10:20 | Invited Speakers - Surakameth Mahasirimongkol (Assistant Permanent Secretary, MOPH, TH) Precision Control of TB: The future of ending TB by 2030 |
| 10:20-10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:50-11:10 | Invited Speakers - Taisei Mushiroda (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, JP) Toward Patient-Centered, Stratified Tuberculosis Treatment Through Pharmacogenomics |
| 11:10-11:30 | Invited Speakers - Margarita Shleeva (Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences) A novel biochemical reaction in mycobacteria: coproporphyrin III tetramethyl ester synthesis and its adaptation significance |
| 11:30-11:50 | Invited Speakers - Egor Shitikov (Lopukhin Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, RU)
Mycobacteriophages: From Laboratory Research to Practical Applications in Medicine |
| 11:50-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-14.00 | Poster Session 2 |
| 14:00-14:20 | Invited Speakers - Marisa Ponpuak (Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH) Monocyte transcriptional responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with natural resistance to tuberculosis infection |
| 14:20-14:40 | Invited Speakers - Alexander Apt (Central Institute of Tuberculosis, Moscow, RU) Tuberculosis infection control by the MHC-II in mice and the sequence of innate/adaptive immune responses to infection |
| 14:40-15:00 | Invited Speakers - Tomasz Jagielski (University of Warsaw, PL) A water tale - new insights into the ecology of nontuberculous-mycobacteria |
| 15:00-15:20 | Invited Speakers - David Couvin (Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, FR) SITVIT++: Next-Generation Mycobacterium tuberculosis databases and biobanks for genomic surveillance, drug resistance monitoring, and predictive intelligence |
| 15:20-15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50-17:00 | Oral Presentations 2
Noppadon Nuntawong - Engineering a robust SERS-based POC system for tuberculosis screening Saradee Warit - Advancing tuberculosis diagnosis in macaques: A One Health approach Narisa Mohthong - Investigating immune profiles in healthy and latent tuberculosis-infected participants. Yoopie Setiawan - The interferon-gamma response to Latin American Mediterranean and modern Beijing sub-lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in drug-sensitive and resistant tuberculosis Pyae Sone Oo - Differential immune responses to novel and established Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens among tuberculosis patients in Southern Thailand |
| February 4, 2026 | |
| 09:00-09:30 | Keynote Lecture – Urvashi Singh (All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and Head of National TB program, IN) M. tuberculosis genomics and transmission tracing in India |
| 09:30-09:50 | Invited Speakers - Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong (Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, TH) Geno-spatio-temporal analysis, interpretation and implications on Infectious diseases |
| 09:50-10:10 | Invited Speakers - Richard Anthony (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, NL) Micro-evolution in clustered cases of tuberculosis a useful signal or noise? |
| 10:10-10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40-11:00 | Invited Speakers - Sayera Banu (Head, Programme on Emerging Infections, Infectious Diseases Division, icddr, BD) Targeted next-generation sequencing for detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis: Challenges and insights from high burden settings in Bangladesh |
| 11:00-11:30 | Invited Speakers - Pakorn Aiewsakun (Center for Microbial Genomics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH) Whole genome sequence analysis to detect MTB transmission cluster |
| 11:30-12:00 | Invited Speakers - Robin Warren (Stellenbosch University, ZA) The genesis and transmission of drug-resistant TB |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13.00-14.00 | Oral Presentation 3
Tania Jim - The use of a novel conjugated oligoelectrolytelcheva molecule to potentiate antibiotic efficacy against Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Kishan Kumar Parida - Structure based identification and validation of Benzothiazole derivatives as potent DprE1 inhibitors against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Hleziphi Violah Mpundu - Targeting drug-tolerant tuberculosis through repurposing of approved drugs Arnab Roy - Overcoming metabolic redundancy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis via dual inhibition of terminal oxidases |
| 14:00-14:20 | Invited Speakers - Mi Kaixia (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) Elucidating the dual role of Mycobacterial MfpA in Fluoroquinolone resistance and virulence regulation |
| 14:20-14:40 | Invited Speakers - Violeta Valcheva (Department of Infectious Microbiology, Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG) Development and Pharmacological Evaluation of Novel Hydrazide - Hydrazone Derivatives as Potential Antituberculosis drug candidates |
| 14:40-15:00 | Invited Speakers - Oleg Ogarkov (Scientific Center for Family Health and Human Reproduction Problems, Irkutsk, RU) The formation of a polybacterial community in caseous necrosis: A Common and Adverse Consequence of Tuberculosis |
| 15:00-15:20 | Co-Chairs - Prasit Palittapongarnpim (Center for Microbial Genomics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH) Structural variations of the pe/ppe gene family |
| 15:10-15:30 | Closing ceremony |
