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class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8d393ec elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"8d393ec\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!DOCTYPE html>\r\n<html>\r\n<head>\r\n<style>\r\n table tr td {\r\n padding-left: 1rem;\r\n }\r\n table td:first-child {\r\n width: 120px; \r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" style=\"border-collapse:collapse; width:100%;\">\r\n \r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#b8cce4;\">\r\n <td colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>February 2, 2026<\/strong><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>08:00-09:00<\/td>\r\n <td>Registration<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>08:50-09:00<\/td>\r\n <td>Opening Remarks by Prof. Piyamitr Sritara, President Mahidol University<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:00-09:10<\/td>\r\n <td>Opening Remarks by Prof Igor Mokrousov, Saint Petersburg\u2019s Pasteur Institute<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:10-09:40<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Taane Clark (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>What can \u2019omics tell us about tuberculosis?<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:40-10:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Christophe Sola (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, FR)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Reconstructing a global evolutionary history of tuberculosis: what are the still unanswered questions ??<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:00-10:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Kiatichai Faksri (Faculty of Medicine, Khonkaen University, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Application of Genomics and OMICS Approaches for the Diagnosis and Control of Mycobacterium and Related Pathogens<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>10:20-10:50<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:50-11:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Amador Goodridge (INDICASAT-AIP, City of Knowledge), PA)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Endemic transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sublineage L2.2.M3 within Panama<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:10-11:35<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Co-Chairs - Igor Mokrousov (Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute, RU)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Genomic insight into Mycobacterium tuberculosis adaptation to external stress in the in vivo and in vitro models<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:35-12:35<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Presentations sponsored by Qiagen\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Speaker 1: Vanitha Palaeya (QIAGEN, MY)\r\nTransforming TB Genomic Surveillance and Resistance Profiling with QIAseq xHYB Mycobacterium tuberculosis Panel\r\n<\/em>\r\n<br>\r\n <em>Speaker 2: Zirwatul Adilah Bt Aziz, (National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory, MY)\r\nCulture-Free Whole Genome Sequencing: The NPHL Experience with QIAseq xHYB Mycobacterium tuberculosis Workflow\r\n<\/em>\r\n<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9; \">\r\n <td>12:35-13:30<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>13:30-14:30<\/td>\r\n <td>Poster Session 1<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:30-14:50<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Danila Zimenkov (Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RU)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>The hidden diversity of Mycobacterium<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:50-15:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Nawamin Pinpathomrat (Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, TH)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>TB vaccine platforms and delivering system<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>15:10-15:40<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>15:40-16:55<\/td>\r\n <td>Oral Presentations 1\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Oren Tzfadia<\/b> - A next-generation Mycobacterial knowledge base\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin<\/b> - Genomic insights into drug resistance and transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis strains in Bangladesh\r\n <br>\r\n <b>John Carlo Macasaddug Malabad<\/b> - A molecular epidemiologic analysis of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates derived from the Third Philippine TB Drug Resistance Survey 2018 and community-based study\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Pundharika Piboonsiri<\/b> - Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals emerging bedaquiline resistance variants in Thailand\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Motunrayo Badejo<\/b> - Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles perturb mycobacterial homeostasis and unveil gene expression signatures of antimicrobial action\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n \r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#f2dbdb;\">\r\n <td colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>February 3, 2026<\/strong><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:00-09:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Qian Gao (Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, CN)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:30-10:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Katsushi Tokunaga (National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, JP)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Genomic approach to infectious diseases<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:00-10:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Surakameth Mahasirimongkol (Assistant Permanent Secretary, MOPH, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Precision Control of TB: The future of ending TB by 2030<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>10:20-10:50<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:50-11:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Taisei Mushiroda (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, JP)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Toward Patient-Centered, Stratified Tuberculosis Treatment Through Pharmacogenomics<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:10-11:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Margarita Shleeva (Federal Research Centre \u201cFundamentals of Biotechnology\u201d of the Russian Academy of Sciences)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>A novel biochemical reaction in mycobacteria: coproporphyrin III tetramethyl ester synthesis and its adaptation significance<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:30-11:50<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Egor Shitikov (Lopukhin Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, RU)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Mycobacteriophages: From Laboratory Research to Practical Applications in Medicine <\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9; \">\r\n <td>11:50-13:00<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>13.00-14.00<\/td>\r\n <td>Poster Session 2<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:00-14:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Marisa Ponpuak (Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Monocyte transcriptional responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with natural resistance to tuberculosis infection<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:20-14:40<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Alexander Apt (Central Institute of Tuberculosis, Moscow, RU)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Tuberculosis infection control by the MHC-II in mice and the sequence of innate\/adaptive immune responses to infection<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:40-15:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Tomasz Jagielski (University of Warsaw, PL)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>A water tale - new insights into the ecology of nontuberculous-mycobacteria<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>15:00-15:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - David Couvin (Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, FR)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>SITVIT++: Next-Generation Mycobacterium tuberculosis databases and biobanks for genomic surveillance, drug resistance monitoring, and predictive intelligence<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>15:20-15:50<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>15:50-17:00<\/td>\r\n <td>Oral Presentations 2\r\n <br><b>Noppadon Nuntawong<\/b> - Engineering a robust SERS-based POC system for tuberculosis screening\r\n <br><b>Saradee Warit<\/b> - Advancing tuberculosis diagnosis in macaques: A One Health approach\r\n <br><b>Narisa Mohthong<\/b> - Investigating immune profiles in healthy and latent tuberculosis-infected participants.\r\n <br><b>Yoopie Setiawan<\/b> - The interferon-gamma response to Latin American Mediterranean and modern Beijing sub-lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in drug-sensitive and resistant tuberculosis\r\n <br><b>Pyae Sone Oo<\/b> - Differential immune responses to novel and established Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens among tuberculosis patients in Southern Thailand\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#fff2cc;\">\r\n <td colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>February 4, 2026<\/strong><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:00-09:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Urvashi Singh (All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and Head of National TB program, IN)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>M. tuberculosis genomics and transmission tracing in India<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:30-09:50<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong (Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Geno-spatio-temporal analysis, interpretation and implications on Infectious diseases<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:50-10:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Richard Anthony (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, NL) <\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Micro-evolution in clustered cases of tuberculosis a useful signal or noise?\r\n<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>10:10-10:40<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:40-11:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Sayera Banu (Head, Programme on Emerging Infections, Infectious Diseases Division, icddr, BD)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Targeted next-generation sequencing for detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis: Challenges and insights from high burden settings in Bangladesh<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:00-11:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Pakorn Aiewsakun (Center for Microbial Genomics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Whole genome sequence analysis to detect MTB transmission cluster<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n \r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:30-12:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Robin Warren 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<td>09:00-09:10<\/td>\r\n <td>Opening Remarks by Prof Igor Mokrousov, Saint Petersburg\u2019s Pasteur Institute<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:10-09:40<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Taane Clark (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>What can \u2019omics tell us about tuberculosis?<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:40-10:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Christophe Sola (Universit\u00e9 Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, FR)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Reconstructing a global evolutionary history of tuberculosis: what are the still unanswered questions ??<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:00-10:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Kiatichai Faksri (Faculty of Medicine, Khonkaen University, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Application of Genomics and OMICS Approaches for the Diagnosis and Control of Mycobacterium and Related Pathogens<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>10:20-10:50<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:50-11:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Amador Goodridge (INDICASAT-AIP, City of Knowledge), PA)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Endemic transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Sublineage L2.2.M3 within Panama<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:10-11:35<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Co-Chairs - Igor Mokrousov (Saint Petersburg Pasteur Institute, RU)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Genomic insight into Mycobacterium tuberculosis adaptation to external stress in the in vivo and in vitro models<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:35-12:35<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Presentations sponsored by Qiagen\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Speaker 1: Vanitha Palaeya (QIAGEN, MY)\r\nTransforming TB Genomic Surveillance and Resistance Profiling with QIAseq xHYB Mycobacterium tuberculosis Panel\r\n<\/em>\r\n<br>\r\n <em>Speaker 2: Zirwatul Adilah Bt Aziz, (National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory, MY)\r\nCulture-Free Whole Genome Sequencing: The NPHL Experience with QIAseq xHYB Mycobacterium tuberculosis Workflow\r\n<\/em>\r\n<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9; \">\r\n <td>12:35-13:30<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>13:30-14:30<\/td>\r\n <td>Poster Session 1<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:30-14:50<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Danila Zimenkov (Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, RU)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>The hidden diversity of Mycobacterium<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:50-15:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Nawamin Pinpathomrat (Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, TH)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>TB vaccine platforms and delivering system<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>15:10-15:40<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>15:40-16:55<\/td>\r\n <td>Oral Presentations 1\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Oren Tzfadia<\/b> - A next-generation Mycobacterial knowledge base\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Mohammad Khaja Mafij Uddin<\/b> - Genomic insights into drug resistance and transmission dynamics of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis strains in Bangladesh\r\n <br>\r\n <b>John Carlo Macasaddug Malabad<\/b> - A molecular epidemiologic analysis of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates derived from the Third Philippine TB Drug Resistance Survey 2018 and community-based study\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Pundharika Piboonsiri<\/b> - Whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis reveals emerging bedaquiline resistance variants in Thailand\r\n <br>\r\n <b>Motunrayo Badejo<\/b> - Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles perturb mycobacterial homeostasis and unveil gene expression signatures of antimicrobial action\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n \r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#f2dbdb;\">\r\n <td colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>February 3, 2026<\/strong><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:00-09:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Qian Gao (Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, CN)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in China<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:30-10:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Katsushi Tokunaga (National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, JP)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Genomic approach to infectious diseases<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:00-10:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Surakameth Mahasirimongkol (Assistant Permanent Secretary, MOPH, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Precision Control of TB: The future of ending TB by 2030<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>10:20-10:50<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:50-11:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Taisei Mushiroda (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, JP)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Toward Patient-Centered, Stratified Tuberculosis Treatment Through Pharmacogenomics<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:10-11:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Margarita Shleeva (Federal Research Centre \u201cFundamentals of Biotechnology\u201d of the Russian Academy of Sciences)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>A novel biochemical reaction in mycobacteria: coproporphyrin III tetramethyl ester synthesis and its adaptation significance<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:30-11:50<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Egor Shitikov (Lopukhin Federal Research and Clinical Center of Physical-Chemical Medicine, Moscow, RU)\r\n<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Mycobacteriophages: From Laboratory Research to Practical Applications in Medicine <\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9; \">\r\n <td>11:50-13:00<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>13.00-14.00<\/td>\r\n <td>Poster Session 2<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:00-14:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Marisa Ponpuak (Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Monocyte transcriptional responses to Mycobacterium tuberculosis associated with natural resistance to tuberculosis infection<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:20-14:40<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Alexander Apt (Central Institute of Tuberculosis, Moscow, RU)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Tuberculosis infection control by the MHC-II in mice and the sequence of innate\/adaptive immune responses to infection<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:40-15:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Tomasz Jagielski (University of Warsaw, PL)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>A water tale - new insights into the ecology of nontuberculous-mycobacteria<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>15:00-15:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - David Couvin (Institut Pasteur de la Guadeloupe, FR)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>SITVIT++: Next-Generation Mycobacterium tuberculosis databases and biobanks for genomic surveillance, drug resistance monitoring, and predictive intelligence<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>15:20-15:50<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>15:50-17:00<\/td>\r\n <td>Oral Presentations 2\r\n <br><b>Noppadon Nuntawong<\/b> - Engineering a robust SERS-based POC system for tuberculosis screening\r\n <br><b>Saradee Warit<\/b> - Advancing tuberculosis diagnosis in macaques: A One Health approach\r\n <br><b>Narisa Mohthong<\/b> - Investigating immune profiles in healthy and latent tuberculosis-infected participants.\r\n <br><b>Yoopie Setiawan<\/b> - The interferon-gamma response to Latin American Mediterranean and modern Beijing sub-lineages of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in drug-sensitive and resistant tuberculosis\r\n <br><b>Pyae Sone Oo<\/b> - Differential immune responses to novel and established Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens among tuberculosis patients in Southern Thailand\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#fff2cc;\">\r\n <td colspan=\"2\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>February 4, 2026<\/strong><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:00-09:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Keynote Lecture \u2013 Urvashi Singh (All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi and Head of National TB program, IN)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>M. tuberculosis genomics and transmission tracing in India<\/em><\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:30-09:50<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong (Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkla, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Geno-spatio-temporal analysis, interpretation and implications on Infectious diseases<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>09:50-10:10<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Richard Anthony (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, NL) <\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Micro-evolution in clustered cases of tuberculosis a useful signal or noise?\r\n<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9;\">\r\n <td>10:10-10:40<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Coffee Break<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>10:40-11:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Sayera Banu (Head, Programme on Emerging Infections, Infectious Diseases Division, icddr, BD)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Targeted next-generation sequencing for detection of drug-resistant tuberculosis: Challenges and insights from high burden settings in Bangladesh<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:00-11:30<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Pakorn Aiewsakun (Center for Microbial Genomics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, TH)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Whole genome sequence analysis to detect MTB transmission cluster<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n \r\n <tr>\r\n <td>11:30-12:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Robin Warren (Stellenbosch University, ZA)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>The genesis and transmission of drug-resistant TB<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n\r\n <tr style=\"background-color:#C9C9C9; \">\r\n <td>12:00-13:00<\/td>\r\n <td style=\"text-align: center;\">Lunch<\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>13.00-14.00<\/td>\r\n <td>Oral Presentation 3\r\n <br><b>Tania Jim<\/b> - The use of a novel conjugated oligoelectrolytelcheva molecule to potentiate antibiotic efficacy against Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria\r\n <br><b>Kishan Kumar Parida <\/b> - Structure based identification and validation of Benzothiazole derivatives as potent DprE1 inhibitors against Mycobacterium tuberculosis\r\n <br><b>Hleziphi Violah Mpundu<\/b> - Targeting drug-tolerant tuberculosis through repurposing of approved drugs\r\n <br><b>Arnab Roy<\/b> - Overcoming metabolic redundancy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis via dual inhibition of terminal oxidases\r\n <\/td>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:00-14:20<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Mi Kaixia (Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Elucidating the dual role of Mycobacterial MfpA in Fluoroquinolone resistance and virulence regulation<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:20-14:40<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Violeta Valcheva (Department of Infectious Microbiology, Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, \r\nBulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>Development and Pharmacological Evaluation of Novel Hydrazide - Hydrazone Derivatives as Potential Antituberculosis drug candidates<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n <tr>\r\n <td>14:40-15:00<\/td>\r\n <td><strong>Invited Speakers - Oleg Ogarkov (Scientific Center for Family Health and Human Reproduction Problems, Irkutsk, RU)<\/strong><br>\r\n <em>The formation of a polybacterial community in caseous necrosis: A Common and Adverse Consequence of Tuberculosis<\/em>\r\n <\/tr>\r\n \r\n <tr>\r\n 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