Day 1
26th November 2025
08:00 – 09:00:Registration
Plenary Talks
09:00 – 09:30: Melioidosis in South Asia – Historic ContextDavid Dance
09:30 – 10:00: Melioidosis UpdatesBart Currie
10:00 – 10:45: Inauguration Ceremony
10:45 – 11:00: Tea Break
Panel Discussion
| Time |
Topic |
Panelist |
| 11:00 – 12:00 |
Melioidosis: Why does it need to be included as NTD? |
David Dance |
| Simmi Tiwari |
| Nivedita Gupta |
| Jagadish Mahanta |
| Anup Barman |
| Sanjeeb Kakati |
| Sangitanjan Dutta |
Melioidosis in Southeast Asia
| Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
Nepal |
Suraj Bhattarai |
| India |
Chimanjita Phukan |
| Bangladesh |
Saika Farook |
| Sri Lanka |
Enoka Corea |
| Vietnam |
Trinh Thanh Trung |
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
13:00 – 13:40: Lunch Break
Clinical Melioidosis
| Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
| 13:40 – 15:00 |
Deep Organ Abscesses |
Bharati Pandya |
| Neuro Melioidosis |
Dhurba Jyoti Kurmi |
| Pulmonary Melioidosis |
P R Mohapatra |
| Pediatric Melioidosis: a diagnostic conundrum |
Rashmi Ranjan Das |
| Osteoarticular Melioidosis |
Visietsolie Vupru |
| Septic Melioidosis |
Praveen K Tirlangi |
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
15:00 – 15:30: Tea Break
Panel Discussion
| Time |
Topic |
Panelists |
| 15:30 – 16:30 |
Melioidosis: Strategies to hunt the entire iceberg |
Bart Currie |
| Trinh Thanh Trung |
| Vandana KE |
| Probodh Borah |
| Brajendra Lahkar |
| Sharada Vinod |
| Manjuri Sharma |
19:00 Onwards: Gala Dinner
Day 2
27th November 2025
08:00 – 10:00: Oral Presentations
Hall A: Melioidosis
Hall B: Diseases Mimicking Melioidosis
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
10:00 – 10:30: Tea Break
Pathogenesis and Laboratory Diagnosis
| Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
| 10:30 – 11:30 |
Melioidosis and Comorbidities |
Madhumita P Das |
| Understanding The Human Immune Response To Melioidosis |
Susie Dunachie |
| Melioidosis and Diabetes |
Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay |
| Surveillance & Laboratory Networks |
Narisara Chantratita |
| Melioidosis Unmasked: Tackling Diagnostic Dilemmas with MALDI-ToF Precision |
Deb Kishore Gupta |
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
Sponsors Talk
Poster Presentation (Hall C)
| Time |
Topic |
|
| 11:30 – 12:15 |
Melioidosis |
Diseases Mimicking Melioidosis |
Panel Discussion
| Time |
Topic |
Panelists |
| 12:15 – 13:00 |
Melioidosis as a One Health Problem |
MSA Jilani |
| A K Baishya |
| Biswajyoti Borkotoky |
| Chandana Sharma |
| Naren Barman |
| Babul K Bezbaruah |
13:00 – 14:00: Lunch Break
Treatment & Prevention
| Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
| 14:00 – 15:00 |
Challenges in Melioidosis – A Clinician’s perspective |
Neha Gupta |
| Melioidosis in CKD patients |
T. Brojen Singh |
| Outbreak of Melioidosis – A Clinician’s role |
Angel Miraclin T |
| Cotrimoxazole as Doc in Eradication Phase |
Umang Agrawal |
| Treatment guidelines for melioidosis |
Nitin Gupta |
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
15:00 – 15:30: Tea Break
Melioidosis: Its Impact on Public Health
| Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
| 15:30 – 16:20 |
Melioidosis in soil |
Ivo Steinmetz |
| Tracking Burkholderiapseudomallei in Southern Thailand: A Molecular and Public Health Perspective |
Apichai Tuanyok |
| MISSION: The Indian perspective of Melioidosis |
Harpreet Kaur |
| Outbreak Investigation of Melioidosis in Tamil Nadu – An Epidemiologist’s perspective |
Manoj Muhrekar |
| Glanders |
Karine Laroucau |
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
Molecular Genomics of Melioidosis
| Time |
Topic |
Speakers |
| 16:20 – 16:50 |
Dissecting the genetic basis of melioidosis infection |
Claire Chewapreecha |
| Genomic Landscape of Burkholderiapseudomallei in India |
Venkat Earny Abhiram |
10 minutes each + 2 mins (Q & A)
16:50: Valedictory & Prize Distribution
