Conference Agenda
Program Booklet
| Time | Agenda |
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| 18 Nov 2025, Tuesday (Day 1) Theme: Public Health and AMR |
08.00-09.15 Registration & Breakfast |
| 09.15-10.00 Opening Ceremony | |
| 10.00-10.10 Group Photography | |
| 10.15-11.00 Plenary Talk 1 (Prof Direk Limmathurotsakul) How each health facility and MoH in LMICs could utilize AMR surveillance data for local and national actions |
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| 11.00-11.30 Keynote 1 (Associate Prof Niranjan Nagarajan) Tackling the global spread of AMR using genome-resolved metagenomics and AI |
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| 11.30-12.45 Poster session 1 | |
| 12.45-13.45 Lunch | |
| 13.45-14.15 Keynote 2 (Prof Prasit Palittapongarnpim) The role of WGS in tracing the transmission of drug resistance |
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| 14.15-15.45 Oral presentation 1 | |
| 15.45-16.00 Coffee break | |
| 16.00-16.30 Keynote 3 (Dr Shakeel Mowlaboccus) AMR Genomics and Transiently Silent Resistance in Enterococcus faecium |
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| 16.30-17.30 Forum (all invited speakers) | |
| 19 Nov 2025, Wednesday (Day 2) Theme: Microbial Genomics and AMR |
09.00-09.45 Plenary Talk 2 (Prof Geoffrey Coombs) Genomic characterisation of CC398 MRSA causing disease: On and off the farm |
| 09.45-10.00 Coffee break | |
| 10.00-10.30 Keynote 4 (Prof Yeo Chew Chieng) The Genomic Landscape of Acinetobacter baumannii in Malaysia |
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| 10.30-12.00 Poster session 2 | |
| 12.00-13.00 Lunch | |
| 13.00-13.30 Keynote 5 (Associate Prof Soraya Chaturongakul) Diversity of MDR Enterobacteriaceae in Thai meat products |
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| 13.30-15.15 Oral presentation 2 | |
| 15.15-15.30 Coffee break | |
| 15.30-16.30 Forum (all invited speakers) | |
| 20 Nov 2025, Thursday (Day 3) Theme: AMR therapies and stewardship |
09.00-09.45 Plenary Talk 3 (Prof Trevor Lithgow) Microbial genomics applied to understand how AMR phenotypes arise in the environment |
| 09.45-10.00 Coffee break | |
| 10.00-10.30 Keynote 6 (Prof Anton Peleg) Therapeutic approaches for XDR Gram-negative bacteria |
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| 10.30-12.00 Poster session 3 | |
| 12.00-13.00 Lunch | |
| 13.00-13.30 Keynote 7 (Prof Sasheela Sri La Ponnampalavanar) Pragmatic Strategies for Tackling AMR in Healthcare Setting |
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| 13.30-14.30 Forum (all invited speakers) | |
| 14.30-15.00 Prize Presentation and Closing Ceremony | |
| 15.00-15.15 Coffee Break | |
| 21 Nov 2025, Friday (Day 4 - Post conference workshop) ARG mining from dataset training workshop *Optional add-on paid workshop |
09.00-10.00 Introduction & lecture |
| 10.00-12.00 Hands-on data analysis | |
| 12.00-14.45 Lunch (included in registration) & prayers | |
| 14.45-16.00 Results presentation & discussion |