Faculty
Dr. Nizamuddin Damani
Consultant & Advisor
Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland, UK
Dr. Harshavardhan Sheorey
Consultant Medical Microbiologist
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne & Royal
Melbourne Hospital, Australia
Dr. Shrikant Ambalkar
Consultant Microbiologist
University of Sherwood Forest Hospital
Dr. Siddhesh Aras
Faculty, Centre for Molecular Medicine & Genetics Wayne State University, USA
Dr. Shalinie Perera
Clinical Microbiologist
Western Diagnostic Pathology, Western Australia
Dr. Meher Rizvi
Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Dr. Nivedita Gupta
Scientist G Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
Dr. Shobhini Rajan
Deputy Director General (TB) Central TB Division, Government of India
Dr. Rama Choudhary
ICMR Emeritus Scientist; Former Head of Microbiology, AIIMS Delhi Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
Dr. Rakesh Mishra
Director
Tata Institute for Genetics and Society (TIGS),
Bengaluru
Dr. Pragya Yadav
Director-in-Charge; Scientist F & Group Leader National Institute of One Health, Nagpur
Prof. (Dr.) Ujjala Ghoshal
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology AIIMS Kalyani (Ex Professor & Head, SGPGI, Lucknow)
Dr. Purva Mathur
Professor & Head, Unit of Microbiology, JPNATC All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Dr. Rajesh Prabhakar Karyakarte
Dean (PG & Research), Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology B. J. Government Medical College, Pune
Dr. Camilla Rodrigues
Head, Dept. of Lab Medicine; Consultant Microbiologist P. D. Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai
Dr. Rungmei S. K. Marak
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology and Dept. of Infectious Diseases SGPGIMS, Lucknow
Dr. Shivaprakash M. Rudramurthy
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology PGIMER, Chandigarh
Prof. Dr. Meena Mishra
Organizing Secretary, MICROCON 2026; Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur
Dr. Sumit Rai
Professor & Head, Dept. of Clinical Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Mangalagiri
Dr. Pradeep Deshmukh
Professor & Head, Dept. of Community Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur
Dr. Mandira Verma Basil
Director & Professor
Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute, Delhi
Dr. Dimple Kasana
Professor, Additional Director & Head, Dept. of BBTR, RV & TB and BSL3 NCDC, Directorate General of Health Services, MoHFW, Government of India, Delhi
Dr. Bhaskar Thakuria
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology — AIIMS Patna
Dr. Aruna Poojary
Laboratory Director & Infection Prevention Control In-charge Breach Candy Hospital Trust, Mumbai
Dr. Reeta S. Mani
Head, Dept. of Neurovirology
NIMHANS, Bengaluru
Dr. Manoj Murhekar
Director — National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai
Dr. Prashant Gupta
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology
King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar
Pradesh
Dr. Tuhina Banerjee
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology Institute of Medical Sciences, BHU, Varanasi
Dr. Ranganathan Iyer
Director Clinical Microbiology / Senior Consultant — Rainbow Children's Hospital, Hyderabad
Dr Mala Chhabra
Principal Consultant, Microbiology & PI, VRDL ABVIMS & Dr. RML Hospital, New Delhi
Dr. Jayanthi Savio
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology St. John's Medical College, Bengaluru
Dr. Umabala Pamidimukkala
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad
Dr. Jayanthi Shastri
Chair Professor, Centre of Excellence in Research & Training in Infectious Diseases Government of Maharashtra
Dr. Safaa Muneer Ahmed
Group Head — Clinical Microbiology & Infection Prevention and Control Renova Group of Hospitals and Tenet Diagnostics, Hyderabad
Dr. Rajendra Surpam
Vice Dean, Professor & Head, Microbiology KMSK Government Medical College, Chandrapur
Dr. Sonal Saxena
Professor & Head — Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
Dr. Parikshit Prayag
Consultant, Transplant Infectious Disease — Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune
Dr. Jyoti Iravane
Professor & Head — Government Medical College, Aurangabad
Dr. Ashwini Tayade
Consultant Infectious Diseases & Director, Ishra Health-Infectious Diseases Clinic; Visiting Consultant — Wockhardt Hospital & KIMS Hospital, Nagpur
Dr. Pankaj Dwivedi
Consultant, Dept. of Pediatric Hemato-oncology (Fellowship in BMT, Tata Memorial) National Cancer Institute, Nagpur
Dr. Sonali Mangesh Choudhari
Consultant Clinical Microbiologist & Hospital Infection Control National Cancer Institute, Nagpur
Dr. Shweta Shah
Lead Consultant, Microbiology & Infection Control — Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai
Mr. Shailesh Mehta
Director, Medovation Inc.
Medovation Products, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Dr. Sarita Mohapatra
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Dr. Manisha Biswal
Professor, Dept. of Medical Microbiology PGIMER, Chandigarh
Dr. Malini R. Capoor
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
Dr. Vikas Manchanda
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi
Dr. Nilma Hirani
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Grant Government Medical College & Sir JJ Group of Hospitals, Mumbai
Dr. V Balaji
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Christian Medical College, Vellore
Dr. Beena Antony
Professor, Microbiology Fr. Muller Medical College, Mangalore
Dr. Bhawna Sharma
Professor, Microbiology
VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
Dr. Deepak Thamke
Professor, Microbiology MGIMS, Sevagram
Dr. Nayana Ingole
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Chinchpokli, Mumbai
Dr. Sangeeta Joshi
Consultant, Dept. of Microbiology Sahyadri Hospitals, Pune
Dr. Nirmal Jaiswal
Chief Intensivist & Head, Dept. of Medicine & Critical Care Suretech Group of Hospitals, Nagpur
Dr. Prasan Kumar Panda
Professor, Dept. of Medicine (ID Division) — AIIMS Rishikesh; Secretary, SASPI
Dr. Nishat Hussain
Professor of Microbiology, Ocular Microbiology Dr. R. P. Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, AIIMS, New Delhi
Dr. Manish Soneja
Professor, Dept. of Medicine All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Dr. Bharti Malhotra
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology — Sawai Mansingh Medical College, Jaipur
Dr. Rajni Gaind
Consultant & Professor — VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi
Dr. Ragini Tilak
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology — BHU, Varanasi
Dr. Vineeta Mittal
Professor — RMLIMS, Lucknow
Dr. Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology — KMC Manipal
Dr. Vandana K. E.
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology — KMC Manipal
Dr. Joy Sarojini Michael
Designation not stated
Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Christian Medical
College, Vellore
Air Marshal (Dr.) Shankar Subrahmaniam
Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Medical) Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff, Ministry of Defence
Gen. Raghunath
Retired Director General Armed Forces Medical Services
Dr. Abhay Chowdhary
Chief Executive Officer
Urokol Kulkarni Urosurgery Institute, Pune
Dr. Anup Warrier
Chief Medical Affairs & Quality Officer — Aster Hospital, Cochin
Dr. Subhash Kr. Todi
Director, Department of Critical Care — Manipal Hospitals, Kolkata
Dr. Debkishore Gupta
Director & Head, Medical Affairs – South Asia — bioMérieux
Dr. Shashwati Nema
Additional Professor, Dept. of Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
Dr. Ishani Bora
Additional Professor, Dept. of Virology PGIMER, Chandigarh
Dr. Archana Angrup
Additional Professor,
Dept. of Microbiology
PGIMER, Chandigarh
Dr. Sanjay Bhattacharya
Consultant in Microbiology
Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, West Bengal
Dr. Ayush Gupta
Additional Professor, Dept. of Microbiology — AIIMS Bhopal
Dr. Anuradha Deshmukh
Senior Consultant Microbiologist — Kingsway Hospital, Nagpur
Dr. Chaitanya Shembekar
Gynaecologist & Fertility Consultant Omega Hospitals, Nagpur
Dr. Vijendra Kawle
Senior Consultant, Microbiology
Rainbow Children's Hospitals, Hyderabad
Dr. Akshat Vij
Consultant Microbiologist & Infection Control Officer Medicover Hospitals, Hyderabad
Dr. Arunkumar Subbiah
Associate Professor, Dept. of Nephrology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Dr. Soumyabrata Nag
Associate Professor, Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Nagpur
Dr. Padmaja A. Shenoy
Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Kasturba Medical College, Manipal
Dr. Priyanka Narain
Associate Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Patna Medical College, Bihar
Dr. Amit Arora
Additional Professor
PGIMER, Chandigarh
Dr. Debabrata Dash
Associate Professor, Dept. of Clinical Microbiology — AIIMS Mangalagiri
Dr. Rimjhim Kanojia
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology PGIMER, Chandigarh
Dr. Rahul Garg
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bibinagar, Telangana
Dr. Tanu Sagar
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Dr. Shwetha J. V.
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru
Dr. Sneha K. Chunchanur
Assistant Professor & Infection Control Officer, Microbiology Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru
Dr. Rashmita Das
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology B. J. Government Medical College, Pune
Dr. Sushma Yanamandra
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Microbiology B. J. Government Medical College, Pune
Dr. Sarah Cherian
Scientist G
ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune
Dr. Mahesh S. Dharne
Chief Scientist
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Dr. Vikrant Bhor
Scientist E — ICMR-National Institute of Research in Reproductive & Child Health, Mumbai
Dr. Varsha Potdar
Scientist E
National Institute of Virology, Pune
Dr. Anoop Velayudhan
Scientist E
Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi
Dr. Anita Shete
Scientist E
ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune
Dr. Vainav Patel
Scientist D; Head, Dept. of Biochemistry & Virology — ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai
Dr. Mohammed Ashiq
Research Scientist, Dept. of Microbiology — KMC Manipal
Dr. Gajendra Singh
Project Research Scientist-I, Dept. of Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
Ms. Rinka Sanatan Pramanik
Senior Project Associate
CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Dr. Vineeta Khare
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology Era's Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow
Dr. Pradeep Mishra
Head of Department, Medicine & Critical Care National Cancer Institute, Nagpur
Mr. Sai Prashant Joshi
Project Associate II
NCIM, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune
Mr. Raunak Kumar
Project Associate I
NCIM, Biochemical Sciences Division, CSIR-NCL,
Pune
Dr. Devjani De
Medical Affairs Lead – India — bioMérieux
Ms. Neeta Amit Ghugare
Assistant Manager & Head — CSSD Wockhardt Hospitals, Mumbai Central
Ms. Malathi Manuel
Senior Demonstrator — Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, CMC Vellore
Mrs. Veena Vipat
Senior Technical Officer — NIV Pune
Mr. Santoshkumar Jadhav
Senior Technical Officer — NIV Pune
Dr. Priti Agarwal
Professor & Head, Microbiology
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bilaspur, Himachal Pradesh
Ms. Madhu Panthi
Project Technical Support-III, Dept. of Microbiology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
Dr. Sarumathi D
Assistant Professor (Microbiology)
AIIMS Madurai, Madurai, India
Dr. Chhaya Chande
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology
B. J. Government Medical College, Pune
Dr. J. Jayalakshmi
Professor & Head, Dept. of Microbiology
KMCH Institute of Health Sciences & Research, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Dr. Ekta Gupta
Professor & Head, Department of Clinical Virology
Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, New Delhi, India
Dr. P. Manickam
Scientist F
NIE Chennai, Chennai, India
Dr. Namrata Kumari
Professor & HOD, Department of Microbiology
Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sheikhpura, Patna, India
Dr. Neha Nityadarshini
ICMR Headquarters, New Delhi, India
Dr. Abhishek Mewara
Additional Professor
Department of Medical Parasitology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India
Dr. Arun T. R.
Scientist C
ICMR-National Institute of One Health, Nagpur, India
Dr. Jaswinder Kaur Oberoi
Chairperson, Institute of Clinical Microbiology & Immunology Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi
Dr. Apurba Sankar Sastry
Professor of Microbiology
JIPMER, Puducherry
Dr. Rima Sahay
Scientist D
ICMR-NIV Pune, Pune, India
Prof. (Dr.) Manideepa SenGupta
Professor & Head, Microbiology
Mandakini Institute of Medical Sciences & Hospital, West Bengal
Dr. Manodeep Sen
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Dr. Anjali Shetty
Consultant Microbiologist,
MRCP, FRCPath
P. D. Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai
Dr. Manodeep Sen
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow
Dr. Karuna Tadepalli
Professor; In-charge, Mycology Advanced Resource Centre (iMARC) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal
Dr. Nitin Shinde
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine KIMS Kingsway Hospital, Nagpur, India
Prof. (Dr.) Chand Wattal
Chairman, Clinical Microbiology & Immunology Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
Dr. Mangayarkarasi V.
Professor & Head, Microbiology; Dean (Research) All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Madurai
Mrs. Veena Vipat
Senior Technical Officer — NIV Pune
