SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Date – 28.10.2026 (Wednesday)
Date – 28.10.2026 (Wednesday)
| SN | Workshop | Workshop Coordinator | Institute |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diagnostic approaches in Clinical Parasitology: From microscopy to sequencing |
Dr. Harshvardhan Sheorey Dr. Abhishek Mewara |
Consultant Medical Microbiologist St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne & Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia |
| 2 | Harnessing AI in health care | Dr. Sonal Saxena |
Director Professor & HOD Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi |
| 3 | Virus to variants: Unleashing NGS – A Hands-on training workshop | Dr. Varsha Potdar |
Scientist ‘E’ & Team National Institute of Virology, Pune |
| 4 | Evaluating Diagnostic Tests performance: concepts, methods and application | Dr. Pradeep Deshmukh |
Professor & HOD, Dept. of Community Medicine AIIMS, Nagpur |
| 5 | Hands-on Training in Integrated Mycopathology and Nanopore Sequencing | Dr. T Karuna |
Professor, Dept. of Microbiology AIIMS, Bhopal |
| 6 | One Health approach to viral threats | Dr. Nivedita Gupta | Scientist F, ICMR, New Delhi |
| 7 | Outbreak Investigation: The microbiologist’s toolkit | Dr. Aruna Poojary |
Head of Dept., Pathology & Microbiology Breach Candy Hospital |
| 8 | Anaerobic: Beyond Oxygen culturing the invisible | Dr. Shashwati Nema |
Additional Professor, AIIMS Bhopal |
| 9 | Integrated approach to UTI | Dr. Sarita Mahapatra | Professor , AIIMS, Delhi |
| 10 | Scientific writing |
Dr Sangeeta Joshi Dr Jaswinder Kaur Oberoi Dr Ranganathan Iyer Air Marshal (Dr) Shankar Subramanian |
Consultant Microbiology, Infection control officer,
Sahyadri Hospitals, Pune Sr Consultant Sir Ganga Ram hospital Delhi Sr Consultant, Rainbow Children’s hospital, Hyderabad DCIDS (medical) |
| 11 | A Practical Approach to Viral Cell Culture Isolation Techniques | Dr Ishani bora | Additional Professor, Virology, PGIMER, Chandigarh |
| 12 | Mycology II | Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi |
Bank Details for Payment
Account Holder Name: Meena Rajeev Mishra
Bank Name: Canara Bank
Branch: SEZ MIHAN, Nagpur
Account Number: 110047815330
IFSC Code: CNRB0006410
