Schedule of the Talks

Registration 

08:00 - 09:00

Refreshment 

09:00 - 10:00

Inauguration 10:00 - 11:00

Dr. Soumya Swaminathan

Former Chief Scientist, World Health Organization

Inaugural Talk by President, Society for Bacteriophage Research and Therapy, India

Prof. Vinod Kumar C.S.

Phage Therapy in Belgium

Dr. Jean Paul Pirnay

Lunch 13:00 - 14:00

Genetically Modified Bacteriophages for Efficient Bacterial Killing 

Dr. Antonia Sagona (Virtual)

Phage Therapy Initiative in Finland

Prof. Mikael Skurnik (Virtual)

Recent trends in Bacteriophage Therapy

Dr. Ramesh N.

Phage Therapy: Challenges and Triumphs in the Quest for Precision treatment

Prof. Sanjay Chibber

From Lab to Market: Ensuring safety in phage therapy products through regulatory compliance

Dr. C. Sheela Sasikumar

Tea Break 16:30 - 16:55

Creating systems for safely scale phage therapy, from Phage Directory to Phage Australia

Dr. Jessica Sacher (Virtual)

Paving the way to Precision: Therapeutic phage monitoring fo improved dosage in phage therapy

Dr. Aleksandra Petrovic Fabijan (Virtual)

Preventing Klebsiella Urinary Tract Infections with Phage cocktails: Just One More Experiment

Dr. Eleanor Jameson 

Microfluidics and Robotics enabling Phage Research (Sponsor talk from Beckman Coulter)

Manufacturing Perspective: Road from Isolation of 1 phage, to routine production of highly pure 1E16 phages (per one batch)

 Dr. Frenk Smrekar (Jafral)

Sponsor Talk (Life Cell)

Unlocking the power of phages as bio-sanitizer and bio-preservative agents to enhance food safety

Dr. Hany Anany (Virtual)

The potential role of bacteriophages in Salmonella diversity, disease and control

Dr. Janet Nale (Virtual)

Advanced manufacturing, formulation and delivery of bacteriophages

Prof. Danish Malik (Virtual)

Using Computer vision to accelerate common bacteriophage petri dish assays with OnePetri

Michael Shamash (Virtual)

Using Synthetic biology to understand and improve phages

Dr. Paul Jaschke (Virtual)

Phage Display: A powerful technique and its applications

Prof. Amita Gupta

Phage Therapy to modulate MDR infections in veterinary science

Dr. Taruna Anand

Tea Break 09:30 - 09:55

Novel Infection Strategies of Jumbo Bacteriophages

Dr. Sutharsan Govindarajan

Co-occurrence and synergism of anti-phage defense systems

Dr. Franklin Nobrega (Virtual)

The Citizen Phage Library: A global network of phage hubs providing phage therapeutics to combat antibiotic resistance through Citizen Science

Dr. Ben Temperton (Virtual)

Lunch 12:30 - 13:25

Preserving Oceanic Symphony: Unraveling the Indispensable Role of Marine Bacteriophages in Sustaining Microbial Diversity and Biofouling Control

Dr. Hiren Joshi

(Re)defining the roles of viruses in microbiomes

Dr. Karthik Anantharaman

Harnessing the power of Phages: revolutionizing aquaculture for sustainable growth

Dr. Justyna Andrysiak (Virtual)

Our clinical experience with bacteriophage therapy in India

Prof. Gopal Nath

Phage-Inducible Chromosomal Islands (PICIs): What are they? What can they do?

Dr. Rodrigo Ibarra Chavez (Virtual)

Tea Break 16:00 - 16:25

Application of bacteriophages for the control of bacterial diseases in plants

Prof. P. Palani

Challenges of effective commercialization of phage products for agricultural applications

Dr. Justyna Kowalska

Overview of the bioinformatic toolkit and resources for phage ecogenomics

Dr. Simon Roux (Virtual)

Principles and Guidelines for Building Biobank Databases

Jan Zheng (Virtual)

PhageCraft: From Sewage to Synthesis

Prof. Robert Edwards

From Patient to Advocate: Developing Phage Therapy in India

Pranav Johri

Tea Break 10:00 - 10:25

Genomics application on Bacteriophage Research and Antimicrobial Resistance

Dr. Arpita Ghosh (Eurofins Genomics)

Potential Uses of Confocal Microscopy in Bacteriophage Research

Mr. Somenath Ghatak (Carl Ziess)

Long-read Viromics: Reveals Bacteriophages Are Modulators of Bacterial Diversity in the Cow Gut

Dr. Andrew Millard (Virtual)

High Throughput Full Length Microbial Sequencing with Nanopore Technology

 Dr. Sridharan J. (Genotypic Pvt. Ltd.)

Lunch 12:50 - 13:50