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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Aug 15, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jan 30, 2026

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Åke Lundkvist
Uppsala University, Sweden
Title: TBE - alarming increase of cases in Northern Europe
Prof. Åke Lundkvist, Ph.D. is the founder and head of the Zoonosis Science Center (ZSC) at the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published >350 scientific original articles/reviews, most of them on emerging viruses. His research focuses on basic virology, immunology, molecular epidemiology, discovery of novel viruses, antivirals and diagnostics of zoonotic viruses. He collaborates with several research groups in Europe, Africa and Asia, and has at present been PI in 10 multilab EC projects.
Prof. Sepideh Pakpour
University of British Columbia, Canada
Title: Can the Microbiome Defeat Clostridioides difficile?
Dr. Sepideh Pakpour is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, and Associate Director for Graduate Students at the School of Engineering in the Faculty of Applied Science at UBC. Her research focuses on the complex interactions between the human microbiome, infectious diseases, and environmental stressors. Dr. Pakpour’s work integrates microbiology, engineering, and systems biology to understand microbial ecosystem dynamics and develop innovative approaches to disease prevention and treatment.
Dr. Tor Savidge
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas, USA
Title: Levering Human Microbiomes in Infectious Disease Prediction and Therapy
Dr. Savidge is a Professor of Pathology and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine and served as a Director of the Texas Children’s Microbiome Center. His research focuses on advancing gastrointestinal science, with an emphasis on the discovery of microbiome-based biomarkers, development of novel microbial therapeutics, characterization of posttranslational modifications and microenvironmental interactions that regulate host–microbiome signaling in infectious disease pathogenesis. He previously served as Chair of the Microbiome and Microbial Diseases Section of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute Council and currently serves as an Associate Editor for Gut Microbes.
Dr. Sandra Carvalho
NOVA University, Lisbon
Title: How Pathogens Survive to Host Stresses: A Metabolic Perspective
Dr. Sandra Carvalho is an Auxiliary Researcher at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, NOVA University Lisbon (ITQB NOVA), Portugal. Her research focuses on microbial physiology and metabolism, bacterial metabolic mechanisms to resist host stresses, the application of NMR-based approaches to study bacterial metabolism, and the discovery of metabolite biomarkers for the diagnosis of infectious diseases. She has been actively involved in the supervision of students at all academic levels, in teaching activities, and has served as principal investigator (PI) on several research projects.