The Organizing Committee welcome abstract submissions on the following topics. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Antimicrobial resistance: mechanisms, surveillance, and control strategies
• Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases
• The Human Microbiome: Friend or Foe?
• Advances in vaccine development and immunotherapy
• Molecular epidemiology and genomic analysis of pathogens
• CRISPR and Synthetic Biology in Microbiology
• Diagnostics of the Future: Rapid and Accessible Tools
• Zoonotic Diseases and the One Health Approach
• Biofilms and Chronic Infections
• Viral Evolution: Lessons from Pandemics
• Antibiotic Discovery: New Frontiers for Young Scientists

• Environmental microbiology and its impact on infectious diseases
• Genomics in Infectious Disease Research
• Infection Control: From Lab to Hospital
• Neglected Tropical Diseases: Opportunities for Impact
• Immunology Basics for Infectious Diseases
• Public Health Microbiology: Research Meets Policy
• Food Microbiology and Safety
• Ethics in Microbiology Research
• Career Pathways in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• AI and ML in Microbiology
• Other related topic