| Vega Bugata | UC-Santa Cruz, USA | Connections between plasmid replication and plasmid adaptation to the host |
| Clint Elg | Univ Idaho, USA | Rapid loss of an IncP-1β plasmid gene in non-selective conditions increases plasmid persistence |
| Olivia Kosterlitz | Univ of Washington, USA | Estimating the rate of plasmid transfer with an adapted Luria–Delbrück fluctuation analysis and a case study on the evolution of plasmid transfer rate |
| Nikola May | Univ Guelph, Canada | Investigating the plasmid transfer dynamics of Salmonella enterica in a Simulated Human Intestinal Microbial Ecosystem (SHIME) |
| Nicolas Rivard | Univ Sherbrooke, Canada | The Insidious Role of IncC Plasmids in Bacterial Evolution and its Intricacies: Not All Paths to Success are Equal |
| Wilco Verweij | Univ Guelph, Canada | Can Two Strategies Coexist: A Theoretical Model for Post-Segregational Killing Systems |
| Andrew Wiggins | Univ Georgia, USA | The Metabolic Cost to E. coli of Carrying the 94-kb Mercury-Resistance Plasmid NR1 and the Benefit of its mer Locus in Surviving Mercury Exposure |