| Manuel Ares-Arroyo | Complutense Univ Madrid | Multiomic analysis of the compensatory evolution of ColE1-like plasmids |
| Cora Chmielowska | Univ Warsaw, Poland | Mobile genetic elements of Listeria spp. |
| Joy Leng | Univ Surrey, UK | ESBL plasmid transfer by host and country associated E. coli within an in-vitro model of the chicken cecum |
| Giulia Pilla | Univ of Oxford, UK | Plasmid dynamics in Shigella sonnei |
| Radoslaw Pluta | IRB Barcelona, Spain | MobM relaxase from promiscuous pMV158 and the emerging diversity of relaxase folds and catalytic mechanisms |
| Egill Richard | Inst Pasteur, France | Evolutionary constraints on the orientation of the super integron of Vibrio cholerae |
| Emilia Wedel | Complutense Univ Madrid | Plasmid mediated antimicrobial resistance – adaptation of ColE1-like plasmids to new bacterial hosts |