| Fabienne Benz | Inst of Integrative Biology, Switzerland | Variable evolutionary trajectories of ESBL-plasmids across clinical E. coli strains during in vitro cultivation |
| Tatiana Dimitriu | Univ Exeter, UK | Increased copy number couples the evolution of plasmid horizontal transmission and antibiotic resistance. |
| Christina Herencias | Univ Ramón y Cajal, Spain | Collateral Sensitivity associated with Antibiotic Resistance Plasmids |
| Jessica Martyn | Univ Oxford, UK | What a difference a base makes: initiator tRNAs as a defence against plasmid parasitism |
| Tomas Nohejl | Univ Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Studies, Czech Rep | Genomic analysis of qnr-harbouring IncX plasmids and their transferability within different hosts under induced stress |
| Marine Pons | Univ de Tours, France | Role of the SOS response in the conjugative transfer and genome maintenance of multidrug resistance Salmonella Genomic Island 1 |
| Katarzyna Wegrzyn | Univ Gdansk, Poland | Requirements on nucleoprotein complexes formation by plasmid replication initiators, Rep proteins, for plasmid DNA replication |