Plasmid Biology 2024 was in Hamamatsu, Japan, (2-6 September). It was organised by Hideaki Nojiri and Masaki Shintani. It was a great success but in the days before the conference there were worries because a typhoon was moving across that part of Japan and this affected the travel plans of many participants.

The winner of the Plasmid Biology Prize was Olivia Kosterlitz

The winners of the Poster Prizes are listed below.

Celine Fetz (EPFL, Switzerland). (Elsevier PLASMID Poster Prize)

P1-40. Interbacterial killing by a conjugative plasmid in Vibrio cholerae

Danylo Gorenkin (University of London ,UK) (FEMS Poster Prize)

P1-35. Molecular mechanism of the TraI relaxase dimer loading onto oriT

Bruria Samuel (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) (FEMS Poster Prize)

P2-18. Plasmids Fight Back: Anti-Defense Systems Boost Conjugation Efficiency

Alberto Hipolito (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) (Hamamatsu Prize)

P1-13. Secondary functions of resistance genes: impact of ereA2 on bacterial motility

Megumi Masumoto (Shizuoka University, Japan) (Hamamatsu Prize)

P2-32. Single-cell analysis identifies the original hosts of PromA plasmid