| Grace Blackwell | Wellcome Sanger Inst, UK | Distribution and diversity of colRNAI plasmids |
| Joao Pedro Alves Gama | Univ Norway | Plasmid cost alleviation as a consequence of niche-adaptation |
| Claudia Michaelis | Beuth Univ of Applied Sciences, Germany | TraO, a crucial surface protein of the Enterococcus plasmid pIP501 Type IV Secretion System |
| Arancha Penil | Inst Biomedicina Biotecnología Cantabria, Spain | The Salmonella enterica plasmidome |
| Hicham Sekkouri Alaoui | CNRS-Toulouse, France | Sensitivity of the partition complex ParABS auto-assembly to DNA supercoiling in bacteria |
| Jorge Val-Calvo | Univ Madrid, Spain | pLS20 is the archetypal plasmid of a widely distributed family of conjugative plasmids harboured by different Bacillus species |