| Mislav Acman | Univ College London, UK | Large-scale network analysis captures biological features of bacterial plasmids |
| Adrian Cazares | EMBL-EBI and Sanger Inst, UK | Linking past and present: genomics of plasmids of the pre-antibiotic era |
| Ana Garoña | Kiel Univ, Germany | Segregational drift of plasmids leads to rapid loss of novel alleles |
| Valentin Quebre | CNRS-Toulouse, France | New insights on the role of StbA in the vertical transfer mechanism of plasmid R388 |
| María del Mar Quiñonero Coronel | Inst Biomedicina Biotecnología Cantabria, Spain | Type VI Secretion Systems encoded by plasmids |
| Santiago Redondo-Salvo | Inst Biomedicina Biotecnología Cantabria, Spain | Plasmid Taxonomy |
| Laetitia Van Wonterghem | KU Leuven-Centre of Microbial and Plant Genetics, Belgium | Quantifying the conjugation kinetics of the broad-host-range plasmid pKJK10 in diverse natural Escherichia coli strains |