18th-23rd September 2022, Toulouse, France
Photos from the Conference: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rntZ2QlsgQZYqk7U9jASBMZJli1Xm99K?usp=sharing
Dedicated web site: https://ispb2020.sciencesconf.org/
Local organizers: François Cornet, Isabelle Saves and Jean-Yves Bouet
Toulouse City Hall
Scientific Committee:
Daniela Barilla (University of York, UK)
Jean-Yves Bouet (CNRS, University of Toulouse, France)
François Cornet (CNRS, University of Toulouse, France)
Fernando de la Cruz (University of Cantabria, Spain)
Didier Mazel (Pasteur Institute,
Entrance of the University building in which the conference is held
Marie-Cécile Ploy (University of Limoges, France)
Keynote lecture by Eric Cascales (LISM, Marseille, France)
Closing session by Barbara Funnell (Univ. of Toronto, Canada), president of ISPB
Conference auditorium
Invited Speakers:
Vicki Adams: Monash University, Australia
Orsolya Barabas: EMBL, Germany
Vincent Burrus: University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Daniela Centron: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Xavier Charpentier: Université de Lyon, France
Elisabeth Grohmann: University of Fribourg, Germany
Bernard Hallet: University of Louvain, Belgium
Igor Konieczny: University of Gdansk, Poland
Christian Lesterlin: Institut de biologie et chimie des protéines, Lyon, France
Matxalen Llosa: University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain
Alvaro San Millan: Hospital Universitario Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain
Hideaki Nojiri: University of Tokyo, Japan
Eduardo Rocha: Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Kornelia Smalla: Institut Julius-Kuehn, Germany
Christoph Tang: Oxford University, UK
Eva Top: University of Idaho, USA
Meeting topics will cover areas relating to plasmids and mobile genetic elements (MGEs), including replication and maintenance, horizontal transfer, genomics and systems biology, synthetic biology, industrial, agricultural and medical biotechnology, evolution, ecology, epidemiology, and the role of plasmids/MGEs in bacterial pathogenesis.
Additional oral presentations will be selected from abstracts. Full details of the Program, Registration, Abstract submission and information about Accommodation are now available at the dedicated conference website.