| Maverick Aradanas | Univ Guelph, Canada | Study of mobile genetic elements in Streptococcus suis isolated from pigs in Ontario, Canada |
| Salvador Castaneda Barba | Univ Idaho, USA | Use of Hi-C proximity ligation to detect plasmid transfer in soil |
| Romain Durand | Univ Sherbrooke, Canada | Crucial Role of Salmonella Genomic Island 1 Master Activator in Parasitism of IncC plasmids |
| Emily Fogarty | Univ Chicago, USA | A cryptic Bacteroides plasmid is highly conserved across globally distributed human populations |
| Kasuni Hemananda | Univ Calgary, Canada | Requirement for transfer and regulation of transfer of pRleVF39b plasmid in Rhizobium leguminosarum |
| JCR Hernandez-Beltran | Univ Nacional Autonoma Mexico | Phenotypic heterogeneity generated by multi-copy plasmids |
| Kaitlin Tagg | CDC, USA | Understanding Salmonella Typhi evolution through a plasmid lens |