We cordially invite you to submit your abstracts for poster and/or oral presentations to conference. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions for the scientific programme and and would like to thank you in advance for your support!
Abstract submission will open in early 2026.
Here you will find all the necessary information for abstract submission for the International Symposium on Plasmid Biology in Berlin.
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Plasmid Journal
Plasmid is the official journal of the ISPB. We encourage our members and others interested in plasmids to publish here.
For more information see: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/plasmid
Plasmid Biology Prize
The Plasmid Biology Prize is awarded at each Plasmid Conference to an outstanding Early Career Researcher.
Deadlines for application and nomination will be published soon.
For more information see: Plasmid Biology Prize | International Society for Plasmid Biology
Abtract topics
- Maintenance and Evolution of plasmids
- Replication and maintenance mechanisms – state of the art and novel insights
- Plasmid host range – adaptation to their hosts
- Fitness costs of plasmid carriage
- Acquisition of foreign DNA in response to environmental triggers
- Where and how does acquisition of foreign DNA happen?
- Sequence based plasmid taxonomy and database
- The plasmid database(s)
- New sequencing methods – novel insights?
- Sequence-based tools for detection and quantification of plasmids in isolates, cells and environmental DNA
- Conjugation, mobilization and other mechanism of plasmid dissemination
- New technologies to study and visualize plasmid transfer (in vitro or/and in situ)
- New technologies to study and visualize plasmid transfer (in vitro or/and in situ)
- Plasmid-mediated dissemination of antibiotic resistance and other selective traits
- The ONE health perspective
- Environmental hot spots
- Environmental triggers of plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance gene dissemination
- Resistance gene connectivity among environmental, hospital or farm-associated bacteria through plasmid transfer
- Plasmid-based technologies