Thank you for your interest in the International Symposium on Plasmid Biology from 7-11 September 2026 in Berlin.
In the beginning of 2026 we will make the preliminary programme available here.
Main topics
The meeting will focus on Plasmid mediated adaption of bacteria to changing environmental conditions – ONE HEALTH perspective
- 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