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)
- 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