8:30-9:00

Coffee and Welcome

Session 1

EVs in Health and Disease

9:00-9:25

Cross-organism communication by extracellular vesicles - Marca Wauben (Univ of Utrecht)

9:30-9:55

EVs in neurodegenerative disease - Andy Hill (Latrobe University)

10:00-10:25

EVs to diagnose and guide treatment in glioblastoma – Clark Chen (UCSD)

10:30–11:00

Break

Session 2

New Tools for EV Analysis

11:00-11:25

Nanotechnology platforms for exosome analysis - Hahko Lee (MGH)

11:30-11:55

Measuring exosome production by individual cells - Roger Chiu (UCSD)

12:00-1:30

Lunch

Session 3

EV Impacts on Cell Function

1:30-1:55

Fluorescent protein tagging to probe EV biogenesis - Steve Gould (Johns Hopkins)

2:00-2:25

Highway to cell - Exosomes surf on filopodia to enter cells at endocytic hotspots, and shuttle with endosomes to scan the ER - Wolf Heusermann (University of Basel)

2:30-2:55

Cell migration modulation by EVs – Alissa Weaver (Vanderbilt)

3:00-3:30

Break

Session 4

Frontiers in EV Science

3:30-5:00

Short presentations and panel discussion