Thursday, October 27, 2016
Illumina Theater, Biocom Institute
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Program Committee: John Nolan (SI), Jeff Price (SI), Jiwu Wang (SI), Marca Wauben (Univ. Utrecht), Rienk Niuewland (Med Univ Amsterdam), Bob Carter (UCSD), Fred Hochberg (UCSD)
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 |
Sponsored by:
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