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2nd Virtual Symposium on Urinary EVs

Registration is open until February 14th, 2023 and is free for junior researchers. 

PAST MEETINGS

Welcome to the 2nd FISEV Seminar  

February 6th, 2023, at 9.00 – 17.00 EET 
University of Eastern Finland, Snellmania, Seminar room sn210 
Yliopistonranta 1, 70210 Kuopio. 

Hybrid event will be free of charge to all FISEV Members.

The second FISEV seminar organized by the Finnish Society of Extracellular Vesicles is open to all interested in extracellular vesicle research and it offers excellent possibility for Finnish research teams to report they research and network. We encourage all to join either at place in Kuopio or virtually through TEAMS.  

We have the honor to welcome Professor Susanne Gabrielsson from Karolinska Institute as a Keynote Speaker. In addition, leading Finnish scientists in EV field will share their visions on timely topics while our sponsor companies will share their latest advances in product development. 

If you want to contribute to FISEV seminar as presenter, please send the 2500-character abstract at the time of registration through the link below. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is 25.1.2023. 

Registration 

Registration for the seminar through the following link https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/90BA5160D4916372 

Seminar price for non FISEV members 35 €. FISEV members are free of charge. 

To confirm your registration, please make the payment with following information:  

IBAN FI60 5780 3820 1851 62, BIC OKOYFIHH. Include the message text to the payment “FISEV2023, NAME(S) OF REGISTERING PERSON(S)”. 

The number of on-site participants is limited to 50. Rest of the interested can participate via Teams. The link will be sent by 5.2.2023 by email. 

STATUTORY ANNUAL MEETING will be held in TEAMS February 5th, 2023, 18.00 EET. Link to the TEAMS meeting and agenda will be sent to all members by email. 

2nd FISEV Seminar – program 

Date: 6.2.2023 

Place: University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio campus, Snellmania building, room Sn210 

9:00-9:10 Opening words by the President of FISEV Saara Laitinen 

CATEGORIZING EVs (Chair: Tarja Malm)

9:10-9:30 Welcome lecture: “Correlative light and electron microscopy in EV research” by Kirsi Rilla  

9:30-10:30 Keynote lecture: “Extracellular vesicles for cancer immunotherapy” by Professor Susanne Gabrielsson, Karolinska Institutet 

10.30-10.45 Finnadvance (sponsor talk): “A microfluidic platform to assess the transport and delivery of extracellular vesicles” by Sebastien Mosser

10:45-11:00 Coffee 

WHEN NOT ONLY CONTENT, BUT ALSO THE FUNCTIONS MATTER (Chair: Kirsi Rilla)

11:00-11:30 “Why we need to develop functional EV assays: case platelet” by Pia Siljander 

11:30-11:45 “Estrogen deficiency caused by menopause blunts acute exercise-induced circulating microRNA response in extracellular vesicles” by Sira Karvinen

11:45-12.00 “Adipocytes alleviate obesity-induced inflammation and metabolic disturbance via increased secretion of extracellular vesicles” by Johanna Matilainen

12:00-12:15 “Extracellular vesicles derived from proinflammatory macrophages induce inflammatory and invasive responses in melanoma cells” by Kaisa Mäki-Mantila

12:15-12:30 ONI (sponsor talk): “Profiling of EV populations and single EVs with the Nanoimager, a benchtop super-resolution microscope” by Lara Laparra

12:30-13:15 Lunch break (at canteen at own cost) 

FISHING OUT VESICLES FOR BIOMARKER PURPOSES (Chair: Sanna Pasonen-Seppänen)

13:15-13:45 “Extracellular vesicles and liquid biopsy sampling on anti-cancer therapy response evaluation” by Arto Mannermaa 

13:45-14:00 “Validation of surface protein and capture tools for downstream analysis of astrocyte derived EVs” by Genevieve Bart

14:00-14:15 “Identifying glucose deprivation associated EV based miRNA changes in MCF7 breast cancer cells and their subsequent role in cancer pathogenesis” by Saket Ahuja

14:15-14:30 “Advanced fluorescence microscopies for drug delivery studies” by Elina Vuorimaa-Laukkanen

14:30-14:45 NanoFCM (sponsor talk): “NanoAnalyzer: Combining flow cytometry & particle analysis to meet the challenges of the nano-scale” by Alice Law

14:45-15:00 Coffee

EV BASED THERAPIES (Chair: Sanna Pasonen-Seppänen)

15:00-15:30 ”The Great Balls on Fire – EV Sparkle of Life, Disease and Therapies” by Seppo Vainio

15:30-15:45 “CD44 mediates interactions of hyaluronan-coated extracellular vesicles with target cells” by Heikki Kyykallio

15:45-16:00 “Platelet and red blood cell concentrate derived extracellular vesicles targeting into different immune cells” by Petra Ilvonen

16:00-16:15 “Time-gated Raman spectroscopy and proteomics analyses of hypoxic and normoxic renal carcinoma extracellular vesicles” by Anatoliy Samoylenko

16:15-16:30 Luminex (sponsor talk): “Amnis CCD Based Flow Cytometry for High-Sensitivity EV Analysis” by Owen Hughes

16:30-16:45 Wrapping up the meeting

FINDOS Winter Symposium 2022 on Oral Mucosal Diseases and Extracellular Vesicles, 24-25 November 2022

On-site at Meilahti campus of the University of Helsinki/ virtual attendance also possible.
Register at https://forms.office.com/r/DffZyAYN1u.
Detailed program can be viewed below.

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METVES II Workshop on the standardization of extracellular vesicle concentration measurements. 24 November, 11.30 AM – 5.30 PM Finnish time. Register at http://www.metves.eu/registration to receive link for virtual meeting.

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Keystone Conference on Extracellular vesicles, October 30th – November 2nd 2022, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Abstract submissions and registration are still open! The event program can be found below.

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Blood EVs: An ISEV Workshop

1st – 2nd September 2022, with Educational Day on 31st August

“Blood EVs” is an ISEV Workshop on all things related to extracellular vesicles of blood: how to obtain, profile, and use them. The event will be held in Helsinki, Finland, from 1-2 September 2022 and will be preceded by an Education Day on 31 August. The Workshop will be in-person only, and participants have already been selected and notified. However, there will be a virtual option for Education Day. If you would like to participate virtually in the Education Day, please register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BloodEducationDay

This Blood EVs Educational Day is endorsed by the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis.

View the full program below. Short talks and roundtable discussions will revolve around four themes:

Day 1. Blood EVs as biomarkers

  • Roundtable 1: Blood as matrix, choosing the sample analytics
  • Roundtable 2: Development of diagnostics, towards clinical feasibility

Day 2. Blood EVs as therapeutics

  • Roundtable 3: Decades of knowledge in transfusion medicine: benefits and disadvantages of blood EVs
  • Roundtable 4: Regulation of novel blood-based nanomedicines

Only ISEV members may attend the Workshop; if you have been invited and are not a member, please visit https://www.isev.org/page/Membership to sign up. A poll on EV practices will be sent out in advance of the meeting. 

Workshop Chairs and Organizing Committee
Saara Laitinen
Pia Siljander
Metka Lenassi
Ken Witwer
Rienk Nieuwland
Minh Le
Kai Härkönen 

Full Program

ISEV WORKSHOP – Blood EVs

Educational Day

Wednesday 31.8.2022

“Getting blood-derived EVs into the clinics”

Moderator Rienk Nieuwland, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam & Pia Siljander, University of Helsinki

9:00-9.20 General welcome to the Educational day & Blood EV workshop  (Saara Laitinen, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service & Pia Siljander, University of Helsinki)

9:20-9:50 Introduction to blood EVs (Rienk Nieuwland, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam)

9:50-10:20 Blood as a source of EVs (Edit Buzás, Semmelweis University)

10:20- 10.50 Detection methods for EVs in blood (Ken Witwer, John Hopkins University)

10:50-11:20 BREAK

11:20-11:50 Pre-analytical considerations for blood collection and processing in translational and clinical EV research (Fabrice Lucien-Matteoni, Mayo Clinic)

11:50- 12:20 A clinician’s perspective on blood EV biomarkers (Aleksandra Gasecka, Medical University of Warsaw & Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam)

12:20-13:05 Company presentations (Izon, ParticleMetrix, TimeGate Instruments, BioNavis, Carmine Therapeutics)

LUNCH 13-14:00

14.00-14:30 Reference values of blood EVs (Metka Lenassi, University of Ljubljana)

14:30-15:00 Approaching clinical feasibility with EV flow cytometry (Edwin van der Pol, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam)

15:00- 15:20 Company presentations (Luminex, Sartorius)

15:20-15:50 BREAK

15:50-16.20 Heterogeneous platelet-EVs: theranostic opportunities? (Pia Siljander, University of Helsinki)

16:20-16:50 Post-isolation modifications of EVs for therapeutic purposes (Minh Le, National University of Singapore)

16:50-17:20 Summary and discussion (Rienk Nieuwland, Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam)

17:20-18:00 Results of the attendant survey & the blood EV analyses by participating technologies

19.00 Welcome reception at the Botanic gardens

ISEV WORKSHOP ON BLOOD EVs

DAY 1 Program Blood EVs – matrix prerequisites & technologies & biomarkers

Thursday 1.9.2022

Moderators Pia Siljander (University of Helsinki) & Edit Buzás (Semmelweis University) & Rienk Nieuwland (Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam) & Lorraine O’Driscoll (Trinity College)

9:00-9:10 Introduction to working in the workshops, Pia Siljander

9:10-9:25 Introduction to the topic: Blood as a source of EVs Part I (Edit Buzás & Rienk Nieuwland)

9:25 Comparison of collection tubes and processing intervals for extracellular vesicle analysis in blood (An Hendrix, Ghent University)

9:35 Influence of isolation and anticoagulant on analysis of plasma-derived EVs by imaging flow cytometry (Tobias Tertel, University Hospital Essen)

9:45 Characterization of platelet-derived extracellular vesicle subpopulations (Johanna Puutio, University of Helsinki)

9:55 Plasma EV ID: Fluorescence-based phenotyping of blood-borne extracellular vesicles (Danilo Mladenovic, Tallinn University)

10:05-10:20 questions

5 minutes break

10:25 Label-free detection and characterization of single sub-micrometer particles in plasma of prostate cancer patients (Agustin Enciso-Martinez, Leiden University Medical Center)

10:35 Stratification of Breast cancer risk by Raman Spectroscopy characterization of Extracellular Vesicles (Lorena Signati, University of Milan)

10:45 Optimization of mutational analysis workflow using next-generation sequencing on plasma derived extracellular vesicles (Rebekka van Hoof, Flemish Institute for Technological Research)

10:55-11:10 questions

11:10-11:15 Break and organization into three roundtables

11:15-12:30 Roundtable discussions (60’+ 15’ wrap-up in writing by the moderators)

Topics will raise organically from the participants/ electronic platform or by the chairs, for example

  • What do we need to consider regarding blood EV pre-analytics, isolation, analytics, applications
  • What do we not understand yet?

Table 1 Moderators: Rienk Nieuwland/Pia Siljander

Table 2 Moderators: John Nolan/Edwin van der Pol

Table 3 Moderators: An Hendrix/Metka Lenassi

LUNCH 12:30-13:30

13:30-14:00 Highlights from the morning discussions by roundtable moderators (3 x 5 minutes & audience)

14:00-14:15 Introduction to the topic: Biomarker applications of the blood EV surface Part I

(Lorraine O’Driscoll, Trinity College)

14:10 Blood EV protein corona: the opening of a new biomarker discovery landscape? (Annalisa Radeghieri, University of Brescia/CSGI, Florence)

14:20 Tumour-derived DNA is enriched as short fragments associated with extracellular vesicles (Daniel Hagey, Karolinska Institutet)

14:30 The HLA-I immunopeptidome of blood EV -detection of clinically relevant peptides (Simon Powis, University of St. Andrews)

14:40-14:55 Questions

14:55-15:25 COFFEE

Biomarker applications of the blood EV surface Part II

15:25 Methods comparison for plasma-derived EVs isolation to perform proteomics analysis (Sandrine Reymond, University of Geneva)

15:35 Identification of B-cell signatures in plasma EVs from pediatric BCP-ALL patients (Marit Inngjerdingen, Oslo University Hospital)

15:45 Circulating extracellular vesicles provide valuable protein biomarkers in metastatic breast cancer (Lorena Martin-Jaular, Institut Curie)

15.45-16:00 questions

10 minutes break & moving to roundtables

16:10-17:25 Roundtable discussions (60’+ 15’ wrap-up in writing by the moderators)

Topics will raise organically from the participants/ electronic platform or by the chairs

Table 1 Moderators Lorraine O’Driscoll/Natasha Zavroni

Table 2 Moderators Annalisa Radeghieri/Mari Palviainen

Table 3 Moderators Fabrice Lucien-Matteoni/ Lorena Martin-Jaular

5 minutes break & moving to main hall

17:30-18:00 Highlights shared from the afternoon discussions (3 x 5 min & audience)

ISEV WORKSHOP on BLOOD EVs

DAY 2 Program Blood EVs as Therapeutics

Friday 2.9.2022

Moderators Minh Le & Saara Laitinen

9.00-9.30 Introduction to topics: Blood as a therapeutic EV source and in delivery of EV-therapy

Standing on the shoulders of giants, decades of transfusion & blood cell therapy (Saara Laitinen, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service)

Potential therapeutic applications of blood cell derived EVs (Minh Le, National University of Singapore)

9.30 Using plasma derived EVs as drug delivery vehicles (Maria Chiara Ferri, University of Genova)

9.40 Delivery of therapeutic mRNA via extracellular vesicles to express soluble proteins (Muhammed Nawaz, University of Gothenburg)

9.50 Development of designed targeting peptides for EV (Sujaan Das, Crane Biosciences)

10-10:15 questions & discussion

10.15 Developing drug delivery RBCEVs produced from preloaded RBC (Diana Piedrahita, Erytech Pharma)

10.25 Characterising safety and efficacy of RBC-EV as therapeutic delivery vehicles for retinal degenerations (Rakshanya Sekar, Australia National University)

10.35 Using RBC-EVs as drug delivery particles (Don Haut, Carmine Therapeutics)

10:45- 11:00 questions

11.00-11.15 Break and organization into three roundtables

Suggestions for roundtable discussion topics in addition to those which are raised organically

  • Standing on the shoulders of giants, decades of transfusion knowledge
  • Why and what we should consider?
  • Benefits and disadvantages of using RBC-EVs as therapeutics
  • Technologies for loading and targeting of RBC EVs
  • Blood group and tissue type: challenge or opportunity?
  • The effect of blood components on delivering EV
  • Blood – friendly highway or hostile environment?
  • The effect of processing and storage on EVs

11.15-13.00 Roundtable discussions

Roundtable 1 Red blood cell -derived nanobiotechnology

Moderators Minh Le & Kai Härkönen

Roundtable 2 Different blood cell derived EVs for therapy development

Moderators Saara Laitinen & Ulla Impola

Roundtable 3 Lessons learned from blood EVs: is there advantage?

Moderators Edith Buzás & Pia Siljander

LUNCH 13.00 – 14.00

14.00-15.00 Wrap-up the Roundtables (Big hall)

15.00 Coffee

15.30-17:00 Summary of the Workshop Days 1 & 2

Moderators: Saara Laitinen & Pia Siljander & Rienk Nieuwland

Wrap up of the three days into deliverables

  • Impact and considerations of technological choices on blood EV isolation, detection and analyses (data from blood EVs and sponsor analytics, survey, roundtable outcomes)
  • Therapeutic use of blood cell -derived EVs

What should we have discussed and what next?

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Welcome to the 1st FISEV Seminar

15th February 2022 at 9.00 – 16.00 EET
Online event will be free of charge to all FISEV Members

This 1st seminar organized by Finnish Society of Extracellular Vesicles is open to all interested in extracellular vesicle research and it offers excellent possibility for Finnish research teams and companies to network. We encourage all to join this newly formed network of nanobiotechnology to accelerate Finnish contribution to this field. Seminar consists of three sessions: EV imaging, EVs in pathophysiology and the development of EV based therapies. Leading Finnish scientists in EV field will share their visions on these timely topics while our sponsor companies will share their latest advances in product development.

If you want to contribute to FISEV seminar as presenter, please send the 2500 character abstract of your presentation to info.fisev@gmail.com. The deadline for abstracts is 31.1.2022.

Registration

Registration for the seminar through the link. Registration deadline 10.2.2022.
Seminar price for non FISEV members 35 €.
FISEV members are free of charge.

To confirm your registration, please make the payment with following information: IBAN FI60 5780 3820 1851 62, BIC OKOYFIHH. Include the message text to the payment “FISEV2022, PAID PERSONS”.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the seminar will be held in TEAMS and the participant number is limited to 200. 

The 1st FISEV seminar programme

9.00     Opening words
Pia Siljander, University of Helsinki

9.10     Introducing the Finnish Society of Extracellular Vesicles
Saara Laitinen, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service

9.30     KEYNOTE: Engineering extracellular vesicles for targeted drug delivery
Samir El Andaloussi, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden


SESSION 1: Extracellular vesicles in physiology and pathophysiology
Chair Tarja Malm, University of Eastern Finland

10.15   Extracellular vesicles in physiology and neuropathology
Tarja Malm, University of Eastern Finland

10.30   Extracellular vesicles in ischemic stroke
Nea Korvenlaita, University of Eastern Finland

10.45   Sponsor session: NanoFCM

10.55   Transcriptome of brain-dead donor plasma extracellular vesicles – A new perspective on the physiological consequences after brain death
SeoJeong Joo, University of Helsinki

11.10   Sponsor session: HansaBioMed Life Sciences

11.20   BREAK


SESSION 2: Extracellular vesicle imaging
Chair Kirsi Rilla, University of Eastern Finland

11.30   Extracellular Vesicles Under the Microscope – Is Seeing Believing?
Kirsi Rilla, University of Eastern Finland

11.50   Time-resolved fluorescence microscopy studies on cellular up-take of extracellular vesicles
Elina Vuorimaa-Laukkanen, Tampere University

12.05   Arctic exposomes flavoring nature derived exosomes
Feby Pratiwi, Oulu University

12.20   LUNCH with a possibility to network in seminar themed breakout rooms

13.00   Sponsor session: ONI


SESSION 3: Extracellular vesicles in therapy development
Chair Seppo Vainio, Oulu University

13.10   Can we learn to harvest the value of the garden of extracellular vesicles?
Seppo Vainio, Oulu University

13.30   A quick pipeline to obtain extracellular vesicles from cancer spheroids using nanocellulose
Heikki Kyykallio, University of Eastern Finland

13.45   Sponsor Session: Finnadvance

13.55   Piecing together the big picture: Novel detection methods for total extracellular vesicle populations in EVE Consortium
Johanna Puutio, University of Helsinki

14.10   Sponsor session: Wyatt

14.20   BREAK

14.30   Ultracentrifugation used in combination with filtration to isolate the small extracellular vesicles from the cell culture supernatant fraction
Ilana Chefetz, University of Minnesota, USA

14.45   Sponsor session: KDBio

14.55   OPEN DISCUSSION: “EVians in Finland“
Sami Valkonen, University of Helsinki & University of Eastern Finland

15.30   FISEV reminder & closing remarks
Saara Laitinen, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service
Pia Siljander, University of Helsinki

Finnish Society of Extracellular Vesicles

Logo: Kai Härkönen

Contact

info.fisev@gmail.com

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