FISEV Meets InFLAMES: FISEV 2025

FISEV Meets InFLAMES: FISEV 2025 Annual meeting

Extracellular Vesicles in immunology

Welcome to join the annual meeting of the Finnish Society of Extracellular Vesicles (FISEV), “FISEV Meets InFLAMES: FISEV Annual Meeting 2025”, with your EV colleagues in Turku, Finland!
The FISEV and its organizing members in Turku will bring together researchers and the latest updates on EV- research in Finland.

The event starts with an inFLAMES seminar (free entry and no registration required) and a keynote talk by Professor Edit Buzás (Semmelweis University, HUN). We contin1ue after the seminar with the FISEV2025 annual meeting program.

Program:

Day 1: February 6, 2025 (NO REGISTRATION NEEDED FOR DAY 1)

inFLAMES Seminar: Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) in Immunology
Location: Säätiö Sali, Medisiina D

14:00-15:00 Keynote Lecture: “An Extracellular Vesicle Perspective on Immunology”
Prof. Edit Buzás, Semmelweis University, Hungary

15:00-15:30
“Extracellular vesicles as intercellular messengers in ischemic stroke”
Speaker: Prof. Tarja Malm, University of Eastern Finland

15:30-15:55
“Expansion microscopy enables fluorescent visualization and morphology assessment of single extracellular vesicles – insights into B cell lymphoma vesicles and beyond”
Speaker: Dr. Saara Hämälistö, University of Turku

16:00 inFLAMES Seminar ends
16:15 FISEV statutory annual meeting, Säätiö sali. For more details, visit the meeting page.
19:00 Evening networking event – Restaurant Blanko (Aurakatu 1, 20100, Turku)

Day 2: February 7, 2025 Registration: Click here to register.

FISEV 2025 Annual Meeting
Location: Lauren 2, Medisiina D

08:30-09:00 Coffee, Welcome, and Introduction
Speaker: Pia Siljander, FISEV President

Session 1: EVs in Health and Disease
09:00-09:40
“The role of EV-carried sRNAs as biomarkers and in tissue crosstalk in response to exercise stimuli”
Plenary talk: Dr. Sira Karvinen, University of Jyväskylä

09:40-10:00 Short Talk
“Time-dependent modulation of signaling pathways in melanoma spheroids by platelet-derived extracellular vesicles”
Speaker: Zeynep Tavukcuoglu, University of Helsinki

10:00-10:20 Short Talk
“Urine EV transcriptomics – assessing reference miRNA candidates across preanalytical and disease conditions”
Speaker: Karina Barreiro, FIMM

Session 2: Advanced Detection Methods for EVs
10:20-11:00
“Revealing structure and biomarker heterogeneity of single EVs using waveguide scattering microscopy”
Plenary talk: Petteri Parkkila, Chalmers University of Technology

11:00-11:20 Short Talk
“Investigating extracellular vesicle uptake dynamics using high content screening”
Speaker: Heikki Kyykallio, University of Eastern Finland

11:20-11:40 Short Talk
“GeneCellNano Flagship: Advanced therapies for the future”
Speaker: Susanna Kaisto, University of Oulu

11:40-12:30 Lunch Break (at own cost) & Poster Session

Session 3: Isolation and Characterization of EVs
12:30-13:10
“TBA“
Plenary talk: Maija Puhka, FIMM

13:10-13:30 Short Talk
“FastEV® enrichment of extracellular vesicles improves the clinical performance of prostate cancer biomarkers”
Speaker: Misba Khan, University of Turku

13:30-13:45 GOLD Sponsor Talk
“CytoFlex Nano – Beckman Coulter”
Speaker: Jouko Lukkarinen, Berner Oy / MedLab

13:45-14:30 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Session 4: EVs and the Immune System
14:30-15:10
“Extracellular vesicles of the intestinal microbiota”
Plenary talk: Dr. Mikael Niku, University of Helsinki

15:10-15:30 Short Talk
“Extracellular vesicles derived from pro-inflammatory macrophages induce an inflammatory and invasive phenotype of melanoma cells”
Speaker: Kaisa Mäki-Mantila, University of Eastern Finland

15:30-16:00 Closing Remarks, Best Poster, and Presentation Awards.

Organizers:
The meeting is hosted by FISEV, with support from the InFLAMES Flagship program and the Local Organizing Committee at UTU and ÅA.
Janne Leivo, Saara Hämälistö, Eva Henriksson, Tapani Viitala

FISEV membership fee/ FISEV Annual meeting registration fee is paid by bank transfer to FISEV bank account:
IBAN: FI60 5780 3820 1851 62 (Finnish Society of Extracellular Vesicles)
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