'Extracellular vesicles: from biology to technological development' - Invited speakers seminar

“Meet the PhD Jury” invited speakers seminar by

  1. Prof. dr. Guillaume van Niel  (Team leader Endosomal dynamic in neuropathies, Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Paris, France): "Basic lessons and therapeutic applications of live imaging of extracellular vesicles in vivo"
  2. Dr. Jan Van Deun, former CRIG member at the team of prof. Hendrix (Lab for Molecular Dermatology and Extracellular Vesicle Analysis, FAU Erlangen, Germany): "Novel approaches to isolation, characterization and functional classification of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles for cancer biomarker development"

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) consist of a double layered lipid membrane comprising a cargo composed of lipids, proteins, nucleic acids and metabolites. EVs are increasingly recognized as important mediators of intercellular communication as they have key roles in numerous physiological and pathological processes. As EVs are a spatiotemporal fingerprint of the cell of origin, EV-associated information has the potential to be used for diagnosis, prognosis, and evaluating treatment response.