CONFERENCE PROGRAM
ECR DAY
MONDAY
16TH
Sponsor arrival and access setup
09:00 - 12:00
11:30 - 12:30
Registration and lunch
Arrival, poster setup and lunch
12:30 - 12:40
Welcome address
12:40 - 13:00
Christopher Stewart
Newcastle University - The academic path
17:30 - 19:00
ECR Networking drinks
Northern Stage
14:20 - 15:00
Coffee break
Caitlin Richardson
Martina Miotto
Ramarketing - The industry path
CellRev - Spinning out from university
Stacey Wagstaff
AI and research integrity
Christina Lord
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:20
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 - 17:00
The early researcher burnout
15:00 - 15:10
Midlands Innovation EV network
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Chair: Charlotte Lawson
Chair: Hannah Jackson
Welcome address
09:50 - 10:00
10:00 - 10:40
Plenary talk: An Hendrix
10:40 - 11:40
Selected talks
11:40 - 12:00
Coffee break
Lunch break
Sponsor talks: Beckman Coulter | Particle Metrix
12:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 14:00
09:40
Registration
12:00 - 12:30
Selected talks
10:40 - 10:55 Ms Fatma Busra Isik (University of Nottingham)- Plasma small extracellular vesicles enriched for microglial origin as biomarkers for dementia with Lewy bodies
10:55 - 11:10 Mr Meir Kestecher (Semmelweis University/HCEMM)- Reduced circulating CD63+ extracellular vesicle levels associate with atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolaemic mice and humans
11:10 - 11:25 Dr Rahul Mahida (University of Birmingham) - Extracellular vesicles mediate macrophage metabolic dysfunction in fibrotic and inflammatory lung diseases.
11:25 - 11:40 Miss Katie Spencer (University of Birmingham)- Pulmonary extracellular vesicles drive alveolar macrophage dysfunction in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
12:00 - 12:15 Ms Morganne Wilbourne (University of Oxford)- Characterizing the contribution of miRNA cargo from syncytiotrophoblast-derived extracellular vesicles to the pathogenesis of pre-eclampsia
12:15 - 12:30 Dr Maurizio Renna (University of Naples)- The HSPB1-p62/SQSTM1 functional complex regulates the EVs-mediated unconventional secretion and transcellular spreading of the HD-associated mutant huntingtin protein
FORUM
TUE 17TH
MORNING
UKEV2024
SPONSORS
Chair: Oksana Kehoe and Rahul Sanwlani
Chair: Naveed Akbar
FORUM
TUE 17TH
AFTERNOON
19:00 - 21:00
Dinner at Newcastle Civic Centre
15:10 - 15:40
Coffee break
Lightning talks
15:40 - 16:40
16:40 - 17:10
14:00 - 14:40
Plenary talk: Kenneth Witwer
Sponsor talks: Cytek | Exodus Bio | Cellarcus Biosciences
14:40 - 15:10
Selected talks
17:10 - 18:30
Poster session and drinks
21:00 - onwards
After dinner drinks at Pleased to Meet You
15:40 - 15:55 Dr Saskia Bakker (University of Warwick)- Cryo-TEM as a characterisation method for extracellular vesicles in dairy products
15:55 - 16:10 Professor Nicholas Turner (University of Sheffield)- Monitoring the electroactive cargo of extracellular vesicles can differentiate various cancer cell lines
16:10 - 16:25 Miss Lucinda Cruddas (UCL)- Do small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) have a role in chronic diabetic foot ulcers?
16:25 - 16:40 Dr Yağmur Yıldızhan (University of Cambridge)- The molecular basis of exosome tethering
Ms Himadri Devvanshi - Unveiling the potential of placental-enriched small extracellular vesicles as modulators of immune homeostasis in spontaneous preterm birth
Ms Alice Hodge - Symptomatic Menopausal Women Not Responding to Hormone Replacement Therapy May Increase their Bone and Cardiovascular Risk: A Pilot Study Investigating Extracellular Vesicle Protein Cargo
Miss Charlotte Boyd - Exposure of Extracellular Vesicles to Hyperglycaemic Conditions Alters Surface Characteristics and Cellular Uptake
Miss Mimma Maggio - Multi-Targeted Bone Regeneration: The Role of Bone-Derived Matrix Vesicles
Miss Krishalle Richmond - Impact of downstream bioprocessing on identity and immunomodulatory potency of Mesenchymal stromal cells derived extracellular vesicles
Dr Elizabeth Dellar - Optimising immunocapture of extracellular vesicles from cerebrospinal fluid for biomarker discovery in neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Abigail Byford - Maternal Extracellular Vesicles Promote Fetal Overgrowth in Pregnancies Complicated by Gestational Diabetes
Miss Georgina Thompson - Small Extracellular Vesicles Released by Cardiac Fibroblasts from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Patients Alter Calcium Transients and Contribute to Hypertrophy of Human Cardiomyocytes
Miss Jessica Willis - Selective attenuation of extracellular vesicle secretion from prostate cancer cells
Dr Rahul Sanwlani - ALK5 inhibitor SD-208 exhibits antifibrotic activity by reverting myofibroblasts to fibroblasts in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and inhibits small extracellular vesicle secretion
Chair: Andrew Devitt
Chair: Tim Williams and Demi Pritchard
09:20 - 10:00
Plenary talk: Lorraine O’Driscoll
10:00 - 10:30
Selected talks
11:00 - 11:20
Coffee break
Lunch break
AGM
12:55 - 13:45
12:00 - 12:30
14:15 - 14:40
09:00 - 09:20
Coffee
11:20 - 12:00
Plenary talk: Rossella Crescitelli
13:45 - 14:15
Panel: Future directions for EV research in the UK and beyond
Sponsor talks: IZON | ONI | NanoFCM
10:30 - 11:00
Selected talks
14:40 - 15:00
Awards and closing remarks
Lightning talks
12:30 - 12:55
FORUM
WED
18TH
10:00 - 10:15 Dr Emily Clarke (University of Liverpool)- Interleukin 1B priming induces an anti-inflammatory mesenchymal stem cell phenotype and extracellular vesicle response: Implications for NIK-dependent mechanisms and equine musculoskeletal therapies
10:15 - 10:30 Dr Soraya Williams (Loughborough University)- Comparative Profiling of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicles for Application in Regenerative Dermatology
12:00 - 12:15 Professor Tim Williams (University of Cambridge)- Investigating the abundance of antimicrobial proteins in subtypes of human urinary extracellular vesicles
12:15 - 12:30 Miss Noelia Pelegrina-Hidalgo (University of Edinburgh)- Visualising Parkinson's disease at the nanoscale
Dr Ritu Raj - Extracellular Vesicles as Key Cellular Messengers: Integrating Inflammation and Tissue Repair Processes
Miss Mimma Maggio - Extracellular vesicles from mesenchymal-derived bone cells regulate osteoclastogenesis
Miss Emily Moss - Isolation and characterisation of breast cancer patient-derived stromal extracellular vesicles
Dr Joshua Price - Intercellular Signalling in Obesity: Adipose-Derived EV miRNA communicate with skeletal muscle
Ms Claire Catherine Staton - Novel class of Non-Vesicular Extracellular Particle (NVEP) identified while analyzing EV subpopulations
Dr Demi Pritchard - Utilising extracellular vesicle glycoproteins for early detection of patients with clinically significant prostate cancer
Ms Natalie Jiraskova - Circulating extracellular vesicles in the pregnant ewe and fetus during late gestation
Miss Hannah Beattie - Does the expression of CD63 in extracellular vesicles present in serum alter between different thyroid pathologies?
Dr Mathieu Y. Brunet - Development of Melt Electrowritten Fibrous Scaffolds with Controlled Release of Osteocyte-derived Extracellular Vesicles for Bone Repair
Chair: Nick Peake
Chair: Jason Webber and Rachel Butler