Conference Description
The Extracellular Vesicles GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
The demonstration that extracellular vesicles (EVs), carrying RNA, DNA, proteins, lipids and metabolites, play important roles in maintaining human health as well as contribute to driving disease has opened up a whole new field of research. Therefore, EVs have tremendous biologic significance and clinical potential, making a meeting focused on this area of research both highly timely and highly significant. The 4th Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and 3rd Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) entitled “Extracellular vesicles: structure and function, technology development, and clinical application" to be held July 28 - August 2, 2024, at the Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River in Newry, Maine, will bring together a very diverse array of senior and early career investigators in both basic and clinical fields. There will be an emphasis on promoting interactions between participants to facilitate the development of collaborative and translational research. GRCs are one of only a few types of meetings that facilitate these important interactions between senior and junior investigators. This GRC will include sessions covering: 1) Fundaments of EV Biology & Diversity; 2) New EV detection/separation technologies; 3) Novel developments in EV diagnostics; 4) Novel developments in EV engineering for therapy 5) EVs in cancer; 6) EVs in immune biology and disease; 7) EVs in neurobiology and disease; 8) EVs in host-pathogen interactions; 9) Bringing EVs to the clinic; and 10) EVs in cardiovascular diseases. General issues to be focused on will be EV heterogeneity, isolation and quantification strategies, trafficking of EVs, the role of EVs in disease and therapeutic efficacy of EVs, both pre-clinically and clinically. Up to sixteen open speaker slots have been reserved for early career investigators who will be selected from submitted abstracts. There also will be GRC Power Hour, designed to address challenges women and other minorities face in science and issues of diversity and inclusion. In this proposal, we seek to obtain funding to support registration fees and travel of junior investigators for both the GRC and GRS. Overall, the GRC and GRS on EVs promise to be a very diverse and exciting conferences, which should lead to important collaborations that move the field forward both as to basic studies and clinical applications.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by March 30, 2024. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Enlightening the Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Health and Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Clotilde Théry (Institut Curie / INSERM U932, France)
Speakers
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Guillaume van Niel (INSERM, France)
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Xandra Breakefield (Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital, United States)
Biology and Diversity in Extracellular Vesicles
Discussion Leaders
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An Hendrix (Ghent University, Belgium)
Speakers
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Li Yu (Tsinghua University, China)
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Nicole Meisner-Kober (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, Austria)
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Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman (Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, United States)
Novel Developments in Extracellular Vesicle Diagnostics
Discussion Leaders
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Lucia Languino (Thomas Jefferson University, United States)
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An Hendrix (Ghent University, Belgium)
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Saumya Das (Mass Gen Hospital, United States)
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Eric Boilard (CHU de Québec, Université Laval , Canada)
Novel Developments in Extracellular Vesicle Engineering for Therapy
Discussion Leaders
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Paul Robbins (University of Minnesota, United States)
Speakers
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Samir El Andaloussi (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
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Koen Breyne (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States)
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Aurelio lorico (Touro University Nevada College of Medicine, United States)
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Joel Nordin (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer
Discussion Leaders
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David Lyden (Weill Cornell Medicine, United States)
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Alissa Weaver (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, United States)
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Suresh Mathivanan (La Trobe University, Australia)
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Randy Schekman (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
Extracellular Vesicles in Immune Biology and Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Adrian Morelli (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
Speakers
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Jane Stinchcombe (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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Anna Lena Jung (Institute for Lung Research, Philipps University Marburg, Germany)
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Wei Guo (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
Extracellular Vesicles in Neurobiology and Disease
Discussion Leaders
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Kenneth Witwer (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States)
Speakers
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Eva-Maria Krämer-Albers (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
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Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke (VIB, Ghent University, Belgium)
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Efrat Levy (NYU School of Medicine, United States)
Extracellular Vesicles in Host-Pathogen Interactions
Discussion Leaders
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Chioma M. Okeoma (New York Medical College, United States)
Speakers
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Hailing Jin (University of California, Riverside, United States)
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Amy Buck (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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Neta Regev-Rudzki (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
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Gang Long (Fudan University, Shanghai, China)
Extracellular Vesicles in Preclinical and Clinical Settings
Discussion Leaders
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Eva Rohde (Paracelsus Medical University and SALK, Austria)
Speakers
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Mario Gimona (Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Austria)
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Soazig Le Lay (Inserm, France)
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Joost Sluijter (University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands)
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Susmita Sahoo (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States)
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
Organizers
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Eva Rohde (Paracelsus Medical University and SALK, Austria)
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Lucia Languino (Thomas Jefferson University, United States)