Extracellular Vesicles Day in Freiburg

10:30 am Registration

11:00 am Opening remarks: Purpose and goals of the Freiburg Extracellular Vesicles Day

• Irina Nazarenko (Institute for Infection Prevention and Control [IIK], Medical Center – University of Freiburg/Universitätsklinikum Freiburg [UKF])

11:10 am Keynote talk: Fedor Berditchevski (Department of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK)
The role of tetraspanins in the regulation of the immune microenvironment in breast cancer

12:10 pm Invited talk: Bilal Alashkar Alhamwe (Center for Tumor Biology and Immunology, Marburg University)
Role of p53-associated EVs in regulating the tumor microenvironment

12:45 pm Flash talks by our industrial exhibitors

• Céline Martin (Repligen GmbH), Extracellular vesicle isolation from conditioned media utilizing KrosFlo® TFDF® technology
• Eberhard Dörr (BioCat GmbH), EV research – Tips & tricks
• [1:00 pm] Mark Dürr (Meso Scale Discovery), Multiplexed characterization of extracellular vesicles
• Giorgia Bulli (PHIO scientific GmbH), PHIO: Science made easy
• Pablo Sánchez-Martín (PICO BioScience GmbH), The PICO assay: a digital immunoassay for the reference-free quantification of sEVs in cancer diagnostics

1:23 pm – 2:45 pm Poster and exhibition session, lunch break

2:45 pm Flash talks

• Jan Lüddecke (Hahn-Schickard), From blood to signal: EV-based sample-to-answer diagnostics
• Gonzalo Bustos Quevedo (Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, UKF), Multiparameter analysis for the discrimination of EV from non-EV particles
• [3:00 pm] Soubarno Kundu (Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, UKF), Isolation and characterisation of blood-derived EV: a density based isolation approach
• Christina Mayerhofer (Department of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation, UKF), Does the bone marrow niche fuel translation in chemoresistant acute myeloid leukemia (AML)?
• Jana Naue (Institute of Forensic Medicine, UKF), EVs meet forensics: Could they provide new biomarkers for crime case investigations?
• Sanidhya Pai (Department of Microsystems Engineering/Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik [IMTEK], University of Freiburg), Detection of tissue-specific EV markers in liquid biopsy with a high-sensitivity PICO assay
• [3:30 pm] Khyathi Ratna Padala (Eye Center, UKF), Characterisation and RNA profiling of limbal niche-derived extracellular vesicles and their effects on corneal epithelial progenitor cells
• John Atanga (Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, UKF), Non-invasive profiling of tumor state to support prostate cancer management
• Franziska Gerber (Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics [MPI-IE]), Advanced proteomic analysis of H3K27M oncohistone-driven malignancies
• Rihab Ksouri (Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, UKF), Epigenetic change in EV: recruitment and regulation in cancer
• [4:00 pm] Nazanin Goshtasbi (Institute for Infection Prevention and Control, UKF), Plant-derived extracellular vesicles as bioactive carriers

4:08 pm – Poster and exhibition session, coffee break

Posters

• PICO BioScience GmbH & Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg
  • Pablo Sánchez-Martín, Reference-free single-vesicle profiling of small EVs with the PICO assay
  • Sanidhya Pai, hsPICO: A high sensitivity digital immunoassay for reference-free quantification of liquid biopsy single-EVs

Exhibitors

• BioCat GmbH
  • NanoEx (2nd generation tangential flow filtration [TFF])
• Meso Scale Discovery (MSD)
• PHIO scientific GmbH
  • Cellwatcher M
• Repligen GmbH
  • KrosFlo KR2i RPM system (tangential flow filtration [TFF] with in-line protein concentration management capability)

Zentrum Translationale Zellforschung - ZTZ
(ground floor, foyer and lecture room)
Breisacher Straße 115, 79106 Freiburg, Germany

On the map of the Medical Center – University of Freiburg (https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/fileadmin/mediapool-zentral/Lageplaene_Standard/Zentralklinikum.pdf), the venue is marked with E5. The entrance is on the northeastern side, facing toward the IMITATE building (E6). From the Robert-Koch-Straße tram stop, stairs and a ramp both lead down to the entrance and to bicycle stands. For car parking, we recommend the parking structure between building E3 and the line 4 Kilianstr. tram stop. Deliveries can come all the way to the ZTZ building.

Note that admission is free, but registration is required. The standard registration deadline was Sunday, 27th September 2026.

For scientific inquiries, feel free to contact:

• Dr. Bence Mélykúti
  Phone: +49 761 270 82480
  Email: bence.melykuti@uniklinik-freiburg.de
• Melanie Schwämmle
  Phone: +49 761 270 83080
  Email: melanie.schwaemmle@uniklinik-freiburg.de

For organizational issues, you can contact:

• Sophie Krüger
  Phone: +49 761 270 83080
  Email: sophie.krueger@uniklinik-freiburg.de