International Society for Extracellular Vesicles
| Founded | 2011 |
|---|---|
| Type | Professional organization |
| Focus | Extracellular vesicles |
| Location | |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Method | Conferences, publications |
Members | >500 |
Key people | Jan Lötvall (president) |
| Website |
www |
The International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) is an international scientific organization that focuses on the study of extracellular vesicles (EVs).[1] Established in 2011, the society is a non-profit entity and a 501(c)(3) corporation in the United States. ISEV is governed by an executive committee. The current president of ISEV (2012-2016) is Jan Lötvall.[2] The society publishes the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, the only journal devoted to the topic.
Meetings
As part of its mission to promote research and education, ISEV hosts an annual meeting as well as numerous workshops. Annual meetings include:
- 2011: Paris (France, organizational meeting)[3]
- 2012: Gothenburg, Sweden[4]
- 2013: Boston (Massachusetts, United States)[5][6][7]
- 2014: Rotterdam (Netherlands)[8]
- 2015: Washington, DC (preceded by an Educational Day held in conjunction with the Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium of the US National Institutes of Health)[9]
- 2016: Rotterdam (Netherlands)
Educational events are devoted to defined fields of extracellular vesicle research, including:
- Extracellular RNA (New York City, 2012);[10]
- Diagnostics and Therapeutics (Singapore, 2013);[11]
- Isolation and Characterization (Budapest, 2013);[12] and
- Proteomics and Lipidomics (Melbourne, 2014);[13]
- EV-associated RNA: is there a purpose? (Utrecht, Netherlands, scheduled for September, 2015).[14]
The society also co-sponsors various events, including an EV therapeutics meeting in Providence (Rhode Island, United States) in June, 2014.[15]
Journal of Extracellular Vesicles and standardization initiatives
Dedicated to disseminate research, ISEV has established the peer-reviewed and open access Journal of Extracellular Vesicles.[16] The editors-in-chief are Clotilde Théry (Institut Curie), Peter Quesenberry (Brown University) and Yong Song Gho (Pohang University of Science and Technology). In addition to research and review articles, the journal periodically publishes position papers of the society[17][18] that are meant to advance standardization efforts. In 2014, the Executive Committee of ISEV published a set of minimal requirements that should be expected for definitive publication of EV definitions and functions,[19][20] mirroring similar initiatives in the fields of microarray (MIAME) and proteomics (MIAPE) analysis.
References
- ↑ "Better living through mitochondrial derived vesicles".
- ↑ "Beckman Coulter Webinar Series Presents Diversity of Extracellular Vesicles and Their Cargo in Cell-to-cell Communication".
- ↑ "ISEV 2011".
- ↑ "ISEV 2012".
- ↑ "RNA fragments may yield rapid, accurate cancer diagnosis".
- ↑ "Isolation and Purification of Exosomes and Microvesicles Using the NTA Technique".
- ↑ "ISEV 2013".
- ↑ "ISEV 2014".
- ↑ "ISEV 2014".
- ↑ "RNA Workshop".
- ↑ "SOCRATES 2013".
- ↑ "Budapest 2013".;
- ↑ "Proteomics and Lipidomics" (PDF).
- ↑ "Closing Ceremony of 2015 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles".
- ↑ "Providence Therapeutics Meeting".
- ↑ "JEV".
- ↑ Witwer, K. W.; Buzás, E. I.; Bemis, L. T.; Bora, A; Lässer, C; Lötvall, J; Nolte-'t Hoen, E. N.; Piper, M. G.; Sivaraman, S; Skog, J; Théry, C; Wauben, M. H.; Hochberg, F (2013). "Standardization of sample collection, isolation and analysis methods in extracellular vesicle research". Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 2. doi:10.3402/jev.v2i0.20360. PMC 3760646. PMID 24009894.
- ↑ Hill, A. F.; Pegtel, D. M.; Lambertz, U; Leonardi, T; O'Driscoll, L; Pluchino, S; Ter-Ovanesyan, D; Nolte-'t Hoen, E. N. (2013). "ISEV position paper: Extracellular vesicle RNA analysis and bioinformatics". Journal of Extracellular Vesicles 2. doi:10.3402/jev.v2i0.22859. PMC 3873759. PMID 24376909.
- ↑ Lötvall, J; Hill, A. F.; Hochberg, F; Buzás, E. I.; Di Vizio, D; Gardiner, C; Gho, Y. S.; Kurochkin, I. V.; Mathivanan, S; Quesenberry, P; Sahoo, S; Tahara, H; Wauben, M. H.; Witwer, K. W.; Théry, C (2014). "Minimal experimental requirements for definition of extracellular vesicles and their functions: A position statement from the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles". Journal of extracellular vesicles 3: 26913. doi:10.3402/jev.v3.26913. PMC 4275645. PMID 25536934.
- ↑ "Enhanced Analysis of Extracellular Vesicles with Imaging Flow Cytometry".