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Kenneth Witwer

@kennethwitwer.bsky.social

Extracellular vesicle and RNA enthusiast; President, International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV); life-long learner; consultant

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#ExtracellularVesicles in #LiquidBiopsy: how to find the needle in a haystack? Agustin Enciso-Martinez presents a solution on #EVClub
Wed July 2, 12 noon EDT/18.00 CEST
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See: isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#ISEV @isev.org

30.06.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ISEV President Ken Witwer (@kennethwitwer.bsky.social) welcomes you to Vienna and encourages you to get involved and ask a lot of questions!
#ISEV2025

24.04.2025 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Opening remarks by Ken Witwer (@kennethwitwer.bsky.social) and Andreas Mรถller.
Don't let this week pass you by, this is the moment to connect and find unexpected treasure

24.04.2025 06:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next #EVClub: Gi-Hoon Nam on engineered EVs to treat acute liver failure www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Please note the different time:
Asia-Pacific: Wednesday, May 7, 7 AM China/8 AM Korea, Japan/9AM AEST
Americas: Tuesday, May 6, 7 PM EDT
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#ISEV

04.05.2025 16:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next #EVClub: Szandor Simmons on #EVs as mediators of cardiovascular disease in pediatric chronic kidney disease. A #GUSEV event, moderated by Dylan Burger.
Wed Apr 16, 12 EDT/18.00 CEST
The paper: doi.org/10.1002/jev2...
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#ExtracellularVesicles #ISEV

14.04.2025 14:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fueling sleep: UK researchers show key metabolic link to restful nights Scientists have long recognized the brainโ€™s need for energy, but groundbreaking research from the University of Kentuckyโ€™s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has now illuminated how the brainโ€™s energy uti...

A great write up on our recent work in PNAS attempting to understand metabolic drivers of sleep, led by @ncons95.bsky.social !

uknow.uky.edu/research/fue...

27.03.2025 14:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next #EVClub is with Tamรกs Visnovitz and @editbuzas.bsky.social: A โ€˜torn bag mechanismโ€™ of small extracellular vesicle release via limiting membrane rupture of en bloc released amphisomes (amphiectosomes)
Apr 2, 11 AM EDT/17.00 CEST
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28.03.2025 00:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next #EVClub: Silvia Cappello on #EV molecular cues in human brain development pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39302835/
Wed March 19 12 noon EST/17.00 CET
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W/Tsuneya Ikezu, #EViNS, #ISEV Extracellular Vesicles in Nervous Systems Special Interest Group

17.03.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In HIV infection, U6 snRNA leaves the nucleus and is packaged into extracellular vesicles to aid in intercellular communication
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@kennethwitwer.bsky.social

12.03.2025 19:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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thank you @kennethwitwer.bsky.social and @isev.org for continuing your #EVClub! Just before #ISEV2025 in Vienna/Austria, Carla Tripisciano and Johannes Thaler from ASEV (with intro from Rienk Nieuwland) presented kind of "history" of #extracellularvesicles in terms of their function in coagulation ๐Ÿ˜Ž

06.03.2025 19:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next #EVClub: "A century of evidence for highly coagulant tissue factor/activated factor VII complex-exposing EVs in body fluids"
See also: doi.org/10.1182/bloo... and ashpublications.org/blood/articl...
Wed 12 noon EST/18.00 CET
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03.03.2025 18:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Next #EVClub: Joe Brealey shines "a light on fluorescent EV dyes: Evaluating efficacy, specificity and suitability by nano-flow cytometry" isevjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Wed Feb 26 12 noon EST/18.00 CET
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#ExtracellularVesicles

24.02.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The aging human brain exhibits reduced cerebrospinal fluid flow during sleep due to both neural and vascular factors

24.02.2025 10:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The 2025 edition of the #EMBOEVs EMBO practical course on #extracellularvesicles has started! Our highly distinguished keynote speaker Edit Buzas @editbuzas.bsky.social enlightens the participants on the large diversity of EVs.

24.02.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This week's #EVClub features "Direct intercellular vesicle exchange between adjacent cells"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
With Jun Yamashita and group
Wed Feb 19, 11 AM Japan, 10 AM Beijing, 1 PM Melbourne; Tuesday Feb 18, 9 PM EST
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17.02.2025 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie says go for it in white letters ALT: a man in a suit and tie says go for it in white letters

The no cost extension button is back and at least some are being granted. If this applies to you, go for it.

PLEASE SHARE

12.02.2025 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 219    ๐Ÿ” 113    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
EViNS | Carla Lopes: EVs in Huntington's iPSC neurons
YouTube video by EVClub: Extracellular Vesicle Club EViNS | Carla Lopes: EVs in Huntington's iPSC neurons

ICYMI: #EVClub of #ISEV and #EViNS. Carla Lopes presents โ€œ#ExtracellularVesicles improve GABAergic transmission in Huntington's disease iPSC-derived neuronsโ€ (Theranostics, 2023: www.thno.org/v13p3707.htm).

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youtu.be/c9oFoLy3xdU

10.02.2025 14:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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