Day 1 - September 11, 2026
Time Program Speaker / Chair
08:00-08:30 Registration
08:30–08:45 Opening Remarks
Chairs: Lei Zheng & Zhiwei Wu
ISEV Executive Chair of Meetings & Programs: Naveed Akbar
08:45–09:15 Icebreaker Session: participant self-introductions
Session 1: Bacterial Vesicles: Biogenesis, Cargo, and Heterogeneity
 Chair: Lei Zheng
09:15–09:40 Plenary Talk 1:  TBD Speaker: Czarny Bertrand Marcel Stanislas
09:40–10:05 Bacterial cell death pathways are associated with membrane vesicle production Speaker: Cynthia Whitchurch
10:05–10:20 Short Oral 1: Isolation, Characterization and Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME) Profiling of Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles Speaker: Rümeysa AFŞAR
10:20–10:35 Short Oral 2: Identifying conserved extracellular vesicle biomarkers across Bacillus species through comparative proteomics of Bacillus velezensis Speaker: Xiaofang Yang
10:35–10:55 Coffee Break
10:55–11:10 Short Oral 3: In vivo Tracking of Probiotic-Derived OMVs in a Mouse Model of Neuroinflammation Using Multimodal Imaging Speaker: Guanshu Liu
11:10–11:25 Short Oral 4: Tissue Specificity of Fusobacterium nucleatum and Its Outer Membrane Vesicles to Oral Epithelium and Oral Cancers Speaker: Bojie Chen
11:25–11:40 Short Oral 5: Beyond culture models: challenges in characterizing bacterial extracellular vesicles derived from human biofluids Speaker: Huyen Nguyen
11:40–11:55 Short Oral 6: A gnotobiotic zebrafish model for live imaging of bacterial extracellular vesicles reveals gut-to-brain bEV shuttling Speaker: Jelle Van Den Bor
11:55-12:00 Sponsor Talk: Exodus
12:00-13:30 Lunch & Poster Session  
     
Session 2: Virus-Induced Extracellular Vesicles: Biogenesis, Cargo, and Heterogeneity
 Chair: Zhiwei Wu
13:30–13:55 Extracellular Vesicles-mediated Molecular Basis in Flavivirus Infection of Mosquitoes Speaker: Gong Cheng
13:55–14:20 TBD Speaker: Yuxuan Fu
14:20–14:35 Short Oral 1: A nonenveloped arbovirus reprograms migrasomes into highly infectious viral delivery units Speaker: Xin Yin
14:35–14:50 Short Oral 2: Leishmania RNA Virus (LRV1) transmission and extracellular vesicles: Novel insight into host–pathogen interaction and mechanisms of infection. Speaker: Martin Olivier
14:50–15:20 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:20–15:35 Short Oral 3: Characterizing extracellular vesicles derived from HIV-infected cells Speaker: Jonathan Burnie
15:35–15:50 Short Oral 4: SARS-CoV-2-induced mitochondria-derived vesicles mediate host-to-immune communication and impair CD8⁺ T-cell memory differentiation Speaker: Shiyu Li
15:50–16:05 Short Oral 5: Extracellular vesicle-mediated encapsulation of intact zika: a novel determinant in neutralization resistance and neuropathogenesis enhancement Speaker: Mingyuan Li
16:05–16:20 Short Oral 6: Using human endogenous retrovirus envelope proteins to create therapeutic extracellular vesicles Speaker: Zach Troyer
16:20–16:25 Sponsor Talk: VdoBiotech
16:25-16:45 Break / Networking  
16:45-18:00 Round Table Discussion (break to 3 topics in parallel)  
18:00-21:00 Reception  

Day 2 - September 12, 2026
Session 3: Vesicle-Mediated Host-Microbe Communication, Vesicles in Viral Transmission, and Immune Modulation
 Chair: Naveed Akbar
09:00–09:25 Bacterial Vesicles-Mediated Host-Microbe Interactions and New Diagnostic-Therapeutic Strategies Speaker: Min Li
09:25–09:50 Flavivirus Infection Derived Extracellular Vesicles Display Envelope Protein and Degrade Viral Genome Speaker: Gang Long
09:50–10:05 Short Oral 1: NF1-derived extracellular vesicles attenuate atherosclerosis by reprogramming the inflammation - metabolism axis Speaker: Fan Bu
10:05–10:20 Short Oral 2: EHEC extracellular vesicles deliver the sRNA CyaR to reprogram host DUSP2 signaling and promote intestinal colonization Speaker: Xiaoya Yang
10:20–10:40 Coffee Break
10:40–10:55 Short Oral 3: Clostridioides difficile-Derived Extracellular vesicles Induce proinflammatory Responses in macrophages Speaker: Fangfang Fan
10:55–11:10 Short Oral 4: Circulating microbiota-derived outer membrane vesicles drive systemic antibiotic failure and persistent extraintestinal infections Speaker: Zhen Shen
11:10–11:25 Short Oral 5: Identifying extracellular vesicle-associated virulence factors and host uptake mechanisms during Fusarium oxysporum-mediated plant infection Speaker: Mudassar Ahmad
11:25–11:40 Short Oral 6: Host–Bacterium Interaction-derived Chimeric Extracellular Vesicles Propagate Monocyte-centred Inflammation in sepsis Speaker: Bingbing Ru
11:40–11:45 Sponsor Talk: Beckman Coulter
11:45-13:30 Lunch & Poster Session
     
Session 4: Diagnostic, Preventive, and Therapeutic Strategies Based on Bacterial and Viral Vesicles
 Chair: Yiyao Huang
13:30–13:55 Mapping bacterial extracellular vesicle research: insights, best practices and knowledge gaps Speaker: An Hendrix
13:55–14:20 Plenary Talk 2: Speaker: TBD
14:20–14:35 Short Oral 1: SMART-VLV: a non-coding RNA cassette directs scaffold-free secretory vesicle packaging Speaker: Kai Zhou
14:35–14:50 Short Oral 2: Modulation of macrophage anti-tumor activity by Klebsiella pneumoniae–derived extracellular vesicles Speaker: Touya Toyomoto
14:50–15:20 Coffee Break & Poster Session
15:20–15:35 Short Oral 3: Specific Labeling of Outer Membrane Vesicles with Antibiotic-Conjugated Probe Reveals Early Bacterial Infections in Blood Speaker: Qianbei Li
15:35–15:50 Short Oral 4: In vivo metabolic labeling of nascent gut bacterial extracellular vesicles enables selective
profiling and resolves their role as mediators of gut-organ communication		 Speaker: Juan Gao
15:50–16:05 Short Oral 5: Engineered bacterial outer membrane vesicles for endogenous pre-miRNA delivery through tRNA
scaffold-based cargo loading		 Speaker: Chenyang Cui
16:05–16:20 Short Oral 6: Plant-Bacterial Hybrid Membrane Vesicles as Anti-Phagocytic and Bacteria-Targeted
Sonosensitizers for Sonodynamic Therapy of Multidrug-Resistant Lung Infection		 Speaker: Xin Ding
16:20-16:45 Break / Networking  
16:45-18:00

Round Table Discussion (break to 3 topics in parallel)

Closing Remarks