Vesicle Vibe
Vesicle Vibe is the AAEV Virtual Seminar Series created to offer an educational platform for junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and students involved in EV research. Its mission is to provide a space for discussion on ongoing cutting edge EV research, and to reflect on the EV research field and its contribution to biology and medicine across various educational and experience levels, ranging from undergraduates to senior faculty members.
Join us every month for AAEV Virtual Seminar!
​If you're interested in presenting or serving as a moderator, please email vesiclevibe@aaev.org.
​​Free registration for our upcoming seminar in June:
Time: Wednesday, June 18th, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Central Time (10:00 AM-11:00 AM EST)
Moderator: Paul Spezza, B.S.– Kalluri Lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX)
Speaker: Pua, Heather H, M.D., Ph. D. ​
Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Talk: T cell Extracellular Vesicles: Communicating Signals in Tissue Inflammation.
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Dr. Heather Pua is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her research focuses on how extracellular vesicles and small noncoding RNAs regulate immune responses and tissue inflammation, with a special emphasis on T cell driven lung inflammation and asthma. Dr. Pua earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology and her M.D./Ph.D. in Immunology from Duke University, where she identified a role for autophagy in naive T cell survival. She then completed her residency in Anatomic Pathology, a clinical fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. During her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Ansel, she studied the role of miRNAs in allergic inflammation in the lung.
In 2017, Dr. Pua joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University, where she established her own laboratory. Utilizing techniques including molecular biology, cellular immunology, and vesicle flow cytometry, her team aims to uncover novel mechanisms of EV-mediated immune regulation and identify new potential therapeutic targets for chronic inflammatory diseases. Dr. Pua is a member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation (VI4) and the and Verbilt Center for Immunobiology (VCI) and is committed to the outreach of immunology in science.
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Time: Wednesday, May 14th, 11:00 am –12:00 pm CT (12 pm- 1:00 pm EST)
Moderator: Karolina Dorosz
Speaker: Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Talk: Future of Exosomes
Dr. Raghu Kalluri is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cancer Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He currently holds the Frederick F. Becker Distinguished University Chair of Cancer Research.
His research program is focused on innovative research to unravel how cells and their environment communicate to maintain organ health, and how such communication networks are altered in cancer and other diseases. Current areas of research in the Kalluri laboratory include cancer biology and metastasis, tumor microenvironment, tissue injury and regeneration and the biology of exosomes in health and disease. We investigate the biology of cancer with an implicit mission to develop new strategies for diagnosis and therapy. Dr. Kalluri has been recognized for his excellence in research and teaching and the Kalluri laboratory is a fertile training ground for the next generation of scientists and physician-scientists.