Thursday, 20th November Australia and New Zealand Society for Extracellular Vesicles Conference 2025

• International Plenary: Harnessing membrane-protein interactions to engineer cellular lipid membranes - Neha Kamat
• Extracellular vesicles for delivery of nucleic acid therapies. - Nigel AJ McMillan
• A novel ionisable lipid library developed for LNP-based delivery of nucleic acids - Regan Anderson

• Lessons from Translating hAEC-Derived Extracellular Vesicles for Crohn’s Disease - Rebecca Lim
• Light-activated Hydrogel Platforms for Controlled Delivery of EVs and biologics - Tim Woodfield
• Understanding the interactions of Placental Extracellular Vesicles with the maternal immune system. Route-Dependent Effects of Intravenous Versus Intraperitoneal Administration - Shige Shen
• Extracellular vesicles improve functional outcomes after moderate traumatic brain injury in a preclinical model - Smriti Murali Krishna
• The Effect of extracellular vesicles on mesenchymal stromal cell proliferation in response to sunitinib treatment - Elham Noursadeghi
• Using targeted extracellular vesicles as a delivery system for breast cancer therapy - Christina Nedeva
• Extracellular vesicle mediated immunomodulation as a potential therapy for type 1 diabetes - Mugdha Joglekar

• National keynote speaker: Microbial EVs from polymicrobial oral biofilm and saliva in gum disease - Pingping Han
• Effect of glucoraphanin on the abundance of Nrf2-regulated genes within circulating small extracellular vesicles: a pilot dietary intervention - Nishantika Mitra
• Are EVs of the probiotic bacterium Parabacteroides goldsteinii anti-inflammatory? - Wenwen Wu
• Characterisation of human milk extracellular vesicles in a cohort of New Zealand mothers - Fang Liu

• Dr Annie Wong (medical oncologist)
• Dr Stephanie Manning (specialist endocrine and general surgeon)
• Prof Saumya Das (cardiac electrophysiologist and EV researcher)
• Prof Wei Seong Toh (EV researcher)
• Helena Abolins-Thompson (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Kāi Tahu; Māori cancer researcher)

The Boatshed

Address: Taranaki Street Wharf Wellington Wellington Waterfront, 6011, New Zealand

Registration required