Division of Cancer and Genetics, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Cardiovascular and Inflammation Biology, Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, London, UK.
J Extracell Vesicles. 2016 Feb 23;5:30924. doi: 10.3402/jev.v5.30924. eCollection 2016.
The UK Extracellular Vesicles (UKEV) Forum meetings were born of the realization that there were a number of UK laboratories studying extracellular vesicle biology and using similar techniques but without a regular national meeting dedicated to EVs at which to share their findings. This was compounded by the fact that many of these labs were working in different fields and thus networking and sharing of ideas and best practice was sometimes difficult. The first workshop was organized in 2013 by Dr Charlotte Lawson, under the auspices of the Society for Endocrinology, led to the founding of the UKEV Forum and the organization of a British Heart Foundation sponsored 1-day conference held in London in December 2014. Although growing in size every year, the central aims of these workshops have remained the same: to provide a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas, to allow young scientists to present their data in the form of short talks and poster presentations and to discuss their work with more established scientists in the field. Here we include the presented abstracts for the 2015 1-day conference hosted by Cardiff University. This meeting was attended by approximately 130 delegates throughout the United Kingdom, but also attended by delegates from Belgium, Netherlands, France, Ireland and other nations. The day composed of plenary presentations from Prof Matthias Belting, Lund University, Sweden and Dr Guillaume van Niel, Institut Curie, Paris together with 10 short presentations from submitted abstracts. The topics covered were broad, with sessions on Mechanisms of EV production, EVs in Infection, EVs in Cancer and in Blood and Characterizing EVs in Biological fluids. This hopefully gives a reflection of the range of EV-related studies being conducted currently in the UK. There were also 33 poster presentations equally broad in subject matter. The organizers are grateful to the Life Science Research Network Wales - a Welsh government-funding scheme that part-sponsored the conference. We are also grateful to commercial sponsors, and 3 paid-presentations are included in the abstracts. The UK EV Forum is expected to become an established annual event held at different Universities across the UK and continue to attract increasing delegate numbers and abstract submissions. We look forward to the next planned conference, which will be hosted by David Carter and his colleagues at Oxford Brookes University on 13th December 2016.
英国细胞外囊泡（UKEV）论坛会议的诞生源于这样一种认识，即英国有许多实验室研究细胞外囊泡生物学，并使用类似的技术，但没有专门的全国性会议来专门讨论 EVs，以便分享他们的发现。这是因为许多实验室都在不同的领域工作，因此网络和思想以及最佳实践的共享有时会很困难。第一次研讨会是由 Charlotte Lawson 博士于 2013 年组织的，在内分泌学会的主持下，促成了 UKEV 论坛的成立，并组织了一场由英国心脏基金会赞助的为期一天的会议，于 2014 年 12 月在伦敦举行。尽管每年的规模都在不断扩大，但这些研讨会的核心目标仍然不变：提供一个讨论和交流思想的论坛，让年轻科学家以简短演讲和海报展示的形式展示他们的数据，并与该领域更有经验的科学家讨论他们的工作。在这里，我们包括了 2015 年由卡迪夫大学主办的为期一天的会议的提交摘要。该会议约有 130 名代表来自英国各地，但也有来自比利时、荷兰、法国、爱尔兰和其他国家的代表参加。这一天由瑞典隆德大学的 Matthias Belting 教授和巴黎居里研究所的 Guillaume van Niel 博士进行全体演讲，以及 10 个提交摘要的简短演讲组成。涵盖的主题广泛，包括 EV 产生的机制、感染中的 EV、癌症中的 EV 和血液中的 EV 以及生物体液中的 EV 特性。这希望反映了目前在英国进行的一系列与 EV 相关的研究。还有 33 个海报展示，主题同样广泛。组织者感谢威尔士生命科学研究网络——这是一个由威尔士政府资助的计划，部分赞助了会议。我们还要感谢商业赞助商，并在摘要中包含了 3 个付费演讲。预计 UK EV 论坛将成为一个在英国不同大学举行的年度活动，并继续吸引越来越多的代表人数和摘要提交。我们期待着下一次计划于 2016 年 12 月 13 日由 David Carter 及其在牛津布鲁克斯大学的同事主办的会议。
