Save the date in your agendas 6 and 7th August in Santander, Spain! This summer comes a new eddition of our focused meeting on EV and Neurology.
The scientific program is now available [15/04/2026]:
Extracellular vesicles in neuroscience: a focus on methodology and their applications in neurodegenerative disorders. III Edition
Day 1:
9:30-9:45 Accreditation
9:45-10:00 Welcome ceremony
Session 1: Updates on Extracellular Vesicles and Neurobiology
10:00-10:30 Prof. Juan Manuel Falcón (CICbioGUNE, Basque Country, Spain). EV overview and updates: a perspective from ISEV and GEIVEX.
10:30-11:00. Dr. Jimena Baleriola (Achucarro Basque Center for Neuroscience,
Basque Country, Spain). Functional implications of astroglial EVs on neurons.
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Session 2: Roles of EVs in models of neurodegeneration (I)
11:30-12:00 Dr. Rocío Pérez González (Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria y Biomédica
de Alicante, Spain). Dual roles of EVs in neurodegenerative disorders.
12:00-12:30 Dr. Andreu Matamoros (Institut de Recerca i Innovació en Ciències de la
Vida i la Salut a la Catalunya Central (IRIS-CC), Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central
de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), Spain). Functional aspects of extracellular vesicles in Alzheimer’s disease pathology: from Amyloid β aggregation to neuronal network dysfunction.
12:30-13:00 Dr. Lydia Álvarez Erviti (Molecular Neurobiology at Center for Biomedical
Research of La Rioja, Spain). EVs in Parkinson’s disease (PD).
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
Session 3: Roles of EVs in models of neurodegeneration (II)
15:00-15:30 Dr. Sonia Alonso (IIS Biogipuzkoa, Basque Country, Spain). Vesicular miRNA characterization from muscle cells in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
15:30-16:00 Dr. Valle Palomo (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid, Spain). Characterization of EVs in aging and neurodegenerative diseases.
16:00-17:00 Q&A session
Day 2
Session 4: EVs for biomarker discovery
9:30-10:00 Dr. Rocío Bravo Miana (IIS Biogipukoa, Basque Country, Spain). EV-associated proteins as biomarkers in multiple sclerosis.
10:00-10:30 Dr. Marina Herrero Lorenzo (Universitat de Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain). Small RNAs in plasma extracellular vesicles as biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:30 Dr. Aitana Sogorb Esteve (Reina Sofia Foundation Alzheimer Centre, CIEN
Foundation, ISCIII, Spain; UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, UCL, U.K.). Blood-based biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia through extracellular vesicles.
11:30-13:00 Round table and Q&A session
Jimena Baleriola
Juan Manuel Falcón
Rocío Pérez González
Andreu Matamoros
Sonia Alonso
Valle Palomo
Lydia Álvarez Erviti
Rocío Bravo Miana
Marina Herrero Lorenzo
Aitana Sogorb Esteve
Coordinator: Dr. Fernando Bartolomé (Instituto de Investigación Hospital 12 de
Octubre)
13:00-13:30 Concluding remarks and closing ceremony.
Jimena Baleriola
Rocío Pérez González