Monday 11th September 2023

09:15 – 9:30

Welcome & Introduction – Action Chair & Organizers

09:30 – 10:00

Cei Abreu-Goodger (University of Edinburgh, UK) A computational perspective on detecting and characterising extracellular RNA

10:00 – 10:20

Stéphanie Jaubert-Possamai (Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France) Are secreted microRNAs conserved among nematodes?

10:20 – 10:40

Richard Morris (John Innes Centre, UK) A Bayesian approach for the analysis of mRNA communication in plants

10:40 – 11:00

Laura Cerqueira (University of Porto, Portugal) PNA-FISH as a tool for exRNA detection in biofilms

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 12:00

Carmen Buchrieser (Institute Pasteur, France)

Transkingdom signalling via Legionella pneumophila small regulatory RNAs and extracellular vesicles

12:00 – 12:20

Hailing Jin (University of California Riverside, USA) Cross-kingdom RNA trafficking between plants and fungal pathogens

12:20 – 12:40

Ronelle Rothe (University of Oxford, UK) Cross-kingdom communication in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal symbiosis

12:40 – 13:10

Stefan Momma (University Hospital Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Extracellular vesicles and their role in inter-organ and microbe-host communication

13:10– 14:30

Lunch break & Posters

14:30 – 15:00

Shulamit Michaeli (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Exosomes secreted under stress: RNA and protein content and their role in quorum sensing

15:00 – 15:20

Kyriaki Neophytou (University of Edinburgh, UK) Distinct populations of vesicular and non-vesicular small RNAs secreted in complex with an Argonaute protein from a parasitic nematode

15:20 – 15:40

Tadeusz Janas (University of Opole, Poland) The role of lipid rafts in selective RNA loading into exosomes

16:00 – 18:00

Breakout sessions

Dinner (TBD)

Tuesday 12th September 2023

09:15 – 09:45

Neta Regev-Rudzki (Weizmann Institute, Israel) RNA Delivery in Malaria: A Puzzle Piece in Understanding Host Immune Manipulation

09:45 – 10:05

Kyra Defourny (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Viral and host proteins involved in the transfer of RNA viruses via extracellular vesicles

10:05 – 10:25

Eirini Bardani (University of Crete, Greece) On the interplay between viroids and host proteins: the case of VIRP1

10:25 – 10:45

Fabrizio Cillo (CNR, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Italy) Viral and host defence-related small RNAs: extracellular travellers in tomato nanovesicles?

10:45 – 11:15

Coffee break

11:15 – 11:45

Eyal Maori (University of Cambridge, UK) RNA transmission between honeybees and their microbiome

11:45 – 12:15

Antinea Ravet (Sorbonne Université, France) Extracellular small RNAs direct gene silencing in a plant-interacting bacterium

12:15 – 12:45

Julia Kehr (Hamburg University, Germany) Routes for plant RNA communication

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch break & Posters

14:00 – 14:30

Matthew Blango (Leibniz-HKI, Germany)Cross-kingdom trafficking of small RNAs from host to human fungal pathogen

14:30 – 14:50

Matias Perez (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom) Effects of parasitic helminth microRNAs on gastrointestinal organoids

14:50 – 15:10

Antonio Marcilla (Universitat de València, Spain) Identification of miRNAs in EVs from pomegranate juice with anti-inflammatory properties in vitro

15:10 – 16:00

STSMs & WRAP UP