Poznan Nanovesicles Spring School Programme

Monday 13.04.2026

8:00 - 9:00 Participants Registration

9:00 - 11:00 Lectures:

9:00 - 9:15 Official opening of PNvS

9:15 - 10:00 Michał Maj
(BRaIn Laboratories, Medical University of Lodz, Łódź, Poland)
"Before EV analysis by flow cytometry: consider necessary reagents, controls, purification strategy and MISEV compliance"

10:00 - 10:15 Sponsor's session (Beckman Coulter Life Sciences)

10:15 - 11:00 Laurent Klein
(Novartis BioMedical Research - NBR, Basel, Switzerland)
"High-quality characterization of submicron particles using flow cytometry"

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11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

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11:30 - 16:45 Hands-on training groups 1 and 2 (with lunch break)

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19:30 - 22:00 Networking event
(Based on the number of interested participants. Only upon prior registration, a place will be sent to registered participants.)

Tuesday 14.04.2026

8:45 - 9:00 Participants Registration

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9:00 - 11:00 Lectures: 

9:00 - 9:45 Kamil Szeliski
(Center for Advanced Technologies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
"Beyond Blood: Practical Aspects and Emerging Applications of EVs from Alternative Biofluids."

9:45 - 10:00 Sponsor's session (Cyto-logic)

10:00 - 10:45 Paulina Skupin-Mrugalska
(NEXT - New Experimental Therapies and Drug Delivery, Faculty of Pharmacy, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznań, Poland)
"Lipid Nanoparticles: Artificial Vesicles in a Biological World, or… the Blade Runner of drug delivery."

10:45 - 11:00 Sponsor's session - Piotr Krystosiak (A.P. Instruments)
"Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis for the quantitative characterization of extracellular vesicles."

11:00 - 11:05 Closing of the lecture part

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11:05- 11:30 Coffee break 

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11:30 - 16:45 Hands-on training groups 3 and 4 (with lunch break) 

Hands-on training will include (among others):

• pre-analytical processing of a biological sample,
• comparison of extracellular vesicles isolation methods,
• EVs characterisation using the NTA method,
• flow cytometry EVs sample preparation, 
• nano flow cytometry-based characterisation and standardisation of EVs and nano-vesicles,