The ERCC webinar series provides researchers studying extracellular RNA and extracellular vesicles the opportunity to present their latest work to a diverse audience. Webinars occur on the first Thursday of each month (except August) at 10 am Pacific / 12 noon Central / 1 pm Eastern time. Exceptions to the regular schedule will be announced on the main webinar page ahead of time.

Past Webinars (2015-2021)

YoutubeYou can find all recorded ERCC webinar videos on the ERCC Youtube channel. All webinars held before 2022, including those where video was not recorded, are listed below.


ERCC webinar by Michael Segel

Harnessing endogenous retroviral-like proteins for RNA delivery

Michael Segel, Zhang lab, MIT
Guest speaker
November 4th, 2021
Related paper: Science (2021) 373: 882–889

 

 


ERCC webinar by Juan Pablo Tosar

DIE HARD: non-vesicular exRNA metabolism

Juan Pablo Tosar, University of the Republic of Uruguay & Pasteur Institute of Montevideo
Consortium member
September 2nd, 2021

 

 


July 2021 ERCC webinar by Steven Jay

Tackling challenges of extracellular vesicle-based therapeutic development

Steven M. Jay, University of Maryland College Park
Guest speaker
July 1st, 2021

 

 


June 2021 ERCC webinar by Yizhou Dong

Nanomaterials and RNA engineering for mRNA therapeutics, genome editing, and cell therapy

Yizhou Dong, The Ohio State University
Guest speaker
June 3rd, 2021

 

 



The Human Biofluid RNA Atlas

Pieter Mestdagh, University of Ghent and Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG)
Guest speaker
April 1st, 2021

 

 


ERCC webinar by Gustavo Stolovitsky

Can we use a crowdsourcing challenge to benchmark exRNA transcriptomics analyses?

Gustavo Stolovitzky, Chair, IBM Exploratory Life Sciences Program
Guest speaker
February 4th, 2021

 

 



Cell entry and molecular target of placental small EVs

Yingshi Ouyang, Magee‐Womens Research Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Guest speaker
December 3rd, 2020
Video not available.

 



Arthropod Exosomes: one target at multiple crossroads of vector-borne diseases

Hameeda Sultana, Center for Molecular Medicine, Old Dominion University
Guest speaker
November 5th, 2020
Video not available.

 


ERCC webinar by Fatah Kashanchi

Extracellular vesicles and RNAs from virally infected cells

Fatah Kashanchi, George Mason University
Guest speaker
September 3rd, 2020
Video available after manuscript publication.

 



Nanoplasmonic sensing technologies for EV analysis

Hyungsoon Im, Center for Systems Biology, Mass General & Harvard Med
Guest speaker
July 9th, 2020
Video not available.

 



Problems Inside and Out: Viral-Like Impacts of Glioma Extracellular Vesicles on Normal Brain Cells

Michael Graner, Department of Neurosurgery, U Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Guest speaker
June 4th, 2020

 

 



Presymptomatic increase of an extracellular RNA in blood plasma associates with the development of Alzheimer’s disease

Sheng Zhong, UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering
Guest speaker
May 7th, 2020

 

 



Mechanisms of extracellular vesicle formation

Veronika Kralj-Iglic, Laboratory of Clinical Biophysics, University of Ljubljana
Guest speaker
March 5th, 2020
Video not available.

 



Engineered exosomes for neuronal delivery

Anastasia Khvorova, RNA Therapeutics Institute, U Mass Med
Consortium member
February 6th, 2020

 

 



Extracellular vesicles for cancer diagnosis and therapeutics

Siyang Zheng, Carnegie Mellon
Guest Speaker
5 December 2019

 

 


Isolation, tissue-specific RNA markers, and early cancer detection studies in circulating extracellular vesicles from prostate and liver cancer patients

Gustavo A. Stolovitzky, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Guest Speaker
7 November 2019

 

 



 

exRNA Atlas and deconvolution tools at the transition from ERCC1 to ERCC2

Emily LaPlante, Baylor College of Medicine, ERCC DMRR
Consortium Member
5 September 2019
A related paper was published in the collection of ERCC1 papers at Cell Press.
Video not available.

 


Transfer of Functional Cargo in Exomeres

Dr. Qin Zhang, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Consortium Member
11 July 2019
A related paper was published in the collection of ERCC1 papers at Cell Press.
Video not available.

 

Improving experimental design to reveal EV functions: reprogramming gene expression in glioma and beyond

Dr. Anna Krichevsky, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center & HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine at Harvard Medical School
Consortium Member
06 June 2019
Video not available.

 

Extracellular vesicle subpopulations – beyond exosomes and microvesicles

Dr. Jan Lotvall, University of Gothenberg
Guest Speaker
04 April 2019

 

 


Miniaturized sensor systems for high-throughput EV analyses

Hakho Lee, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School Center for Systems Biology
Guest Speaker
07 March 2019
Video available after manuscript publication.

 

The extracellular RNA-Seq processing pipeline of the ERCC and related tools

Joel Rozowsky, Yale University
Consortium member
07 February 2019

 

 

Extracellular RNAs in populations and disease

Jane Freedman, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Consortium member
03 January 2019
Video not available.

 

Infection and EVs: How an infected cell utilizes EVs to survive

Fatah Kashanchi, George Mason University
Guest speaker
06 December 2018
Video not available.

 

Small RNA-seq of multiple biofluids

Kendall Jensen, Translational Genomics Research Institute
Consortium member
01 November 2018
Video not available.

 

Blood-based assays for the diagnosis and stratification of glioma patients

Leonora Balaj, Deparment of Neurosurgery, Massaschusetts General Hospital
Consortium member
04 October 2018
Video not available.

 

Regulation of immune response in colorectal cancer

Subbaya (Subree) Subramanian, University of Minnesota
Guest speaker
12 July 2018
Video not available.

 

Comparison of exRNA isolation methods reveals that biofluids contain multiple distinct exRNA compartments

Srimeenakshi Srinivasan, UC San Diego Department of Reproductive Medicine
Consortium member
07 June 2018

 

 

Circulating miRNAs and risk of Sudden Cardiac Death

Mike Silverman, Das lab, Massachusetts General Hospital
Consortium member
10 May 2018

 

 


Arthropod exosomes as slingshots for transmission of tick and mosquito-borne flaviviruses

Hameeda Sultana, Old Dominion University
Guest speaker
05 April 2018

 

 

Salivary exRNA and a new horizon in dental, oral and craniofacial biology

David Wong, UCLA
Consortium member
01 March 2018

 

 

EVs as messengers of inflammation in HIV infection and cigarette use

Ken Witwer, Johns Hopkins
Guest speaker
01 February 2018

 

 

Exosomes and exRNA: Modulating cellular transcriptome and regeneration

Susmita Sahoo, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY
Guest speaker
04 January 2018

 

 

Robust biomarker selection from RT-qPCR data using statistical consensus criteria

Jack Wiedrick, Oregon Health & Science University
Consortium member
07 December 2017

 


 

KRAS-dependent sorting of miRNA into exosomes

James Patton, Vanderbilt
Consortium member
05 October 2017

 

 

Aging affects extracellular RNA and extracellular vesicles

Nikki Noren Hooten, National Institute on Aging
Guest speaker
07 September 2017
See this related blog post.

 

 

Extracellular RNA and vesicles in allergic lung inflammation

Heather Pua, Ansel lab, UCSF
Consortium member
04 May 2017

 

 

MicroRNAs in cerebral spinal fluid as biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease

Julie Saugstad, Oregon Health Sciences University
Consortium member
02 March 2017
Video not available.

 

Automated isolation and deep-sequencing characterization of nucleic acids from cell-free biofluids for clinical analysis

Tom Tuschl, Rockefeller University
Consortium member
02 February 2017

 

 

Loading cancer drones: the regulation of exosomal non-coding RNA content by p53

George Calin, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Consortium member
01 December 2016

 

 

The distinct traits and functions of exosomes and microvesicles

Marc Antonyak, Cornell
Guest speaker
27 October 2016

 

 

Cancer-host crosstalk through endogenous and exogenous extracellular miRNA

Emily Wang, UCSD
Guest speaker
01 Sept 2016

 

 

Extracellular oncogenes as biological effectors and biomarkers

Janusz Rak, McGill University
Guest speaker
30 June 2016

 

 

Overview of the first public release of the exRNA Atlas

Sai Lakshmi Subramanian, Baylor College of Medicine
Consortium member
04 February 2016

 

 

Understanding and using small RNA-seq

David Galas, Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
Consortium member
03 December 2015