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Graner et al. Extracell Vesicles Circ Nucleic Acids 2020;1:3-19 Extracellular Vesicles and
DOI: 10.20517/evcna.2020.08 Circulating Nucleic Acids

Conference Report Open Access

A Report on ASEMV2020

Michael W. Graner

Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA.

Correspondence to: Michael W. Graner, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus,
Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. E-mails: michael.graner@cuanschutz.edu

How to cite this article: Graner MW. A Report on ASEMV2020. Extracell Vesicles Circ Nucleic Acids 2020;1:3-19.
http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/evcna.2020.08

Received: 24 Dec 2020 Accepted: 25 Dec 2020 Available online: 30 Dec 2020
Academic Editor: Y. Peng Loh Copy Editor: Huan-Liang Wu Production Editor: Jing Yu

American Society for Exosomes and Microvesicles (ASEMV) held its Annual Meeting, ASEMV2020 on
November 16-19, 2020. The precursor meetings of Exosomes & Microvesicles 2011 and 2012 (in Orlando,
FL, USA) were among the earliest exosome/extracellular vesicle meetings held in the United States, with
many international attendees. The Society coalesced under the ASEMV banner in Orlando in 2013, and
has held Annual Meetings ever since. This year’s meeting was obviously substantially different, conducted
virtually due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This changed much of the usual meeting dynamic, but
the conference maintained its high level of scientific presentations and discussions that are the heart and soul
of the Society and its yearly meetings.

Previous ASEMV Meeting sessions consisted of talks with mixed topics that allowed for a broad presentation
of information that attendees might have surprisingly found more interesting than they may have ordinarily
anticipated. For ASEMV2020, however, the Organizing Committee chose to group talks by topics, sometimes
covering two sessions. The rationale was to have all questions pertaining to the entire session covered in
one panel discussion period, after all talks for that topic were completed. All speakers were present in the
roundtable forum. The audience members entered their questions via a chat function that was enabled
during the talks and the discussion. Session moderators compiled questions and directed them to each of
the session’s speakers accordingly. Attendees could also email questions to speakers, or engage by messaging
the community forum. These processes enabled some semblance of the lively scientific dialogue, which is a
hallmark of ASEMV Meetings.

ASEMV2020 was hosted online by Designing Events. The Meeting had 181 registrants from 14 countries and
3 sponsors (NanoView Biosciences [gold]; Izon Science [silver]; and Spectradyne Particle Analysis [bronze]).
ASEMV2020 spanned four days, comprising three to four sessions and two related discussion periods per

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