Special Interest Group (SIG) on Genitourinary System EVs (GUSEV)

About

GUSEV has evolved naturally from the activities of the ISEV Rigor and Standardization Urine Task Force. While this task force continues to advance reproducibility in urinary EV research, GUSEV will focus its activities on education, cross disciplinary and cross-society collaboration and professional networking beyond the scope of rigor and standardization.

GUSEV welcomes new members with a diverse basic and translational research background in various disciplines including but not limited to the fields of Nephrology, Urology, Gynecology, Andrology, transplantation biology, cancer research, etc.

Chair Contact Info

Chair: Uta Erdbruegger (United States) | Co-chairs: Elena Martens-Uzunova (The Netherlands) | Dylan Burger (Canada) | Monica Ng (Asia-Pacific)

Members

CURRENTLY RECRUITING MEMBERS

If you are interested check the ISEV Special interest groups (SIGs) information page. To join, you must first be an ISEV member, and then you can login and complete the enrollment form.

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Activities & Upcoming Events

EV Club- August 6th: Topic TBA
GUSEV Webinar- October 15: Topic TBA
GUSEV Education Day: February 2026
EV Club- April 2026
EV Club- June 2026

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Past Events

26 April 2025. GUSEV Satellite Meeting at ISEV 2025

20 Feb 2025. GUSEV Education Day. Videos will be shared shortly

18 Dec 2025, GUSEV hosted EVclub session on Benchmarking transcriptome deconvolution methods for estimating tissue- and cell-type-specific extracellular vesicle abundances. The video of this session is available here.

25 October, 2024, Networking Dinner at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week in San Diego, USA
24 October, 2024, Extracellular Vesicles in Kidney Diseases: Tiny Packages with Big Impact at American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week in San Diego, USA
16 October 2024, GUSEV hosted EVclub session on "Identification and validation of extracellular vesicle reference genes for the normalization of RT‐qPCR data" by An Hendrix and Cláudio Pinheiro; and "Urine-Derived Stem Cells Serve as a Robust Platform for Generating Native or Engineered Extracellular Vesicles" by Peter Nejsum and Anders Boysen. Session was chaired by Fabrice Lucien-Matteoni.
9 May, 2024, GUSEV satellite event "Highlights of GUSEV Research" at ISEV2024 Annual Meeting in Melbourne, Australia
16 February, 2024, GUSEV Education Day
20 December 2023, a GUSEV hosted EVClub session, presenting "Genome-wide mRNA profiling in urinary extracellular vesicles reveals stress gene signature for diabetic kidney disease", by Maija Puhka, Om Dwivedi, Karina Barreiro, chair Monica Ng. Watch it here.
19 – 21 October 2023, Basel, Switzerland; ESUR & ISEV cross-society meeting session: “Extracellular vesicles in urology research: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities" was held during ESUR23, the 29th Meeting of the European Association of Urology, Section of Urological Research.
21 September, Inaugural Online Seminar GUSEV