On May12, the next Sahlgrenska Academy Seminar will be held. This day the lunch lecture is at Lyktan, at 12:00-13:00. Guest speaker is Yong Song Gho from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Pohang, South Korea.
Yong Song Gho seminar is entitled: “Extracellular vesicles released by bacteria: clinical implications for bacterial infections, transfer of antibiotics resistance and development of vaccines“.
Background:
Yong Song Gho is an professor at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Pohang, South Korea. He heads the “Lab. of Intercellular Communication Network”. During his Ph.D. in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and a post-doc in NIH (USA), he studied the field of tumor-associated angiogenesis.
After joining the Kyunghee University (Korea) in 2000, he moved to POSTECH in 2004. Since 2000, his study is focused on the extracellular vesicles (also called exosomes and microvesicles) derived from mammalian cells and bacteria. So far, his group is mainly studying the genomic and proteomic components of the extracellular vesicles using systems biology approaches, and pathophysiological functions of the extracellular vesicles. He is also studying bacteria-derived extracellular vesicles to understand the inter-bacterial and host-pathogen interactions.
His more recent goals are translational researches on extracellular vesicles for the development of vaccines and drug delivery system against cancer and bacterial infection. He recently opened a free web-based database, ‘EVpedia (http://evpedia.info)’ that could serve as a useful International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) resource to trigger the advancement in systemic and comprehensive studies of the extracellular vesicles. Yong Song Gho founded the ‘Korean Society for Extracellular Vesicles-NaonoCosmos’ in June 2008.
After working as an interim board member of the ISEV, in April of 2012, Gho has been elected as a Members-at-Large of ISEV until 2014. He was also accepted as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Extracellular Vesicles (JEV) launched by the ISEV society.
