Niki Vassilaki - Secondment from HPI to RWTH

Niki Vassilaki from HPI revisited RWTH University as part of the EXPAND-EV Staff Exchanges project, where she isolated extracellular vesicles (EVs) from the supernatants of Nicotiana tabacum cv. BY-2 suspension cultures, following optimized purification protocols to ensure purity and integrity. These EVs will be then used as target substrates in panning experiments at UNG University, where a phage display nanobody library will be screened. This will enable the identification of high-affinity and plant EV-specific nanobody candidates for use in targeted EV capture and isolation assays.