Main Topics- Mitochondrial Lipids- Lipid Dynamics and Trafficking - Lipid Signalling - Model Membranes - Lipidomics - Bacterial Lipids |
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Scientific CommitteePeter Bütikofer, Bern, Switzerland (Chair)Roger Schneiter, Fribourg, Switzerland Andreas Conzelmann, Fribourg, Switzerland Markus Aebi, Zürich, Switzerland |
17:30 -
19:00 |
Arrival and
Registration |
19:00
- 19:10 |
Conference
Opening |
19:10 -
20:10 |
Chris
Raetz
Lecture
Chris Whitfield, University of Guelph ABC transporters involved in the export of bacterial glycolipids Session chair: Markus Aebi |
20:15 |
Welcome
Reception |
Session:
Mitochondrial Lipids 1
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|
08:30 -
09:05 |
Thomas
Langer,
University
of Cologne, Germany Phospholipid Dynamics in Mitochondria |
09:05 -
09:40 |
Benoît
Kornmann,
ETH
Zürich, Switzerland The Molecular Hug between the ER and the Mitochondria |
09:40 -
10:00 |
Mauro Serricchio, Bern An essential bacterial-type cardiolipin synthase mediates cardiolipin formation in a eukaryote |
10:00
- 10:30 |
Coffee
Break |
Session: Mitochondrial
Lipids 2
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10:30
- 11:05 |
Joost
Holthuis, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands Control of mitochondrial apoptosis by a putative ceramide sensor in the ER |
11:05
- 11:30 |
V. Titorenko, Montreal Lithocholic acid delays aging and exhibits a potent anti-cancer effect by altering mitochondrial composition, structure, metabolism, dynamics and function |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Poster Session |
12:30 - 13:45 |
Lunch |
13:45 - 14.30 |
Round Table Discussion on "Mitochondrial Lipids" |
Session: Lipidomics
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14.30 - 15.05 |
Markus
Wenk, National
University of
Singapore Lipidomics of Host-pathogen Interactions |
15.05 - 15.40 |
Fong-Fu
Hsu, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO/U.S.A. Structural Analyses of Microbial Lipids |
15.40 - 16.10 |
Coffee Break |
16.10 - 16.30 |
Felipe Gazos-Lopes, El Paso, USA GPIomic analysis of the infective Trypanosoma cruzi trypomastigote life-stage |
16.30 - 16.50 |
Aline X.S. Santos, Geneva, Switzerland Yeast lipid homeostasis – new insights from a lipidomic screening of kinases and phosphatases |
16.50 - 17.15 |
Vasyl Ivashov, Graz, Austria Characterization of Pichia pastoris strains deficient in neutral lipid synthesis |
17.15 |
Short Oral Poster Presentations |
17.50 |
City Tour (Departure) |
20:00 |
Dinner at
the Restaurant
Zunft zu Webern (Guild of Weavers) in the old town,
Gerechtigkeitsgasse 68 (co-sponsored by the City and the Canton of Bern) |
Session: Lipid
Dynamics and Traficking 1
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|
08:30 -
09:05 |
Todd
Graham,
Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, TN/U.S.A. Probing the Phospholipid Flippase Giant Substrate Problem |
09:05 -
09:40 |
Russ
Bishop, McMaster University, Hamilton/ON, Canada Lipid Acyl-chain Selection by the Membrane-intrinsic Enzyme PagP |
09:40
-
10:00 |
Edina Harsay, Graz, Austria Chemical probes and novel targets for modulating membrane traffic in cellular stress response |
10:00 -
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
Session: Lipid Dynamics and
Trafficking 2
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|
10:30 -
11:05 |
Stephen Beverley, Washington University, St. Louis, MO/U.S.A. Genetic manipulation of the Leishmania major Inositol Phorphoryl Ceramide Synthase |
11:05
- 11:25 |
Angela Cadou, Lausanne, Switzerland Nucleus-vacuole junctions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: a role in lipid transfer between both organelles? |
11:25 - 11:45 |
Markus Maniak, Kassel, Germany The flow of a fatty acid through a Dictyostelium cell |
11:45 - 12:15 |
Short Oral Poster
Presentations |
12:15 - 13:30 |
Lunch |
13:30 - 14:30 |
Poster
Session |
14.30 - 15.15 |
Round Table Discussion on "Lipidomics" |
15:15 - 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
Session: Bacterial
Lipids
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|
15:45 - 16:20 | Otto Holst,
Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences, Borstel, Germany Structure and Function of Certain Bacterial Glycolipids |
16:20 - 16:55 |
Yosuke
Koga,
Fukuoka/Japan Structures, biosynthesis and evolution of archaeal lipids, an overview |
16:55 - 17:15 |
John E. Cronan, Urbana, IL/USA The curious synthetic pathways of the modified fatty acid, lipoic acid |
17:15 - 17:35 |
Joshua B. Parsons, Memphis, TN/USA Perturbation of FabH activity confers resistance to FabF antibiotics |
18:00 |
Dinner |
Session: Lipid
Signalling
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|
08:30 -
09:05 |
Scott Emr,
Cornell University Ithaca, NY/USA Regulation of phosphoinositide lipid signaling at PM-ER membrane contact sites |
09:05
- 09:40 |
Jeremy
Thormer, University of California, Berkeley, CA/USA Plasma membrane sphingolipid-glycerolipid ratio is controlled by a protein kinase network |
09:40
-
10:00 |
Robbie Loewith, Geneva Sensing of plasma membrane stress mediated by lateral relocalization of Slm proteins activates TORC2 |
10:00 -
10:30 |
Coffee Break |
Session: Model Membranes
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|
10:30 -
11:05 |
B. Antonny,
University of Nice et CNRS, Valbonne, France Osh4p senses membrane curvature and composition to exchange sterol for PI(4)P |
11:05 - 11:25 |
John M. Harrington, Athens, GA/USA Exploiting membrane fluidity in African trypanosomes |
11:25 - 11:45 |
Vineet Choudhary, Fribourg, Switzerland The pathogen related yeast (PRY) proteins and members of the CAP superfamily are secreted sterol-binding proteins |
11:45 - 12:00 |
Closing Remarks |
A. Bochud, Fribourg/ CH