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Eukaryotic lipids;
treasure of regulatory information

FEBS/IUBMB Workshop - June 19 – 24, 2010, Spetses, Greece

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Program
Saturday, June 19 16:00
20:30

Sunday, June 20

08:30 - 09:00

Session 1:
Morning Chair:

09:00 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:40


10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:50

11:50 - 12:10


12:10 - 12:30

12:30 - 12:50


13:00

15:30 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 - 19:00


20:30

Monday, June 21
Morning Chair:

09:00 - 09:50


09:50 - 10:40


10:40 - 11:00

Session 2:
11:00 - 11:50

11:50 - 12:10

12:10 - 12:30


12:30 - 12:50


13:00

15:30 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:30

18:30 - 19:30


20:30

Tuesday, June 22
Morning Chair:

09:00 - 09:50

Session 3
09:50 - 10:40


10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:50

11:50 - 12:40


13:00

15:00 - 18:00

20:30

Wednesday, June 23
Morning Chair:

Session 4
09:00 - 09:50

09:50 - 10:40


10:40 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:50

11:50 - 12:10

12:10 - 12:30


12:30 - 12:50



13:00

15:30 - 17:30
17:30 - 18:30
18:30 - 19:30

20:30

Thursday, June 24

Arrival, registration
Welcome dinner buffet


Introduction

Lipid topology and transport
Ron Schnaar

Gerrit van Meer (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Simple lipids and cellular physiology
Banafshe Larijani (London, UK)
Proteo-lipid regulation in nuclear envelope assembly

Coffee break

Daniela Corda (Naples, Italy)
Glycerophosphoinositols and the actin cytoskeleton
Shishir Jaikishan (Turku, Finland)
Sphingomyelin analogues with differently branched N-acyl chains: effect on acyl chain order and sterol interaction in bilayer membranes
Andrea Balreira (Porto, Portugal)
LIMP-2 sorting receptor of β-glucocerebrosidase: a cell-type specific mechanism
Maria Borroni (Bahia Blanca, Argentina)
Cholesterol levels determine AChR endocytic route in CHO-K1/A5 cells

Lunch

Poster session A
Peter A. Edwards (Los Angeles, USA)
The ABCs of sterol transport
Round table discussion related to lecture
Chairs: Randy Hampton and Gerrit van Meer

Dinner


Gennaro de Libero

Randy Hampton (San Diego, USA)
Flexible information processing through lipid sinalling: lessons from a billion years of sterol regulation
David E. Cohen (Boston, USA)
PC-TP/StarD2: Linking membranes to metabolism

Coffebreak

Lipid signaling
Bernard Payrastre (Toulouse, France)
PI-5-phosphatase
Michael Bohdanowicz (Toronto, Canada)
PI(3)P-dependent polymerization of actin propels
Martin Kreim (Graz, Austria)
Identification and investigation of novel proteins involved in lipid droplet morphology and protein targeting in yeast
Ildiko Kasza (Budapest, Hungary)
Effect of cholesterol-lowering drugs on human ABCA1 cell surface expression

Lunch

Poster session B
Walter Wahli (Lausanne, Switserland)
PPARs stand at the crossroads of metabolism, inflammation and cancer
Round table discussion related to lecture
Chairs: Peter Edwards and Toon de Kroon

Dinner


Miriam Greenberg

Patricia Bassereau (Paris, France)
Some physical basis for lipid transport
Lipid metabolism
Toon de Kroon (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Acyl chain remodeling in yeast biogenesis

Coffee break

Symeon Siniossoglou (Cambridge, UK)
The role of PA metabolism in nuclear membrane
Fred Vaz (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Cardiolipin metabolism in health and disease

Lunch

Excursions by boat including Meet the Experts sessions in subgroups on the beach

Dinner


Daniela Corda

Specificity of lipid interactions in health and disease
Miriam Greenberg (Detroit, USA)
Essential cellular functions of cardiolipin as physiological modifiers of Barth syndrome
Ron Schnaar (Baltimore, USA)
Gangliosides in cell-cell recognition and signaling

Coffee break

Gennaro de Libero (Basel, Switzerland)
Glycolipids and immunotherapy
Mauro Serricchio (Bern, Switzerland)
An unconventional biosynthetic route for Cardiolipin in Trypanosoma brucei
Kelly Ruggles (New York, USA)
Genome-wide unsaturated fatty acid sensitivity screen in yeast identifies novel pathways in lipid droplet metabolism
Hye Won Kang (Boston, USA)
Linking lipid binding to glucose metabolism: increased insulin sensitivity in mice with homozygous disruption of thioesterase superfamily member (Them) 2

Lunch

Poster session C
Poster talk session organized by student committees
Summarizing round table

Conference dinner

Departure

June 9, 2010