To you who are interested in LIPIDS,

The GERLI has the vocation of animating scientific life in the domain of lipids, i.e., of perpetuating specialist expertise and promoting high quality science in this field, in other words of fostering LIPIDOMIC.

LIPIDOMIC may be defined as the "characterization of the different lipids of living organisms and the study of their interactions and biological roles, in relation to the functions of the genes and their proteins".

In this context, the GERLI is organising in 2008 a large scientific meeting, the 5th Symposium of LIPIDOMIC, "Lipids for the future: from agroressources to human health", for which you will find all the necessary information on the site.

In 2007, the annual conference of the GERLI was successfully organised in Toulouse around the theme "Lipoproteins and lipid mediators".

On this occasion, the Thesis Prize was awarded to Melle M.N. Vaultier : "Signalisation lipidique induite par le froid chez Arabidopsis thaliana", Melle E. Reboul : "Récepteur scavenger de classe B et type I (SR-BI) et transport de la vitamine E" and Mr Y. Ben Ali : "Mécanismes d'inhibition de la lipase hormono-sensible et application dans le traitement du diabète de type 2"

This thesis prize (1500 euros) is awarded every year.
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Our site "www.gerli.com" is intended to be a place where anyone can find information on "the art of handling lipids". It already features a great deal of practical information. Help us to enrich it.

The GERLI is an association with statutes laid down by the French Law of 1901 and for this reason has need of your subscriptions. Many thanks to the loyal members who have contributed over the years to the development of the GERLI.