The meeting starts on Monday September 21 at 16:45 and ends on Thursday September 24 at 17:00 (Paris time). It will be preceeded by a workshop on Imaging techniques for lipids and membranes.
Each session includes presentations from invited speakers and oral communications selected from submitted abstracts.
Download the scientific program as a pdf file here.
Venue: Agora du Haut-Carré, University of Bordeaux, 43 rue Pierre Noailles 33400 Talence.
(Tram B, FORUM stop, 5 minutes walk)
Monday, September 21, 2026
Chairpersons: Emmanuelle Bayer & Nicolas Desbenoit
14:00 – Registration to the workshop
14:15 – 14:30 Welcome to the workshop
14:30 – 15:00 Invited lecture: Katelyn Camille Cook, MPI for Cell Biology & Genetics, Dresden, Germany: Identifying the lipid-protein interactions that build organelle membranes
Oral Communications
15:00 – 15:15 Emmanuelle Bayer, Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, INRAE Bordeaux Aquitaine, France. Talking through walls: Lipid-protein interactions controlling plasmodesmal communication
15:15 – 15:30 Nicolas Desbenoit, Institute of Chemistry & Biology of Membranes & Nanoobjects, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, France. Multimodal Mass Spectrometry Imaging for the Spatial Characterization of Lipids and Cellular Microenvironments
15:30 – 15:45 Anthony Don, Charles Perkins Centre and School of Medical Sciences, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia. Quantification and Localisation of New Brain Lipid Synthesis Using Deuterium Oxide and High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry
15:45 – 16:00 Jamie Bride, PhyMedExp, Université de Montpellier, Inserm, CNRS, Montpellier, France. Characterization of non-enzymatic oxidized polyunsaturated fatty acids (NEO-PUFAs) interactomes and the associated signalling pathways by the use of click-NEO-PUFAs
16:00 – 16:15 Teresa Ximelis, Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Illes Balears (IdISBa), Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain. A coordinated peroxisome–DHA–plasmalogen programme marks secretory and metastatic epithelial states in human colon cancer
16:15 – 16:30 Raphaël Vatin, Structural Virology Unit, UMR3569, Institut Pasteur, 75015 Paris, France. Impact of the Rift Valley fever virus NSm protein on lipid droplet metabolism
16:45 – 17:30 Registration, coffee (Badiane room)
17:30 – 18:00 Opening and Welcome addresses (Agora) by Erick Dufourc
Chairpersons: Hubert Schaller & Markus A. Wenk
18:00 – 19:00 GERLI Polonovski lecture: Clotilde Thery, Inserm Paris, France: Extracellular vesicles: complex lipid-enclosed structures with roles in tumor-immune system cross-talk
19:00 – 20:00 ICBL Van Deenen Lecture: George Carman, Rutgers University,USA: Mechanistic Insights into Phosphatidic Acid Phosphatase in Lipid Synthesis Regulation
20:00 – 22:00 Welcome reception (Badiane room)
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Chairpersons: Erick Dufourc & Markus Keller
08:30 – 09:30 Invited lecture: Raphael Rodriguez, Institut Curie, Paris, France: Chemical control of cell adaptation
Oral Communications
09:30 – 09:45 Katrin Watschinger, Institute for Molecular Biochemistry, Biocenter, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria. Ether lipid deficiency alters bone architecture in mice and impairs osteoclast differentiation in vitro.
9:45 – 10:00 Leja Perne, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Sciences, Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Lipid droplet composition and oxidative state determine their role in ferroptosis.
10:00 – 10:15 Marina Placci, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Barcelona, Spain. Membrane Remodeling in Lysosomal Storage Disorders: The Role of GlcCer and Gb3.
10:15– 10:30 Louis Bunel, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France. Phospholipid-cation interactions alter membrane proteins activity: The Case of SNARE-Catalysed Membrane Fusion.
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break (hanging posters in Cloister) & Sponsors Booth (Badiane room)
Chairperson: Cécile Gladine & Hubert Schaller
11:00 – 11:15 Clara Piersson, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, IECB, Pessac, France. Local Organization of Biological Membranes Modulates Tau−Lipid Interactions and Fibril formation.
11:15 – 11:30 Louise Fougère, Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS UMR5200, Villenave-d’Ornon, France. Revisiting the early secretory pathway in plant cells: identification of a dynamic tubulo-vesiculated ER-Golgi intermediate compartment (ERGIC) that matures in Golgi.
11:30 – 11:45 Aline Abou Assi (GERLI-SFN Prize), Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain. Biomarkers of early exposure to polyunsaturated fatty acids and their links with child health and development.
Chairperson: Gérard Lambeau
11:45 – 12:30 Presentations of Students competing for the Poster Prize (1 slide, 1minute)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Buffet (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths), and Posters viewing, Even numbers (Cloister)
13:00 – 14:00 Presentation of Posters to the Jury
Chairpersons: Frédéric Domergue & Ana Paula Alonso
14:00 – 14:30 Invited lecture: Eric Maréchal, CNRS, Grenoble, France: Evolutionary repurposing of MGDG synthases from photosynthetic membrane biogenesis to new eukaryotic functions
Oral Communications
14:30 – 14:45 Aleksandra Weremczuk, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Very long-chain polyisoprenoids accumulate in rose leaves represent an overlooked class of plant lipids.
14:45 – 15:00 Birgit Habenstein, Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, IECB, Pessac, France. Remorin-mediated protein-lipid networking during nanodomain formation in plant cells.
15:00– 15:15 Ana Paula Alonso, BioDiscovery Institute and Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, USA. 13C-Metabolic Flux Analysis Elucidates Carbon Partitioning during Unusual Fatty Acid Synthesis
15:15 – 15:30 Claire Bréhélin, Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, UMR5200 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, Villenave-d’Ornon, France. Dynamics and role of 3-hydroxylated lipids in the regulation of dormancy in cherry floral buds.
15: 30 – 16:00 Coffee break (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths), & Poster viewing, Even numbers (Cloister)
Chairpersons: Cécile Gladine & Anne Le Guillou
16:00 – 16:30 Invited lecture: Parveen Yaqoob, University of Reading, UK: Extracellular vesicles as mediators of the effects of n-3 PUFA on inflammatory and vascular pathways
Oral Communications
16:30 – 16:45 Catherine Mounier, Département des sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada. Apolipoprotein D modulates inflammation in a sex-dependent manner.
16:45 – 17:00 Eva Larrieu, CarMeN Laboratory, INSERM U1060, INRAE U1397, University of Lyon, Pierre-Bénite, France. Plant-based omega-3 and lipid metabolism in obesity: comparison of plant glycolipids and linseed oil as naturel carriers of ALA
17:00 – 17:15 Chika Mochizuki-Ono, Laboratory of Microenvironmental and Metabolic Health Science, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. sPLA2-XIIA drives extracellular vesicle phospholipid metabolism to promote pathogenic Th17 responses.
17:15 – 17:30 Magdalena Osowiecka, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Dietary Lipid Epoxide as Novel Inducer of Dose-Dependent Intestinal Inflammation
18:00– 19:00 GERLI General Assembly & ICBL Steering Committee (Agora and Seminar room)
20:00 – GERLI & ICBL Steering committees’ dinner (Le café français, 5 Place Pey-Berland, 33000 Bordeaux, Tram B, get off at the HOTEL DE VILLE stop)
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Chairpersons: Sophie Layé & Nicolas Vitale
08:30 – 09:30 Invited lecture: Richard Bazinet, University of Toronto, Canada: New methods lead to new insights on the role of diet and the liver in maintaining a healthy fat brain
Oral Communications
9:30 – 9:45 Yushan Cai, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia. Aging and APOE Genotype Significantly Impact Myelin Lipid Synthesis and Turnover in Mice.
9:45 – 10:00 Marta Turri, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada. Correction of hippocampal fatty acids rescues synapse and energy programs of 5xFAD glutamatergic neurons.
10:00 – 10:15 Luís Freiría-Martínez, Chemistry of Marine Products Group, Marine Research Institute – Spanish National Research Council (IIM-CSIC), Vigo, Spain. The Chemistry of Inflammation Relief: Lipid Mediators Profiling Reveals How Gene Therapy Restores Brain Homeostasis in 5xFAD Alzheimer Mouse Model.
10:15 – 10:30 David Perrais, IINS, Université de Bordeaux, CNRS UMR 5297, Bordeaux, France. Membrane lipid poly-unsaturation selectively affects dopamine D2 receptor endocytosis
10: 30 – 11:00 Coffee break (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths), & Poster viewing, Odd numbers (Cloister)
Chairpersons: Frédéric Domergue & Benjamin Buaud
11:00 – 11:30 Invited lecture; Rochus B. Franke, Institute of Cellular and Molecular Botany, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Long chain and very long chain lipids in the plant’s extracellular space: from physiological importance to biopolymers and biotechnological potential.
Oral Communications
11:30 – 11:45 Ide Antoine, Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Accelerated ageing of vegetable oils rich in conjugated linolenic acids reveals polymerisation processes and the formation of highly toxic aldehydes.
11:45 – 12:00 Sébastien Baud, Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, CNRS, Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences, Versailles, France. Direct transcriptional activation of suberin biosynthesis by MYB9 and MYB107 protects Arabidopsis seeds against abiotic stress from late maturation through germination.
12:00 – 12:15 Vanessa Esquivel Bertran, ICGM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, Montpellier, France. Synthesis of biobased rheology modifiers for cosmetic applications.
12:15 – 12:30 Boris Bizet, ITERG, Canéjan, France. Bio-based Estolides from metropolitan Erucic Acid: synthesis and performances
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Buffet (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths), & Poster viewing, Odd numbers (Cloister)
13:00 – 14:00 Presentation of Posters to the Jury
Chairpersons: Erick Dufourc & Hubert Schaller
Oral Communications
114:00 – 14:15 Elsevier, address. Generative AI in Scientific Writing and Scholarly Publishing.
Sponsored by Elsevier
14:15 – 14:30 Gerhard Liebisch, Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany. The ILS approach to lipidomics data quality — from the Lipidomics Reporting Checklist to lipidome concentration databases
Sponsored by the International Lipid Society (ILS)
14:30 – 14:45 (Mendel) Chen Chu-Huang, Vascular and Medicinal Research, The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. L5 and Lp(a): Emerging Biomarkers for ASCVD Risk and Prevention
Sponsored by HEART
14:45 – 15:00 Magdalene Reinkensmeier, Bruker Daltonics GmbH & Co. KG, Fahrenheitstrasse 4, 28359 Bremen, Germany. Profiling cell-type specific mitochondrial sub-populations in Arabidopsis thaliana with multi-omics mass spectrometry
Sponsored by Bruker
15:15 – 15:30 Barbara Perrone, Bruker Switzerland, Fällanden, Switzerland. A Multi-Phase NMR View of Lipids in Their Native Context
Sponsored by Bruker
15:15 – 15:30 Anna Grygier, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, University of Life Sciences, Poznań, Poland. Mustard oil and press cake in the production of vegan mayonnaises
Sponsored by Chairmen
16:00 –16:30 Departure by Bus N°1 to Château Luchey Halde “Pessac Léognan”
16:30 –17:00 Departure by Bus N°2 to Château Luchey Halde “Pessac Léognan”
17:00 –17:30 Departure by Bus N°3 to Château Luchey Halde “Pessac Léognan”
16:30 – 18:00 30-40 minutes visit of the vineyards and cellars, explanation of wine making, visit of the “wine boutique”. 3 successive groups of 50 people.
18:00 – 19:00 3 x Public conference by Erick Dufourc: Wine tannins and lipids: a love story, including a wine and cheese tasting (3 successive groups of 50 people).
19:00 – 19:30 Aperitif in the vineyard
19:30 – 22:00 Conference Dinner, Poster Awards and PhD Prize Ceremony
22:00 Bus departures to Bordeaux downtown.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Chairpersons: Hubert Schaller & Jérôme Nigou
08:30 – 09:30 Invited lecture: Gwendolyn Barceló-Coblijn, Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa), Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain: Defining Ulcerative Colitis through lipids: multicompartment lipid signatures discriminate microbiome-linked phenotypes
Oral Communications
9:30 – 9:45 Shao-Chi Hung, Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan. ASAH2 is a dual-function lipid hydrolase with ceramidase and lysophospholipase A1 activities.
9:45 – 10:00 Sarah Brunner, Institut of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Functional Lipidomics and Metabolism Research, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany. Gut microbiota restricts intestinal lipid uptake via modulation of bile phosphatidylcholine metabolism in mice.
10:00 – 10:15 Sarah Vellemans, Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology (LIBST), UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Bioavailability of punicic acid from pomegranate seed oil: in vitro and in vivo evidence.
10:15 – 10:30 Kyndall Nicholas, Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada. Fish Oil and Krill Oil do not Increase the Omega 3 Index Equally.
10: 30 – 11:00 Coffee break (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths)
Chairpersons: Frédéric Carrière & Ofelia Maniti
11:00 – 11:30 Invited lecture: Per Larsson, University of Uppsala, Sweden: Self-assembly of medium-chain fatty acids and mixed lipid colloids in the gut: solubilization and membrane permeation enhancement
Oral Communications
11:30 – 11:45 Angelina Angelova, Institut Galien Paris-Saclay CNRS UMR8612, Université Paris-Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France. Lipid Self-Assembly as a Platform for Next Generation Nanomedicine in Neurodegenerative Disorders.
11:45 – 12:00 Paola A. Corsetto, Department of Pharmacological and Biomolecular Sciences “Rodolfo Paoletti”, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy. Circulating lipid and metabolic biomarkers for Prediction of Immunotherapy Response in advanced NSCLC patients.
12:00 – 12:15 Michel Record, INOV Team “Cholesterol Metabolism and Therapeutic Innovations” Cancer Research Center of Toulouse, CRCT, UMR 1037, Toulouse, France. Dendrogenin A, a Cholesterol-Derived Metabolite, Reprograms Endolysosomal BMP Metabolism to Generate Immunogenic Antitumour Extracellular Vesicles.
12:15 – 12:30 Gábor J. Tigyi, Department of Physiology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Loss of the lysophosphatidic acid-induced immediate early gene IEX-1 exacerbates acute radiation syndrome.
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Buffet (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths)
Chairpersons: Fernando Leal-Calderon & Makoto Arita
13:30 – 14:00 Invited lecture: Claire Berton-Carabin, INRAE, Nantes, France: Lipids in disguise: Hidden co-passengers in plant protein ingredients with potential impacts on plant-based foods
Oral Communications
14:00 – 14:15 Marisa Pinho, Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portuga. Drying-induced lipidome remodelling in the two edible halophytes Salicornia ramosissima and Atriplex portulacoides.
14:15 – 14:30 Arash Zarrine-Afsar, University Health Network and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. A Decision-support Scheme for Clinical Implementation of Lipidomic Classifiers to Guide Cancer Care.
14:30 – 14:45 Gerhard Hagn, Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Integrating tissue proteomics and bioactive lipid analysis of ovine tissue samples identifies functional relations of bioactive lipids.
14:45 – 15:00 Delphine Vergoz, Univ Rouen Normandie, INSA Rouen Normandie, CNRS, Normandie Univ, CARMeN, UMR 6064, INC3M 76000 Rouen, France. Multidimensional Lipidomics Profiling of Acinetobacter baumannii Persister Cells using LC-IMS-MS
15: 00 – 15:30 Coffee break (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths)
Chairpersons: Erick Dufourc & Hubert Schaller
15:30 – 15:45 Oral communications Awards (Badiane room, along with the sponsor booths)
Next Meetings
15:45 – 15:55 Anthony Don, Australia, Presentation of ICBL 2027
15:55 – 16:05 Marie-Caroline Michalski, Cécile Gladine, Presentation of GERLI Lipid Meeting 2027
16:05 Closing
