On the afternoon of Wednesday September 23rd, 2026, a visit of the vineyards and cellars of Château Luchey Halde « Pessac Léognan » was organized. It was followed by a public conference by Erick Dufourc on “Alchemistry and physics of wine testing: a love and hate story”, including wine and cheese tasting
Download the pictures of the wine testing session Here
Download some pictures of the conference and Gala Dinner highlights Here
The GERLI-SFN PhD prizes were awarded to :
Aline Abou Assi (Université Paris Cité and Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, INRAE, Centre for Research in Epidemiology and StatisticS, Paris, France) “Biomarkers of early exposure to polyunsaturated fatty acids and their links with child health and development“
Two GERLI PhD prizes were awarded to :
Louise Fougère (Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, Université de Bordeaux, 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” and
Clara Piersson (University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, IECB, Pessac, France) “Local Organization of Biological Membranes Modulates Tau−Lipid Interactions and Fibril formation“
Best poster prizes were awarded to :
Monika Wieliniec (Department of Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA) “Advancing Membrane-Mimetic Models: Development of Physiologically Relevant Bicelles for Studying Bacterial Membrane Proteins“
Serena Sadoun (Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa) and Research Unit, University Hospital Son Espases, Palma, Balearic Islands, Spain) “Beyond peritumoral microenvironment: stage-dependent impact of colon cancer on the mesenteric adipose molecular signature” and
Bruno Pinto (Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and Mass Spectrometry Centre, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal) “Brain lipidome signatures of chronic stress and their modulation by antidepressants in zebrafish“
The best short talk prizes for young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) were awarded to :
Louis Bunel (Laboratoire de Physique de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL), CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Cité, and Laboratoire Gulliver, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris, France) “Phospholipid-cation interactions alter membrane proteins activity: The Case of SNARE-Catalyzed Membrane Fusion“
Marta Turri (Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke and Research Center on Aging, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) “Correction of hippocampal fatty acids rescues synapse and energy programs of 5xFAD glutamatergic neurons” and
Antoine Ide (Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) “Accelerated ageing of vegetable oils rich in conjugated linolenic acids reveals polymerisation processes and the formation of highly toxic aldehydes“
The conference gala dinner took place at Château Luchey Halde, after an aperitif in the vineyard.
