GERLI | WELCOME TO GERLI 20th INTERNATIONAL LIPID MEETING

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM, INVITED SPEAKERS AND SESSIONS

The meeting starts on Monday November 3 at 09:00 and ends on Wednesday November 5 at 14:00 (Paris time).

Each session will include presentations from invited speakers and oral communications selected from submitted abstracts.

Download the scientific program as a pdf file here.

 

20th GERLI international lipid meeting

‘’Lipids in Cell Structures and Metabolism’’

Strasbourg, France – November 3-5, 2025

 

Monday, November 3, 2025

 

09:00 – 10:00        Registration, coffee

10:00 – 10:10        Welcome addresses

 

Session 1 – Opening Lecture and GERLI PhD Awards session

Chairpersons, Hubert Schaller & Nicolas Vitale

10:10 –  11:00       Opening lecture:  Russell DeBose-Boyd, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Houston, USA: The Vitamin K2 Synthetic Enzyme UBIAD1 Moonlights as a Regulator of Cholesterol Synthesis

11:00 – 11:30        GERLI PhD Awards

11:00 – 11:15         Anouk Charlot, GERLI-SFN PhD Award: Characterization of the deleterious role of carbohydrates in the pathophysiology of obesity and breast cancer, and the beneficial effects of the ketogenic diet

11:15 – 11:30         Pierre-Louis Batrow, GERLI PhD Award: Beyond Thermogenesis: PPARα Control of Lipogenesis in Brown Adipose Tissue

11:30 – 12:15        Poster session – Flash-Talks 1min 1slide

Chairperson, Frédéric Domergue

12:15 – 13:45        Lunch and poster session (13:00-13:45 poster presentation with the poster jury)

 

Session 2 – Advanced approaches for lipid research       

Chairpersons, Cécile Gladine & Thierry Durand 

13:45 – 14:15        Stefano Vanni, University of Fribourg, CH: Discovering new membrane proteins’ functions with multi-scale molecular simulations

14:15 – 15:30        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

14:15–14:30          Chu-Huang (Mendel) Chen, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, USA : Electronegative Lipoproteins and Apo(a): Independent Actors or Synergistic Villains in Vascular Pathology?

14:30–14:45          Heather Chassaing, SCIEX UK : Advancing Untargeted Lipidomics: Enhanced Sensitivity and Coverage with the ZenoTOF 8600 and ZT Scan DIA

14:45 – 15:00        Yehia Mechref, Texas Tech University, LUBBOCK, USA : Rapid Profiling of Gangliosides and Glycolipids Reveals Lipid Dysregulation in Cancer and Alzheimer’s Disease

15:00 – 15:15        Jacquiline Ji,  IGBMC, Université de Strasbourg, FR: Muscle fusogen-derived peptide enhances skeletal muscle tropism and reduces liver transduction of lipid nanoparticles for gene delivery 

15:15–15:30          Elisa Rek, Le Mans Université, Laval, FR : Epigenetics: Fostering and understanding epigenetic regulations in lipid production in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

15: 30 – 16:15       coffee break / poster viewing

 

Session 3 – Lipid cellular functions

Chairpersons, Ofelia Maniti & Zoubir Amri

16:15 – 16:45        Delphine Muriaux, Institut de Recherche en Infectiologie, Montpellier, FR: Lipids and membrane host factors in HIV-1 assembly

16:45 – 17:15        Alexandre Martinière, Institute for Plant Sciences, Montpellier, FR: Plasma membrane organization and cell signaling in Arabidopsis

17:15 – 18:30        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

17:15 – 17:30        Nurit Argov-Argaman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, IL : Mammary-specific lipogenic regulation facilitates dairy fats composition

17:30 – 17:45        Pauline Denis, Université Clermont Auvergne, Saint-Genès-Champanelle, FR : Milk-derived small extracellular vesicle lipidome to characterize early lactation physiological changes in dairy cows

17:45 – 18:00        Pauline Debié, IBMP, Université de Strasbourg, FR : Phytosterol Homeostasis in Plants: A Perspective on HMGR Regulation and Tissue-Specific Metabolism

18:00–18:15          Ilaria Dorigatti, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, AU: Unravelling the role of PEDS1: from ether lipid metabolism to immunology   

18:15–18:30          Flore Wouters, University of Hasselt, Diepenbeek, B: The Therapeutic Potential of Fatty Acids in Familial Mediterranean Fever   

18:45 – 19:30        GERLI General Assembly

 

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

 

Session 4 – Lipids in metabolism and cancer

Chairpersons, Catherine Tomasetto & Vincent Rioux

08:30 – 09:00        Vincent Hyenne, Centre de recherche en Biomédecine, Strasbourg, FR: Tracking tumor extracellular vesicles from birth to pre-metastatic niches

09:00 – 09:30        Arnaud Blomme, GIGA-Research Institute, University of Liège, B: Targeting mTORC2-dependent reprogramming of lipid metabolism in lung cancer

09:30 – 10:30        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

09:30 – 09:45        Catherine Mounier,  Université du Québec, Montréal, Québec, CAN : Oleate Activates PLD2 Lipase and GEF Activity by Modulating Membrane Microdomain Dynamics via S-acylation

09:45 – 10:00        Anthony Bringolf,  University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR: A high-fat low-carbohydrates diet delays the progression of castration-resistant prostate cancer by targeting tumor metabolic inflexibility  

10:00 – 10:15        Giulia De Simone,  Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare (ICB), Pozzuoli, IT: Differential lipidomic signature in Familial Hypercholesterolemia with and without pathogenic variants   

10:15 – 10:30        Céline Knorr, IGBMC, University of Strasbourg, Illkirch, FR :The ER-anchored Protein MOSPD2 acts through Membrane Contact Sites to Regulate Late Endosomes/Lysosomes and Cholesterol Homeostasis 

10:30 – 11:00        coffee break

 

Session 5 – Membrane biophysics

Chairpersons, Andrey Klymchenko & Frédéric Carrière

11:00 – 11:30       Erdinc Sezgin, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE: Biophysical properties of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as new biomarkers of health and disease

11:30 – 12:00        Bianca Schrul, Saarland University, Homburg, DE: Molecular mechanisms underlying protein targeting to lipid droplets

12:00 – 13:00        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

12:00–12:15         Sébastien Mongrand, CNRS-Université de Bordeaux, Villenave d’Ornon, FR: News insights on plant plasma membrane lipid asymmetry to understand regulation of homeoviscosity during temperature fluctuation   

12:15–12:30          Julia Quiring, Centre de Recherche en Biomédecine, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR: In immune-mediated necrotising myopathy, anti-hmgcr antibodies inhibit hmgcr activity and lead to myopathic lipid droplets accumulation in myofibers

12:30–12:45          Anton de Kroon,  Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL: The regulation of membrane lipid acyl chain length in S. cerevisiae

12:45–13:00         Takahashi Kohta, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université de Strasbourg, Illkirch, FR : The transport of lysosomal enzymes and the fusion of autophagosomes and lysosomes are accompanied by lipid scrambling

13:00– 14:15        Lunch and poster session (13:30-14:15 poster presentation with the poster jury)

 

SFEL-GERLI joint Session 6 – Lipids and brain

Chairpersons, Silva Katušić & Nicolas Vitale

14:15 – 14:45        Sophie Layé, Bordeaux Neurocampus, Bordeaux, FR : Role of omega-3 in brain development and cognitive trajectory

14:45 – 15:15        Serge Luquet, Functional and Adaptative Biology Laboratory, Paris, FR: Brain lipid sensing and adaptive response to modern food environment

15:15 – 16:15        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

15:15–15:30          Elmira Arab-Tehrany, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, FR: Targeted nanoliposome as active vector for the drug delivery of curcumin used for neuroprotective activity

15:30–15:45          Stéphane Gasman, INCI, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR : Transbilayer phospholipid scrambling is essential for efficient synaptic vesicle endocytosis

15:45–16:00          Candice Dulong, CNRS-INSA MECALIPS Lyon, Villeurbanne, FR: Air pollution and health: Effects of Particulate Matter from air sampling on neuroblastoma cells

16:15–16:30           Xiaojing Yue, Laboratory of Biology and Modelling of the Cell, Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon, CNRS, UMR 5239, INSERM U1293, 69364 Lyon, France: Understanding the Role of Lipid Droplets and -Synuclein in Parkinson’s Disease   

 

Social Events

17:30                     Visit of the Historic Wine Cellar of Strasbourg Hospices

20:00                     Gala Dinner – The Drunky Stork Social Club, Strasbourg

 

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

 

Session 7 – Membrane contact sites

Chairpersons, Sylvie Friant & Toshihide Kobayashi

08:30 – 09:00       Tim Levine, University College of London, UK : Finding lipid transfer proteins

09:00 – 09:30        Manuela Dezi, Institut Curie, Paris, FR : Cryo-ET characterization of Vap contact sites

09:30 – 10:15        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

09:30 – 09:45        Sophie Huver,  IGBMC, University of Strasbourg, Illkirch, FR: Live cell imaging of inter-organelle contacts using an integrated dimerization-dependent Fluorescent Protein reporter

09:45 – 10:00        Helin Elhan, Université PSL, CNRS, Paris, FR : Fueling fat for storage: The role of ATG2A in lipid droplet homeostasis

10:00 – 10:15        Morgane Michaud,  CNRS, CEA, INRAE, Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, FR: Characterization of a plant VPS13 lipid transporter and its role in membrane remodeling in response to nutrient stress

10:15 – 10:45        coffee break

 

Session 8 – Lipids in autophagy AND STRESS

Chairpersons, Katrin Watschinger & Andréa Hemmerlin

10:45 – 11:15       Sabrina Büttner, University of Münster, DE: Lipophagy in yeast: from lipid droplet tethering to vacuolar hydrolysis 

11:15 – 11:45        Amélie Bernard, Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Bordeaux, FR: Lipid/protein interplay in membrane formation and remodeling during plant autophagy

11:45 – 12:45        Short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

11:45 – 12:00        Patricio Aguirre Pineda,  CRBS University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, FR: Role of the PI3K complex subunit Vps15 in LD metabolism

12:00 – 12:15        Juliette Graff, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, CH : Juggling ER stress and PC metabolism

12:15 – 12:30       Jeroen Guns, Hasselt University, Biomedical Research Institute, Diepenbeek, BE : zDHHC5-driven FABP5 S-palmitoylation impairs brain repair by disrupting foam cell physiology

12:30 – 12:45       Mikhail Golovko, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA : Astrocytic fatty acid synthase is critical for maintaining reductive potential and lactate levels in the hypoxic brain

12:45 – 13:00       Short-talks Awards and closing

13:00 – 14:00        Farewell lunch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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