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.

20^th GERLI international lipid meeting

‘’Lipids in Cell Structures and Metabolism’’

Strasbourg, France – November 3-5, 2024

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

10:10 –  11:00       Opening lecture:  Russell DeBose-Boyd, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Houston, USA: Lipid sensing pathways in cholesterol metabolism

11:00 – 11:30        GERLI PhD Awards

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

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       

13:45 – 14:15        André Nadler, MPI-CBG, Dresden, GE: Title to be announced

14:15 – 14:45        Stefano Vanni, University of Fribourg, CH: Title to be announced

14:45 – 15:30        3 short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

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

Session 3 – Lipid cellular functions

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: Title to be announced

17:15 – 18:00        3 short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

18:00 – 18:45        GERLI General Assembly

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Session 4 – Lipids in autophagy

08:30 – 09:00        Amélie Bernard, Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Bordeaux, FR: Lipid/protein interplay in membrane formation and remodeling during plant autophagy

09:00 – 09:30        Sabrina Büttner, University of Münster, DE: Lipophagy in yeast: from lipid droplet tethering to vacuolar hydrolysis

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

10:15 – 10:45        coffee break

Session 5 – Membrane biophysics

10:45 – 11:15        Erdinc Sezgin, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE: Title to be announced

11:15 – 11:45        Bianca Schrul, Saarland University, Homburg, DE: Title to be announced

11:45 – 12:45        4 short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

12:45 – 14:15        Lunch and poster session (13:30-14:15 poster presentation with the poster jury)

SFEL-GERLI joint Session 6 – Lipids and brain

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: Title to be announced

15:15 – 16:15        4 short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

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

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

09:30 – 10:00        Manuela Dezi, Institut Curie, Paris, FR : Cryo-ET characterization of Vap contact sites

10:00 – 10:45        3 short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

10:15 – 10:45        coffee break

Session 8 – Lipids in metabolism and cancer

10:45 – 11:15        Vincent Hyenne, Centre de recherche en Biomédecine, Strasbourg, FR: Tracking tumor extracellular vesicles from birth to pre-metastatic niches

11:15 – 11:45        Arnaud Blomme, GIGA-Research Institute, University of Liège, B: Title to be announced

11:45 – 12:30        3 short-talks selected from abstracts (12min + 3min Q/A)

12:30 – 12:45        Short-talks Awards and closing

12:45 – 14:00        Farewell lunch

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