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.
Monday, November 3, 2025
09:00 – 10:00 Registration, coffee
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome addresses
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)
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
