51st ICBL 2010

Organizers:

FÉLIX M. GOÑI
&
ANTONIO GÓMEZ-MUÑOZ
University of the Basque Country
and
Unidad de Biofísica
Bilbao (Spain)

JOSÉ CARLOS FERNÁNDEZ-CHECA
CSIC
Barcelona (Spain)

Preliminary Program

(tentative titles)

The van Deenen Lecture

Bill Dowhan (USA) "Dissecting the molecular basis for lipid diversity"

Session 1: Physical chemistry of lipids

D. Marsh (Germany): “The Biophysics of Lipidomics”

D. Lichtenberg (Israel): “Peroxidation of liposomal lipids and physico-chemical properties of the lipid bilayers”

D. Siegel (USA): “Non-bilayer structures and membrane fusion”

M. Prieto (Portugal): “Lateral separation of lipid domains”

Session 2: Lipids and biomembranes

L. A. Bagatolli (Denmark): “Giant unilamellar vesicles as membrane models”

Y. Igarashi (Japan): “Membrane lipid metabolism”

B. Larijani (UK): “Phosphoinositides in the nuclear envelope”

D. Vance (Canada): “Regulation of phosphatidylcholine metabolism”

Session 3: Bioactive lipids and lipidomics

J. Balsinde (Spain): “Phospholipase A2 and lysophospholipids”

T. Levade (France): “Sphingolipids, apoptosis and autophagy”

A. H. Merrill (USA): “Sphingolipidomics”

M. Wakelam (UK): “Lipidomic analysis of signalling pathways”

Session 4: Lipid-protein interactions and lipid trafficking

T. Futerman (Israel): “Sphingolipid trafficking”

J. C. Gómez-Fernández (Spain): “Protein kinase C”

K. Simons (Germany): “Rafts in organelle membranes”

Session 5: Lipid-binding proteins

(A session organized by J. Glatz and J. Storch on behalf of the  LBP Society).
 
N. Noy (USA) “Intracellular lipid-binding proteins and nuclear transcription factor activation”

W.A. Prinz (USA) “Oxysterol binding proteins and intracellular sterol transport”

R. Ehehalt (Germany) “Role of FATP4, CD36, and lipid rafts in cellular fatty acid uptake”

Session 6: Lipids in health and disease

J. C. Fernández-Checa (Spain): “ Mitochondrial cholesterol and hepatocellular carcinoma”

U. Steinbrecher (Canada): “Pertussis toxin and lipid-mediated macrophage survival”

I. Niot (France): CD36-mediated orosensory perception of dietary lipids”. (Joint LBP-ICBL Speaker)

C. Mansbach (USA): Biogenesis of intestinal lipoproteins (chylomicrons): Role of LFABP”. (Joint LBP-ICBL speaker)

Session 7: Plant lipids

C. Benning (USA): “Plant membrane biogenesis”

I. Feussner (Germany): “Plant lipoxigenases”

B. Nikolau (USA): “Plant lipidomics”

Closing Lecture

D. de Mendoza (Argentina): “Type II fatty acid synthase in Gram-positive bacteria”