2nd Annual Meeting - NCBS Max-Planck Lipid Centre
Joint meeting between Indo-German Max Planck Center on Lipid Research
and
Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 83
February 4-6, 2015
NCBS, Lecture Hall ‘Haapus’
Wednesday, February 4 | ||
12:00 | Lunch | |
12:50 | Introduction by Satyajit Mayor | |
Membrane Structure, Chair: Thomas Söllner | ||
13:00 | Kai Simons | Lipid rafts and Lipidomics |
13:30 | Satyajit Mayor | Organization of microdomains in membranes; role of lipids |
14:00 | Madan Rao | Organization of microdomains in membranes; role of lipids |
14:30 | Coffee break | |
15:00 | Marino Zerial | Analysis of the mechanisms of vesicle tethering and fusion |
15:30 | Hans-Georg Kräusslich | The HIV-1 assembly microdomain |
16:00 | Yvonne Hackmann (Sinning group) | Membrane protein expression in the eyes of transgenic Drosophila |
16:30 | Eleni Dimou (Nickel group) | A novel experimental system to directly visualize FGF2 translocation across the plasma membrane |
16:45 | Sebastian Unger (Nickel group) | Structure-Function Elucidation of Membrane-Inserted FGF2 Oligomers |
18:30 | Dinner on Campus | |
Thursday, February 5 | ||
Membrane lipids, Chair: Satyajit Mayor | ||
09:30 | Konrad Sandhoff | Membrane lipids regulate liposomal sphingolipid catabolism, their enzymes and lipid binding proteins |
10:00 | M.M. Panicker | Lipid bodies in embryonic stem cells: functional significance |
10:30 | Ünal Coskun | Lipids as allosteric regulators for Growth Factor Receptor Signalling |
11:00 | Break | |
11:30 | Alf Honigmann | Spatiotemporal characterization of lipid probes in the plasma membrane with optical nanoscopy |
12:00 | Anke Penno (Thiele group) | Metabolism and Localisation of 1-Deoxy-sphingolipids |
12:30 | Eicke Latz | Recognition of cholesterol phase transition during atherogenesis |
13:30 | Lunch | |
Identification of new lipids, Chair: Marino Zerial | ||
14:30 | Andrej Shevchenko | Discovery of new lipid molecules by shotgun mass spectrometry and LC-MS/MS |
15:00 | André Nadler | Photochemical tools for studying the role of lipids in cellular processes |
15:30 | Suzanne Eaton | Endocannabinoids in the Hedgehog pathway (to be confirmed) |
16:00 | Teymuras Kurzchalia | Novel glycolipids in C. elegans involved in the transport of cholesterol |
16:30 | Marie Paradis (Hoch group) | Characterization of saposin function in lysosomes in Drosophila |
17:00 | Poster session | |
18:30 | Dinner on Campus | |
Friday, February 6 | ||
Role of lipids in disease, Chair: Elisabeth Knust | ||
09:30 | Raghu Padinjat | The function of phospholipase D and its lipid products in regulating apical domain homeostasis |
10:00 | Sarita Hebbar (Knust group) | Lipids and retinal degeneration in Drosophila |
10:30 | David Paul (Bartenschlager group) | Viral and cellular determinants of hepatitis C virus membranous replication factories |
11:00 | Varadha Sundaramurthy | Lipids at the host-pathogen interface |
12:00 | Lunch | |
13:00-15:00 | Lipid Center specific topics and facility tours (in parallel) | |
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