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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