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ProgramFebruary 17-19, 2006
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| Organizers: | Markus Wenk (National University of Singapore) |
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Friday, February 17, 2006 |
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Opening Address |
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8:00am |
Registration |
8:45am |
Prof Shih Choon Fong, President - National University of Singapore |
Lipid and membrane transport |
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| Morning session - Chair: Masahiro Nishijima (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan) | |
9:00am |
Howard Riezman (University of Geneva) “Lipid environments and protein sorting upon ER exit” |
9:40am |
Fred Maxfield (Weill Medical College, Cornell University) “Intracellular transport of lipids and sterols” |
10:20am |
Break + Poster Setup |
10:50am |
Hongyuan (Robert) Yang (National University of Singapore) “Intracellular sterol transport: oxysterol binding proteins and Niemann Pick C1” |
11:30am |
Andrew Brown (University of New South Wales) “Cellular Cholesterol Homeostasis meets Akt Signaling” |
12:10pm |
Dennis R. Voelker (National Jewish Med Res Center) "Macromolecular assemblies of proteins and lipids regulate non-vesicular phosphatidylserine traffic in yeast" |
12:50pm |
Lunch + Poster Sessions |
| Afternoon session - Chair: Hong Wanjin (IMCB) | |
2:20pm |
Vivek Malhotra (University of California, San Diego) “Diacylglycerol: its role in Golgi to cell surface transport” |
3:00pm |
Vytas Bankaitis (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “The phosphatidylinositol transfer protein story as told by mammals” |
3:40pm |
Break + Poster Sessions |
4:10pm |
Pietro De Camilli (Yale and HHMI) "Protein-lipid interactions in synaptic vesicle recycling at the neuronal synapse" |
4:50pm |
Scott Emr (University of California, San Diego and HHMI) “Phosphoinositide Lipid Signaling in the Regulation of Membrane Trafficking and Organelle Identity” |
Saturday, February 18, 2006 |
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Biochemistry of lipids and lipidomics |
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| Morning session - Chair: Davis Ng (Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory) | |
| 9:00am |
Guenther Daum (Graz University of Technology) “Neutral lipid storage and mobilization in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae” |
| 9:40am |
Hee-Yong Kim (NIH) “Mass spectrometry in signaling research” |
10:20am |
Break + Poster Sessions |
10:50am |
Robert C Murphy (University of Colorado at Denver) “Leukotriene biosynthesis: participation of phospholipid molecular species and regulation by reacylation” |
11:30am |
Markus R Wenk (NUS) “Lipidomics of mycobacteria during hypoxic dormancy” |
12:10pm |
Lunch + Poster Sessions |
| Afternoon session - Chair: Markus R Wenk | |
1:40pm |
Ryo Taguchi (University of Tokyo)
"An analytical system for the identification, profiling and metabolic pathway of phospholipid molecular species" |
2:20pm |
Ed Dennis (University of California, San Diego) “The LIPIDMAPS approach to eicosanoid lipidomics” |
3:00pm |
Break + Poster Sessions |
3:30pm |
Gerrit van Meer (Utrecht University) “Fate and function of cellular sphingolipids” |
4:10pm |
Peter Mayinger (Oregon Health & Science University) "Cell growth-dependent control of phosphoinositide lipids at ER and Golgi" |
4:50pm |
Matthew Grigg (Applied Biosystems) “Lipid Profiler software for analysis of lipidomic data acquired from Mass Spectrometers ” |
Sunday, February 19, 2006 |
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Lipids in health and disease |
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| Chair: Hongyuan (Robert) Yang | |
9:00am |
Dennis Vance (University of Alberta) “Insights into phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis and function from gene targeting in mice” |
9:40am |
Francisco Barrantes (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina) “Influence of cholesterol and sphingolipids on nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: from molecule to cell” |
10:20am |
Alirio Melendez (National University of Singapore) “Sphingolipid signalling in the inflammatory response: validation of SK-1 as a target for drug discovery" |
11:00am |
Break + Poster Sessions | 11:30am |
Gennaro De Libero (University of Basel) “Presentation of mycobacterial lipid antigens to T cells: promoting function of CD1e" |
12:10pm |
Barry Halliwell (National University of Singapore) “Lipid oxidation, good, bad or indifferent?” |
12:50pm |
Jean Vance (University of Alberta) “Cholesterol trafficking and homeostasis in the brain” |
1:30pm |
Closing remarks - Markus R Wenk & Hongyuan (Robert) Yang |
1:40pm |
Lunch + Poster Sessions |
