Scientific Program

The scientific program includes the traditional L. L. M. van Deenen lecture, lectures by invited speakers and oral communications selected from submitted abstracts. The program will include sessions on the following topics.

Topics

  1. Lipids of microorganisms
  2. Lipid transport and assembly of lipids into membranes
  3. Cell biology and molecular biology of lipases and phospholipases
  4. Pathobiochemistry of lipids

Program

Tuesday, September 10, 2002

17:00-19:00   Pre-registration and informal Welcome Party



Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Lipids of microorganisms

08:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:00 Opening
Chairpersons: F. Paltauf (Graz, Austria), W. Dowhan (Houston, USA)

10:00-10:45 PL1: Van Deenen Lecture
Christian R.H. RAETZ (Durham, USA)
Biochemistry of Endotoxins: Potent Lipid Activators of Innate Immunity
10:45-11:15 Coffee and tea break
11:15-11:35 SO 1: Yosuke Koga (Kitakyushu, Japan)
Enzymes and Genes of Ether Phospholipid Biosynthesis in Archaea
11:35-12:15 PL 2: Goran LINDBLOM (Umeå, Sweden)
Regulation of lipids in bacterial membranes, lateral diffusion, formation of domains and lipid phase behaviour


12:15-14:00 Lunch
Chairpersons: G. Carman (New Brunswick, USA), J. Knudsen (Odense, Denmark)


14:00-14:40 PL3: Howard RIEZMAN (Basel, Switzerland)
Synthesis, transport, and function of ceramides in yeast
14:40-15:20 PL 4: Jasper RINE (Berkeley, USA)
Dual transcription factors regulate sterol biosynthetic enzyme synthesis in Saccharomyces
15:20-15:40 SO 2: Robert C. Dickson (Lexington, USA)
Vacuolar ATPase assembly requires sphingolipids
15:40-16:10 Coffee and tea break
16:10-16:50 PL5: Norio MURATA (Okazaki, Japan)
Regulation of fatty acid desaturation in cyanobacteria: Gene expression and temperature sensors
16:50-17:10 SO 3: Charles E. Martin (Piscataway, USA)
Saccharomyces OLE1 gene expression is regulated by N-terminal proteolytic fragments of two membrane proteins that are functionally linked to fatty acid and oxygen-mediated regulation of transcription and mRNA stability
17:10-17:30 SO 4: Hongyuan Yang (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
Synthesis of Triacylglycerols Is Required for the Fission Yeast Schizosaccharomyces Pombe to Enter Stationary Phase and to Survive Oxidative Stress
17:30-18:10 PL6: Henk TABAK (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Dissection of a transient oxidative stress response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using DNA micro-arrays
19:30 Reception by the Mayor of Graz



Thursday, September 12, 2002

Lipid transport and assembly of lipids into membranes

Chairpersons: J.F.C. Glatz (Maastricht, The Netherlands), P. Somerharju (Helsinki, Finland)
09:00-09:40 PL7: Deborah A. BROWN (Stony Brook, USA)
Lipid Rafts
09:40-10:20 PL8: Friedhelm SCHROEDER (College Station, USA)
Sterol transport and Sterol Carrier Protein-2: Fluorescence and multiphoton imaging sterol in living cells
10:20-10:40 SO 5: Vesa M. Olkkonen (Helsinki, Finland)
The OSBP-related protein family
10:40-11:10 Coffee and tea break
11:10-11:30 SO 6: Ibolya Horváth (Szeged, Hungary)
Small Heat-Shock Proteins Regulate Membrane Lipid Polymorphism
11:30-12:10 PL9: Dick HOEKSTRA (Groningen, Netherlands)
Trafficking and sorting of lipids in polarized liver cells


12:10-14:00 Lunch
Chairpersons: M. Frentzen (Aachen, Germany), A. Menon (Madison, USA)


14:00-14:40 PL10: Dennis VOELKER (Denver, USA)
Protein motifs regulating transport of aminoglycerophospholipids in yeast
14:40-15:00 SO 7: Arnold van der Luit (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Lipid rafts as gateway to a synthetic alkyl-lysophospholipid-induced apoptosis
15:00-16:30 Posters, coffee and tea
16:30-17:10 PL11: Patrick MOREAU (Bordeaux, France)
Lipid traffic and endomembrane dynamics in plant cells
17:10-17:30 SO 8: Gerhard J. Schuetz (Linz, Austria)
Ultra-sensitive Microscopy to Image Molecular Rearrangements during T-cell
17:30-18:10 PL12: Johnathan A. NAPIER (Bristol, UK)
Biogenesis of lipid bodies: the role of the oleosin protein in oil body ontology in higher plants
18:30 Meeting of the Steering Committee



Friday, September 13, 2002

Cell biology and molecular biology of lipases and phospholipases

This session is financially supported by the Special Research Center “Biocatalysis”.
Chairpersons: R. Ulbrich-Hofmann (Halle, Germany), R. Zechner (Graz, Austria)
09:00-09:40 PL13: Cecilia HOLM (Lund, Sweden)
Structure, function and regulation of hormone-sensitive lipase, a key enzyme in fatty acid mobilization
09:40-10:20 PL14: Ira GOLDBERG (New York, USA)
Dissecting pathways of fat delivery to tissues via lipoprotein lipase (LpL)
10:20-10:50 Posters, coffee and tea
10:50-11:10 SO 9: Richard Lehner (Alberta, Canada)
Inhibition of hepatic microsomal triacylglycerol hydrolase decreases apoB secretion
11:10-11:30 SO 10: Sasa Frank (Graz, Austria)
Endothelial Lipase Releases Fatty Acids from HDL-phospholipids and mediates their uptake into HepG2 cells
11:30-12:10 PL15: Eva HURT CAMEJO (Goeteborg, Sweden)
The Biology of Phospholipase A2 in Atherosclerosis
12:10-12:45 Fritz SPENER (Muenster, Germany)
Network of Excellence: Development of European lipid science for the improvement of human nutrition and health (NUTRILIPID)
12:45-14:30 Lunch


14:30-18:00 Excursion
20:00 Conference Dinner



Saturday, September 14, 2002

Pathobiochemistry of lipid

This session is financially supported by the Special Research Center “Biomembranes”.
Chairpersons: R. Berge (Bergen, Norway), A. Lagrou (Antwerp, Belgium)
09:00-09:40 PL16: Ana JONAS (Urbana, USA)
Lipid content regulates the structure and function of apolipoprotein A-I in higher density lipoprotein particles
09:40-10:00 SO 11: Alba Vecchini (Perugia, Italy)
Dietary α-linolenic acid reverts SREBP-1 and FAS over-expression in Morris hepatocarcinoma 3924A cells
10:00-11:30 Posters, coffee and tea
11:30-12:10 PL17: James SCOTT (London, UK)
Genomics of the metabolic cardiovascular syndrom


12:10-14:00 Lunch
Chairpersons: Y. Seyama (Tokyo, Japan), F. Spener (Muenster, Germany)
14:00-14:40 PL18: Joachim HERZ (Dallas, USA)
Protection of Vascular Wall Integrity by LRP
14:40-15:20 PL19: Hans-Peter DEIGNER (Eschborn, Germany)
Ceramide and signal transduction
15:20-15:50 Coffee and tea break
15:50-16:10 SO 12: Christian Wolfrum (New York, USA)
Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor-3β (Hnf-3 β /Foxa2): A Novel Regulator of Adipocyte Differentiation
16:10-16:30 SO 13: Hans R. Waterham (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Molecular basis of inherited disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis
16:30-17:10 PL20: Richard BRUCKDORFER (London, UK)
Pathobiochemistry of atherosclerosis
17:10-17:30 Presentation of the ICBL 2003, Farewell Address
18:00 Bus trip to Southern Styria and Farewell Party