Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Dynamic Regulation of Lipid Metabolizing Enzymes
Discussion Leader: Dennis Voelker (National Jewish Health, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:45 pm - 8:25 pm
Roger Williams (Medical Research Council, United Kingdom)
"Structural Mechanisms of Activation of Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase Superfamily Enzymes on Membranes."
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
Sarah Spiegel (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
"Sphingosine-1-Phosphate: Lipid Signaling in Health and Disease"
9:15 pm - 9:25 pm
Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Membrane Architecture and Signaling
Discussion Leader: Thurl Harris (University of Virginia, United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
Karin Reinisch (Yale University School of Medicine, United States)
"A Proposed Role for Protein-Mediated Bulk Lipid Transfer in Membrane Expansion and Organelle Biogenesis."
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:10 am
Nicolas Vitale (CNRS, INCI UPR3212, France)
"Novel Tools to Study the Role of Different Forms of Phosphatidic Acid in Neurosecretion"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:55 am
Group Photo / Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:20 am
Tamas Balla (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, United States)
"Phosphoinositide Lipids: Key Organizers of Membrane Lipid Distribution and Metabolism."
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, France)
"Protein Clustering Mediated by Fluid Lipid Membranes"
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Julie Saba (University of California, San Francisco, United States) and Judith Storch (Rutgers University, United States)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Physiology and Pathophysiology of Membrane Lipid Metabolism
Discussion Leader: Raymond Blind (Vanderbilt University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm
Joost Holthuis (Osnabrück University, Germany)
"Pathophysiological Impact of a Disrupted Sphingomyelin Gradient in the Secretory Pathway"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
Lucio Cocco (University of Bologna, Italy)
"PLCy in Myelodysplastic Syndromes"
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Sensors and Analyses of Lipid Diversity and Dynamics
Discussion Leader: L. Ashley Cowart (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
John Burke (University of Victoria, Canada)
"HDX Analyses of Protein Interactions at the Membrane Interface"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:10 am
Wonhwa Cho (University of Illinois Chicago, United States)
"Lipid Imaging, Signaling, and Drug Discovery"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:55 am
Coffee Break
10:55 am - 11:20 am
Tatyana Igumenova (Texas A&M University, United States)
"The C1 Domain Family: Like Yet Unlike"
11:20 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:10 pm
Jeremy Baskin (Cornell University, United States)
"Optogenetic Membrane Editors for Manipulating Phosphatidic Acid Metabolism and Signaling"
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm
Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lipid Droplets and Systemic Lipid Metabolism
Discussion Leader: Michael Wolfgang (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm
James Olzmann (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
"Cellular Mechanisms of Lipid Homeostasis and Lipotoxicity"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
Karen Reue (University of California, Los Angeles, United States)
"SeXX and Adipose Tissue"
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Regulation of Membrane Lipids and Lipid Metabolites
Discussion Leader: Binks Wattenberg (Virginia Commonwealth University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
Shamshad Cockcroft (UCL, United Kingdom)
"CDP-Diacylglycerol Synthases as a Gateway to Phosphoinositide and Cardiolipin Synthesis"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:10 am
Michael Airola (Stony Brook University, United States)
"Regulation of Intracellular Lipolysis"
10:10 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
10:30 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:30 am
Brooke Emerling (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, United States)
"Phosphoinositide Dynamics in Growth Control and Metabolism"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:05 pm
Teresa Dunn (Uniformed Services Univ of the Health Sciences, United States)
"SPTSSA Variants Disrupt ORMDL Regulation of SPT and Cause a Complex Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
General Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Lipid Metabolism in Yeast and Prokaryotes
Discussion Leader: Eric Klein (Rutgers University-Camden, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:05 pm
Shu-Sin Chng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
"Bacterial Lipid Trafficking and Outer Membrane Homeostasis"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:55 pm
Robert Ernst (Saarland University, Germany)
"Lipid Fingerprints of ER Stress"
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:15 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:15 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Structure and Biochemistry of Lipid Metabolizing Enzymes
Discussion Leader: George Carman (Rutgers University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:10 am - 9:35 am
Angeline Lyon (Purdue University, United States)
"Regulation of Phospholipase C Enzymes by G Proteins and the Membrane"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Sandra Gabelli (Merck & Co., United States)
"PI 3-Kinases and Structural Inhibitors"
10:25 am - 10:35 am
Discussion
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Coffee Break
11:05 am - 11:30 am
Fumio Sakane (Chiba University Graduate School of Science, Japan)
"Novel Diacylglycerol Production/Phosphorylation Pathways Independent of the Phosphatidylinositol Turnover"
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Discussion
11:40 am - 12:05 pm
Ku-Lung Hsu (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Deciphering Specificity of Diacylglycerol Metabolic Enzymes by Chemoproteomics and Protein Engineering"
12:05 pm - 12:15 pm
Discussion
12:15 pm - 12:20 pm
General Discussion
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Lipid Metabolizing Enzymes: From Biochemistry to Physiology
Discussion Leader: Robert Stahelin (Purdue University, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Julie Saba (University of California, San Francisco, United States)
"The Story of Sphingosine Lysase Deficiency Discovery and Potential Therapy: From Yeast To Humans"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Vytas Bankaitis (Texas A&M University, United States)
"The Winding Road of Phosphatidylinsitol Transfer Proteins From Basic Science Interest to Disease Relevance"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm
General Discussion
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure