| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Site Director's Remarks |
| Susan Henry, Cornell University
Welcome and Introduction |
| 7:50 pm - 9:30 pm | FATTY ACID AND TRIACYLGLYCEROL REGULATION AND METABOLISM |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Henry, Cornell University |
| Charles Rock, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Structure, mechanism, and regulation of type II fatty
acid synthases |
| Günther Daum, Technical University of Graz, Austria
Triacylglycerol metabolism in yeast |
| Rosalind Coleman, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Triacylglycerol synthesis: Insights from the mitochondrial
GPAT knockout mouse |
| Welcome reception following presentations |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:45 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | LIPID TRANSPORT |
| Discussion Leader: Jean Chin, NIH |
| Dennis Voelker, National Jewish Medical Research Center
Protein motifs involved in regulating lipid transport |
| Wylie Nichols, Emory University School of Medicine
Regulation of phospholipid flip-flop in yeast |
| Christoph Benning, Michigan State University
Interorganelle lipid transfer in Arabidopsis |
| Vytas Bankaitis, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
The fascinating biology of PITP function in higher eukaryotes |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session
Poster Chair: Jean Vance, University of Alberta |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | REGULATION OF LIPID METABOLISM |
| Discussion Leader: George Carman, Rutgers University |
| Avula Sreenivas, Rutgers University
Phosphorylation of the yeast phospholipid synthesis regulatory protein Opi1p by protein kinase A |
| Miriam Greenberg, Wayne State University
The role of cardiolipin in mitochondrial function:
Implications for Barth Syndrome |
| Robert Rawson, University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center
Regulation of lipid metabolism by membrane
composition: What insects tell us |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | FATTY ACID AND ACYL-CoA: REGULATION AND TRANSPORT |
| Discussion Leader: Concetta DiRusso, The Albany
Medical College |
| Paul Black, The Albany Medical College
Fatty acid transport mediated through vectorial acylation |
| Sepp Kohlwein, University of Graz, Austria
ACC and its regulatory impact |
| Harvey Lodish, Whitehead Institute
Acrp30 and Fatty Acid Transport Proteins Major control
points for fatty acid metabolism |
| Jens Knudsen, Odense University, Denmark
Acyl-CoA moieties in membrane fusion and phospholipid
metabolism: A role of acyl-CoA binding protein? |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session
Poster Chair: Jean Vance, University of Alberta |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | LIPID TURNOVER, METABOLISM, AND GENOMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Alex Brown, Vanderbilt University |
| Andrew Morris, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
Synthesis and inactivation of lysophosphatidic acid |
| Edward Dennis, University of California-San Diego
Regulation and function of phospholipase A2 in
lipid signaling |
| Steven Farber, Thomas Jefferson University
Lipomics and genomics in Zebrafish: Visualizing lipid
metabolism in vivo using fluorescent reporters |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE SYNTHESIS, FUNCTION, AND PHYSIOLOGY |
| Discussion Leader: George Carman, Rutgers University |
| Kozo Ishidate, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Structure and function of choline kinase isoforms in
mammals |
| Dennis Vance, Anna Noga, Yang Zhao, René Jacobs,
Zhaoyu Li, Luis Agellon - University of Alberta, Canada;
Lori Stead, Margaret Brosnan, John Brosnan - Memorial
University of Newfoundland, Canada;
Cecilia Devlin, Ira Tabas - Columbia University;
Metabolic insights from murine knockouts in hepatic
phospholipid biosynthesis |
| Suzanne Jackowski, St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital
Phosphocholine cytidylytransferase isoforms:
Distribution and function |
| Toon de Kroon, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Phosphatidylcholine in yeast: Transport to mitochondria
and importance for mitochondrial function |
| Jean Vance, University of Alberta, Canada
Mammalian phosphatidylserine synthases |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session
Poster Chair: Jean Vance, University of Alberta |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SYNTHESIS, CELL BIOLOGY AND TRANSPORT OF SPHINGOLIPIDS AND STEROLS |
| Discussion Leader: Dennis Voelker, National Jewish
Medical Research Center |
| Richard Pagano, Mayo Clinic and Foundation
Endocytosis and intracellular sorting of
glycosphingolipids |
| Steve Sturley, Columbia University
Mechanisms of sphingolipid and sterol subcellular
transport |
| Howard Riezman, University of Geneva
Sphingolipid synthesis and functions |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS AND INOSITOL POLYPHOSPHATES |
| Discussion Leader: Chuck Martin |
| Dennis Shields, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Phosphatidylinositol polyphosphate biosynthesis and the
Structure and function of the Golgi apparatus |
| John York, Duke University Medical Center
Lipid derived inositol polyphosphate regulation
of nuclear processes |
| Tim Levine, Institute of Ophthalmology,
London, England
A conserved mechanism targeting lipid binding proteins
to the endoplasmic reticulum |
| Masato Umeda, Kyoto University
Transbilayer lipid movements: A role in cell division and
cell polarity formation |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session
Poster Chair: Jean Vance, University of Alberta |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | LIPID RESEARCH: ORIGINS AND FUTURE |
| Discussion Leader: Christopher Raetz, Duke University |
| Eugene Kennedy, Harvard University
Hits and Misses: Some origins of lipid research |
| William Dowhan, University of Texas-Houston
Lipid-assisted organization of membrane proteins |
| Christopher Raetz, Duke University
Outer membrane lipids of Gram-negative bacteria |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |