Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Galia Staneva
15:10h - 15:20h
Skin's extracellular lipid matrix - unique lipids for unique protection
Kateřina Vávrová
15:20h - 15:50h
TBA
Abdou Rachid Thiam
16:40h - 17:10h
Tunable living membrane systems for exploring the role of sphingolipid diversity
James Saenz
17:10h - 17:40h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
17:40h - 18:20h
General discussion of the session 1
Galia Staneva
18:20h - 18:40h
Keynote Lectures
Auditorium
25.5.2025
14:10 – 15:10h
Opening Keynote Lecture
Ceramide de novo synthesis links muscle disorders with mitochondrial and protein homeostasis
Thorsten Hornemann
14:10h - 15:10h
Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Roger Sandhoff
09:00h - 09:10h
Development of novel cellular BRET-based bioassays for the identification of CERT inhibitors
Christopher Arenz
09:10h - 09:40h
One cage to rule them all: New tools to study lipids
Milena Schuhmacher
09:40h - 10:10h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
10:10h - 10:30h
Biophysical properties of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as new biomarkers of health and disease
Erdinc Sezgin
11:00h - 11:30h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
11:30h - 12:30h
Sphingolipid metabolism in lipid quality control
Maria Fedorova
15:30h - 16:00h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
16:00h - 16:20h
General discussion session 2
Roger Sandhoff
16:20h - 16:40h
Welcome
Auditorium
25.5.2025
14:00 – 14:10h
Welcome remarks
Welcome remarks
Liana C. Silva, Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, Stefkanka Spassieva, Noemi Jiménez-Rojo, Chris Clarke
14:00h - 14:10h
Keynote Lectures
Auditorium
26.5.2025
18:30 – 19:30h
The EMBO Keynote Lecture
Extracellular Vesicles : from biogenesis to functions
Graça Raposo
18:30h - 19:30h
Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Ashley Cowart & Manuel Muniz
08:30h - 08:40h
Effects of Membrane Composition on ER Sphingolipid Metabolic Enzyme Activity
Florian Fröhlich
08:40h - 09:10h
Glycoswitches to control GlycoLipid-Lectin (GL-Lect) driven endocytosis
Ludger Johannes
09:10h - 09:40h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
09:40h - 10:20h
Seipin acts as a gatekeeper of sphingolipid and neutral lipid metabolism at the endoplasmic reticulum-plasma membrane contact sites
Vitor Teixeira
10:45h - 11:15h
Genetic engineering to manipulate the rules of lipid composition
Takeshi Harayama
11:15h - 11:45h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
11:45h - 12:45h
Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Besim Ogretmen
08:30h - 08:40h
Role of sphingolipids in kidney resident macrophage polarization in the progression of kidney injury to chronic kidney disease
Leah Siskind
08:40h - 09:10h
Involvement of ceramide synthases in programmed necrosis
Kazuyuki Kitatani
09:10h - 09:40h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
09:40h - 10:20h
Sphingolipid Metabolism Alterations in Oral Cancer: Implications for Diagnosis, Prognosis, Biology, and Therapeutic Strategies
Andréia Machado Leopoldino
10:45h - 11:15h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
11:45h - 12:25h
Illuminating Lipid Landscapes: From Dictyostelium to Mycobacterial Infections
Caro Barisch
18:30h - 19:00h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
19:00h - 19:40h
General discussion session 4
Besim Ogretmen
19:40h - 20:00h
Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Erhard Bieberich
08:30h - 08:40h
New Mechanisms Driving Neurodegeneration: How Glycosphingolipid Imbalances Alter the Plasma Membrane Proteome
Janet Deane
08:40h - 09:10h
TBA
Jörg Hanrieder
09:10h - 09:40h
TBA
Pilar Martinez
09:40h - 10:10h
Short talks selected from abstracts
TBA
10:40h - 11:40h
TBA
Aurora Pujol
11:40h - 12:10h
General discussion session 5
Erhard Bieberich
12:10h - 12:30h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
18:30h - 19:10h
Mechanistic roles of CerS-generated ceramides in cell death pathways: Significance of ceramide chain length in effector modulation
Can Senkal
18:00h - 18:30h
Role of sphingolipids at membrane contact sites
Rossella Venditti
17:30h - 18:00h
Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Chiara Luberto
15:00h - 15:10h
Short talks selected from abstracts
TBA
15:10h - 16:40h
Short talks selected from the abstracts
TBA
17:00h - 17:20h
General discussion session 6
Chiara Luberto
17:20h - 17:45h
Keynote Lectures
Auditorium
29.5.2025
17:45 – 18:45h
Closing Keynote Lecture
Greasing thoughts: Mechanisms and physiology of sphingolipid metabolism in the brain
Tobias Walther
17:45h - 18:45h
Flash talks selected from posters
TBA
18:40h - 19:10h
Concluding Remarks
Auditorium
29.5.2025
18:45 – 19:00h
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
Liana C. Silva, Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, Stefkanka Spassieva, Noemi Jiménez-Rojo, Chris Clarke
18:45h - 19:00h
Introduction to FEBS
Auditorium
25.5.2025
19:30 – 19:40h
Introduction to FEBS
Introduction to FEBS, The Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Mutay Aslan
19:30h - 19:40h
General discussion of the session 3
Ashley Cowart & Manuel Muñiz
19:10h - 19:30h