Speaker Search Results

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

15:10 – 16:40h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Liana Silva & Sarka Pokorna

15:10h - 15:20h

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

15:10 – 16:40h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

Skin's extracellular lipid matrix - unique lipids for unique protection
Kateřina Vávrová

15:20h - 15:50h

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

17:10 – 18:20h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

Tunable living membrane systems for exploring the role of sphingolipid diversity
James Saenz

17:10h - 17:40h

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

17:10 – 18:20h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

Membrane tension and its effect on sphingolipid nanodomains
Zuzana Johanosvka

17:40h - 18:00h

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

17:10 – 18:20h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

General discussion of the session 1
Liana Silva & Sarka Pokorna

18:00h - 18:20h

Keynote Lectures

Auditorium

25.5.2025

20:00 – 21:00h

Opening Keynote Lecture

Greasing thoughts: Mechanisms and physiology of sphingolipid metabolism in the brain
Tobias Walther

20:00h - 21:00h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Roger Sandhoff

08:50h - 09:00h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Development of novel cellular BRET-based bioassays for the identification of CERT inhibitors
Christopher Arenz

09:00h - 09:30h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

One cage to rule them all: New tools to study lipids
Milena Schuhmacher

09:30h - 10:00h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

A Genetic Platform for Functional Profiling and Visualization of the Sphingolipid Metabolic Network in Drosophila
Chih-Chiang Chan

10:00h - 10:20h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

11:00 – 12:10h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Biophysical properties of cells and nanoscale bioparticles as new biomarkers of health and disease
Erdinc Sezgin

11:00h - 11:30h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

11:00 – 12:10h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Designing more stable forms of ceramide synthases: evolutionary implications
Assaf Biran

11:30h - 11:50h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

14:45 – 15:55h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Sphingolipid metabolism in lipid quality control
Maria Fedorova

14:45h - 15:15h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

14:45 – 15:55h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Studying Host-Pathogen Interactions Using Lipid Probes
Fikadu Tafesse

15:15h - 15:35h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

14:45 – 15:55h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

General discussion session 2
Roger Sandhoff

15:35h - 15:55h

Welcome

Auditorium

25.5.2025

15:00 – 15:10h

Welcome remarks

Welcome remarks
Liana C. Silva, Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, Stefkanka Spassieva, Noemi Jiménez-Rojo, Chris Clarke

15:00h - 15:10h

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

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Ashley Cowart & Manuel Muniz

08:50h - 09:00h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Mechanisms of Very Long Chain Fatty Acid Activation in Yeast Ceramide Biosynthesis
Florian Fröhlich

09:00h - 09:30h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Glycoswitches to control GlycoLipid-Lectin (GL-Lect) driven endocytosis
Ludger Johannes

09:30h - 10:00h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Dihydroceramide desaturase 1 (DES1) regulation of caspase 14 defines a novel pathway of anchorage-independent survival and metastasis in breast cancer
Deanna Peperno

10:00h - 10:20h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

10:45 – 12:25h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

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

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

10:45 – 12:25h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Genetic engineering to manipulate the rules of lipid composition
Takeshi Harayama

11:15h - 11:45h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

10:45 – 12:25h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Glucosylceramide is Required for Lysosomal Function and Turnover: Identification of a ceramide independent response upon GCS inhibition
Alexandra Strauss

11:45h - 12:05h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Besim Ogretmen

08:50h - 09:00h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Role of sphingolipids in kidney resident macrophage polarization in the progression of kidney injury to chronic kidney disease
Leah Siskind

09:00h - 09:30h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Involvement of ceramide synthases in programmed necrosis
Kazuyuki Kitatani

09:30h - 10:00h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Loss of Acid Ceramidase in Myeloid Cells Restores Sphingolipid Composition to Alleviate Chronic Colitis in IL10-Deficent Mice
Keila Espinoza

10:00h - 10:20h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

11:00 – 12:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Illuminating Lipid Landscapes: From Dictyostelium to Mycobacterial Infections
Caro Barisch

11:00h - 11:30h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

11:00 – 12:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Sphingolipidome remodeling in response to ischemia-reperfusion injury is highly sex-specific.
Sider Penkov

11:30h - 11:50h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

11:00 – 12:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

The Role of Ceramides in Drug-Tolerant Persisters and TKI Resistance in NSCLC
Sagarika Choudhury

11:50h - 12:10h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

18:00 – 19:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Sphingolipid Metabolism Alterations in Oral Cancer: Implications for Diagnosis, Prognosis, Biology, and Therapeutic Strategies
Andréia Machado Leopoldino

18:00h - 18:30h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

18:00 – 19:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

The Gatekeeper of Lipid Homeostasis: nSMase-2 Controls Lipid Droplet Expansion via Mitochondrial Specialization in NAFLD
Leobarda Robles-Martinez

18:30h - 18:50h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

18:00 – 19:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

General discussion session 4
Besim Ogretmen

19:10h - 19:30h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Erhard Bieberich

08:50h - 09:00h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

New Mechanisms Driving Neurodegeneration: How Glycosphingolipid Imbalances Alter the Plasma Membrane Proteome
Janet Deane

09:00h - 09:30h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Updates on the Ceramide Transfer protein (CERT) and the role of plasma ceramide and sphingomyelin in Alzheimer’s disease animal models
Pilar Martinez

09:30h - 10:00h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

08:50 – 10:20h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Amyloid-like fibrils of the GlcCer sphingolipid occur in Gaucher disease patient cells and cross-seed α-synuclein aggregation, suggesting a mechanism linking of Parkinson's and Gaucher disease
Daniel Segal

10:00h - 10:20h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

10:50 – 12:40h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Metabolic Remodelling During Neuronal Differentiation
Jean Maillat

11:20h - 11:40h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

10:50 – 12:40h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Novel biomarkers and therapeutic hope for DEGS1 leukodystrophy
Aurora Pujol

10:50h - 11:20h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

10:50 – 12:40h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

General discussion session 5
Erhard Bieberich

12:20h - 12:40h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

15:00 – 17:00h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Isc1, the yeast homologue of neutral sphingomyelinases, regulates the yeast response to nitrogen starvation
Jihui Ren

16:00h - 16:20h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

15:00 – 17:00h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Mechanistic roles of CerS-generated ceramides in cell death pathways: Significance of ceramide chain length in effector modulation
Can Senkal

15:30h - 16:00h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

15:00 – 17:00h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Role of sphingolipids at membrane contact sites
Rossella Venditti

15:00h - 15:30h

Session 6

Auditorium

29.5.2025

15:00 – 16:30h

New Horizons in Sphingolipid Research

Overview of the field by the chair: hot topics and open questions
Chiara Luberto

15:00h - 15:10h

Session 6

Auditorium

29.5.2025

15:00 – 16:30h

New Horizons in Sphingolipid Research

Characterization of the ceramide synthase in S. cerevisiae
Lena Clausmeyer

15:10h - 15:30h

Session 6

Auditorium

29.5.2025

16:55 – 17:45h

New Horizons in Sphingolipid Research

New Horizons Panel Discussion
Chiara Luberto (Moderator)

16:55h - 17:45h

Keynote Lectures

Auditorium

29.5.2025

17:45 – 18:45h

Closing Keynote Lecture

When the Sphingolipids get on your Nerves
Thorsten Hornemann

17:45h - 18:45h

Flash Talks

Poster Room

26.5.2025

16:00 – 16:40h

Flash talks selected from posters

Flash talks selected from posters
TBA

16:00h - 16:30h

Concluding Remarks

Auditorium

29.5.2025

18:45 – 19:00h

Concluding Remarks

Concluding Remarks
Liana C. Silva, Chris Clarke, Mariana Nikolova-Karakashian, Stefkanka Spassieva, Noemi Jiménez-Rojo

18:45h - 19:00h

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

15:10 – 16:40h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

Seipin and sphingolipid metabolism
Abdou Rachid Thiam

15:50h - 16:20h

Introduction to FEBS

Auditorium

25.5.2025

18:20 – 18:30h

Introduction to FEBS

Introduction to FEBS, The Federation of European Biochemical Societies
Mutay Aslan

18:20h - 18:30h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

15:00 – 17:00h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

General discussion of the session 3
Ashley Cowart & Manuel Muñiz

16:40h - 17:00h

Session 1

Auditorium

25.5.2025

15:10 – 16:40h

Beyond bilayers: architects of membrane structure and function

ROP6-mediated auxin signaling relies on plasma membrane lipid interleaflet coupling
Matheus Montrazi

16:20h - 16:40h

Session 2

Auditorium

26.5.2025

11:00 – 12:10h

Next-Gen Approaches to Probe Sphingolipid Structure-Function Relationships

Synthesis of modified ceramide-coated gold surface to study skin barrier arrangement
Sorina Hirbod

11:50h - 12:10h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

10:45 – 12:25h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Some Yeast Species Lack Lac: Exploring the Emergence of Sphingolipid Synthesis and Predicting Pathways in Yeast
Shani Blumenreich-Kashani

12:05h - 12:25h

Session 3

Auditorium

27.5.2025

15:00 – 17:00h

Orchestrating the Response: Signaling Networks and Cellular Homeostasis

Acid ceramidase expression reduces IFN secretion by CD4+ T cells and maintains B cell numbers in mice
Rehan Haider Zaidi

16:20h - 16:40h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

11:00 – 12:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Brain accumulation of lactosylceramide characterizes β-galactosylceramidase deficiency in a zebrafish model of Krabbe disease
Luca Mignani

12:10h - 12:30h

Session 4

Auditorium

28.5.2025

18:00 – 19:30h

The Dark Side: Sphingolipids in Pathology

Epstein-Barr virus and Extracellular Vesicles Sphingolipid Alteration: Implications for Multiple Sclerosis Pathogenesis
Alen Zollo

18:50h - 19:10h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

10:50 – 12:40h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Neisseria meningitidis Induces Dihydroceramide Accumulation and Alters Lipid Trafficking in Brain Endothelial Cells
Alina Wienmann

11:40h - 12:00h

Session 5

Auditorium

29.5.2025

10:50 – 12:40h

Cogito Ergo Sum: The Enigma of Neurolipids

Neurotoxicity caused by 1-deoxysphingolipids can be prevented by oral L-serine in a taxane-induced peripheral neuropathy model
Susana Munoz

12:00h - 12:20h

Session 6

Auditorium

29.5.2025

15:00 – 16:30h

New Horizons in Sphingolipid Research

Sugar for the Sphinx: Spinster Homolog 2 transports sphingosine-1-phosphate out and glucose in cells
Cynthia Weigel

15:30h - 15:50h

Session 6

Auditorium

29.5.2025

15:00 – 16:30h

New Horizons in Sphingolipid Research

Unraveling the mechanisms of lipid-mediated protein sorting at the ER
Antonio Cordones Romero

15:50h - 16:10h

Session 6

Auditorium

29.5.2025

15:00 – 16:30h

New Horizons in Sphingolipid Research

Regulatory Roles of Lipids in Epidermal Differentiation and Stem Cell Fate
Yidan Jiang

16:10h - 16:30h