Wednesday, November 15th, 2023
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Arrival and Registration
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Welcome Reception (Pisgah & Pilot)
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Dinner (Pisgah & Pilot)
7:45 pm – 7:55 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks (Mitchell & Roan)
Mark McDermott, Texas A&M University
7.55pm – 8:00pm Remarks for the ASBMB Lipid Research Division Seminar Series Award
Ray Blind, Vanderbilt University
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm Keynote Presentation
Tatyana Igumenova, Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Title: Regulation of Lipid Signaling by Integral membrane Proteins
9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Social Time and Preliminary Poster Viewing (Pisgah & Pilot)
Thursday, November 16th, 2023
8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast (Pisgah & Pilot)
9:00 am – 10:15 am Oral Session I (Mitchell & Roan) Lipids in Inflammation
Session chairs: Carolyn Shurer and James Poland
9:00 am Modulation of Sphingosine 1-Phosphate as a Regenerative Immunotherapy.Lauren Hymel. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
9:15 am Hybrid Liposomal Hydrogel as a Potential SPM Delivery Platform for Tissue Immunomodulation. Hongmanlin Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
9:30am Sphingolipid Regulation by ORMDL3 in Oligodendrocytes the myelinating glial cells of the Central Nervous System. Usha Mahawar. Virginia Commonwealth University.
10:00 am Exploring Mycolic Acid in Alleviating Monocyte Exhaustion in Sepsis.Yajun Wu.Virginia Tech.
10:15 am Neutral Sphingomyelinase2 is the main regulator of plasma membrane
Ceramide.Daniel Canals. University of Stony Brook.
10:15 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:30 pm Oral Session II (Mitchell & Roan) Lipids in Diabetes and Metabolic Disease
Session Chairs: Daniel Canals and Xiao-Ru Chen
10:30 am Hyperglycemia Reduces Glycerol Uptake in Human Corneal Epithelial Cells Potentially Through Histone Deacetylases. Samuel Melnyk. Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University.
10:45 am First-in-Class Anti-diabetic vitamin composition targeting molecular steps in muscle significantly lowers glucose in pre-clinical and clinical studies. Uday Saxena, Lays Science Inc, Jupiter Florida.
11:00 am The impact of PIP4Kg on metabolic homeostasis. Lucia Plant. University of South Alabama.
11:15 am In Vivo Erythrocyte Sphingolipid Fluxes in Mice and Humans: An In Silico Investigation. Nathan Chiappa. Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University.
11:30 am – 12:30 pm Keynote Presentation
Tamas Balla, Ph.D., NICHD, NIH.
Title: Using Molecular Tools to Explore the Lipid Landscape of Eukaryotic cells.
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Pisgah & Pilot)
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm Free time
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Poster Session (Pisgah & Pilot) and Cocktail Hour
Poster Session Chair: Prasanna Iyer
6:00 pm – 6:15 pm Awards ceremony (Mitchell & Roan)
6:15 pm – 6:30 pm Presentation of the Lina Obeid Young Scientist Award
Natalia Krupenko, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6:30 pm – 7:00 pm Lina Obeid Young Scientist Award Lecture – Kayla Goliwas Ph.D.
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm SERLC Banquet- Pisgah & Pilot/ Mitchell & Roan
8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Live Bluegrass Entertainment featuring the Asheville Cats and Square Dancing- Pisgah & Pilot/ Mitchell & Roan
Friday, November 17th, 2023
8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast (Pisgah & Pilot)
9:00 am – 10:15 am Oral Session III (Mitchell & Roan) Lipidomics and Advances in Lipid Technology and Therapeutics
Session chairs: Yao Zhang and Lauren Hymel
9:00 am Endogenous Ligand Identification via Mass Spectrometry Lipidomics.James Poland. Vanderbilt University Medical Center
9:15 am Homogenous, bioluminescent, HTS formatted assay to monitor Inositol Trisphosphate (IP3) formation in Gaqmediated GPCR activation. Said Goueli. Promega Corp. Madison, WI and St Louis Obispo, CA.
9:30 am A Method for Targeted Quantitation of 1-deoxysphingolipid Bases Compatible with Parallel Untargeted Lipidomic Analysis. Isaiah Klimek. Virginia Commonwealth University.
9:45 am The biophysical and biochemical polarization of the epithelial cell plasma membrane.
Carolyn Shurer. University of Virginia.
10:00 am Mechanism by which diverse chemotypes of small-molecules inhibit Sec14 lipid transfer activity. Xiao-Ru Chen. Texas A&M University.
10:15 am – 10:45 am Break - please make sure you are checked out of the hotel at this time.
10:45 am – 12:00 pm Oral Session IV (Mitchell & Roan) Lipids in Cancer
Session Chairs: Prasanna Iyer and Alexis Stamatikos
10:45 am Investigation of The Inositol Polyphosphate Pathway on mTORC1 Activation in Glioblastoma Cells. Jay Bhatia. Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
11:00 am INPP4B promotes migration and invasion of PDAC cells by regulating lysosomal positioning and exocytosis. Golam Saffi. University of Toronto.
11:15 am Reprogramming of immune-enhancing neutrophils by subclinical low-dose endotoxin for
the treatment of cancer. Yao Zhang. Virginia Tech.
11:30 am Glycosylation of CerS6 is Required for Its Activity but Does Not Modulate
ER Stress Response. Alexandra J. Straus. Virginia Commonwealth University.
12:00 pm Understanding the Role of Mammalian PITPNC1 in Melanoma. Adrija Pathak. Texas A&M.
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm Closing Remarks and SERLC Business meeting to plan for 2023 Conference.
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Pisgah & Pilot)
1:30 pm 57th SERLC Meeting adjourned.
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