Lipids Diversity and Human Disease
Symposium of Rutgers Center for Lipid Research
Friday, November 9, 2018
IFNH Building, Room 101, Cook Campus, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ

Program

8:30 am Registration and Poster Setup
   
9:00 am

Welcome and Introductions
Robert M. Goodman
, Dean, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Judith Storch and George M. Carman, Rutgers Center for Lipid Research

   
Session 1 Chair: Judith Storch
   
9:15 am

Nihal Altan-Bonnet (NHLBI/NIH)
Vesicle-cloaked viruses are the optimal units of transmission

Discussion

 
9:55 am

Stephen L. Sturley (Barnard College, Columbia University)
Modifiers of genetic disorders: insights from a monogenic neurodegenerative lipidosis
Discussion

 
10:35 am Coffee Break
   
11:00 am

Anna Nicolaou (University of Manchester, UK) 
Fatty acids and their metabolites in skin health and disease

Discussion

 
11:45 pm Lunch and Posters
   
Poster Session
IFNH, second floor
Chair: Harini Sampath
   
Session 2 Chair: Loredana Quadro
   
1:45 pm

Steven Farber (Carnegie Science)
Hooking lipid regulators—live imaging of zebrafish intestinal lipid flux through lipoproteins and lipid droplets

Discussion

   
2:25 pm

Richard Gross (Washington University School of Medicine)
The pleiotropic roles of plasmalogens in membrane structure and function

Discussion

   
3:05 pm Coffee Break
   
4:00 pm

Nicolas Bazan (Louisiana State University School of Medicine)
The elovanoids: new mediators of the omega-3 lipidome target transcriptome architecture for neuroprotection

Discussion

 
4:45 pm Poster Awards: George M. Carman