Molecular basis for membrane remodelling and organisation: 🔚 Event concluded
Biological membranes serve as barriers, enabling the isolation of cells from their surroundings and the compartmentalization of a cell's interior into distinct intracellular compartments with specific functions. Biological membranes are essential for life and they undergo constant remodeling to facilitate the selective exchange of molecules, support shape transitions during physiological processes, the development of tissues and organisms, as well as intra- and inter-cellular communication. Dysregulation of these processes is intricately connected to human diseases but also to plant development and adaptation to their environment.
The 2025 "Molecular Basis for Membrane Remodeling and Organization conference "focuses on recent advances in the field of membrane biology. It will cover topics related to fundamental cellular processes such as the principles of membrane organization and dynamics, the interaction between lipids and proteins, membrane biophysics, membrane lipid signaling, exo- and endocytosis, vesicle budding, organelle membrane deformation and fission, autophagy, cell communication and signaling and membrane contact sites. The field of membrane biology constitutes a fruitful ground of conceptual and methodological innovation ranging from theoretical modelling by applying principles of soft matter physics via high resolution imaging and structural biology approaches to genetic studies at the organismal level. The aim of this meeting is to bring together a multi-disciplinary group of researchers working on different aspects of membrane organisation, remodelling and function to present the state-of-the-art (including unpublished work), facilitate the exchange of ideas, expertise and create networking opportunities for the members of the community.
Chairperson
Emmanuelle Bayer
CNRS Laboratoire de Biogenèse membranaire CNRS Université de Bordeaux , 39 rue montfaucon , 33800 Bordeaux , France
Phone : +33557122527
E-mail : emmanuelle.bayer@u-bordeaux.fr
Vice-chairperson
Volker Haucke
Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) Molecular Pharmacology & Cell Biology, Robert-Roessle-Strasse 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
Phone : +4915162810323
E-mail : Haucke@fmp-berlin.de
(provisional titles)
Bruno Antonny (Institut de pharmacologie moléculaire et cellulaire de Valbonne, Valbonne, France)
Changes in lipid arrangement upon surface tension or membrane curvature as cellular information for protein targeting
Patricia Bassereau (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
Caveolin: which role in lipid transport and membrane shaping?
Emmanuelle Bayer (Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France)
Facilitationg cell-cell communication through incomplete cell division
Amélie Bernard (Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France)
Lipid/protein interplay in membrane remodeling during plant autophagy
Joerg Bewersdorf (Yale University School of Medecine, New Haven, USA)
All-Optical Super-Resolution Imaging of Molecules in Their Nanoscale Cellular Context
Yohann Boutté (Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, France)
Lipid-lipid interaction in shaping membrane trafficking, cell polarity and signaling in plants
Oliver Daumke (Max-Delbrück-Centrum for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany)
DNA origami as tool to study mechanisms of membrane trafficking
Pietro De Camilli (Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA)
Bridge-like intracellular lipid transport in physiology and disease
Milka Doktorova (Stockholm University Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden)
Interleaflet lipid distribution: The hidden dimension of cell plasma membrane organization
Anne-Claude Gavin Perrin (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
A system-wide analysis of lipid transfer proteins in human cells
Francesca Giordano (Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Regulation of lipid transport at the mitochondria-endoplasmic reticulum-lipid droplet interface
Volker Haucke (Leibniz Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Germany)
Lipid-triggered membrane remodeling in endocytosis and endolysosomal membrane dynamics
Yvon Jaillais (ENS-Lyon university-CNRS-INRAE, Lyon, France)
The endoplasmic reticulum is a superhighway for supracellular lipid patterning in plants
Ludger Johannes (Institut Curie, Paris, France)
Glycan-based membrane remodeling for endocytic uptake into cells
Wanda Kukulski (University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)
The architecture of organelle contact sites
Frank R. Moss III (Altos Labs, Redwood City, CA, USA)
A Toolkit for Studying Membrane Remodeling with CryoEM and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Aurélien Roux (University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland)
Dynamic in vitro reconstitution of ESCRT-III membrane remodelling with Archaeal proteins
Sara Sigismund (Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, Milano, Italy)
Regulation of growth factor signalling via membrane contact sites
Marija Smokvarska (Laboratoire de Biogenèse Membranaire, CNRS, Université Bordeaux, France)
Connecting plant cells: The role of membrane contact sites in regulating cell-cell communication
Abdou-Rachid Thiam (Laboratoire de physique, ENS-PSL, Paris, France)
From the Biophysics to the Cell Biology of Lipid Homeostasis
Stefano Vanni (University of Fribourg, Fribourg. Switzerland)
Discovering new membrane proteins' functions with multi-scale molecular simulations
Shigeki Watanabe (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
Mechanisms of synaptic membrane remodeling
Ling-Gang Wu (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA)
Exo- and endocytosis: membrane transformation, underlying mechanics, and functions
Notification of acceptance or rejection for the submitted paper will be intimated within 15 working days of abstract submission deadline. If your abstract is accepted, you will receive a confirmation e-mail with instructions for joining the meeting.