Session 2: Lipid droplets and oleosomes: new approaches to investigate structures, functions and biology

The advantage and disadvantage of a super long lipid droplet-targeting amphipathic helix.  Alenka Copic (CRBM, France)

Dr Alenka Čopič (DR2, CNRS) started her research career at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She studied membrane transport in the yeast model during her PhD work with R. Schekman at UC Berkeley, followed by a postdoc with L. Miller at Columbia U. She obtained a CNRS researcher position in 2014 at Institut Jacques Monod (IJM) in Paris, where she started her independent research projects on lipid transport, membrane protein crowding and interaction of proteins with lipid droplets. In 2021, she established the team “Cell biology of lipid storage and transfer” at the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier (CRBM) and Université de Montpellier. Her team uses a range of model systems, from yeast and cell culture to reconstituted in vitro models, combining cell biology and imaging with biochemical approaches. She has coordinated various grants (ANR, AFM Téléthon).