The congress will take place at Montpellier Agro Institute and INRAE center on Campus Gaillarde in Amphi Lamour and hall Lamour from Tuesday 2 morning to Thursday 4 June 2026 middle of afternoon.
The detailed program is below.
Tuesday, 2nd June 2026
8.30-9.30 Welcome and opening with coffee/tea in Hall LAMOUR
9.30 OPENING WORDS in amphitheatre LAMOUR
Session 1: Lipids droplets from nutrition to health and disease
10.00-10.40 Keynote: The Phase of Fat: Mechanisms and Physiology of Lipid Storage. Tobias Walter (HHMI/ Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, USA)
10.40-11.00 Distinct functions of PLIN3 and PLIN2 in early lipid droplet biogenesis and lipotoxicity. Joachim Füllekrug (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
11.00-11.20 Oral administration of seeds-derived oleosomes formulation facilitates intestinal lymphatic transport and immunomodulatory effects of cannabidiol. Yufei Zhu (School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, UK)
11.20-11.40 Investigating the Interaction between Flaviviridae virus Capsid Protein and Lipid Droplets in heterologous system. David Rapoport (Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin (IJPB), SYNCHROTRON SOLEIL, France)
11.40-12.00 Plant Lipid Droplets in Adipose Cell Cultivation. Daisy Kuang (WUR, The Netherlands)
12.00-12.30 Flash posters presentations
12.30-14.00 Lunch break / POSTERS SESSION
Session 2: Lipid droplets and oleosomes: new approaches to investigate structures, functions and biology
14.00-14.40 Keynote: The advantage and disadvantage of a super long lipid droplet-targeting amphipathic helix. Alenka Copic (CRBM, France)
14.40-15.00 Unravelling the role of oleosins on oleosome membrane stability using drop tensiometry. Jack Yang (WUR, The Netherlands)
15.00-15.20 Monitoring the adsorption, surface behaviour and activity of Yarrowia lipolytica LIP2 lipase at a biomimetic oil-water interface using a dynamic drop tensiometer. Frédéric Carrière (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, France)
15.20-15.40 Nut Lipid Droplets: Behavior at the Air/Liquid Interfaces and in interaction with polysaccharides. Véronique Vié (IPR, France)
15.40-16.10: BREAK
16.10-16.30. When Lipid Droplets meet Omics: A molecular journey. Thierry Chardot (INRAE, France)
16.30-16.50. Oleosomes in the Mesocarp of Australian Hass Avocado: Emerging Insights into Structure and Function through Novel Analytical Approaches. Yuntao Zhou (The University of Queensland, Australia)
16.50-17.10. Assessment of Oxidative Behaviour in Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid (PUFA)-rich Oils Using Spectroscopic Techniques and Multivariate Analysis. Nastaran Ahadi (School of Natural Sciences, Australia)
Evening cultural tour/visits of Montpellier: city historical center, medieval medicine university : two visits are planned. at 18.30: Meeting point for city historical center in front of Tourism Office, address = Place de la Comédie; for medieval medicine university in front of the medieval medicine university, address= 2 rue de l’école de médecine;
Wednesday, 3rd June 2026
Session 3: Oleosomes, lipids droplets and their functionality in plant and microalgae
9.00-9.40 Keynote: Exploring terpene accumulation in Marchantia polymorpha oil bodies and the role of MpABCG1. Edith Forestier (Cambridge, UK)
9.40-10.00 Lipid droplets and proteomic networks in hypersterolemic plant cells. Hubert Schaller (IBPM, CNRS, Strasbourg, France)
10.00-10.20 Remobilization of plant lipid droplets following abiotic stress: a proteomic approach. Alexis CORBIC (CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France)
10.20-10.40 Turnip mosaic virus uses lipid droplets biogenesis machinery to facilitate its propagation in plants. Léna JAMBOU (CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France)
10:40-11:00: BREAK / POSTERS SESSION
11.00-11.20 PtSeipin: linking lipid droplets biogenesis and degradation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Juliette Salvaing (INRAE/CEA/CNRS/UGA, France)
11.20-11.40 Lipid droplet dynamics in the model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Yonghua Li-Beisson (CEA, France)
11.40-12.00 Microalgal lipid droplets as food ingredients? Julia Baugartner (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
12:00-12:20 Dynamic shifts in lipid profile in Chlorella cells cultivated in photo-autotrophy. Maeva Subileau (Supagro, France)
12.30-14.00 Lunch break / JRU IATE VISIT
Session 4: Lipid droplets and oleosomes for food applications
14.00-14.40 Keynote: Oleosins: The Hidden Allergens in Oil-Rich Seeds. Christina Lamberti (Institute of Science of Food Production, National Research Council, Italy)
14.40-15.00 Techno-functional properties and digestive behavior of an innovative follow-on formula incorporating oil bodies from oilseeds. Mathilde Cancalon (INRAE, France)
15.00-15.20 Natural Fat Globule Analogues: How Plant Oil Bodies Recreate Dairy-Like Creaminess? Mitali K Gupta (Food Innovation Centre, Australia)
15.20-15.40 Hidden lipids in legume protein ingredients: Implications for plant-based foods. Claire Berton-Carabin (INRAE, France)
15.40-16.10: BREAK
16.10-16.30 Effect of Phytate on the mechanisms of separation in water-only fractionation of Hempseed and properties of the resulting ingredients. Mauricio Oyarzun (University of Copenhagen, Sweden)
16.30-16.50 Discovering how oil Body Diversity can Enhance Food Security in a Changing Climate: insights from Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) as a case study. Jean-François Fabre (INRAE-ENSIACET, France)
16.50-17.10 Effect of High-Pressure Homogenisation on the Behaviour of Oleosomes and Milk Fat Globules at an Air-Water Interface. Amin Aliyari (University of Nottingham, UK)
19.30-23.00 Evening: Gala dinner à la Plage des lézards, Palavas les flots
Meet at the entrance of the campus to take the bus: 18.50
Thursday, 4th June 2026
Session 5: Lipid droplets, vesicles and oleosomes as antioxidant carriers or for food, cosmetics and pharmaceutics applications
9.00-9.40 Keynote: NEO-PUFAs in seeds, oilseed products Could lead to Natural Lipophenols/Phenolipids: Friends or Foes. Thierry Durand (IBMM, France)
9.40-10.00 Plant Lipid Droplets Based Carriers For Controlled Therapeutic Skin Permeation. Imogen Morris (WUR, The Netherlands)
10.00-10.20 Rosemary-Derived Extracellular Vesicles: Characterization and Natural Antioxidant potential for food application. Hiteshree Koli (CIRAD, France)
10:20-10:40 BREAK
10.40-11.00 Engineering oleosomes for controlled delivery of therapeutic agents. Ketan Ganar (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
11.00-11.20 Toxic effect of extracts with a self-emulsifying delivery system of active substances from Helix aspersa maxima snails on Caco-2 cells. Magdalena Matusiewicz (Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland)
11.20-11.40 Nanoliposomes and vectorisation of bioactive molecules for treatment of osteoarthritis. Cyril Kahn (LIBIO, University of Lorraine, France)
11.40-11.50 CLOSURE
11.50-13.45 Lunch break-lunch bag to collect
13.45-15.15 Satellite with SFEL (https://www.sfel.asso.fr/): how to formulate and stabilize with OB?
Afternoon session organized in collaboration with SFEL association:
Master class on lipid oxidation (lecturer: Claire Berton-Carabin in collaboration with Marie Hennebelle)
Demonstration of oleosomes extraction in lab (guided by Claire Bourlieu-Lacanal, Nathalie Barouh and Gustav Waschatko)
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