Program

The congress will take place at Montpellier Agro Institute and INRAE center on Campus Gaillarde from Tuesday 2 morning to Thursday 4 June 2026 end of afternoon.

The detailed program will be updated when call for communications will be closed (15/02/2025) but the following sequence and keynotes are already scheduled:  

Tuesday, 2nd June 2026

Session 1: Lipids droplets from nutrition to health and disease

Keynote: Tobias Walter (F&W lab, USA)

                               5 oral presentations to be selected in submitted abstracts

                             Flash poster presentations

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

Keynote: Alenka Copic (CRBM, France)

 5-6 oral presentations to be selected in submitted abstracts

                               Evening cultural tour/visits of Montpellier: city historical center, medieval university

 

Wednesday, 3rd June 2026

Session 3: Processing and climate smart extraction of oleosomes/nature-designed lipid assemblies for food and non-food applications

Keynote : Marie Hennebelle (WUR, NL)

 5-6 oral presentations to be selected in submitted abstracts

Session 4: Lipid droplets and oleosomes for food applications
 
                               Evening: Gala dinner

 

Thursday, 4th June 2026

Session 5: Lipid droplets and oleosomes for cosmetics and pharmaceutics

 5-6 oral presentations to be selected in submitted abstracts

 Afternoon session: Master class on lipid oxidation or / demonstration of oleosomes extraction in fablab  organized in collaboration with SFEL  association