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

The detailed program may evolve a bit since few oral presentations will be added very soon.

•      Tuesday, 2nd June 2026

9.00-10.00. Welcome and opening with coffee/tea

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 poster presentations

                           12.30-14.00 Lunch break / POSTER 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)

15.20-16.00 Nut Lipid Droplets: Behavior at the Air/Liquid Interfaces and in interaction with polysaccharides. Véronique Vié (IPR, France)

16.00-16.20: BREAK

16.20-16.40. When Lipid Droplets meet Omics: A molecular journey. Thierry Chardot (INRAE, France)

16.40-17.00. Oleosomes in the Mesocarp of Australian Hass Avocado: Emerging Insights into Structure and Function through Novel Analytical Approaches. Yuntao Zhou (The University of Queensla, Australia) 

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

•      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. PtSeipin : linking lipid droplets biogenesis and degradation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Juliette Salvaing (INRAE/CEA/CNRS/UGA, 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 BREAK / POSTER SESSION

10.40-11.00 Turnip mosaic virus uses lipid droplets biogenesis machinery to facilitate its propagation  in plants. Léna JAMBOU (CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France)

11.00-11.20 Lipid droplet dynamics in the model microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Yonghua Li-Beisson (CEA, France)

11.20-11.40 Microalgal lipid droplets as food ingredients? Julia Baugartner (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

             12.00-14.00 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)

15.20-16.00 Hidden lipids in legume protein ingredients: Implications for plant-based foods. Claire Berton-Carabin (INRAE, France)

16.00-16.20: BREAK

16.20-16.40 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)

16.40-17.00 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)

17.00-17.20 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)

 Evening: Gala dinner

•      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. Title to come

11.40-11.50: CLOSURE

12.30-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-15.30 Satellite with SFEL: 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 fablab (guided by Claire Bourlieu-Lacanal, Nathalie Barouh and Gustav Waschatko)