Molecular Mechanisms of Lipid Biology (Q7)
January 1-5, 2028  | Location to be Determined
Itay Budin, Janice Robertson and André Nadler
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of October 11, 2026 9 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, January 30, 2028
4:00–8:00 PM Registration
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer
Monday, January 31, 2028
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–8:10 AM Welcome Remarks
8:10–9:00 AM Keynote Address
  Carol V. Robinson †, University of Oxford
Native Mass Spectrometry to Uncover Lipid-Protein Interactions
 
9:00–11:15 AM Spatially-Defined Lipidomes
  Maria Fedorova †, Technische Universität Dresden
Lipid Oxidation in Disease Revealed by Mass Spectrometry
 
  Kallol Gupta †, Yale School of Medicine
Identification of Organelle Lipidomes Through Protein Interactions
 
  Giovanni D’Angelo †, EPFL
Spatial Lipidomics and the Lipotype Hypothesis
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:15–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
11:25–12:25 PM Meet-the-Editor
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 1
  Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Lipids in Mitochondria and Cellular Metabolism
  Miriam Greenberg †, Wayne State University
Cardiolipin Metabolism in Barth Syndrome
 
  Judith A. Simcox †, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Mitochondrial Crosstalk between the Liver and Brown Adipocytes
 
  Itay Budin, University of California San Diego
Functions for Lipids in Bioenergetics and Mitochondrial Dynamics
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
7:30–10:00 PM Posters
Tuesday, February 1, 2028
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–11:00 AM Lipid Interactions that Shape Membrane Proteins
  Janice Robertson, Washington University
Solvent Effects Mediating Membrane Protein Dimerization
 
  Ute A. Hellmich †, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
How Disordered Domains Sense Lipids
 
  Edward Lyman †, University of Delaware
Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting and Designing Membrane Protein Function
 
  Ilya Levental †, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Coupling between Lipids and Membrane Proteins
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Chemical Tools that Bridge the Gap from Bilayers to Cells
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
  André Nadler, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Visualizing Lipids
 
  Jeremy Baskin †, Cornell University
Membrane Editing and Protein-Lipid Modification
 
  Milena Schuhmacher †, EPFL
Chemical Biology Tools for Phosphatidic Acid Signaling
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
7:30–10:00 PM Posters
Wednesday, February 2, 2028
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–11:00 AM Proteins that Move Lipids Across Contact Sites and Between Cells
  Karin M. Reinisch †, Yale University School of Medicine
Bridge-Like Lipid Transfer Proteins
 
  Alessio Accardi †, Weill Cornell Medical College
Mechanisms of Membrane Scrambling
 
  Anne-Claude Gavin †, University of Geneva
Systematic Analysis of Soluble Lipid Transfer Proteins
 
  Xiao-Wei Chen †, Peking University
Lipoprotein Genesis and Secretion
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
11:10–12:10 PM Panel Discussion: Funding Agency
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2
  Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–6:45 PM Lipidomes in Physiology and Disease
  James A Olzmann †, University of California, Berkeley
Ferroptosis Mechanisms and Lipid Droplet Homeostasis
 
  Monther Abu-Remaileh †, Stanford University
Lysosomal Lipid Function and Disease
 
  Fikadu G. Tafesse †, Oregon Health Sciences University, OHSU
Roles for Lipids in Viral Infection
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
8:00–11:00 PM Entertainment
8:00–11:00 PM Cash Bar
Thursday, February 3, 2028
12:00–11:59 PM Departure