Thursday, October 6
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Meeting Registration & Hotel Check In
6:00 – 7:00 PM
(1)
Keynote Lecture
Calcium trafficking at ER-plasma membrane contact sites
Richard Lewis, Stanford School of Medicine
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Networking Dinner & Reception
Friday, October 7
7:30 – 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Session I: Formation and Visualization of Contact Sites
Chair: Tim Levine
9 – 9:40
(2)
The ERMES complex and ER-mitochondria contacts
Benoît Kornmann, ETH Zürich - Institute of Biochemistry
9:40 -10
(3)
A role of the vacuolar tethering complex in the formation of a new contact site between vacuoles and
mitochondria in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Carina Hönscher, University of Osnabrück
10 – 10:20
(4)
Moving Mitochondria: The Role of ER-Mitochondrial Contact Sites
Agnieszka Lewandowska, University of Utah
10:20 -10:40
Coffee Break
10:40-11:20
(5)
Phosphatidylserine Traffic between the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Mitochondria is Disrupted by
Cadmium Inhibition of Met30p Ubiquitin Ligase
Dennis Voelker, National Jewish Health
11:20- 11:40
(6)
Visualisation and regulation of endoplasmic reticulum-trans-Golgi network membrane contact sites (6)
Laura Rita Rega, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine, Italy
11:40 -12:00
(7)
ER Tubules Mark SItes of Mitochondrial Division
Gia Voeltz, University of Colorado, Boulder
12:00 – 3:00 PM
Lunch and Free Time
3:00 – 6:00 PM
Session II: Lipid Traffic and Lipid Transport Proteins
Chair: Christoph Benning
3 – 3:40
(8)
Protein and lipid binding partners for the soluble Class II phophatidylinositol Transfer protein , RdgBbeta suggests a role in Angiotensin II signaling
Shamshad Cockcroft, University College London
3:40 - 4
(9)
Regulation of inter-organelle communication by phosphoinositide signaling at ER-PM contact sites
Christopher Stefan, Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology, Cornell University
4 – 4:20
(10)
CDP-DAG synthesis in membrane microdomains at the endoplasmic reticulum membrane
and plasma membrane
Mark Waugh, University College London
4:20 -4:40
Coffee Break
4:40-5:20
(11)
Opa1-dependent mitochondrial remodeling controls steroidogenesis in trophoblasts
Luca Scorrano, University of Geneva Medical School, Switzerland
5:20- 5:40
(12)
The cholesterol binding protein STARD3 regulates cell surface receptor trafficking
François Legueux, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC)
5:40 -6:00
(13)
STARD4 abundance regulates sterol transport and sensing
Bruno Mesmin, Weill Cornell Medical College
6:00 – 7:30
Dinner
7:30 – 9:00
Poster Session
Saturday, October 8
7:30 – 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Session III: Lipid Traffic Complexes at Contacts
Chair: Vytas Bankaitis
9 – 9:40
(14)
ER proteins required for efficient lipid transfer between the ER and mitochondria
Will Prinz, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
9:40 -10
(15)
The lipid transfer protein CERT interacts with the Chlamydia inclusion protein IncD and participates
to ER-Chlamydia Inclusion Membrane Contact Sites
Isabelle Derré, Yale University School of Medicine
10 – 10:20
(16)
Osh4p exchanges sterols for PI(4)P between lipid membrane
Guillaume Drin, CNRS-UNSA, IPMC, France
10:20 -10:40
Coffee Break
10:40-11:20
(17)
Two distinct protein complexes provide a conduit for lipid transfer between the ER and the
chloroplast envelope membranes in Arabidopsis
Christoph Benning, Michigan State University
11:20- 11:40
(18)
The lipid transport protein STARD3 is a novel component in inter-organelle membrane
contact sites
Fabien Alpy, Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, France
11:40 -12:00
(19)
A conserved membrane-binding domain targets proteins to organelle contact sites
Alexandre Toulmay, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH
12:00 – 3:00 PM
Lunch and Free Time
3:00 – 6:00 PM
Session IV: Other Traffic – Proteins, Phosphates and More
Chair: Shamshad Cockcroft
3 – 3:40
(20)
Lipid raft association does not dictate intracellular trafficking of human cytomegalovirus UL37 protein
from the endoplasmic reticulum to mitochondria
Anamaris Colberg-Poley, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research, Children’s National Medical
Center
3:40 - 4
(21)
Toxoplasma fragments the host Golgi apparatus and intercepts ER-Golgi vesicles to scavenge 1
sphingolipids
Isabelle Coppens, Johns Hopkins University
4 – 4:20
(22)
Junctions between endoplasmic reticulum and plasma membrane regulate phospholipid synthesis
in budding yeast
Christopher Loewen, University of British Columbia
4:20 -4:40
Coffee Break
4:40-5:20
(23)
The formation and function of membrane contacts between the ER and EGF receptor-containing
multivesicular endosomes
Clare Futter, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
5:20- 5:40
(24)
TGD1, 2 and 3 form a lipid ABC transporter complex in the chloroplast inner envelope
Rebecca Roston, Michigan State University
5:40 -6:00
(25)
Presenilins are negative regulators of ER-mitochondrial communication
Estela Area-Gomez, Columbia University
6:00 – 7:30
Dinner
7:30 – 9:00
Networking Reception
Sunday, October 9
7:30 – 9:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM – 11:30 PM
Session V: Signaling at Contact Sites
Chair: Dennis Voelker
9 – 9:40
(26)
The Secret Lives of Lipid Transfer Proteins
Vytas Bankaitis, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
9:40 -10
(27)
Endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria coupling increases during early stages of endoplasmic reticulum
stress as a pro-survival mechanism
Sergio Lavandero, Universidad de Chile
10 – 10:20
(28)
Regulation of endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondria interaction, mitochondrial fission and mitophagy
by the gp78 ubiquitin ligase
Ivan Nabi, University of British Columbia
10:40-11:20
(29)
Control of cell migration by STIM1 regulated Ca2+ release pulses
Tobias Meyer, Stanford University
11:20 -11:30 AM
Closing Remarks
11:30 AM
Lunch & Departures