ISPL 2022 organization

A little bit of history: The International Symposia on Plant Lipids (ISPL) were started in 1974 by an initiating Plant Acyl Lipid Symposium in Norwich, organized by Terry Galliard. In 1976 the topics were extended at the Karlsruhe Symposium (2nd ISPL) by including all the other plant lipids, such as isoprenoid lipids (sterols, carotenoids and prenyl side chains of chlorophylls and prenylquinones) and lipid polymers. Since then the International Symposia on Plant Lipids (ISPL) have been held every two years. Their goal is to promote scientific cooperation between work groups of different countries, and they have resulted in fast progress in all fields of plant lipid biochemistry. Precedent locations of the ISPL are Sevilla (Spain) in 2012, Guelph (Canada) in 2014, Göttingen (Germany) in 2016 and Yokohama (Japan) in 2018. In 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 24th ISPL will be a web-based event, and the 25th ISPL will be held in Grenoble in 2022.

This symposium gathers around 300 scientists and students from all over the world and is the major event in plant and algae lipid science. It will award two prices: the Terry Galliard medal for the career achievements of a distinguished plant lipid scientist and the Paul Stumpf award for a promising early-career plant lipid researcher. One of the major outcomes of this symposium is to stimulate discussions and collaborations between researchers toward understanding of the fundamental processes of lipid functions and biogenesis and its application to agricultural and industrial usages of plant and algal lipids in future.

ISPL2022 Registration and abstract submissions: When you are ready to register, you will be directed to the 'Azur-Colloque' online registration platform. Then come back to the ISPL website to submit and upload your abstract(s) for a oral presentation and/or poster. Oral presentations will be selected from submitted abstracts. The deadline for oral presentation is fixed to the 15th of May and for poster presentation to the 15th of June.

We hope to welcome you in Grenoble in 2022 for this stimulating event!

Eric Maréchal and Juliette Jouhet, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale

- Fatty acids and membrane glycerolipids

- Lipid trafficking and chanelling

- Triacylglycerol metabolism, Lipid droplet biogenesis and function

- Lipid in development and physiology

- Lipid signaling (oxylipins, phosphoinositides)

- Sphingolipids and sterols

- Surface lipids

- Lipids and environment

- Biodiversity and evolution of lipid metabolism and function

- Carbon partitioning, metabolic engineering and lipid biotechnology