The 6th Yeast Lipid Conference, Colmar, France, May 30–31, 2003. Benefits of the Yeast: Lipids and Alsatian wine

Abstract

The “Yeast Lipid Conference” (YLC) is an international scientific meeting held every second year to promote free discussion between scientists working on or interested in yeast lipids. The yeast lipid community has met regularly since 1995 in Graz (Austria), Fribourg (Switzerland), Smolenice (Slovak Republic), Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Svendborg (Denmark). In May 2003 this meeting took place in Colmar, France, and was organized by Francis Karst from INRA and Universite Louis Pasteur, Colmar, France. The topics of this conference were lipid synthesis and vesicular transport; phospholipid synthesis, transport and regulation; sphingolipids; and sterol metabolism, transport and regulation. Nineteen invited speakers from different European countries and the USA reported on their recent investigations. Eighteen posters, most of them presented by young scientists, completed the scientific programme of this meeting and contributed to the lively and open discussion, an essential part of this meeting. In the session devoted to various aspects of fatty acid metabolism in yeast, E. Schweizer (Erlangen, Germany) and C.E. Martin (Piscataway NJ, USA) reported on fatty-acid elongation and fatty-acid desaturation. Biochemical and cell-biological characterization of the processes as well as regulatory aspects were major points to be addressed. The role of the acyl-CoA binding protein, Acb1p, in vesicular trafficking was discussed by J. Knudsen (Odense, …