Schedule

Monday, May 22

 

9:00 – 9:15 Introduction by Prof. Karin Schroën (Wageningen University, NL)

 

Session 1: Biology, Biochemistry, and Characterization of oleosomes via omics approaches

Chairing: Hubert Schaller (CNRS, FR), Thierry Chardot (INRAe, FR)

9:15 – 9:45 Keynote, Kent Chapman (University of North Texas, USA) - Biogenesis of Plant Lipid Droplets

9:45 – 10:15 Keynote, Yonghua Li-Beisson (CEA Cadarache, France) - Lipid droplet remodeling in microalgae

10:15 – 10:30 Till Ischebeck (University of Göttingen, UK) - Composition of the LD proteome of Arabidopsis vegetative tissues

10:30 – 10:45 Florent Fontaine (INRAe, France) - Functional and Structural study of lipid droplet addressing domains for production and extractability of recombinant/heterologous proteins

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:30 Damien Le Moigne (CEA, France) - Characterization of Lipid Droplet Seipin protein in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum

11:30 – 11:45 Rinke Stienstra (Wageningen University, NL) - Lipid droplets in macrophages: how are they formed and what function do they serve?

11:45 – 12:00 Denis Murphy (University of South Wales, UK) - Novel cargoes of lipid droplets in vivo and their potential practical applications

12:00 – 12:15   Hubert Schaller (CNRS, FR) - Phytosterol metabolism and homeostasis

12:15 – 14:00 Walking Lunch/ Poster Session

14:00 – 14:45 Poster flash presentations

Each poster presenter has a 90 seconds presentation / 3 slide to convey a main message

 

 

Session 2: Processing, mild extraction of oleosomes and derived fractions

Chairing: Claire Bourlieu (INRAe FR), Gustav Waschatko (Cargill, BE)

14:45 – 15:15 Keynote, Costas Nikiforidis (Wageningen University, NL) Oleosomes for food and medical applications

15:15 – 15:30 Jeremy Claudel (University of Montpellier, France) Alternative process of oleic sunflower or rapeseed oleosomes extraction including dry fractionation steps do not lead to chemical, enzymatic nor microbiological deterioration of lipoproteic objects

15:30 – 15:45 Kubra Ayan (Wageningen University, NL) Continuous Electrophoretic Separation of Rapeseed Oleosomes and Proteins

15:45 – 16:00 Julia Baumgartner (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) - Efficient extraction of lipid droplets from cell-wall deficient microalgae with pulsed electric fields

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 16:45 Jason Hargreaves (Botaneco, Canada) – Industrial extraction of oleosomes – Challenges

16:45 – 17:00 Filippo Bramante (University of Nottingham, UK) - Physical dismantling of oleosomes: Nature and properties of fractions

From 17:00 onwards – Walk and dinner

 

Tuesday, May 23

 

Session 3: Stability and end-use destabilization of oleosomes

Chairing: Claire Berton-Carabin (INRAe, FR), Marie Hennebelle (WUR, NL)

9:00 – 9:30 Keynote, Eric Decker (University of Massachusetts, USA) -  The role of oleosomes on the oxidative stability of foods

9:30 – 9:45 Liuhang Ji (University of Nottingham, UK) - Rapeseed oleosome emulsions improve intestinal lymphatic transport and systemic bioavailability of cannabidiol in rats

9:45 – 10:00 Vincenzo Di Bari (University of Nottingham, UK) - Freeze-thaw stability of oilseed rape oleosome emulsions

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 10:45 Lorenz Plankensteiner (Wageningen University, NL) - Plant oleosomes: new strategy for stable oil-in-water emulsions

10:45 – 11:00 Saeed Mirzaee Ghazani (University of Guelph, Canada) - Oleosome Interfacial Engineering to Enhance Their Functionality in Foods

 

11:00 – 13:00 Walking Lunch/Posters

 

 

Session 4: Functionalization of oleosomes for various applications

Chairing: Costas Nikiforidis (WUR, NL), Jason Hargreaves (Botaneco, CA)

13:00 – 13:30 Keynote, Mirta Alessandrini (Wageningen University, NL) - Novel food regulation in Europe

13:30 – 13:45 Umay Vardar (Wageningen University, NL) - Loading Lipophilic Therapeutics into Oleosomes (Lipid Droplets)

13:45 – 14:00 Gijs Koning (Wageningen University, NL) - Effects of rapeseed oleosome membrane composition on curcumin encapsulation, oleosome stability, and digestibility

14:00 – 14:30 Coffee Break

14:30 – 14:45 Jack Yang (Wageningen University, NL) - Lubricating behaviour of oleosomes – the mechanism and potential as dairy fat alternative

14:45 – 15:00 Larry  Honaker (Wageningen University, NL) - Stabilizing Liquid Crystal Droplets with Oleosin Proteins for Biological Sensing Applications

15:00 – 15:15 Vera van Hoed (Puratos, BE) - Opportunities with Oleosomes – A food Industry Perspective

 

15:15 -15:45 Closing remarks, Announcement of the next LDO2025