JUNE 3

Welcome address by organizers

Opening lecture

Charles N. Serhan (Brigham & Women Hospital, HMS, Boston, MA, USA)Resolution of Inflammation: A Novel Genus of Anti-Inflammatory and Pro-Resolving Lipid Mediators

Session 1. The Pharmacology of Lipid Mediators

Part 1: "Targets and Bullets in inflammation, cancer, musculoskeletal and neuronal diseases"

Sylvain Doré (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA): Prostaglandins in Alzheimer's disease

Oliver Werz (University of Frankfurt, Tübingen, Germany): 5-Lipoxygenase in health and disease

Leslie J. Crofford (University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA): mPGES-1 as a novel target for inflammation in musculoskeletal diseases

1 speaker to be selected from abstract submission


Part 2: "Targets and Bullets in cardiovascular and respiratory diseases"

Jane A. Mitchell (Imperial College, London, UK): Prostanoids in respiratory and vascular inflammation

Ingrid Fleming (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany): Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids & vascular function

Lhousseine Touqui (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France): PLA2 and role in the airways

1 speaker to be selected from abstract submission



Session 2. Non-mammalian Lipid Mediators

Ernst Oliw (Uppsala University, Sweden): Fungal fatty acid dioxygenases

Ivo Feussner (Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany): Oxylipins & host-pathogen interactions in plants

2 speakers to be selected from abstract submission




JUNE 4

Address by organizers

Session 3. Lipid Mediators in Innate Immunity

María A. Balboa (Spanish Research Council, Valladolid, Spain): Innate immune signaling & phospholipases

Jesper Z. Haeggström (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden): Leukotrienes & Innate Immunity

Martin Thurnher (University of Innsbrück, Austria): Dendritic cells and innate immunity

1 speaker to be selected from abstract submission



Session 4. Lipidomics

Andrej Shevchenko (Dresden, Germany): Shotgun lipidomics: from bacteria to men

Michel Lagarde (INSERM, Lyon, France): Cellular lipid homeostasis

Pentti Somerharju (Helsinki, Finland): Mass-spectrometry and isotope-labeled exogenous phospholipids provide detailed information on acyl chain remodeling

1 speaker to be selected from abstract submission

Session 5. Young Investigator Session

7 junior speakers, 10+5 min. to be selected from abstract submissions

Workshop closing address by organizers

3 travel awards for students and post-doc