Xixi Hotel, Hangzhou, China

April 17-19, 2026

lipids@zju (2026)

LIPID GOVERNANCE OF THE CELL: FROM BIOPHYSICAL PRINCIPLES TO METABOLIC CONTROL

organizers

Cunqi Ye

Zhejiang University

Snezhana Oliferenko

King’s College London

Zhejiang University

Xin-Hua Feng

chairs and speakers

xin-hua feng

Zhejiang University (Chair)
YILONG ZOU

Westlake University (Chair)
suhong xu

Zhejiang University (Chair)
hyeon jeong lee

Zhejiang University (Chair)
Dante neculai

Zhejiang University (Chair)
MIRIAM GREENBERG

Wayne State University
xun huang

Wuhan University, Chinese Academy of Sciences
snezhana oliferenko

King’s College London
robbie loewith

University of Geneva
itay budin

University of California, San Diego
XIAO-WEI CHEN

Peking University
haoxing xu

Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University
ying liu

Peking University
jieqiong gao

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
delong zhang

Zhejiang University
zhixing chen

Peking University
li Chen

Fudan University
bao-liang song

Wuhan University
Steven farber

Johns Hopkins University
liang ge

Tsinghua University
QIURONG DING

Chinese Academy of Sciences

conference program

Day 1, Friday, 17 April

09:00-13:00‍ ‍Registration

13:00-17:00‍ ‍ Poster Session

19:00-19:15 Opening

Session I: Fundamental Lipid Biology

19:15-20:05 Miriam Greenberg (Wayne State University)
Plenary Talk: Elucidating the link between Cardiolipin, Mitochondrial Metabolism, and Myogenesis

20:05-20:40 Xun Huang (Wuhan University, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Phosphatidylserine Regulates Organellar Function Through Fine Tuning ER Calcium Release

20:40-21:15 Snezhana Oliferenko (King's College London)
Exploiting Divergent Biology of Two Fission Yeasts to Understand Membrane Function

21:15-21:40 Han Peng (Westlake University)
Molecular Determinants for the Association of Human Hormone-Sensitive Lipase with Lipid Droplets

21:40-21:50 Jingjing Fang (SCIEX China)
Advances in Mass Spectrometry Techniques for Lipidomics Applications

Day 2, Saturday, 18 April
Session II: Lipids and Membranes

09:00-09:35 Robbie Loewith (University of Geneva)
Target Of Rapamycin Complex 2 and the Maintenance of Plasma Membrane Homeostasis

09:35-10:10 Itay Budin, University of California, San Diego
The Private Life of Lipids: Small Chemical Changes that Shape Cell Membranes

10:10-10:45 Xiao-Wei Chen (Peking University)
Crossing the Ts in Lipid Control: from Torsins to TMEM

10:45-11:15 Group photo & Tea break

11:15-11:40 Ran Zhang (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)
Lipid Monounsaturation Confers Cold Tolerance and Improves Tissue Viability During Hypothermic Storage

11:40-12:05 Hong Gao (Wuhan University)
Cold Induced Proteasome Transfer via Thermogenic Adipose-Liver Axis Mitigates Lipid Metabolism and MASH

12:05-12:15 Jia Tu (Agilent Technologies)
Advanced Strategic Solutions to Critical Bottlenecks in Lipid Analysis

12:15-14:00 Lunch

Session III: Lipids and Organelles

14:00-14:35 Haoxing Xu (Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University)
Molecular Physiology of Lysosomes

14:35-15:10 Ying Liu (Peking University)
Mitochondrial Stress Surveillance: From Worms to Mammals

15:10-15:45 Jieqiong Gao (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
‍ ‍ Structural and Functional Analysis of the Novel Lipid Scramblase PQLC1

15:45-15:55 Yanxia Ni (Waters)
What Dose Mass Spectrometry Bring to Lipid Research

15:55-16:20 Tea break

Session IV: Technical Advances in Lipid and Membrane Research

16:20-16:55 Delong Zhang (Zhejiang University)
INSPIRE: Chemical Bond-Selective Imaging of Lipids in Living Systems

16:55-17:30 Zhixing Chen (Peking University)
Gentle and Robust Dyes for Imaging Membranous Organelles

17:30-18:05 Li Chen (Fudan University)
Quantitating Acetyl-CoA Partitioning Flux Between Fatty-Acid and Cholesterol Biosynthesis via an Integrated LC-MS-based Workflow

Day 3: Sunday, 19 April
Session V: Lipids and Physiology

09:00-09:50 Bao-Liang Song (Wuhan University)
Plenary Talk: Nascent Cholesterol Travels From the ER to the Plasma Membrane via Caveolin-coated Non-COPII Vesicles

09:50-10:25 Steven Farber (Johns Hopkins University)
‍ ‍A Screen with Guts: A Whole-organism Single-cell Transcriptional Atlas and 0.5M Larval Zebrafish Screen to Identify Lipid Flux Modifiers

10:25-11:00 Liang Ge (Tsinghua University)
A Sphingomyelin-Sensing Pathway Governing Metabolic Inflammation

11:00-11:35 Qiurong Ding (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
A Phospholipid-Checkpoint Regulates DNA Repair and Cell Fate in MASH

11:35-12:00 Closing & Awards Ceremony

12:00-14:00 Lunch