Tuesday, August 11, 2026
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
Session 4: Lipid Signaling
8:00 – 9:45 AM
“Sphingolipids as Metabolic Modulators in Health and Disease” - L. Ashley Cowart, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University“Approaching Parkinson’s Disease as a Fatty Acid-opathy for Therapeutic Target Identification” - Saranna Fanning, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts or Award Talk
9:45 – 10:15 AM Coffee Break
Session 5: Lipids and Immunometabolism
10:15 – 12:00 PM
“HFpEF: Malady, Model, Meta-inflammatory Mechanisms” - Joseph Hill, MD, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center“Understanding Metabolic Mechanisms of APOE-Mediated Risk and Resilience for Neurodegenerative Disease” - Priyanka Narayan, PhD, NIDDK
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts or Award Talk
12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 PM Afternoon Break/Exhibition/Small Group Discussions
Session 6: Emerging Technologies in Lipid Analysis and Imaging
3:00 – 5:00 PM
“Topic: CARS Lipid Imaging” - Eric Potma, PhD, University of California, Irvine“Imaging Metabolic Re-wiring in Aging and Diseases with SuMMIT-SRS” - Lingyan Shi, PhD, University of California San Diego
“Topic: Using Molecular Modeling to Understand Apolipoprotein and Lipoprotein Receptor Function” - Kayla Sprenger, PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Lipotype-sponsored short talk:” - Christian Klose, PhD, Lipotype
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts or Award Talk
Dinner
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Updated - March 11, 2026