From a chemical viewpoint, lipids are biological molecules that are insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents. Within this broad definition, lipids are divided in a large number of types; including the most common ones listed as "oil", "fatty acid", "cholesterol" or "lecithin". Lipids are vital to life and are thus present in all living organisms as energy reserve and functional molecules, from animals to plants, as well as fungi and bacteria.

Scientific interest for lipids in environmental sciences has quickly increased in the last two decades. Recent research provided evidence that some lipids (and not only the well-known omega-3 EPA_eicosapentaenoic acid and DHA_docosahexaenoic acid) play essential roles in maintaining vital biological function that are related to the fitness components of marine organisms. In particular, lipids are key players in an organism’s ability to respond to and cope with environmental changes (temperature, light, salinity, nutrients, and pH). Yet, sources, biosynthesis pathways and functions of many lipids in marine organisms remain poorly described and understood. One of the aims of this multidisciplinary conference is to stimulate interdisciplinary discussions on concepts related to the role of lipids from lower up to higher trophic levels, serving both fundamental understanding but also socio-economic interests.

Program

November 17, 2018
09:30 - 10:45
Workshop 1 – Sample preservation and storage: associated issues for lipid extraction and analysis - Fabrice Pernet & Lydie Couturie
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
Workshop 1 – Sample preservation and storage: associated issues for lipid extraction and analysis
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Workshop 1 – Sample preservation and storage: associated issues for lipid extraction and analysis
15:00 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 17:00
Workshop 1 – Sample preservation and storage: associated issues for lipid extraction and analysis
November 18, 2018
09:30 - 10:45
Workshop 2 Numerical tools for lipid composition data analysis - Olivier Gauthier
10:45 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00
Workshop 2 Numerical tools for lipid composition data analysis - Olivier Gauthier
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Workshop 2 Numerical tools for lipid composition data analysis - Olivier Gauthier
15:00 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 17:00
Workshop 2 Numerical tools for lipid composition data analysis - Olivier Gauthier
November 19, 2018
09:00 - 10:30
Workshop 3 – Stable isotopes in marine lipid science
10:30 - 10:45
Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00
Workshop 3 – Stable isotopes in marine lipid science
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 15:00
Workshop 4 – Marine Lipids for medical and biotechnological applications ; targeted vs non targeted approaches
15:00 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 17:00
Workshop 4 – Marine Lipids for medical and biotechnological applications ; targeted vs non targeted approaches
November 20, 2018
08:30 - 09:00
Registration - Come and register in the PNBI hall
08:55 - 09:00
Housekeeping information (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
09:00 - 09:30
Welcome talk (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Heads of host organisations
09:30 - 10:30
Transfer, upgrading and role of polyunsaturated fatty acids and sterols in aquatic food webs (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Chris Parrish & Lydie Couturier
09:30 - 10:10
Nutritional and biomarker lipids in marine food webs - Christopher Parrish, Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland
10:10 - 10:30
Phytoplankton essential lipids as an indirect link between water column mixing depth and zooplankton dynamics in a global change scenario - Patrick Fink, University of Cologne
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee break (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
10:50 - 12:30
Transfer, upgrading and role of polyunsaturated fatty acids and sterols in aquatic food webs (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Chris Parrish & Lydie Couturier
10:50 - 11:10
Assimilation efficiencies of essential fatty acids in marine zooplankton - Suzanne Budge, Dalhousie University
11:10 - 11:30
Potential relationships between organic matter (OM) quality and quantity on the nutritional ecology of abyssal holothurians inferred from stable isotopes and lipid compositions - Teresa Amaro, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/CIMAR), University of Porto (U.Porto)
11:30 - 11:50
Improving specificity of dietary fatty acid inclusion for optimal EPA and DHA storage in farmed salmon - Stefanie Colombo, Department of Animal Science and Aquaculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University
11:50 - 12:10
The role of lipids in early ontogeny of the daubed shanny Leptoclinus maculatus (Stichaeidae family) from Svalbard - Svetlana Pekkoeva, IB KarRC RAS
12:10 - 12:30
Food web dynamics of fatty acids and persistent organic pollutants in Greenland's priority marine conservation regions - Igor Eulaers, Arctic Research Centre, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University
12:30 - 14:20
Lunch
14:20 - 14:40
Summary of Workshop 3 - Stable isotopes in marine lipid science (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
14:40 - 15:40
Advances in analytical chemistry of lipids - Compound specific stable isotope analysis of lipids (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Elena Palacios & Loic Michel
14:40 - 15:00
What is the effect of lipid extraction methods and tissue dry storage on lipids classes and fatty acids from marine animals? - Fany Sardenne, Ifremer, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
15:00 - 15:20
Habitat use and trophic competition among shark species from oceanic islands in the Northeastern Pacific - Gaël LE CROIZIER, Laboratoire des Sciences de lÉnvironnement Marin (LEMAR)
15:20 - 15:40
Investigating the activity of methanogenic archaea in marine sediments by lipid radioisotope probing - Sarah Coffinet, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
16:00 - 17:00
Advances in analytical chemistry of lipids - Compound specific stable isotope analysis of lipids (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Elena Palacios & Loic Michel
16:00 - 16:20
Local and oceanic inputs into the trophic ecology of two bivalve species in a coastal lagoon: evidences from stable isotope, fatty acid, and compound specific isotope analyses - Margaux Mathieu-Resuge, LEMAR
16:20 - 17:00
Summary of Workshop 1 – Sample conservation and associated problems for lipid extractions - Short synthesis and discussion (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
17:00 - 18:30
Poster Session (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
November 21, 2018
08:55 - 09:00
Housekeeping information (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
09:00 - 10:20
Environmental effects on lipid metabolism in marine organisms and on trophic transfer (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Martin Kainz & Gauthier Schaal
09:00 - 09:40
Arachidonic acid in wild and cultured aquatic organisms in relation to adaptation to stress - Elena Palacios-Mechetnov, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste
09:40 - 10:00
Daily cycles in oceanic fat concentrations reveal that phytoplankton use a ‘crash diet' to maintain growth in the face of energy limitation - Kevin Becker, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
10:00 - 10:20
Adaptation to phosphate starvation: a comparison between plants and two marine algae - Phaeodactyllum tricornutum and Nannochloropsis oceanica. - Juliette Jouhet, Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire et Végétale
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
10:40 - 12:20
Environmental effects on lipid metabolism in marine organisms and on trophic transfer - Martin Kainz & Gauthier Schaal
10:40 - 11:00
How nitrogen availability drives lipid composition in the haptophyte Tisochrysis lutea : new highlights - Matthieu Garnier, Physiologie et biotechnologie des Algues
11:00 - 11:20
First evidence of the impact of nanoplastics in lipid composition of marine phytoplankton - Carmen González-Fernández, Laboratoire des Sciences de lÉnvironnement Marin (LEMAR)
11:20 - 11:40
› Lipid dynamics and ecophysiology of a marine protist (Auriantiochytrium limacinum) involved in the decomposition of mangrove leaves. - Fabrice Rebeillé, Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire végétale
11:40 - 12:00
Allelopathic exudates from the dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum modify membrane lipids composition of the diatom Chaetoceros sp. - Marc Long, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong
12:00 - 12:20
Effects of temperature on lipid synthesis of diatom Chaetoceros Pseudocurvisetus and the Northern Adriatic plankton community - Blaženka Gašparović, Ruđer Bošković Institute
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
14:00 - 16:00
Environmental effects on lipid metabolism in marine organisms and on trophic transfer (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Marie Vagner & Karine Salin
14:00 - 14:40
Discerning dietary lipid sources and their ecophysiological fate in fish tissues - Martin Kainz, WasserCluster Lunz – Biologische Station, Donau-Universität Krems
14:40 - 15:00
Lipid and fatty acid constituents state of the ecological important aquatic organisms from the Arctic and sub-Arctic marine ecosystems - Svetlana Murzina, Environmental biochemistry laboratory, Institute of Biology of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
15:00 - 15:20
Lipid load triggers migration to diapause in Arctic Calanus copepods – insights from underwater imaging - Frédéric Maps, Département de Biologie, Université Laval
15:20 - 15:40
Fatty Acids Composition of Zooplankton in Peruvian Upwelling Area - Elda Pinedo Arteaga, INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERU
15:40 - 16:00
Unusually high levels of n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids in giant tropical planktivores: dietary markers or physiological indicators? - Lydie Couturier, Laboratoire des Sciences de lÉnvironnement Marin
16:00 - 16:20
Summary of workshop 2 - Numerical tools for lipid composition data analysis (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
16:20 - 16:30
Group photo (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
16:30 - 19:00
Poster Session (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
16:30 - 19:00
Visit of the Institute - in small groups
16:30 - 17:00
Discussion around: Marine Lipids Conferences, to be continued? (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
19:00 - 21:30
Conference dinner
November 22, 2018
08:55 - 09:00
Housekeeping information (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
09:00 - 10:20
Marine lipids, human health and ecosystem services - Lipids in emerging biotechnology and blue economy (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Peter Nichols & Philippe Soudant
09:00 - 09:40
A journey through signature lipid profiling to marine and plant biotechnology - Peter Nichols, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
09:40 - 10:00
Benefits and risks of seafood consumption in Peru: quantitative analysis of fatty acid and micro-contaminant intake - IVAN LOAIZA ALAMO, Universiteit Gent [Ghent]
10:00 - 10:20
Health starts in the plate: Screening of microalgal strains with high potential in polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) production. - ANA CAMILA DOS SANTOS DIAS, Institut Français de Recherche pour lÉxploitation de la Mer
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee break (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
10:40 - 12:00
Marine lipids, human health and ecosystem services - Lipids in emerging biotechnology and blue economy (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Peter Nichols & Philippe Soudant
10:40 - 11:00
Comparative effects of the marine microalgae Phaeodactylum tricornutum and Diacronema lutheri on metabolic disorders associated with metabolic syndrome and obesity in the Wistar rat - Claire Mayer, IUML - FR CNRS 3473, EA 2160 Mer, Molécules, Sant
11:00 - 11:20
Fatty acid profile and biochemical composition of Odontella aurita (Lyngbye) C. Agardh (Bacillaryophyta) from the Gulf of California, Mexico. - Bertha Olivia Arredondo-Vega, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste.
11:20 - 11:40
Variation of prostaglandin metabolism along the growth of the diatom Thalassiosira rotula - Valeria Di Dato, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
11:40 - 12:00
Enzymatic synthesis of structured phospholipids rich in docosahexaenoic acid - Florence Hubert, Mer, Molécules, Santé (Le Mans)
12:00 - 12:20
Summary of workshop 4 - Marine lipids for medical and biotechnological applications : targeted vs non targeted approaches (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)
12:20 - 14:00
Lunch (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
14:00 - 15:00
Marine lipids, human health and ecosystem services - Lipids in emerging biotechnology and blue economy (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Peter Nichols & Philippe Soudant
14:00 - 14:20
Seaweeds lipids in health-promotion: Lipidomics holding with lipid diversity - Elisabete da Costa, Departamento de Biologia & CESAM & ECOMARE
14:20 - 14:40
Selective extraction of bioactive lipids from seaweeds - Nolwenn Terme, Laboratoire de Biotechnologie et Chimie Marines
14:40 - 15:40
Structure, metabolism and function of lipids (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Gabriel Markov & Edouard Kraffe
14:40 - 15:00
Elucidation of aminolipids biosynthesis in marine bacteria and their role in lipid remodelling - Yin Chen, University of Warwick [Coventry]
15:00 - 15:20
A 13CO2 enrichment experiment with protists to study the synthesis pathways of two essential healthy polyunsaturated fatty acids - Marine REMIZE, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Université de Brest
15:20 - 15:40
Characterization and quantification of isoprostanoids from three microalgae species produced at 5 000 L scale - Antoine Delbrut, UMR IATE, Microphyt - claire vigor, Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron
15:40 - 16:00
Coffee break (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise HALL)
16:00 - 17:40
Structure, metabolism and function of lipids (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room) - Gabriel Markov & Edouard Kraffe
16:00 - 16:20
Use of FIB-SEM tomography to unravel the membrane architecture and organelle interactions of the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum - Denis Falconet, Laboratoire de physiologie cellulaire végétale
16:20 - 16:40
Evolution of synthesis of specialized and unusual lipids in toothed whales, and their roles in echolocation - Heather Koopman, University of North Carolina [Wilmington]
16:40 - 17:00
A patchwork model for cholesterol synthesis from cycloartenol in the red alga Chondrus crispus - Gabriel MARKOV, Station Biologique de Roscoff - UMR8227
17:00 - 17:20
Structure and Dynamics of a unique tethered fluid lipid membrane. An experimental approach to shed some light on the interactions between a single lipid bilayer and a colloid. - Guillaume Brotons, Institut des molécules et des matériaux du Mans
17:20 - 17:40
Segmented sterol biosynthesis in eukaryotic cells - Hubert Schaller, Institut de biologie moléculaire des plantes
17:40 - 18:15
The conference conclusion and awards (Pôle Numérique Brest Iroise Plenary Room)