Key note speakers

 

Keynote Speaker 1

Fumika Mi-ichi

Nagasaki University, Japan

Plants and human parasites have something in common!

I will talk about lipid metabolism in a protozoan parasite, Entamoeba histolytica that causes human amoebiasis. E. histolytica seems to be unrelated to plants. However, this parasite interestingly relies on plant-type fatty acid elongase, the 1st enzyme of fatty acid elongation system, which is an essential lipid metabolism for homeostasis of living organisms.

 

 

Keynote Speaker 2

Makoto Arita

Keio University, Japan

Biology of LipoQuality and the Lipidome Atlas

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote Speaker 3

Kent Chapman

University of North Texas, USA

Mechanisms of Plant Lipid Droplet Biogenesis