# FASEB's "The Lipid Droplets Conference"

> **NIH NIH R13** · FEDERATION OF AMER SOC FOR EXPER BIOLOGY · 2020 · $4,000

## Abstract

Project Summary
The 7th FASEB Summer Research Conference on Lipid Droplets, entitled “Lipid Droplets in Health and
Disease,” will focus on the rapidly developing field of lipid droplet biology. Lipid droplets are dynamic cellular
organelles that play key roles in energy metabolism. Lipid droplet accumulation and dysfunction are hallmarks
of metabolic diseases, including obesity, lipodystrophy, insulin resistance, diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver
disease, and cardiovascular disease. They are increasingly being studied in the contexts of cancer
metabolism, neurodegeneration and immunity as well. The increasing prevalence of metabolic disorders
throughout the world lends increased urgency to encouraging research into fundamental aspects of how lipid
droplets form, grow, move, mature, and degrade and how lipid droplets influence cell, tissue and organismal
physiology and contribute to disease. Understanding of these concepts is necessary for the rationale design
appropriate new therapeutic strategies.
 The conference will be held from July 5-8, 2020 at the Snowmass Weston Hotel in Snowmass, CO. The
format includes an opening night keynote address by Tobias Walther, six sessions of talks by invited speakers,
as well as short talks by trainees and early career investigators selected from submitted abstracts, three poster
sessions, a Career Workshop on career design and balance, and a Meet the Experts session on advanced
imaging microscopy. The meeting format will encourage and facilitate interactions between trainees, early
career investigators and established investigators. The scientific sessions cover the full breadth of lipid-droplet
biology, from biophysical, biochemical, and cellular topics to physiology and disease. Talks from internationally
renowned researchers will span basic to clinical research and describe diverse approaches (biophysics,
genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, physiology) and models (mice, humans, cultured cells, flies, yeast). This
meeting continues to represent THE major international meeting dedicated exclusively to lipid droplets and
remains a unique forum for researchers to exchange ideas and share breaking results in this dynamic and
timely field.
 A central aim of this conference is training and encouraging the next generation of scientists. This
application requests funding to support the participation of 14 graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early
career investigators, including women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities, who will be
chosen from submitted abstracts judged as superior. The intimate conference format, the secluded conference
site, and the many opportunities for informal interactions between participants, planned and unplanned, will
provide young investigators opportunities to present their work, to obtain feedback from leaders in the field,
and to get career advice.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10064358
- **Project number:** 1R13DK126215-01
- **Recipient organization:** FEDERATION OF AMER SOC FOR EXPER BIOLOGY
- **Principal Investigator:** ROBERT V FARESE
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $4,000
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2021-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10064358

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10064358, FASEB's "The Lipid Droplets Conference" (1R13DK126215-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10064358. Licensed CC0.

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