About this Research Topic
This Research Topic aims to collect selected contributions from ISPL2022, the 25th International Symposium on Plant Lipids, being held in Grenoble, France, July 10-15 2022. Submission will be open following the conference.
In the context of accelerated global warming and imminent environmental changes, plant and algal lipid science faces new challenges. Lipids are key components of photosynthetic systems, and improvement could be one of the solutions to capture atmospheric CO2. Lipids are critical in a multitude of adaptation/acclimation processes triggered by abiotic and biotic environmental cues. Lipid signaling is critical in many developmental processes impacted by seasonal climatic disruptions, and are therefore biochemical indicators to study and possibly predict the evolution of natural populations and communities. They are also essential for crop improvement and new biotechnological strategies.
The ISPL covers all algal and plant lipids (fatty acids, membrane glycerolipids, triacylglycerols, sphingolipids, sterols, surface lipids) and all aspects of their biology (lipid droplet biogenesis and function, lipid trafficking and channeling, lipids in development and physiology, lipid signaling) at all scales, from molecular to cell and whole-organism levels. This symposium also addresses biodiversity and the evolution of lipid metabolism and function, and developments in carbon partitioning, metabolic engineering, and lipid biotechnology are welcome.
The ISPL meeting, organized every two years, is a major event in plant and algae lipid science. At each ISPL meeting, the international plant lipid researcher community recognizes the career achievements of a distinguished plant lipid scientist, through the presentation of the Terry Galliard Award. This award is in honor of Terry Galliard who established the ISPL conference back in 1974. The Paul K Stumpf Award is presented to a promising early-career plant lipid researcher and honors the landmark contributions of Paul Stumpf to plant lipid biochemistry.
In the context of accelerated global warming and imminent environmental changes, plant and algal lipid science faces new challenges. Lipids are key components of photosynthetic systems, and improvement could be one of the solutions to capture atmospheric CO2. Lipids are critical in a multitude of adaptation/acclimation processes triggered by abiotic and biotic environmental cues. Lipid signaling is critical in many developmental processes impacted by seasonal climatic disruptions, and are therefore biochemical indicators to study and possibly predict the evolution of natural populations and communities. They are also essential for crop improvement and new biotechnological strategies.
The ISPL covers all algal and plant lipids (fatty acids, membrane glycerolipids, triacylglycerols, sphingolipids, sterols, surface lipids) and all aspects of their biology (lipid droplet biogenesis and function, lipid trafficking and channeling, lipids in development and physiology, lipid signaling) at all scales, from molecular to cell and whole-organism levels. This symposium also addresses biodiversity and the evolution of lipid metabolism and function, and developments in carbon partitioning, metabolic engineering, and lipid biotechnology are welcome.
The ISPL meeting, organized every two years, is a major event in plant and algae lipid science. At each ISPL meeting, the international plant lipid researcher community recognizes the career achievements of a distinguished plant lipid scientist, through the presentation of the Terry Galliard Award. This award is in honor of Terry Galliard who established the ISPL conference back in 1974. The Paul K Stumpf Award is presented to a promising early-career plant lipid researcher and honors the landmark contributions of Paul Stumpf to plant lipid biochemistry.
Keywords: lipids, lipid biology, algae, fatty acids, sterols, ispl, ispl2022
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