Lipid Metabolism Group

2022 Fall Schedule

Organizer: Anil Cashikar

  • September 9, 2022: Irfan Lodhi (WashU Medicine) “Peroxisome-Mitochondria Crosstalk Regulating Energy Homeostasis”
  • CANCELLED – October 14, 2022: Alexandra Litvinchuk (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology)
  • November 11, 2022: David Ford (Saint Louis University) “Roles for Plasmalogens and Chlorolipids in Inflammation”
  • December 9, 2022: Alexandra Litvinchuk (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) “The role of ApoE4 in lipid dysregulation in glia in tauopathy and Alzheimer’s disease”
2022 Spring/Summer Schedule

Organizer: Anil Cashikar

  • January 14, 2022: Gwendalyn Randolph (WashU Pathology & Immunology) – WiP, JC “Macrophage membrane cholesterol and lipidome in inflammation and host defense”
  • February 11, 2022: Michael Strickland (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – WiP “ApoE-Trem2 Axis Impacts Cholesterol Metabolism”
  • March 11, 2022: Victoria Ismail (Kast lab, WashU Cell Biology & Physiology) – WiP “The GTPase activity of DFCP1 modulates lipid droplet metabolism”
  • April 8, 2022: Clay Semenkovich (WashU Medicine) – WiP “Palmitoylation Cycling and Metabolic Disease”
  • May 13, 2022: Yun Chen (Holtzman lab, WashU Neurology) – WiP “Preliminary characterization of the impacts of ApoE3 Christchurch mutation on lipid metabolism and pathology for Alzheimer’s Disease”
  • June 10, 2022: Pallavi Chandra (Philips lab, WashU Medicine) “Host-pathogen lipid metabolism during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection”
  • July 8, 2022: Nada Abumrad (WashU Medicine) “Fatty Acids and Cognition”