Eurofed Lipid Congress

The European Eurofed Lipid Congress held in Montpellier in 14-17 September 2014 was gathering  900 participants.

​Oils, Fats and Lipids were presented in domains like Health, Biology, Microbiology, Agriculture and Industry.

In a session devoted to Microbial lipids, Pr. J.-O. Lee from Korea gave a talk on « Recognition of lipopolysaccharides by TLR4 and its accessory proteins ». This talk explained how different LPS structures were recognized by the MD2-TLR4 complex and was followed by examples in the presentation « Structures to activities relationships in the Bordetella lipopolysaccharides » presented by Dr. Martine Caroff​. It was shown how discrete modifications of lipid A structures could lead to drastic changes in the cytokine induction process.