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YLC Steering Committee
Any Questions / issues: contact the Chair, Tim Levine 
What we do:
The main function of the Steering Committee is to provide continuity and support for the YLC. In particular this involves encouraging organizers of forthcoming YLCs, and supporting them in selecting subjects and speakers for the conference. 

Contact details:


Maria Bohnert
Institute of Cell Dynamics and Imaging, University of Münster, Germany.
Tel +49 251 83-59055

Sabrina Buettner
Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Tel +46-8-164170


George Carman
Director, Rutgers Center for Lipid Research, Department of Food Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520, USA
Tel +1-848-932-0267


Alenka Čopič
CRBM - Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center, CNRS & Université de Montpellier, France. 
Tel. +33 (4)157278005 


Robert Ernst
Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Saarland University School of Medicine, Homburg (Saar), Germany.   
Tel
+49 6841 16 47875 
 
Florian Frohlich
Department of Biology/Chemistry & CellNanOS - Center for Cellular Nanoanalytics Osnabrueck, Osnabrueck University, Germany. 
Tel:
+49 541 969 3422 

Miriam Greenberg
5047 Gullen Mall Biological Sciences Bldg., Detroit, Michigan 48202, USA 
Tel: +1-313-577-5202


Mike Henne
Department of Cell Biology, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA
Tel +1-
214-648-6778 

Toon de Kroon
Hugo R. Kruytgebouw, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, Netherlands
Tel +31-30-253 3424


Tim Levine   (Chair)
Department of Cell Biology, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK
Tel +44-20-7608-4027


Uroš Petrovič
Department of Biology, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Večna pot 111, SI-1000 Slovenia
Tel +386 1 320 3300


Verena Siewers
Systems and Synthetic Biology, Dept of Life Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Tel +46-31-772-38 53

How the Steering Committee is constituted:
The organizers of the last three conferences are automatically invited. At least 4 other experts in the field of yeast lipidology (at least one of whom must work in USA/Canada) are invited through consultation with members of the yeast lipid community, which consists of principal investigators of all laboratories that participated in a recent YLC or are active in the field. A few months prior to each meeting. the chair of the YLC Steering Committee contacts this community to offer each principal investigator four votes to elect the Steering Committee. At least 4 members with the most votes are appointed, and others can be added by the newly elected members. Following its formation, the Steering Committee elects a Chair, and a Vice-Chair if desired.