ORGANIZATION OF THE XVI SPHINGOLIPID CLUB MEETING 

The Sphingolipid Club opens the call to all Members to candidate for the Organization of its XVI Meeting, to be held on autumn 2026. See for infos at the submenu “Meetings”. 

  

FASEB SRC “Lipid Mediators: Advancements and Approaches” IN MALAHIDE, IRELAND 

On 2025, we will support two awards for young speakers at the FASEB SRC “Lipid Mediators: Advancements and Approaches”, to be held at Malahide, Ireland, Sept. 7 – 11, 2025 (see https://events.faseb.org/event/lipid-mediators/home). We also will co-chair the Sphingolipid Club Symposium  “Sphingolipid signaling”, on Tuesday Sept 9, 7-9 p.m. The meeting is open for registration now. We encourage our Members to register and to be active part in this Conference. 

  

JOINT ESN-HSN MEETING IN NAXOS, GREECE 

The Sphingolipid Club will organize the Symposium “Crosstalk between sphingolipid signalling and neurodegeneration“ at the joint ESN-HSN Meeting in Naxos, Greece, on  May 28-31, 2025 (see https://www.hsfn.gr/event/25th-esn-biennial-meeting-31st-hsn-meeting/. The Symposium will be chaired by Riccardo Ghidoni, and the speakers will be our Members Lone Museer, Liubov Kalinichenko, Chiara Donati and Svjetlana  Kalanj-Bognar.  

  

2025 FEBS/SPHINGOLIPID BIOLOGY MEETING IN VARNA 

Among the events related to Sphingolipids, we are pleased to announce the FEBS Special Meeting “Sphingolipid Biology: breaking boundaries” to be held in Varna, Bulgaria, on May 25-30, 2025. (see https://sphingolipidbiology2025.febsevents.org/). 

  

OPEN CALL TO SUPPORT PHD STUDENTS MOVING TO AN OUTSIDE LABORATORY FOR SHORT INTERNSHIPS 

PhD students who will move for a short term internship (3-9 months) to a laboratory outside their own country may apply to get a travel support ranging from a minimum of 500 € to a maximum of 2500 €. The amount of such supports will be evaluated by the Sphingolipid Club staff, depending on the stage duration and the country selected. For this year the call is open and has no deadline. 

The applicant, who should be an active junior Member of the Club for 2025,  must send an email to info@sphingolipidclub.com, indicating the length and the starting date of the stage, and adding: a) a letter signed by his/her PhD mentor, certificating his/her status as a PhD student, b) a letter of acceptance of the head of the hosting laboratory, c) a short CV, with a minimum of two publications, including posters, or oral presentations at international Meetings. 

The acceptance of the travel award and the relative amount will be communicated by the Sphingolipid Club not later that one month after having received the application.  For further information, address your enquiries to info@sphingolipidclub.com. The official announcement will be soon posted on our website, at www.sphingolipidclub.com, but the call is open since now. 

  

OPEN POST-DOC POSITION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 

We receive from our Member Daan van Kruining: 

“I am writing to share an exciting post-doc opportunity in the lab of Frances Platt (infos at the Submenu “Job offers”) at the University of Oxford, funded by the Silverstein Foundation. This will be an extension of my current fellowship on the role of sphingolipids in GBA-related Parkinson’s disease. Since I will be moving back to the Netherlands, I will remain involved as a co-supervisor in the project. Although the position would begin in January 2026, the application submission for the new fellow requires us to select a potential candidate asap by early next month. We recognise the tight timeline, but we believe this could be a fantastic opportunity for a young post-doc within the Sphingolipid Club network. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, including deadline submission, at daan.vankruining@pharm.ox.ac.uk, https://plattlab.pharm.ox.ac.uk/.    

  

SEARCHING FOR A PHD POSITION 

Doğuhan Yalım, a promising young turkish scientist, wrote to the Sphingolipid Club asking for a PhD position in an European or American laboratory. If interested, you could contact directly Doğuhan 

at doguhanyalimm@gmail.com.  

  

ISN COUNCIL AND TREASURER ELECTIONS 

We are pleased to communicate that Erhard Bieberich and Vlad Parpura have been nominated Council Member and Treasurer of the International Society of Neurochemistry, respectively. We congratulate with both of them.  

  

FRAUDOLENT EMAILS 

It happens periodically, even not frequently, that some Members of the Sphingolipid Club receive fraudolent emails asking for money or other utilities, with the false signature of our President. All our Members should know that that the only official email address of the Club is info@sphingolipidclub.com. Unfortunately, it is not easy to get exempt from such fake contacts. Anyway, please, inform the Club if you receive further fraudolent communications. 

  

RENEWAL OF THE MEMBERSHIP TO THE SPHINGOLIPID CLUB 

Finally, and most important! All our Members whose Membership to the Club has expired on December 2024 are warmly invited to extend their subscription for the next two years. Related infos can be found on our website at the “Become a Member” submenu. Remember that the subscription as Members is mandatory for the survival of the Club.