Scientific Program

 

Tuesday, July 1

 

9:00
Welcome and Opening
Carsten Kettner

Session chair: Marthe Walvoort

9:20
Molecules to Organelles - Studying Structural Glycobiology Across Scales
Liang Wu, Rosalind Franklin Institute

10:00
Classical and Non-classical Glycosylation Reaction Mechanisms
Carme Rovira, Universitat de Barcelona

10:40
Software Lightning Talks

11:00
Coffee break and Software demo

11:45
Functional Insights into Glycan Biosynthesis from Computational Modelling
Dani Ungar, University of York

12:25
Structural and Mechanistic Studies of ER-based N-glycosylation Enzymes and Biotechnological Applications
Kaspar Locher, ETH Zurich

13:00
Lunch

Session chair: Nick Riley

14:15
Poster Lightning Talks #1

14:35
Protein O-mannosylation: Structure, Function and Disease
Adnan Halim, University of Copenhagen

15:15
The Interplay Between Protein O-mannosylation and N-glycosylation
Sabine Strahl, Heidelberg University

15:55
Poster Lightning Talks #2

16:15
Conference photo, Coffee break and Poster session

16:45
Lipopolysaccharides: "Fantastic Structures and where to Find them"
Flaviana De Lorenzo, University of Naples Federico II

17:25
Kdo Derivatives to Perturb LPS Biosynthesis
Marthe Walvoort, University of Groningen

18:05
Structure-function Relationships of UDP-glucose Pyrophosphorylases
Jana Führing, Hannover Medical School

18:45
Close

19:30
Dinner

 

Wednesday, July 2

 

9:00
Opening

Session chair: Ben Schumann

9:05
Seeing is Believing: Tools to Explore your Glycoproteomics Data
Nicholas Riley, University of Washington

9:45
Utilizing Archetype Glycans in GlyTouCan Version 4.0 and GlyCosmos
Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita, Soka University

10:25
Coffee break and Software demo

11:05
A Bunch of Protein-glycan Interactions: The Power of NMR and MD in the Analysis of Molecular Recognition Events
Roberta Marchetti, University of Naples Federico II

11:45
GlyGen: Empowering Research through Active Data Sharing
René Ranzinger, University of Georgia

12:25
Glycan Microarray Data - Decoding the Glycan Interactome
Yan Liu, Imperial College London

13:05
Lunch

14:00 - 18:00
Excursion

19:30
Dinner

 

Thursday, July 3

 

9:00
Opening

Session chair: Carme Rovira

9:05
Towards High-throughput Mass Spectrometry Glycomics
Manfred Wuhrer, Leiden University

9:45
Systems Glycobiology Reveals new Cancer-promoting Glyco-enzymes in the Tumour Microenvironment
Morten Thaysen-Andersen, Macquarie University Sydney

10:25
Coffee break and Poster session

11:00
Glycosylation and Medicine: Transforming our Understanding of Disease
Roisin O'Flaherty, Maynooth University

11:40
Chemical Precision Tools to Dissect the O-GalNAc-Glycoproteome
Benjamin Schumann, Imperial College London

12:20
Lunch

Session chair: tba

13:20
Human H3N2 Influenza Receptor Specificity Shifts Tropism to the Lower Airway
James Paulson, The Scripps Research Institute

14:00
Adventures with α-2,8-linked Sialic Acids
Lisa Willis, University of Alberta

14:40
New Approach to Study and Modulate Siglecs and their Glycan Ligands
Matthew Macauley, Univestiy of Alberta

15:20
Coffee break

15:50
Molecular mechanims for glycan-lectin interaction by NMR
Ana Freire Ardá, CiCbioGUNE, Derio

16:30
Conformational Mimicry: A Strategy for Selective Glycosidases
Marta Artola, Leiden University

17:10
Microbial Glycosylation: Finding new Antimicrobial Targets and Building New Tools
Nichollas Scott, The Universiy of Melbourne

17:50
Close

19:30
Dinner





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