Organizers:
Barbara Mulloy (NIBSC, UK)
Tony Corfield (University of Bristol, UK)
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Session 1: Structural Glycobiology and Human Health
12:00 - 13:30 Registration and Lunch
GlycoBiomimics and GlycoBiosensors
Lokesh Joshi (National University of Ireland, RoI)
Structural insights into chondroitin sulphate binding during pregnancy-associated malaria
Matthew Higgins (University of Cambridge, UK)
Glycosaminoglycan-protein interactions in inflammatory processes
Tony Day (University of Manchester, UK)
Henipavirus attachment: a structural basis for viral specificity
Thomas Bowden (University of Oxford, UK)
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee/tea break
Human UDP-glucose dehydrogenase: The potential of structural and molecular enzymology as tools for cancer therapy
Selected oral communication - Sigrid Egger (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Phage P22 Tailspike function during infection cycle
Selected oral communication - Dorothee Andres (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Structural enzymology of the O-GlcNAc modification: probing the proposed links to type II diabetes and neurodegeneration
Gideon Davies - GlaxoSmithKline Award Lecture (University of York, UK)
17:40 - 19:10 Drinks reception and poster session
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Session 2: Glycosystematics
Systems biology of heparan sulphate: a glycomics challenge
Jeremy Turnbull (University of Liverpool, UK)
Carbohydrate microarrays in studies of the molecular basis of pathogen-host interactions
Yan Liu (Imperial College London, UK)
A chemical genetic approach to the study of the TLR4 pathway: new sugar-derived compounds targeting selectively the CD14 and MD-2 receptors
Selected oral communication - Francesco Peri (University of Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Decreased levels of bisecting GlcNAc glycoforms of IgG mark human longevity
Selected oral communication - Renee Ruhaak (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break
Ionic liquids in oligosaccharide synthesis: toward mucin type glycan probes
Carmen Galan (University of Bristol, UK)
Glycomics and human health: a tight relation
Aristotelis Antonopoulos (Imperial College London, UK)
Systems glycobiology: A robotic HPLC based platform with computer assisted data interpretation for biomarker discovery, monitoring therapeutics and establishing the variability, heritability and environmental determinants of human plasma N-glycome
Pauline Rudd (University College Dublin, RoI)
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