Sugars in Norwich
The full programme is now available: Sugars in Norwich Programme
The theme for the meeting is glyco-active enzymes and chemical glycobiology and will be held over two days, starting at lunchtime on Tuesday 15th Sept and finishing mid-afternoon on Wednesday 16th Sept. Confirmed speakers and lecture titles are listed below. A poster session will also be held during the evening.
Speakers:
- Monica Palcic - Carlsberg Laboratories
- "Capillary Electrophoresis with Laser-Induced Fluorescence Detection for Monitoring Oligosaccharide Metabolism and Enzyme Activity in Single Cells"
- Gideon Davies - York Structural Biology Laboratory
- "O-GlcNAc structural enzymology: probing the link of O-GlcNAc to type II diabetes"
- Harry Brumer - KTH Biotechnology, Stockholm
- "Structure-function studies of xyloglucan endo-transglycosylases and endo-hydrolases"
- Stefan Oscarson - Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, Dublin
- "Synthetic Glycoconjugate Vaccines - Potentials, Problems and Prospects"
- Johannis Kamerling, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen
- "Tailoring glucosidic bond specificity in glucansucrase enzymes"
- Rob Edwards - Centre for Bioactive Chemistry, Durham
- "N- and C-glycosylation of bioactive molecules in plants"
- Del Besra - Microbiology, Birmingham
- "Tuberculosis: a balanced diet of lipids and carbohydrates"
- Nico Callewaert - VIB Department for Molecular Biomedical Research, Ghent
- "Yeast glycosylation system engineering to homogenously produce the universal Man3GlcNAc2 core N-glycan"
