Carbohydrates: Key Interactors at the Chemistry-Biology Interface
Thursday Sept 15th
Lecture Theatre 2, Life Sciences Building
IIB researchers are free to attend the workshop and should – but need to register via Jerry Turnbull – send him an e-amil.
Institute of Integrative Biology, Liverpool University.
Organiser: Prof. Jerry Turnbull
Meeting Sponsors: Royal Society of Chemistry, Dextra Labs, CarboSynth, IntelliHep.
Programme
12:00 Buffet lunch & posters (Seminar Room 2, 2nd floor, Life Sciences building)
Session 1 “Host-pathogen interactions” (Chair: Dr Ed Yates)
13:00 Dr Max Crispin (Oxford):
Crystallographic snapshots of antibody biogenesis: IgG glycan conformer transitions between oligomannose, hybrid and complex-type glycans
13:30 Dr Stephen Bornemann (Norwich):
A New Enzyme, Glucan Pathway and Anti-TB Target
13:45 Dr Matthew I. Gibson (Warwick):
Design and Application of Glyco- polymers and Particles
14:00 Dr Ed Yates (Liverpool):
Disruption of disease processes in Plasmodium falciparum malaria with sulfated carbohydrates
14:20 Dr Michael Booth (BBSRC):
BBSRC funding for Industrial Biotechnology
14:35 Posters with Tea & Coffee (Seminar Room 2, 2nd floor)
15:30 Dr Tony Merry – Euroglycoscience network
Session 2: RSC Carbohydrate Group Medal lectures: sponsored by Dextra Labs
15:35 Prof Daan van Aalten (Dundee):
“Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling”
16:25 Dr Stuart Haslam (Imperial College) :
“Mass Spectrometric Strategies for Glycomics and Glycoproteomics”
17:15 Wine reception & posters
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