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XXIV International Carbohydrate Symposium

Oslo, Norway              July 27 - August 1 2008


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Scientific program

The scientific program will cover carbohydrate research related to the areas given below:

A. Synthesis
B. Analysis
C. Glycobiology, glycomedicine, glycomics
D. Therapeutics
E. New materials and bionanotechnology
F. Polysaccharides - structure, functions, applications
G. Industrial applications of carbohydrates

Whistlers Award will be given to:
Carolyn Bertozzi, USA
Yukishige Ito, Japan

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Whistler award lectures:
 
Carolyn Bertozzi, USA,

 Shedding Light on Glycans

 
   
Yukishige Ito, Japan,
 Glycobiology-Oriented Synthesis
 
   
Plenary lectures (invited)
 
Stephen Withers, Canada
Engineering and evolution of old enzymes for new tasks: glycoside assembly
Haruki Yamada, Japan  
Structural diversity and immunomodulating activity of plant bioactive polysaccharides for health care
   
Shin-Ichiro Nishimura, Japan
Glycoblotting allows large-scale functional glycomics
 Gunnar Pejler, Sweden
 Biology of serglycin- an intracellular proteoglycan
   
David Crich, USA 
Oligosaccharide and Glycoconjugate Synthesis: Current Challenges
Fons Voragen, The Netherlands
New structural features of pectin
   
Jon Thorson, USA
Challenges and opportunities in natural product glycosylation
Petra Mischnick, Germany 
Structure Analysis of Functionalized Glucans - A Patterned Puzzle
   
Gudmund Skjåk-Bræk, Norway
Alginates - a family of polysaccharides suitable for molecular engineering
 
   
Keynote lectures (invited):  
 
Kazunari Akiyoshi, Japan
Hydrogel Biomaterials by Self-assembly of Hydrophobized Polysaccharides
Pauline Rudd, Ireland

A strategy for identifying and validating potential glycosylated disease markers in cancer

 
   
Ola Blixt, Denmark
Biomarker discovery platforms for glycomics
Corine Sandstrøm, Sweden
Studies on sugar interactions with proteins and enzymes
   
Fred Brewer, USA
Thermodynamics of Binding of Porcine Submaxillary Mucin to GalNAc Specific Lectins
 
Peter Seeberger, Switzerland
An Integrated Carbohydrate Tool Platform Based on a
Fully Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesizer
   
Ben Davis, UK
SUGAR & PROTEINS
Injei Shin, Korea
Carbohydrate Microarrays for Rapid Analysis of Carbohydrate-
Recognition Events
   
Anne Dell, UK
High Sensitivity Strategies for Glycomics and Glyco-Proteomics
Marit Sletmoen, Norway
Investigations of the structure and stability of poly(C)-scleroglucan  complexes and the mode of action of alginate epimerases using  single molecule and ensemble studies.
   
Sabine Flitsch, UK
Enzymatic Reactions on Glycoarrays
Stan van Boeckel, Netherlands
From the synthetic carbohydrate drugs Arixtra® and Idraparinux
to a novel CarboCarrier™ technology for Therapeutic Proteins
   
Shinichi Kitamura, Japan
Conformation and Physical Properties of Linear and Cyclic Amyloses
Kjell M. Vårum, Norway
Structure-Function Relationship in Chitosans
   
Paul Kosma, Austria
Advances in Chemistry and Analytics of Cellulose
Michaela Wimmerova, Czeck republic
Combination of Experimental and Computational Methods Assists
to Reveal Mechanisms of Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions
   
Thisbe Lindhorst, Germany
Synthesis of Photosensitive Tools for Studies in Glycobiology
 
   
Sesselja Omarsdottir, Iceland
Polysaccharides from lichens: structural characteristics and immunomodulating activity
 
 
 
CAMST-lecture:
Soledad Penades, Spain
Glyconanoparticles: New Multivalent Systems To Understand And Intervene in Carbohydrate-Mediated Interactions
 
Warren Wakarchuk, Canada  
Enzymatic Synthesis of Glycoconjugates Using Bacterial Glycosyltransferases: The Expanding Toolbox.

 
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