| Whistler award lectures: | |
| Carolyn Bertozzi, USA, Shedding Light on Glycans | |
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| Yukishige Ito, Japan, Glycobiology-Oriented Synthesis | |
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| 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 |
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| Shin-Ichiro Nishimura, Japan Glycoblotting allows large-scale functional glycomics | Gunnar Pejler, Sweden Biology of serglycin- an intracellular proteoglycan |
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| David Crich, USA Oligosaccharide and Glycoconjugate Synthesis: Current Challenges | Fons Voragen, The Netherlands New structural features of pectin |
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| Jon Thorson, USA Challenges and opportunities in natural product glycosylation | Petra Mischnick, Germany Structure Analysis of Functionalized Glucans - A Patterned Puzzle |
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| Gudmund Skjåk-Bræk, Norway Alginates - a family of polysaccharides suitable for molecular engineering | |
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| 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 |
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| Ola Blixt, Denmark Biomarker discovery platforms for glycomics | Corine Sandstrøm, Sweden Studies on sugar interactions with proteins and enzymes |
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| 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 |
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| Ben Davis, UK SUGAR & PROTEINS | Injei Shin, Korea Carbohydrate Microarrays for Rapid Analysis of Carbohydrate- Recognition Events |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| Shinichi Kitamura, Japan Conformation and Physical Properties of Linear and Cyclic Amyloses | Kjell M. Vårum, Norway Structure-Function Relationship in Chitosans |
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| 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 |
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| Thisbe Lindhorst, Germany Synthesis of Photosensitive Tools for Studies in Glycobiology | |
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| 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. |