2nd Annual Meeting of GlycoScience Ireland

NUI Galway April 30th 2009

INVITATION

We would like to invite you and your colleagues to join us for the 2nd Annual Meeting of GlycoScience Ireland, which will be held at NUI Galway on Thursday April 30th. GlycoScience Ireland is an academic organization which aims to build, support and promote Glycosciences research in Ireland and to provide visibility and collaborative opportunities for Irish glycoscientists with international academic and industrial communities. Building upon the success of last year’s inaugural meeting, this year we will continue to look at trends in Glycosciences taking a broader international view that will highlight Irish science internationally and facilitate Irish based scientists in networking with many global leaders in this field.  See PROGRAMME below.

There will be an opportunity to showcase your group’s work at the conference in a day long poster session so we would encourage you all to bring along a poster that represents the current glycoscience related activities in your group.

This a free event sponsored by the AGRC, CBAS and NIBRT.  However, for catering purposes we ask you to register. Please fill in your details in the REGISTRATION FORM below and click the submit button to forward your details to us.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Regards,

Lokesh Joshi,                         SFI Stokes Professor of Glycosciences, National University of Ireland, Galway

Pauline Rudd, Professor of Glycobiology, National Institute for Bioprocessing  Research and Training, Dublin

Conference organisers

 

2nd Annual Meeting of GlycoScience Ireland
Aras Moyola, NUI Galway
April 30th 2009

PROGRAMME

This draft programme below is correct as of 1st April and will be updated as required.

08:00 – 09:00	Coffee & Registration
09:00 – 09:15	Welcome Prof. Jim Browne (President, NUI Galway) Dr. Stephen Simpson (Director of LifeSciences, Science Foundation Ireland)
Morning Session
Chair: Prof. Lokesh Joshi (NUI Galway)
09:30 – 09:45	Professor Lokesh Joshi (Stokes Professor of Glycosciences, Director,Alimentary Glycoscience Research Cluster) Alimentary Glycoscience Research Cluster
09:45 – 10:15	Prof. Richard Cummings (William Patterson Timmie Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia)  Glycobiology and Glycomics of the Intestine and Intestinal Pathogens
10:15 – 10:45	Dr. Karl Kruger (Program Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Washington D.C., USA) Translational Research on Glycomic Cancer Biomarkers: National Institutes of Health Support for Essential Resources.
10:45 – 11:15	Prof. Y.C. Lee (Department of Biochemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA) Pigeons, Gulls, and AvioGlycomics
11:15 – 11:30	Coffee / Biobreak
Mid-morning Session
Chair: Prof. Y.C. Lee (Department of Biochemistry, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
11:30 – 12:00	Dr. Willie Vann (Center for Biologic Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Washington D.C., USA) Polysaccharides as Vaccines against Encapsulated Bacterial Pathogens
12:00 – 12:30	Prof. Dr. Hans J. Gabius (Chair of Physiological Chemistry,  Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany     Tumor glycosylation: more than a diagnostic marker?
12:30 – 13:00	Prof. Thomas Borén (Umeå University, Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden) Dynamics of Adhesin-Receptor Interactions: Lessons from Helicobacter pylori
13:00 – 14:15	Lunch
Afternoon Session
Chair: Dr. Karl Kruger (Program Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Washington D.C., USA)
14:00 – 14:30	Prof. Roy Jefferis (Division of Immunity and Infection, Medical School, The University of Birmingham,.UK.) Antibody therapeutics: isotype and glycoform optimisation for purpose.
14:30 – 15:00	Prof. Tudor Arvinte (University of Geneva) Aggregation of the therapeutic immunoglobulin trastuzumab (Herceptin®) in 5% dextrose solution
15:00 – 15:30	Prof. Sabine Flitsch (Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, University of Manchester.UK) Glycosylation reactions – from biocatalysis to medical applications
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee/Biobreak
Late-Afternoon Session
Chair: Prof. Pauline Rudd (National Institute for Bioprocess Research and Training, Dublin, Ireland)
16:00 – 16:30	Dr. Gibbes Johnson – Food and Drug Administration Challenges in Therapeutic Enzyme Manufacturing
16:30 – 17:00	Dr. P. Dillon, – Wyeth Ireland
17:00 – 17:30	Dr. Rudi Grimm –Agilent Technologies, CA, USA Agilent and recent Chip-MS developments in collaborative analytical glycobiology
17:30 – 18:00	Closing Reception

Meeting Adjourned

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