Programme

08:30 – 09:00

Coffee & Registration.

09:00 – 09:30

Welcome & Introductions
Professor Paul Ross - Teagasc Food Research Centre
Dr Marion Boland - Science Foundation Ireland

Session 1: Intestinal and Microbial Glycobiology (sponsored by Agilent Technology Ltd)
Chairperson - Professor Lokesh Joshi

09:30-10:00

Dr Tony Corfield – University of Bristol. "Sweet Talk: How bacteria use sugars to talk to the Gut mucosa″

10:00-10:30

Dr Lindsay Hall – University College Cork. "The role of Bifidobacterial Exopolysaccharide/Capsule in the commensal-Host Interaction″

10:30-11:00

Dr Marguerite Clyne– University College Dublin. "The interaction of bacteria with mucus and mucins″

11:00-11:30

Poster Session & Coffee

Session 2: Food Glycobiology (sponsored by NIBRT)
Chairperson: Dr Rita Hickey

11:30-12:00

Professor David Newburg – Boston College Chestnut Hill. "Human milk glycans constitute an innate immune system″

12:00-12:30

Professor Paul Ross – Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark. "Production of complex polysaccharides by human probiotic strains″

12:30-13:00 

Professor Eileen Treacy – Trinity College, University of Dublin. "Galactosaemia: a modifiable glycosylation disorder?″

13:00-14:00 

Lunch

Session 3: Young Scientists in Glycosciences (sponsored by European Science Foundation Euroglycoforum Research Network)
Chairperson: Professor Pauline Rudd

14:00 –14:15

Dr Weston Struwe – NIBRT, University College Dublin. "Characterization of O-glycans from Chicken Intestinal Mucins by LC-MS Reveals Insights in Campylobactor jejuni Adherence″

14:15-14:30

Dr Michelle Kilcoyne – National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. "Array Platforms: Applications for glycoprofiling and analysis″

14:30-14:45

Jonathan Lane – Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorpark. "Anti-infective food sourced oligosaccharides: Campylobacter jejuni as a case study″

14:45-15:00

Dr Tharmala Tharmalingam –University College Dublin. "Biomarkers of oestrus in the cervical mucin glycome of dairy cows″

15:00-15:30

Poster Session & Coffee

Session 4: Glycobiology in the food industry (sponsored by Eurofins Foods Ltd)
Chairperson: Professor Paul Ross

15:30 –16:00

Dr Christoph Rohrig – Glycom. "Health benefits of Human Milk Oligosaccharides and their principal components″

16:00 –16:30

Professor Bernd Stahl - Danone. "Specific dietetic glycans for infant nutrition″

Sponsors

16:30 –16:35

Dr Tony Merry – European Science Foundation Euroglycoforum Research Network.

16:35 –16:40

Dr Kommer Brunt – Eurofins Food Ireland Ltd.

16:40 – 16:45

Judy Mc Caffrey – Agilent Technologies Ltd.

17:00

Transport to hotel