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8th National Carbohydrate Symposium

The annual National Carbohydrate Symposium will cover different aspects of glycomics research regarding its applications to human health.

We are pleased to announce the following as confirmed speakers for the 8th Annual National Carbohydrate Symposium:

• Arturo Casadevall - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  "Progress in understanding the capsule of Cryptococcus neoformans"

• Alan Cross - University of Maryland
  "Spreading the neus: sialic acid regulation of innate immunity"

• Jerry Eichler - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  "N-glycosylation in Archaea: Sweetness at Extremes"

• Beat Ernst - University of Basel
  "Selectin Antagonists as Anti-inflammatory Drugs - a Glycomimetic Approach"

• Xuefei Huang - Michigan State University
  "Magnetic Glyconanoparticles: a Tool for in vitro and in vivo Detections"

• Anne Imberty - Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
  "Sweet-talk between pathogens and hosts – from structural glycobiology to antiadhesive strategies"

• Dennis Kasper - Harvard School of Medicine
  " Rethinking glycocojugate vaccines: a knowledge based approach to vaccine design"

• Theresa M. Reineke - University of Minnesota
  "Delivery Agents Designed from Core-Shell Carbohydrate-Based Block Copolycations"

• Pauline Rudd - University College Dublin
  "Systems Glycobiology: Genomics, glycomics and clinical markers of disease - the first GWAS study of the human serum N-Glycome "

• Ronald Schnaar - The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  "Sialoglycans in cell-cell recognition"

• Jon Thorson - University of Kentucky
  "The reversibility of glycosyltransferase-catalyzed reactions: New tools and applications"

• Thomas Tolbert - University of Kansas
  "Biosynthetic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of N-linked glycoconjugates for glycobiology studies"

• Yvette van Kooyk - VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  "Glycan Modification of Antigens, Novel Vaccination Strategies for Potentiating Antigen Specific Immunity"

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