7th N. Carbohydrate Symposium

Banff Park Lodge Hotel in Banff, Alberta - May 5-7, 2011

Speakers

  • Bernd Meyer - Universität Hamburg, Germany
    “Elucidating the Role of Carbohydrates in Biological Processes Based on Structural Information”

  • Wade Abbott – Agriculture Canada
    “Deconstruction of the Most Complex Carbohydrate in Nature by a Human Gut Symbiont”

  • Lisa Willis – University of Guelph
    “Investigation of the Roles Played by KPSC and KPSS in the Biosynthesis of Polysialic Acid Capsular Polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and Neisseria meningitidis”

  • Alisdair Boraston – University of Victoria
    “Carbohydrate metabolism in the bacterium-host interaction: structural insights into commensalism and pathogenesis”

  • Greg Hussack – National Research Council
    “Single-domain antibody inhibitors of Clostridium difficile toxin A bind to sites other than the carbohydrate binding pocket”

  • Soledad Penades – CICbiomaGUNE CIBER-BBN, Spain
    “Glyconanoparticles: New Multivalent Glycoconjugates to Understand and Intervene in Carbohydrate-Mediated Interactions”

  • Mitsuhiro Ebara – National Institute for Materials Engieneering, Japan
    “Design of Saccharide-bearing Smart Polymer Surfaces and Micelles that Provide on-off Switches to Surcace Capture/Release”

  • Daniel Ratner - University of Washington, USA
    “Glycomics at the Interface: Characterizing Carbohydrate-Modified Surfaces and Materials”

  • Kurt Drickamer – Imperial College London, UK
    “Recognizing sugars: multiple mechanisms of glycan recognition in innate immunity and cell adhesion”

  • Michael Suits - University of Victoria
    “Structural and Mechanistic Insights into N-glycan Processing”

  • Ulf Nilsson – Lund University, Sweden
    “Galectin chemistry and biology”

  • Markus Aebi - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    “The unique process of N-linked protein glycosylation”

  • Ivan Stigliano - Fundacion Instituti Leloir, Argentina
    “The Relative In Vivo Activities of Glucosidase II and UDP-GLC:glycoprotein Glucosyltransferase toward Truncated N-Glycans Regulate the Half Lives of Monoglucosylated Species”

  • Warren Wakarchuk – National Research Council
    “Site Specific Enzymatic Polysialylation of Therapeutic Proteins Using Bacterial Enzymes Improves Serum Half-Life”

  • Hugh Willison – University of Glasgow, Scotland 
    “Heteromeric glycolipid complexes as antigens in autoimmune neuropathy”

  • Yves St. Pierre - INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier
    “Galectin-7 Biology: Promoting or Suppressing Cancer?”

  • Jian Liu - University of North Carolina, USA
    “Enzymatic synthesis of heparin and heparan sulfate”

  • Nuno Xavier - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
    “Exploitation of Bicyclic Carbohydrate Lactones for the Access to Highly Functionalized Sugar Derivatives with Biological Profile”