Program

16:30-18:00: Opening registration desk.

18:00-19:00: Conference opening

• Emile Van Schaftingen, (De Duve Institute and UC Louvain , Brussels,  Belgium).
  Repair mechanisms in sugar metabolism.

19:00-21:00: Welcome Dinner cocktail (IEMN).

8:00-8:45: Registration - Mounting of posters

8:45-9:00: Welcome of the 34th Joint Meeting

• Anne-Sophie Vercoutter-Edouart (UGSF, Lille University, France) & Nico Callewaert (CMB, VIB-UZ Gent, Belgium)

Session 1: Pathways and tools in glycobiology

• 9:00-9:35: Invited lecture
  Tadashi Suzuki (Glycometabolic Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan). 
  NGLY1 and non-canonical degradation of N-glycans.
• 9:35-9:50: Annika Niemann (University of Bremen, Germany). 
  O2. Accurate modelling of glycan-glycan interactions for large-scale MD simulations.
• 9:50-10:05: Stéphanie Baud (University of Reims, France). 
  O3. Glycosaminoglycans versus Glycans: How carbohydrate composition influences protein dynamics.
• 10:05-10:40: Flask Talk POSTER (2min/poster ).
• 10:40-10:50 : Sponsored Lecture
  Clément Denys (France). 
  O4. Elicityl.


• 10:50-11:10: COFFEE BREAK.


• 11:10-11:25: Seyed Omar Zareei (HIPS, Germany). 
  O5. A Sialomimetic Glycan Array for the Identification of Viral Entry Inhibitors.
• 11:25-11:40: Rick Ursem (LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands). 
  O6. Joining Forces: Integrative Mass Spectrometry Imaging Correlates Metabolites, Lipids and N-Glycans in Murine Kidney Microstructures.
• 11:40-12:20: Flask Talk POSTER  (2min/poster ).


• 12:20-14:00: LUNCH BREAK and POSTER SESSION.

Session 2: Glycans and Diseases

• 14:00-14:35: Invited Lecture
  Catarina GOMES (Ipatimup, Porto, Portugal). 
  Exploring Therapeutic Approaches to Target SLeX in Cancer.
• 14:35-14:50: Maxime Grember (UGSF, Lille University, France). 
  O8. Relationships between ganglioside expression and drug resistance in osteosarcoma cell lines.
• 14:50-14:55: Roland Schauer Prize Award for Young Investigators.
• 14:55-15:10: Manuel  Vicente (Hannover Medical School, Germany). 
  O9. The (joint) sweet pursuit - uncovering the role of glycans in immune cells and beyond.
• 15:10-16:10: Coffee Break and Poster presentation.
• 16:10-16:40: Invited Lecture
  Catherine Robbe-Masselot (UGSF, Lille University, France). 
  Glycan alterations in musocal pathologies: From mechanistic understanding to targeted interventions.
• 16:40-16:55 : Jordan Denis (UGSF, Lille University, France). 
  O11. Human Fucosidase FUCA2 Drives Atypical Gastric Mucin Defucosylation in Children.
• 16:55-17:20: Joint Presentation 
           Matthew Wilson (KU Leuven, Belgium). 
           O12. Dolichol biosynthesis in yeast traces the expanded reaction pathway of higher eukaryotes. 
           Marie Morel (UGSF, Lille University, France).
           O13. Investigating dolichol synthesis in yeast: an unexpected link with ergosterol pathway.
• 17:30-18:00: Business Meeting of the Societies.
• 19:30-23:00: Gala Dinner (Couvent des Minimes, Lille).

Session 3: C- and O-Glycosylations

• 9:00-9:30: Invited Lecture  
  Adnan Halim (Copenhagen Center for Glycomics, Denmark).
  O-mannosylation and POMT1/POMT2 dependency in KIAA1549::BRAF driven gliomas.
• 9:30-9:50: O15.Stéphanie Olivier-Van Stichelen (Medical College of Wisconsin, USA). 
  O-GlcNAcylation, Stress and Hormones in Gestational Diabetes.
• 9:50-10:05: Adrien Pioger (OncoLille, France). 
  O16. Impact of O-GlcNAcylation on chemotherapy-induced senescence escape of colon cancer cells.


• 10:05-10:35: COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION.


• 10:35-11:05: Invited Lecture  
  Françoise Routier (Hannover Medical School, Germany). 
  Specificity of mammalian C-mannosyltransferases.

Session 4: Glycans in host-cell interaction

• 11:05-11:20: Vivian Lioret (Namur University, Belgium).
  O18. Multivalent sialic acid glycoclusters as potent inhibitors against SARS-CoV-2 infection.
• 11:20-11:35: María Rios Carrasco (Utrecht University, Netherlands). 
  O19. The Q226L mutation can convert a highly pathogenic H5 2.3.4.4e virus to bind human-type receptors.
• 11:35-11:50: Luca-Cesare Blawitzkia (University of Freiburg, Germany). 
  O20. Mimicking the Barrier: sGAG Mimetics to Probe Pathogen Interactions
• 11:50-12:05: Aminata Bathily (UGSF, Lille University, France). 
  O21. Molecular recognition between short glycan chains carried by secreted neutrophil proteins and bacterial lectins.
• 12:05-12:20: Marco Albers (Hannover Medical School, Germany). 
  O22. Transition transferases prime group 2 capsular polysaccharide biosynthesis in Gram-negative bacteria.


• 12:20-12:35: Poster and oral presentation awards. 
  Concluding remarks, 35th Joint Meeting announcement.


• 12:35-14:00: LUNCH.