Program

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

18:00-19:00: Inaugural Conference

  • Emile VAN SCHAFTINGEN, (De Duve Institute, Bruxelles).
    Metabolite and protein repair in the context of 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 (co-organizing Committee UGSF/VIB U. Gent)

Session 1: Cutting-edge technologies and tools for Glycobiology

  • 9:00-9:35:  Tadashi SUZUKI (Glycometabolic Biochemistry Laboratory, RIKEN, Japan). 
    NGLY1 and non-canonical degradation of N-glycans
  • 9:35-9:50: Oral 1
  • 9:50-10:05: Oral 2
  • 10:05-10:20: Oral 3
  • 10:20-10:35 : Flash Talk Poster
  • 10:35-10:45: Coffee break
  • 10:45-11:20: Oral 4
  • 11:20-11:40: Oral 5
  • 11:40-12:00: Oral 6
  • 12:00-12:20: Oral 7
  • 12:20-14:00: Lunch break and poster session

Session 2: Glycans and Diseases

  • 14:00-14:30: Catarina GOMES (Ipatimup, University of Porto). 
    Exploring Therapeutic Approaches to Target SLeX in Cancer
  • 14:30-14:45: Oral 8
  • 14:45-15:00: Oral 9
  • 15:00-15:15: Oral 10
  • 15:15-15:30: Oral 11
  • 15:30-15:45: Oral 12
  • 15:45-16:00 :  Flask Talk POSTER
  • 16:00-17:00: Coffee Break and Poster presentation
  • 17:00-17:30: Invited Speaker
  • 17:40-18:00: Business Meeting of the Societies
  • 19:30-23:00: Gala Dinner (Hôtel Alliance, Couvent des Minimes, Lille)

Session 3: Glycans in host-cell interaction

  • 9:00-9:30: Catherine ROBBE-MASSELOT (UGSF, University of Lille).
    Glycan alterations in musocal pathologies: From mechanistic understanding to targeted interventions
  • 9:30-9:45: Oral 13
  • 9:45-10:00: Oral 14
  • 10:00-10:15: Oral 15
  • 10:15-10:30: Oral 16
  • 10:30-11:00: Coffee break + poster session

Session 4: C- and O-Glycosylations

  • 11:00-11:30: Adnan HALIM (Copenhagen Center for Glycomics).
    Protein O-mannosylation: Structure, Function and Disease
  • 11:30-11:45: Oral 18
  • 11:45-12:00: Oral 19
  • 12:00-12:15: Oral 20
  • 12:15-12:40: Françoise ROUTIER (Hannover Medical School) 
    Specificity of mammalian C-mannosyltransferases
  • 12:40-13:00: Poster awards, concluding remarks, 35th Meeting announcement
  • 13:00-14:00: Lunch

Invited Speakers

Photo Catarina GOMES

Catarina GOMES.
Institute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology.
University of Porto.
Portugal.

photo Adnan HALIM

Adnan HALIM.
Copenhagen Center for Glycomics.
University of Copenhagen.
Denmark.

photo Masselot

Catherine ROBBE-MASSELOT.
Unité de Glycobiologie Structurale et Fonctionnelle.
University of Lille.
France.

photo Routier

Françoise ROUTIER.
Institute for Clinical Biochemistry.
Hannover Medical School.
Germany.

photo Suzuki

Tadashi SUZUKI.
Glycometabolic Biochemistry Laboratory.
Riken.
Japan.

photo SCHAFTINGEN

Emile Van SCHAFTINGEN.
De Duve Institute.
Bruxelles.
Belgium. 

Award Lecture – Roland Schauer Prize

A lecture will be given by the laureate of the Roland Schauer Prize for Young Investigators, awarded by the GBM Study Group “Glycobiology”.

The selected speaker will be announced shortly!