News and events
Please see below for a synopsis of key news and events over the past years at the Glycosciences Laboratory:
Recent news and events in 2016
19-22 November 2016
- Professor Feizi, Dr Wengang Chai, Dr Angelina Palma and Dr Zhen Li attended 2016 Society for Glycobiology annual meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
9-11 November 2016
- Professor Feizi was invited to the conference Personalized Cancer Medicine in the Age of Aging in Barcelona, where she gave a talk "Carbohydrate microarrays for assignments and exploitation of cancer-associated epithelial antigens".
23 September 2016
- Professor Takeshi Tsubata, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, visited the group and gave a seminar entitled “Role of sulfation in the regulation of CD72 traffic and autoimmunity”.
18-20 September 2016
- Dr Yan Liu attended IBCarb event - 'How to commercialise your research and turn your glycoscience into a glyco-biotech start-up' held in the Great Park, Windsor.
6 September 2016
- Professor Jacques Le Pendu, director of the Center for Cancer Research of Nantes-Angers (CRCNA), France, visited the group and gave a seminar “Glycans in enteric virus infections: why the need for assignment of the ligands?”
29 August 2016
- Professor Feizi gave an invited lecture “The path to the development of glycan arrays as powerful tools in infection, immunity and cancer” at University of Kyoto, Japan.
22-26 August 2016
- Professor Feizi attended the 7th MIRAGE Meeting 2016 and the 6th Charles Warren Workshop in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. An invited talk was given by Professor Feizi titled at the Warren Workshop entitled “Designer arrays for the pinpointing, isolation and structural assignments of natural glycan ligands of biological and medical importance”.
17-19 March 2016
- Dr Zhen Li and Professor Feizi attended the meeting entitled ‘Noroviruses and beyond - Glycans as Drivers in Viral Infection’ in Lubeck, Germany. Zhen gave a talk entitled "Pinpointing Epithelial Glycan Receptors for Rotaviruses by ‘Designer’ Microarray Approach".
Past news and events
2015
1-4 December 2015
- Professor Feizi and Dr Lisete Silva attended the Society for Glycobiology annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA.
17 June 2015
- Professor Iain Wilson, Department für Chemie, Universität für Bodenkultur, Austria, gave a talk at the Hammersmith Campus, Burlington Danes Seminar Room E519 (level 5), entitled “Sweet secrets of parasites and model organisms”.
18 May 2015
- Professor Feizi gave a talk entitled “The NGL-based microarrays in their 2nd decade – Highlights” at Glycosymposium, Oslo.
5 May 2015
- Professor Jerry Turnbull, Liverpool University, gave a talk at the Hammersmith Campus, Burlington Danes Seminar Room E519 (level 5), entitled “Unlocking the Heparan Sulphate Glycome with Chemical biology and Glycomics Tools Towards Diverse Therapeutic Applications in Alzheimer's, Cancer and Nerve Repair”.
23 - 24 March 2015
- Professor Feizi gave an invited talk at Symposium and Training Course on Complement system Christ’s College, Cambridge, entitled “Carbohydrate (glycan) signatures deciphered by proteins of the complement system”
March 2015
- The paper, “Unravelling glucan recognition systems by glycome microarrays using the designer approach and mass spectrometry” is published in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics.
27 February 2015
- Professor Ola Blixt of the University of Copenhagen is now a Visiting Professor of Glyco-Chemistry associated with the Glycosciences Laboratory.
February 2015
- The paper "Notum deacylates Wnt proteins to suppress signalling activity" is published in Nature. For the press release, please see Wide implications from discovery of enzyme that dampens an important class of signalling proteins on the Francis Crick Institute website.
2014
16-19 November 2014
- Professor Ten Feizi received the Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology at the 2014 Joint Annual Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology (SFG) & Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research (JSCR), and gave her award presentation entitled “How I became a glycobiologist and some of my favourite stories”.
10 October 2014
- Professor Ten Feizi wins Society for Glycobiology Rosalind Kornfeld lifetime achievement award. After winning this prestigious award, Professor Ten Feizi has been looking back on her career exploring the sugar-chain forests that cover our cells.
30 September 2014
- Dr Yan Liu gave an invited talk at an IBCarb meeting ‘Glycobiology - Challenges & Solutions’ entitled “Glycan microarrays – Powerful tools for bio-recognition studies of glycans” at Imperial College London.
6-9 August 2014
- 5th Charles Warren Workshop - Professor Feizi and Dr Yan Liu attended the 5th Charles Warren Workshop 2014, in Galway. An invited talk was given by Professor Feizi titled “The neoglycolipid (NGL)-based microarrays in their 12th decade”. Dr Yan Liu gave a short talk "The Importance of Glycan Ligand Density and Presentation for Binding by Viral Capsid Proteins in Carbohydrate Microarrays".
29-30 July 2014
- IBCarb Workshop 'Glycan Microarrays 2.0'. Professor Feizi and Dr Yan Liu attended the workshop organised by IBCarb, one of 13 Networks in Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy (NIBB) funded by the BBSRC. They gave a joint talk “Carbohydrate microarrays: current status and future prospects with synthetic glycans”.
18-21 June 2014
- 9th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases. Professor Feizi was invited to give a talk at the 9th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases (Glyco-T 2014), with the title: “Oligosaccharide designer arrays reveal secrets of glycosyltransferases in the expression of the prostate cancer-associated antigen F77”.
9 June 2014
- Seminar: Professor Ola Blixt. On the 9th of June 2014, a special seminar was held with guest speaker Professor Ola Blixt, from Copenhagen University. The title of the presentation: The Post-Translational Glycointeractome (PTG): New diagnostic opportunities for infectious diseases and cancer.
30-31 May 2014
- The KSU International Symposium: Cutting-edge of Life Sciences Kyoto. Professor Ten Feizi was an invited speaker for the KSU International Symposium: Cutting-edge of Life Sciences in Kyoto, Japan. Her presentation was titled “Oligosaccharide microarrays: past, present and future tools in glycoscience”.
19-20 May 2014
- NIH and FDA Glycosciences Day. Professor Feizi took part in the NIH and FDA Glycosciences Day and Workshop in Molecular and Cellular Glycosciences “Exploring the Frontiers of Chemical Glycoscience” in Bethesda, Maryland United States.