The Glycobiology Training, Research and Infrastructure Centre (GlycoTRIC)

Glycoscience Symposium

Tuesday 4th April 2017

9.30am – 5pm

Huxley Building, Imperial South Kensington Campus, London

Glycoscience is a rapidly advancing multidisciplinary area in which London has a strong presence. To support the review and development of this field, the Glycobiology Training, Research and Infrastructure Centre is organising a one-day symposium that will showcase the work of earlier career researchers, invited from within Imperial College and across the wider glycoscience community.

Venue:

Lecture Theatre 311, Huxley Building, 180 Queen’s Gate, Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ

Please see link for travel directions and map: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/visit/campuses/south-kensington/

Programme

09.30 – 10.00:   Registration and Tea/Coffee (Huxley Building, Room 341)

10.00 – 10.10:   Welcome

10.10 – 12.10:   4 presentations

12.10 – 13.10:   Lunch and poster display

13.10 – 14:40:   3 presentations

14:40 – 15:00:   Tea/Coffee Break

15.00 – 16:00:   2 presentations

16.00 – 16.10:   Close

Poster Session

The scientific programme will be augmented by a poster session, for which all attendees are invited to participate. To take part, please submit a brief abstract to Jonathan Shepherd (jonathan.shepherd@imperial.ac.uk) by 3 March 2017.

Registration

The symposium is free to attend and open to all, but registration in advance is essential due to limited space. To register your attendance, please email Jonathan Shepherd (jonathan.shepherd@imperial.ac.uk).

Speakers

• Aristotelis Antonopoulos, Imperial College London – Structural characterisation of N-glycans from Immune and cancer cells 

• David Briggs, Imperial College London – Structural analysis of Laminin binding to the LARGE GAG-like polysaccharide found on the Dystroglycan matrix receptor  

• Andreas Broedel, Imperial College London – Directed evolution of proteins from combinatorial libraries for synthetic biology applications  

• Katie Doores, Kings College London – The HIV glycan shield as a target for neutralizing antibodies 

• Norihito Kawasaki, Institute of Food Research, Norwich – Elucidating the role of Dectin-2 in the host-microbe interaction in the gut  

• Yan Liu, Imperial College London – Glycan microarrays – contributions and future prospects in studies of pathogen-host interactions

• Poh-Choo Pang, Imperial College London – Glycomics of the mammalian reproductive systems using mass spectrometry 

• Ben Schumann, Stanford University – Towards Glycosyltransferase Bump-hole Engineering in the Living Cell

• Yuhsuan Tsai, University of Cardiff – Chemical Synthesis and Biology of Glycosylphosphatidylinositol Anchors

Links

The Glycobiology Training, Research and Infrastructure Centre: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/glycotric/

The Imperial College Glycosciences Laboratory: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/glycosciences/