Organizers: Drs. Pradman Qasba, CCR Nanobiology Program
and Joseph Barchi, Jr., Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry
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Thursday, September 14, 2006 (8:30 am – 5:00 pm) Building 549/Auditorium
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| 8:30 am |
Introduction: Pradman Qasba, Ph.D., Joseph J. Barchi, Jr., Ph.D. |
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| 8:40 am |
Ajit P. Varki, Ph.D., University of California at San Diego
Title: Biomedical Significance of Glycans |
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| 9:20 am |
Jim Paulson, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute
Title: Ligand Based Probes of Siglec Function |
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| 10:00 am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 10:15 am |
Naoyuki Taniguchi, M.D., Ph.D., Osaka University
Title: Functional Glycomics Using Glycosyltransferases GnT-III, GnT-V and Fut 8: Implication of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis and Antibody Therapy Against Cancer |
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| 10:55 am |
Sen-itiroh Hakomori, Ph.D., University of Washington
Title: Glyco-cancer Antigens Affecting Tumor Malignancy |
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| 11:35 am |
Pauline Rudd, Ph.D., University of Oxford
Title: Aberrant Glycosylation Markers Associated with Diseases |
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| 12:15 pm |
LUNCH |
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| 1:30 pm |
Ann Dell, Ph.D., Imperial College, London
Title: Oligosaccharide Sequence Analysis Using MS |
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| 2:10 pm |
Hisashi Narimatsu, M.D., Ph.D., National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology (AIST) Research Center for Glycoscience (RCG), Glycogene Function Team
Title: Enzymatic Synthesis and High Throughput Structural Analysis of Glycans Using
Glycogene Library and Mass Spectrometry |
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| 2:50 pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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| 3:10 pm |
Kelly Ten Hagen, Ph.D., National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research
Title: Glycosylation and the Polypeptide GalNAc Transferases |
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| 3:50 pm |
Boopathy Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., SAIC-Frederick
Title: Glycosyltransferases: Structures, Engineering and the Design of Novel Inhibitors |
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| 4:30 pm |
DISCUSSION (End of Day One) |
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Friday, September 15, 2006 (8:30 am – 12:30 pm) Building 549/Auditorium
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| 8:15 am |
Claus-Wilhelm von der Lieth, Ph.D., German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Title: The Role of Informatics in Glycobiology Research |
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| 8:55 am |
Martin Frank, Ph.D., German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
Title: Conformations and Prediction of Potential 3D-structures of Carbohydrates |
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| 9:35 am |
Obadiah Plante, Ph.D., Ancora Pharmaceuticals
Title: New Methods for Carbohydrate Synthesis and Applications to Drug Discovery |
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| 10:15 am |
MORNING BREAK |
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| 10:30 am |
Lai-Xi Wang, Ph.D., Institute of Human Virology, UMBI, UMD
Title: Getting the Protein Glycosylation Right: A Chemoenzymatic Approach |
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| 11:10 am |
Ram Sasisekharan, Ph.D., Massachusett Institute of Technology
Title: Temporal Targeting of Tumor Cells and Neovasculature with a Nanoscale Delivery System |
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| 11:50 pm |
DISCUSSION |
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| 12:00 pm |
CLOSE OF WORKSHOP |
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