EuroSciCon to hold Glycomics meeting
EuroSciCon announce that they will be holding the forthcoming meeting 'Glycomics: Challenges and Technology' on November 28th at Imperial College London. This one day meeting features some excellent international speakers and will appeal to anyone working in the rapidly growing field of glycomics. Professor J. Turnbull from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Liverpool who will chair this meeting said ''Glycomics encompasses the rapidly developing field of large-scale analysis of the "glycome" - the entire complement of complex sugar structures expressed in cells, tissues or whole organisms. Glycans have incredible structural and functional diversity and are critical players in a huge variety of biological processes, many of which have fundamental roles in disease processes. This has created major interest in their potential biotechnology and pharmaceutical applications, but progress has been hampered by the inherent difficulties in studying the structure-functions relationships for these complex molecules. Now, breakthrough technologies are dramatically changing the landscape and creating the opportunity for real progress in glycomics over the next few years".
This one-day Euroscicon meeting will cover talks from both academic speakers and companies, and will include informal question and answer sessions and networking during the breaks. This format will offer scientists from both academia and industry a valuable opportunity to update on the challenges and technologies which are driving developments in glycomics, and the exciting scientific and commercial applications which are emerging.
Meeting Agenda
Open Forum: What is Glycomics?
Prof J Turnbull,
Chemical Glycomics - From Synthesis to Microarrays and Vaccines
Prof Dr. Peter H. Seeberger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
Designer Glycoarrays
Prof Ten Feizi, MRC Glycosciences Laboratory,
Glycoproteomics
Prof Kurt Drickamer, Division of Molecular Biosciences,
Mass spectrometric strategies for glycomics and glyco-proteomics
Dr Stuart Haslam, Division of Molecular Biosciences,
Enhancing our Understanding of Glyco-Structure using MSn
Dr Rachel Martin,
Predicting and exploiting glycoside biosynthesis
Prof Rob Field, Centre for Carbohydrate Chemistry,
Glycoinformatics and molecular modelling
Prof Serge.Perez, CERMEV,
The role of informatics in glycomics research
Prof
Strategies for discovery and testing of potential glycosylated cancer biomarkers
Prof Pauline Rudd, UC Dublin NIBRT/Dublin
Measurement and control of biopharmaceutical glycosylation - The changing regulatory landscape
Dr Daryl Fernandez, Ludger Ltd,
Glycomonitoring using lectin arrays
Dr Andrew Sutcliffe, Procognia,
Engineering glycosylation of recombinant proteins
Prof Ben Davis, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford UK
To register for this popular event go to www.regonline.co.uk/glycomics
To learn more about Euroscicon and their forthcoming events please visit www.euroscicon.com or email enquiries@euroscicon.com
