Manchester 2004

GRAPPLING WITH THE GLYCOME
Hulme Hall, University of Manchester


5th-6th April 2004

Monday 5th April

Registration from 10.00 a.m.

 

12.30 Tea/Coffee available

 

12.50 Welcome

Session 1: Recognition and Signalling

13.00 - 13.40 Robert Haltiwanger (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Regulation of Signal Transduction by Glycosylation

13.40 - 14.10 Paul Crocker (University of Dundee, UK)
Does the Cellular Glycome influence the Binding Properties and Signalling Functions of Siglecs in the Immune System?

14.10 - 14.40 Anne Imberty (CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Conformations of Cell Surface Oligosaccharides and Recognition by Lectins from Pathogens

14.40 - 15.00 One talk selected from submitted abstracts

15.00 - 15.30 Tea/Coffee and Poster viewing, and Trade exhibits

Session 2: Technical Developments in Glycomics

15.30 - 16.00 Anne Dell (Imperial College, London, UK)
MS Strategies for High Throughput Glycomics and Glyco-Proteomics

16.00 - 16.30 Ten Feizi (Imperial College, Harrow, UK)
Carbohydrate Microarrays and the unravelling of Ligands for Effector Proteins of the Immune System

16.30 - 17.00 Two talks selected from submitted abstracts

17.00 - 17.30 BSMB Annual General Meeting

17.30 - 19.00 Posters / Trade Exhibits (with Wine Reception at 18.00)

19.30 Conference Dinner

 

Tuesday 6th April

Session 3: Mucins and Hyaluronan

09.00 - 09.30 Joyce Taylor-Papadimitriou (Guy's Hospital, London, UK)
Mucins in breast cancer

09.30 - 10.00 Tony Day (University of Oxford, UK)
Hyaluronan: a Simple Polysaccharide with Structural Plasticity and Functional Diversity

10.00 - 10.30 Two talks selected from submitted abstracts

10.30 - 11.00 Tea/Coffee and Poster viewing, and Trade exhibits

Session 4. Complex Glycosaminoglycans (Part I)

11.00 - 11.40 Ulf Lindahl (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Biosynthesis of Heparan Sulphate - how regulated does it need to be?

11.40 - 12.10 John Gallagher (University of Manchester, UK)
New Insights on the Molecular Structure of Heparan Sulphate

12.10 - 12.45 Two talks selected from submitted abstracts

12.45 - 14.15 Lunch

Session 5: Complex Glycosaminoglycans (Part II)

14.15 - 14.45 Toin van Kuppevelt (NCLMS University Medical Centre, Nijmegen,
Netherlands) Phage Display-derived Antibodies: New Tools to Study Heparan Sulphate Diversity

14.45 - 15.15 James Fawcett (University of Cambridge, UK)
ECM in Brain and CNS Repair

15.15 - 15.45 Two talks selected from submitted abstracts

15.45 Close of Meeting + Tea / Coffee