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Symposium Organizing Committee
9th Annual Glycoscience Symposium
Parastoo Azadi, Technical Director of Analytical Services and Training and
Senior Research Scientist, UGA Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
I. Jonathan Amster, Professor and Chair, UGA Department of Chemistry
Geert-Jan Boons, UGA Foundation Distinguished Professor in Biochemical
Sciences, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Kelley W. Moremen, UGA Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
Focus
The goal of the 9th CCRC Glycoscience Symposium is to highlight the highly multidisciplinary nature of glycoscience and the importance of combining chemical
and biological methodologies to integrate the biological and biomedical functions
of glycoconjugates. The symposium will also cover the development of enabling
technologies for glycoscience. The complex heterogeneity of glycoconjugate modifications present challenges in characterization of protein-carbohydrate interactions
and details of their biological functions. The symposium presentations will discuss
numerous examples of the contributions of glycoconjugates in animal physiology
and pathology as well as emerging technologies to study the details of glycan recognition and function.
Venue
The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) is housed in a 140,000 sq. ft. building at the edge of the University of Georgia campus. It houses 17 faculty groups with
research devoted to various aspects of carbohydrate science. The CCRC is home to
the UGA Cancer Center and four federally designated centers for carbohydrate research.
The CCRC also provides analytical services and laboratory training courses to scientists
in academia and industry. The Center has a modern auditorium that seats 250. The
campus itself is 70 miles from the Atlanta Airport. For more information on registration,
visit the symposium website at: glycomics.ccrc.uga.edu/symposium/
Glycoscience at the Interface of
Chemistry and Biology
April 28, 2015
Complex Carbohydrate Research Center
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
8:15 - 8:55 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast
9:35 - 10:10 am
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Pathology
Senior Scientist, UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
3:10 - 3:30 pm
“Automated Oligosaccharide Synthesis as Basis for
Chemical Glycobiology and Vaccine Development”
Peter Seeberger, Director
“New Insight on Carbohydrate Antigens and
Immune Responses”
Fikri Y. Avci
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Georgia
10:30 - 11:00 am
Break
Session 2: Parastoo Azadi, Session Chair
Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry and Chairman,
Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine
Scripps Research Institute
12:10 - 12:30 pm
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Break
Session 4: Kelley W. Moremen, Session Chair
4:00 - 4:35 pm
“Design and Selection of Novel Glycosidase Inhibitors:
Towards Therapies for Diabetes and Influenza”
Stephen Withers
Professor of Biochemistry
University of British Columbia
4:35 - 4:55 pm
“A Serotonin-induced N-Glycan Switch Regulates
Platelet Aggregation”
Fusun Kilic
Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Arkansas Medical Center
4:55 - 5:30 pm
“O-Glycans Regulate Cell Survival, Signaling and Migration
via Galectin-Glycan Lattices”
Linda Baum
Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California-Los Angeles
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Symposium Reception
“Discovering Glycan-dependent Interactions with
Photocrosslinking Sugars”
Jennifer Kohler
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Poster Talks #3/#4
3:30 - 4:00 pm
“Managing Glycoproteostasis”
Jeffery W. Kelly
11:00 - 11:35 am
11:35 - 12:10 pm
2:35 - 3:10 pm “Oligosaccharide Inhibitors of Heparanase as Anti-cancer Drugs”
Ralph D. Sanderson
William Patterson Timmie Professor and Chair of Biochemistry
Emory University School of Medicine
10:10 - 10:30 am
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and
Co-Director, Glycobiology Research and Training Center
University of California, San Diego
“From Glycans to Functional Glycomics: The Power of
Microarray Technologies”
Richard Cummings
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
“Expanding the Heparan Sulfate Interactome”
Jeffrey D. Esko
2:00 - 2:35 pm
8:55 - 9:00 am
Welcome
Alan Darvill, Regents Professor and CCRC Director
Session 1: Geert-Jan Boons, Session Chair
9:00 - 9:35 am
Session 3: I. Jonathan Amster, Session Chair
Poster Talks #1/#2
Lunch & Poster Session
2D-COSY representation of heparin derived tetrasaccharide; Courtesy of CCRC Analytical Services