Monday

8:00

Registration. Coffee&Tea

9:15

Welcome and opening remarks. Prof Udo Reichl, Director, MPI Magdeburg.

9:30

Keynote Lecture:

Naoyuki Taniguchi, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Japan

Branching N-glycans and their roles in disease onset, biomarker discovery and treatment

Session: Glycosylation & Protein Function

Chairs: Veronique Blanchard & Bernd Lepenies

10:10

Celso Reis, U do Porto, Portugal

Altered glycosylation in cancer - targeting tumor heterogeneity and therapeutic implications

10:30

Sabine Strahl, Heidelberg U, Germany

Protein glycosylation in baker´s yeast: Occurrence and functions O-mannosyl glycans

10:50

Marcelo Guerin, CIC bioGUN, Derio, Spain

Structural basis of chemoenzymatic glycoengineering of therapeutic IgG antibodies

11:10

Break with Coffee & Tea

11:40

Ulla Giering-Driessen, Stanford U, USA

NGLY1 deficiency: Huge potential of a rare disease

12:00

Robert de Vries, Utrecht U, The Netherlands

Fluorescent trimeric hemagglutinins reveal multivalent receptor binding properties

12:20

Stefanie Barbirz, U of Potsdam, Germany

Glycan-recognition by large, thermostable bacteriophage proteins: Impact for biofilm solubilization and design of microbial biosensors

12:40

Katharina Paschinger, BOKU, Vienna, Austria

Unexpected N-glycomic complexity in insect species and cell lines

13:00

Lunch

14:20

Keynote Lecture:

Mark von Itzstein, Griffith U, Gold Coast, Australia

Targeting influenza virus neuraminidase with sulfonated sialic acids

Session: Glycoimmunology

Chairs: Sabine Strahl & Celso Reis

15:00

Bernd Lepenies, TiHo, Hannover, Germany

The C-type lectin receptor CLEC12A recognizes plasmodial hemozoin and contributes to cerebral malaria development

15:20

Christoph Rademacher, MPI Potsdam, Germany

Targeted delivery to human Langerhans cells

15:40

David Falck, Leiden U Medical Center, The Netherlands

Site-specific glycosylation mapping of Fc gamma receptor IIIb from neutrophils of health donors

16:00

Break with Coffee & Tea

16:30

Vincenzo Mangini, ITT, Arnesano, Italy

Immobilization of tumor-associated glycopeptide antigen mimics on gold nanoparticles for improving the efficacy of cancer vaccines

16:50

Ling Xiao, Utrecht U, The Netherlands

Human milk oligosaccharides provide immune tolerance via direct interactions with DC-SIGN and TLR4 on human dendritic cells

17:10

Christoph Goletz, Glycotope, Berlin, Germany

Glyco-Optimization of antibodies targeting immune checkpoint molecules: Case studies of an agonist and an antagonist

17:30

Poster Session and Dine&Discuss – Food, beer, wine and soft drinks are included

From 20:30 the Einstein Lounge is open and free drinks are served.

 

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