Tuesday

9:00	Keynote Lecture: Matthew DeLisa, Cornell U, Ithaca, USA Adventures in bacterial glycobiology: engineering sweet solutions to sticky situations
	Session: Synthetic Glycoengineering and Glycoengineering via Cell Line Design - Part 1 Chairs: Laura Palomares & Stefan Kubick
9:40	Tim Keys, ETH Zürich, Switzerland GlyColi - a synthetic glycobiology platform for producing the next generation of glycoprotein therapeutics and vaccines in bacteria
10:00	Zaid Alhajajj, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Investigations of enzymatic glycosylation in vitro using oligosaccharyltransferase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
10:20	Ryuta Wada, Astellas Pharma, Tsukuba City, Japan Impact of N-glycosylation on effector functions and thermal stability of monoclonal antibody with homogeneous glycoforms generated by chemoenzymatic glycoengineering approach
10:40	Lasse Pedersen, DTU, Kgs Lyngby, Denmark High-Throughput genome engineering of CHO cells using CRISPR/Cas9
11:00	Break with Coffee & Tea
11:30	Keynote Lecture: Geert-Jan Boons, Utrecht U & CCRC, U of Georgia, Athens, USA Chemo-Enzymatic approaches for the preparation of highly complex glycans of biological importance
	Session: Synthetic Glycoengineering and Glycoengineering via Cell Line Design - Part 2 Chairs: Laura Palomares & Stefan Kubick
12:10	Lothar Elling, RWTH Aachen, Germany A novel enzyme module system for the one-pot synthesis of hyaluronic acid from sucrose and N-acetylglucosamine
12:30	Benjamin Schumann, Imperial College, London, UK Understanding the molecular details of mucin-type O-glycosylation by glycosyltransferase bump-hole engineering
12:50	Fabian Pfrengle, MPI Potsdam, Germany Characterizing plant glycosyltransferases in high-throughput using azido-functionalized sugar nucleotides on glycan arrays
13:10	Lunch
14:30	Rico Uhler, Mannheim U of Applied Science, Germany Glycoengineering of the human embryonic kidney FreeStyle 293-F cell line towards prolongend bioavailablity of recombinant coagulation factor VII
14:50	Keynote Lecture: Xi Chen, U of California, Davis, USA One-pot multienzyme (OPME) chemoenzymatic synthesis of complex carbohydrates
	Session: Synthesis of Oligossaccharides, Glycans and Nucleotide Sugar Chair: Lothar Elling
15:30	Nathan Lewis, U of California, San Diego, USA Elucidating the biosynthetic pathways of human milk oligosaccharides through a systems biology approach
15:50	Reza Mahour, MPI Magdeburg, Germany Multi-enzyme process development for production of glycosyltransferase substrates: activated sugars
16:10	Anne Usvalampi, Aalto U, Espoo, Finland Exploring transglycosylation reactions for production of novel fucose-containing oligosaccharides
16:30	Rachel Chen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Novel metabolic engineering strategies for oligosaccharides synthesis
16:50	Break with Coffee & Tea
	Session: Impact of Expression Systems and Cultivation Conditions on Glycosylation Chair: Alexander Frey
17:20	Laura Palomares, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico Growth rate of CHO cells cultures in perfusion cultures determines the quality of a monoclonal antibody
17:40	Seongkyu Yoon, U of Massachusetts Lowell, USA An Illumination of Nucleotide Sugar Dynamics Under the Impact of Galactose Supplementation in CHO Cell Culture
18:00	Sumit Madhuresh, Pfizer Inc, Andover, USA Novel mechanistic insights towards precision control of N-glycosylation in CHO cell fed-batch cultures
18:20	Dine&Discuss – Food, beer, wine and soft drinks are included

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

Tuesday

Session: Synthetic Glycoengineering and Glycoengineering via Cell Line Design - Part 1

Session: Synthetic Glycoengineering and Glycoengineering via Cell Line Design - Part 2

Session: Synthesis of Oligossaccharides, Glycans and Nucleotide Sugar

Session: Impact of Expression Systems and Cultivation Conditions on Glycosylation