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Glycoconjugates: Versatile Structures and Intriguing Functions
 
Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry , The Course will be held in Opatija, Croatia
Sep 24 - 30, 1999

Basic Glycobiology

Mirna Flögel: Introduction to glycobiology;
J.P. Kamerling: Glycoscience and nomenclature recommendations: A serious point of attention?
Joel H. Shaper: Biosynthesis of glycoproteins
Marija Heffer-Lauc: Biosynthesis of glycolipids;
N. Sharon: Molecular biology, structure, function and application of lectins (2 x 45 min)
Friedrich Altmann: Protein-N-glycosylation in plants and lower eukaryotes
Ronald L. Schnaar: Animal lectins


Functional Glycobiology

Roy Jefferis: Antibody glycosylation I: influence on structure and function.
Roy Jefferis: Antibody glycosylation II: relevance to applications of recombinant molecules in vivo
Yuan C. Lee: Glycoside clustering effects and carbohydrate binding
J.P. Kamerling: Studying human chorionic gonadotropin: From primary glycan analysis to 3D protein analysis
Ronald L. Schnaar: Glycoconjugates in cell adhesion
Marija Heffer-Lauc: Glycoconjugates in neural development
Kieran Breen: The role of glycoproteins in neural cell function
Joel H. Shaper: The role of glycoconjugates in fertilization

Glycobiology and Disease

Mirna Flögel: Glycopathology
Willem van Dijk: Glycosylation of acute phase proteins
Friedrich Altmann: N-glycans as cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants in allergy
Pauline Rudd: Roles for N- and O-glycosylation in some glycoproteins involved in the humoral and cellular immune response (2 x 45 min)
Gordan Lauc: Glycobiology of stress


Methods in Glycobiology

Gordan Lauc: Lectins as a tool to study glycoproteins
Willem van Dijk: Analysis of glycosylation changes in disease
Yuan C. Lee: Neoglycoconjugates
Jasna Peter-Katalinic: Mass spectrometric methods for structural analysis of glycoconjugates
Yuan C. Lee: Fluorometry in Glycobiology
Jasna Peter-Katalinic: Affinity mass spectrometry of non-covalent carbohydrate/protein complexes
Kieran Breen: Experimental tools for the study of glycoprotein function

Organized by:

prof. dr. Mirna Flögel

Invited Speakers:

Mirna Flögel (Zagreb, HR), Course Organizer
Friedrich Altmann (Wien, A)
Kieran Breen (Dundee, UK)
Jim van Dijk (Amsterdam, NL)
Marija Heffer-Lauc (Zagreb, HR)
Roy Jefferis (Birmingham, UK)
Hans Kamerling (Utrecht, NL)
Gordan Lauc (Zagreb, HR)
Yuan.C. Lee (Baltimore, USA)
Jasna Peter-Kataliniæ (Münster, DE)
Pauline Rudd (Oxford, UK)
Ronald Schnaar, (Baltimore, USA)
Joel Shaper (Baltimore, USA)
Nathan Sharon (Rehovot, Israel)

Deadline for Abstracts:

N/A

Registration:

Deadline May 1st, all info and forms at our web-site

Email for Requests and Registration: glauc@public.srce.hr
 
 

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