European Glycoscience Community
EGC Webinars
The European Glycoscience Community has been organising webinars to showcase groundbreaking work in Glycoscience and provide a platform to network and share ideas. For a list of upcoming talks please follow the link to the 2025 schedules.
Glyco 2030: A Roadmap for Glycoscience in Europe
After several European wide workshops and engaging with leading scientists in Europe (>350 stakeholder engagement) in the last 3 years, the CarboMet team is pleased to announce the launch of the new glycoscience roadmap. While this has been largely led by European scientists, CarboMet has engaged with many other networks around the world, highlighting global challenges and opportunities in the field of glycoscience.
Carbohydrates constitute the largest source of biomass on Earth and their exploitation will be crucial if we are to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and create a Circular Economy. Carbohydrate metrology and measurements have been key to advancing glycoscience research and through the CarboMet project a network of scientists and policymakers was established. The European Glycoscience Community (EGC) will continue to develop and expand on this initiative to ensure glycoscience research is represented across Europe and is a priority for future EU funding. For more information and map of our network please visit the 'toolbox' section.
The EGC will facilitate engagement between key players and stakeholders of the glycoscience community across Europe to identify the current state of the art and in particular future innovation and technological challenges. LEARN MORE
The team has been working closely with the stakeholders in Europe to initiate a pan-European Glycoscience Community to help develop, support, and provide networking opportunities to early career researchers. EGC is looking to partner with national glycoscience networks to support this initiative – we are already working with the RSC carbohydrate group, ACS Carbohydrate division, INNOGLY COST network, Glyco@Alps and many more to engage and organize a series of glycoscience Webinars. Please email projectmanager@euroglyco.com for more information on how to get involved.
COVID-19 UPDATE: A dedicated COVID-19 resource page has been created with the latest research papers on COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2. The database has been curated with the aim of highlighting the importance of glycoscience in developing diagnostics and new therapeutics. The toolbox feature is now fully searchable and can be used to identify carbohydrate research centres in Europe that are working on COVID-19 research.
ENABLING TECHNOLOGY AREAS
Groups within the CSA will work in parallel on 3 Enabling Technology Areas:
BIOINDUSTRY SECTORS
In addition, 4 BioIndustry Sectors have been identified as of immediate interest for CarboMet where the exploitation of carbohydrates will have huge impact:
Latest Policy and Briefing Papers
Our latest policy and briefing papers are now available to download.
For policy makers and non-technical audience:
- Carbohydrate based vaccine to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- Glycomics in diagnostics and precision medicine
- Gut microbiome and its influence on health
- Future of carbohydrates in sustainable materials
Detailed technical reports for industry professionals and academics can be downloaded from the resource section.
EGC News
- Postdoctoral Researcher: Glycoproteomics in Cytokine Structure Biology (Griffith University)
The Institute for Biomedicine and Glycomics at Griffith University is seeking a Research Fellow to join an exciting interdisciplinary project investigating how protein glycosylation regulates cytokine signalling during erythropoiesis and how this knowledge can be applied to improve the ex vivo production of red blood cells.
- PhD position: Self-assembly of synthetic polysaccharides (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces)
A PhD position in the Carbohydrate Materials group (under the supervision of Martina Delbianco), for the project “From well-defined glycans to responsive nanomaterials.”
- Postdoctoral Researcher: Glycosylation in Cell-Cell Communication/Molecular Biology (University of Georgia)
The Tsui Lab in the Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM) at the University of Georgia is seeking to recruit a highly motivated postdoc to join our new team in studying the role of glycosylation in cell-cell communication.
- PhD position: Computational Enzyme Design for Glycoengineering (University Ramon Llull)
The Biological Chemistry and Biotechnology Group at IQS, Universitat Ramon Llull (Barcelona, Spain) invites applications for a PhD position in computational glycobiology, enzyme design, starting as soon is possible.
- PhD position: Enzymatic synthesis of complex bacterial glycans (University of Groningen)
In the NWO-Vidi project ‘Healthy sugars for a healthy gut’, a fully funded 4-year PhD position is available in the Chemical Glycobiology group of Prof. Marthe Walvoort, in the division of Chemical Biology at the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen.
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 737395.