Recording from the EGC 2021 Webinar series will be listed here. Please note that not all of the lectures will be publicly shared. Please click on the titles to view the talks.
EGC 2021 Webinar series
Dr. Elissa Fadda, Maynooth University, Ireland Title: Functional role of the glycan shield in the activation of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein
Prof. Gestur Vidarsson, Sanquin Research, Amsterdam, NL Title: IgG fucosylation as an On/Off switch in human immune responses, and how it drives exaggerated pathologies in COVID-19
Dr. Karli Reiding, Utrecht University, NL Title: Whole neutrophil glycoproteomics reveals a subset of highly atypical glycoproteins
Dr. Francesca Berni, Leiden University, NL Title: Synthesis of Glycobiology-based antigens from S. aureus and E. fecaelis
Dr. Camilla Matassini, University of Florence, IT Title: Nitrogen-containing glycomimetics: from synthesis to therapeutic application in metabolic and neurological disorders
Dr. Laura Morelli, University of Milan, IT Title: Saccharide fragments common to Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 19
Dr. Rhianna Rowland, University of York, UK Title: Baculoviral expression of Human Beta-Glucocerebrosidase Enables Structural Analysis of Novel Glycosidase Active Compounds for Gaucher Disease
Prof. Jon Agirre, University of York, UK Title: Integrative structural glycobiology – computational methods sans frontières
Dr. Juan C. Muñoz García, University of East Anglia, UK Title: Pushing the limits of solution and solid-state NMR methods for the characterisation of carbohydrate-based materials
Dr. Supriya Dey, Harvard University, US Title: Programmable one-pot synthesis of heparin sulfate and commercial heparin anticoagulants
Dr. Eris Sletten, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, DE Title: Automated synthesis of glycans
Dr. Elisabeth Lowe, Newcastle University, UK Title: Type 9 secretion enables sharing of fungal mannan in gut Bacteroides
Dr. Christoph Rademacher, University of Vienna, AT Title: Glycan-based Cell-Cell Communication – How Lectins Read the Sugar-Code
Prof. Steven Townsend, Vanderbilt University, US Title: Human Milk Oligosaccharides for Non-Infant Uses
Prof. Matthew Pratt, University of Southern California, US Title: Discovering O-GlcNAc biology using synthetic proteins
Dr. Cecilia Romano,Technical University of Denmark DTU, DK Title: Tumour Associated Carbohydrate Antigens
Dr. Gavin Miller, Keel University, UK Title: Chemoenzymatic synthesis of sugar nucleotides to explore the mannore dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dr. Marcelina Pyclik, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy Polish Academy of Sciences, PL Title: Peptydoglycan – “simple” structure with immunomodulatory potential
Dr. Jolanda van Munster, Scotland’s Rural University College (SRUC), UK Title: Lignocellulose Degradation
Prof. Veronique Blanchard, Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin, DE Title: Impact of age on anti-spike IgG glycosylation during COVID-19 infection
Dr. Ruben R. Rosencrantz, Fraunhofer IAP, DE Title: Glycobiotechnology and Polymer Science
Dr. Ieva Bagdonaite, University of Copenhagen, DK Title: O-glycosylation of SARS-CoV-2: are we close to the full picture?
Dr. Manfred Wuhrer, Leiden University Medical Center, NL Title: Antibody glycosylation dynamics associate with clinical outcome in Covid-19
Dr. Alonso Pardo Vargas, Technical University of Denmark, DK Title: Automated Solid Phase Synthesis of Oligosaccharides as Tool for Structural and Functional Analysis