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

 

Prof. Jonathan Cramer, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, DE Title: “Sweet Drugs for Bad Bugs: Carbohydrate-based Therapeutics Against the DC-SIGN-mediated Dissemination of Viral Pathogens”