EGC 2025 Webinar Schedule

Our webinar series is co-organized by the EuChemS Division of Glycoscience & recognized by the European Chemical Society.

A series of free to attend webinars to highlight the innovative and ground breaking glycoscience research in Europe and globally. This is part of the EGCs long-term vision in establishing a European-wide glycoscience research network with strong links to leading scientists from around the world. The webinar series is open to all international scientists and will provide a platform for young and established researchers to network, share ideas, and build long-term partnerships with other international glycoscience organizations.

If you are interested in participating as a speaker in the series, please complete the Expression of Interest form and a member of the team will be in touch.

A big thank you to GlycanAge for financial support of our webinar series!

Learn more about GlycanAge here.

2025 Webinar Schedule & Recordings

EGC Webinar #82 Glycobiology (Jan 30, 4 pm CET)

Alem Storani (University of Basel, Switzerland)

"Identification of mucosal glycans that regulate the acute-to-chronic infection switch in Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

Steven de Taeye (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands)

"Optimizing anti-viral antibodies through glyco-engineering to enhance therapeutic potential"

EGC Webinar #83 Glycochemistry (Feb 13, 4 pm CET)

Jindřich Karban (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia)

"Glycomimetic lectin ligands resulting from the incorporation of fluorine or an organometallic moiety into carbohydrates"

Angélique Ferry (CY Cergy Paris University, France)

"Metal-catalyzed functionalization of sugars"

EGC Webinar #84 Analytical Glycoscience (Feb 27, 4 pm CET)

Gordan Lauc (GlycanAge, Croatia)

"Human Glycome Project – What did we learn from first 200,000 human glycomes"

Anabel Torrente López (Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands)

"Bacterial glycoconjugate vaccines characterization by LC-MS"

EGC Webinar #85 Glycobiology (March 13, 4 pm CET)

Inês Alves (i3S, Portugal)

"Glycan mimicry as a key mechanism in the loss of self-tolerance"

Julie Bouckaert (CNRS & University of Lille, France)

"Glycan binding sites: lock-and-key model or adaptable levers?"

EGC Webinar #86 Glycochemistry (March 27, 4 pm CET)

Fabricio Ramirez-Cortés (University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czechia)

"Carbohydrate-based ligands for lectin targeting"

Patrick van der Wel (Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

"Labeling and solid-state NMR studies of hyaluronic acid and other polysaccharides: hydrogels, nanoparticles and more"

EGC Webinar #87 with Australian Glycoscience Society (AGS) (April 10, 9 am CEST)

Larissa Dirr (Griffith University, Australia)

"Exploiting sugar-cleaving and sugar-activating enzymes as anti-infective drug targets"

Nichollas Scott (University of Melbourne, Australia)

"Development of monoclonal antibodies against Pseudaminic acid for multi-pathogen glycoproteomics and passive immune therapies"

EGC Webinar #88 Glycochemistry with Glycoforum Japan (April 24, 10 am CEST)

Go Hirai (Kyushu University, Japan)

"Linkage-editing pseudo-glycans: Concept and catalytic synthesis"

Atsushi Miyagawa (Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)

"Synthesis of β-1,3-glucan mimicking polymers by polymer modification, and evaluation of their immunological activation"

EGC Webinar #89 Analytical Glycoscience (May 8, 4 pm CEST)

Marthe Walvoort (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

"Bacterial polysaccharides in health and disease"

Jean-Lou Reyre (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)

"Exploring functional diversity in mycobacterial GH183 D-arabinanases: Potential roles in cell wall remodelling and toxicity"

EGC Webinar #90 Glycobiology (May 22, 4 pm CEST)

Catarina Gomes (i3S, Portugal)

"Development of novel strategies to target SLeX expression in cancer cells"

Tatiana Galochkina (Université Paris Cité, France)

"DIONYSUS: a multi-scale analysis of the protein-carbohydrate interface diversity"

EGC Webinar #91 Analytical Glycoscience (June 19, 4 pm CEST)

Christopher Ashwood (Protea Glycosciences, Australia)

"A next-generation PGC-LC-MS toolbox for specific and accessible structural glycomics"

EGC Webinar #92 Glycobiology (September 11, 4 pm CEST)

Falk Büttner (Hannover Medical School, Germany)

"Glycosphingolipid glycan analytics by xCGE-LIF for cancer biomarker discovery"

Valerie R. Wiersma (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

"GlycoHematology: Sweet Solutions for Hematological Disease"

EGC Webinar #93 with GlycoNet (September 25, 4 pm CEST)

Introduction to GlycoNet

Anna Blakney (University of British Columbia, Canada)

"Next generation RNA vaccines & therapies"

Stephen G. Withers (University of British Columbia, Canada)

"Recent developments in the discovery and engineering of bacterial glycoside hydrolases using high-throughput approaches"

EGC Webinar #94 with GlySpace Alliance (October 9, 4 pm CEST)

Frédérique Lisacek (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland)

Rene Ranzinger (Complex Carbohydrate Research Centre, University of Georgia, United States)

GlySpace Alliance - Part 1

Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita (Soka University, Japan)

Urnisha Bhuiyan (The George Washington University, United States)

GlySpace Alliance - Part 2

EGC Webinar #95 Glycobiology (Oct 23, 4 pm CET)

Yoann Rombouts (CNRS-Université de Toulouse, France)

"The C-type lectin receptor DCIR senses galactose-terminated N-glycans on LRP1 to regulate myeloid cell function"

Ole K Greiner-Tollersrud (UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway)

"Lysosomal N-glycan trimming results in a unique glycan pattern serving as a marker of lysosomal glycoproteins"

EGC Webinar #96 Glycochemistry (Nov 6, 4 pm CET)

Joseph Byrne (University College Dublin, Ireland)

"Glycoconjugate metal complexes: As antiadhesives against pathogens, and sensors for bacterial lectins"

Stéphanie Norsikian (CNRS Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, France)

"Glycosylation strategies for the stereoselective synthesis of natural products and analogues"

EGC Webinar #97 Analytical Glycosciences (Nov 20, 4 pm CET)

Peicheng Sun (Wageningen University, the Netherlands)

"In-depth product profiling of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases"

Weiwei Wang (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

"Deep structural characterization of site-specific glycosylation in human endogenous antibodies"