After a long break due to Covid-19 restrictions we are finally able to welcome the community back together for our first in-person event. The Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Interest Group have teamed up with the Medicinal Chemistry branch of the Institute of Chemistry Ireland to bring you a conference focused on the Applications of Carbohydrates with a focus on medicinal chemistry, biotechnology and materials on the 21st-22nd November '22 at The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The conference will cover topics across the glycosciences, with a particular focus on medicinal chemistry, biotechnology, and materials science. It will feature an excellent line up of speakers from the UK, Ireland and beyond, including 2 Dextra Award lectures from Dr Tracey Gloster 2019 and Prof Gavin Miller 2021, as well as ample networking opportunities, including a dedicated Early Career Researcher session.
If you wish to take part in the poster session or be considered for an ECR oral presentation, please send an abstract to a.ni.cheallaigh@keele.ac.uk by Friday the 14th of October (abstract: Calibri body size 11, 300 character word limit and images limited to one figure). A number of ECR travel bursaries of up to £250 have been kindly provided by our sponsors. If you wish to be considered for these travel bursaries please indicate this when submitting your abstract.
We are looking forward to welcoming the community back to in-person events and hope you will join us. If you would like to attend the conference dinner please select the Add-On when purchasing your tickets.
Preliminary Schedule is as below:
Full Schedule is as below:
MONDAY 21 NOV
12:00 Arrival & registration
12:30 Welcome
12:45-13:30 Dr Tracey Gloster, University of St Andrews
Title to be confirmed
13:30-14:00 Prof Ulf Nilsson, Lund University
Glycomimetics: From Discovery to Clinic
14:00-14:30 Prof Sophia Karagiannis, King's College London
IgE class antibodies for cancer immunotherapy: towards understanding antibody glycans
14:30-14:45 Coffee
14:45-15:30 Prof Alexander Titz, Saarland University
Bacterial lectins as targets for antibiofilm agents, targeted drug delivery and imaging probes.
15:30-16:00 Prof Jeroen Codee (Leiden University)
Synthetic carbohydrate chemistry to understand mycobacterial glycolipids
16:00-17:00 Poster Session with Sponsorship Presentations
19:30 Conference dinner and entertainment
TUESDAY 22 NOV
9.15 Coffee
9:45-10:30 Prof Gavin Miller, Keele University
Synthesis and biological chemistry of sugar nucleotides and nucleoside analogues
10:30-11:00 Prof Paul Murphy (University of Galway)
Stereoselective reactions at the anomeric centre for lectin ligand synthesis
11:00-11:30 Coffee & poster session
11:30-12:00 Dr Joanna Mc Gouran (Trinity College Dublin)
Modified Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides to Probe DNA Damage Repair
12:00 - 12.30 Prof Stefan Oscarson
Towards a fungal glycoconjugate vaccine: Investigation of binding specificity and catalytic activity of mAbs using synthetic oligosaccharide tools
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30 Poster Prizes
13.45-15.45 ECR afternoon
Jon Cuccui, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (20 mins)
Biologically assembled bacterial glycoconjugate vaccines and their progress towards the clinic
Tessa Keenan, University of York (15 mins)
Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of Manβ1,4GlcNAc analogues for investigation as STING activators.
Joseph Byrne, University of Galway (15 mins)
Carbohydrate-functionalised metal complexes: targeting bacterial lectins
Caecilie Benkendorff, Keele University (15 mins)
Chemical synthesis of fluorinated carbocyclic nucleoside analogues: towards new pharmacophore space
Javier Melo Diaz, Ludger Ltd (15 mins)
Egg yolk Sialylglycopeptide: purification isolation and characterization of N-glycans from minor glycopeptide species
Collette Guy, University of Warwick (15 mins)
Killing TB from the outside by glycan targeting
Gunnar Schroeder, Queen’s University Belfast: (20 mins)
Legionella glycosyltransferase effectors – versatile tools for host subversion and beyond
15.45-16.00 ECR Prizes and Closing Remarks
This event and the awards have been kindly sponsored by RSC Advances, RSC Medicinal Chemistry, Organic and Biomoleular Chemistry, Dextra Laboratories, Heparin Building Blocks - Pharmaren, Biosynth and Enginzyme
The conference will cover topics across the glycosciences, with a particular focus on medicinal chemistry, biotechnology, and materials science. It will feature an excellent line up of speakers from the UK, Ireland and beyond, including 2 Dextra Award lectures from Dr Tracey Gloster 2019 and Prof Gavin Miller 2021, as well as ample networking opportunities, including a dedicated Early Career Researcher session.
If you wish to take part in the poster session or be considered for an ECR oral presentation, please send an abstract to a.ni.cheallaigh@keele.ac.uk by Friday the 14th of October (abstract: Calibri body size 11, 300 character word limit and images limited to one figure). A number of ECR travel bursaries of up to £250 have been kindly provided by our sponsors. If you wish to be considered for these travel bursaries please indicate this when submitting your abstract.
We are looking forward to welcoming the community back to in-person events and hope you will join us. If you would like to attend the conference dinner please select the Add-On when purchasing your tickets.
Preliminary Schedule is as below:
Full Schedule is as below:
MONDAY 21 NOV
12:00 Arrival & registration
12:30 Welcome
12:45-13:30 Dr Tracey Gloster, University of St Andrews
Title to be confirmed
13:30-14:00 Prof Ulf Nilsson, Lund University
Glycomimetics: From Discovery to Clinic
14:00-14:30 Prof Sophia Karagiannis, King's College London
IgE class antibodies for cancer immunotherapy: towards understanding antibody glycans
14:30-14:45 Coffee
14:45-15:30 Prof Alexander Titz, Saarland University
Bacterial lectins as targets for antibiofilm agents, targeted drug delivery and imaging probes.
15:30-16:00 Prof Jeroen Codee (Leiden University)
Synthetic carbohydrate chemistry to understand mycobacterial glycolipids
16:00-17:00 Poster Session with Sponsorship Presentations
19:30 Conference dinner and entertainment
TUESDAY 22 NOV
9.15 Coffee
9:45-10:30 Prof Gavin Miller, Keele University
Synthesis and biological chemistry of sugar nucleotides and nucleoside analogues
10:30-11:00 Prof Paul Murphy (University of Galway)
Stereoselective reactions at the anomeric centre for lectin ligand synthesis
11:00-11:30 Coffee & poster session
11:30-12:00 Dr Joanna Mc Gouran (Trinity College Dublin)
Modified Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Oligonucleotides to Probe DNA Damage Repair
12:00 - 12.30 Prof Stefan Oscarson
Towards a fungal glycoconjugate vaccine: Investigation of binding specificity and catalytic activity of mAbs using synthetic oligosaccharide tools
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30 Poster Prizes
13.45-15.45 ECR afternoon
Jon Cuccui, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (20 mins)
Biologically assembled bacterial glycoconjugate vaccines and their progress towards the clinic
Tessa Keenan, University of York (15 mins)
Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of Manβ1,4GlcNAc analogues for investigation as STING activators.
Joseph Byrne, University of Galway (15 mins)
Carbohydrate-functionalised metal complexes: targeting bacterial lectins
Caecilie Benkendorff, Keele University (15 mins)
Chemical synthesis of fluorinated carbocyclic nucleoside analogues: towards new pharmacophore space
Javier Melo Diaz, Ludger Ltd (15 mins)
Egg yolk Sialylglycopeptide: purification isolation and characterization of N-glycans from minor glycopeptide species
Collette Guy, University of Warwick (15 mins)
Killing TB from the outside by glycan targeting
Gunnar Schroeder, Queen’s University Belfast: (20 mins)
Legionella glycosyltransferase effectors – versatile tools for host subversion and beyond
15.45-16.00 ECR Prizes and Closing Remarks
This event and the awards have been kindly sponsored by RSC Advances, RSC Medicinal Chemistry, Organic and Biomoleular Chemistry, Dextra Laboratories, Heparin Building Blocks - Pharmaren, Biosynth and Enginzyme
