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Participating Investigators Meeting
November 11, 2007
[Open to public]


Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Meeting location: Imperial Ballroom at Boston Park Plaza, 64 Arlington Street, Boston, Massachusetts
Chair: James C. Paulson (The Scripps Research Institute)


  SATELLITE MEETING: GLYCANS IN CELL COMMUNICATION


8:30 to 8:45 a.m. Introduction
  James C. Paulson (The Scripps Research Institute) &
Mirko von Elstermann (Nature Publishing Group)

8:45 to 12 noon Glycoimmunology

  • 8:45 - 9:10
    		•  C-type lectins in innate and adaptive immunity
    Sandra van Vliet (Vrije University Medical Center)

  • 9:10 - 9:35
    		•  Mincle is a novel macrophage receptor for the yeast Candida Albicans
    Christine Wells (Griffith University)

  • 9:35 - 10:00
    		•  Immune cell C-type lectins that recognize viruses
    Kurt Drickamer (Imperial College)

    10:00 to 10:25 a.m. Morning Break

  • 10:25 - 10:50
    		•  Glycan binding properties of galectins
    Richard D. Cummings (Emory University)

  • 10:50 - 11:15
    		•  Galectin-1 in the regulation of immune cell homeostasis: Lessons from experimental models in vivo
    Gabriel Rabinovich (University of Buenos Aires)

  • 11:15 - 11:40
    		•  Role of Siglec-G in B cell signaling
    Lars Nitschke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

  • 11:40 - 11:50
    		•  Identification of novel novel carbohydrate binding endothelial receptors by a carbohydrate-mimicking peptide
    Michiko N. Fukuda (The Burnham Institute)

  • 11:50 - 12:00
    		•  Neuropilin-2 is a Newly-Recognized Polysialylated Protein Expressed in Human Dendritic Cells that Modulates Dendritic Cell-T Lymphocyte Interactions
    Nicholas M. Stamatos (University of Maryland)

    Noon to 1:30 p.m. Lunch / Posters

    12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Participating Investigators / CFG business meeting

    1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Pathogen host interactions

  • 1:30 - 1:55
    		•  Parainfluenza virus receptors
    Gillian Air (The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)

  • 1:55 - 2:20
    		•  Streptococcus mitis platelet aggregation factor: A cholesterol-dependent cytolysin with a novel fucolectin domain
    Rodney Tweten (The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center)

  • 2:20 - 2:30
    		•  Role of galectin-3 in leukocyte recruitment in a murine model of lung infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae
    Sachiko Sato (University of Laval)

    2:30 to 3:20 p.m. Emerging Topics

  • 2:30 - 2:55
    		•  Myelin-associated glycoprotein (Siglec-4) in axon regeneration
    Ronald L. Schnaar (The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)

  • 2:55 - 3:20
    		•  The changing glycome of the developing myocardium
    Eric S. Bennett (University of South Florida)

    3:20 to 3:50 p.m. Afternoon Break / Posters

    3:50 to 5:10 p.m. Analytical Glycomics / Bioinformatics

  • 3:50 - 4:15
    		•  Glycomic analysis of human and murine leukocytes
    Stuart Haslam (Imperial College)

  • 4:15 - 4:40
    		•  Strategies for building interfaces to glycomics databases
    Rahul Raman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • 4:40 - 5:10
    		•  World efforts for building glycan structure databases
    Martin Frank (German Cancer Research Center)

    5:10 to 5:30 p.m. Open discussions


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    Photos at the meeting.





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