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Satellite Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology
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Annual Participating Investigators Meeting
November 12, 2008 [Open to public]
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Meeting location: The Renaissance Worthington Hotel, Fort Worth, Texas (USA)
Chair: James C. Paulson (The Scripps Research Institute)
 GLYCANS IN CELL COMMUNICATION
This meeting will cover a broad scope of topics involving the roles of glycans in cell communication, from host-pathogen interactions to functions of mammalian glycan binding proteins, glycomics and glycoinformatics
Confirmed Speakers
Ian Wilson (The Scripps Research Institute)
Title: Glycolipid binding and specificity by the CD1 family of immune receptors
Oscar Campetella (Universidad Nacional de General San Martin)
Title: Apoptosis, proliferative response and co-stimulatory effect induced by galectin-8 on T cells
Shie-Liang (Edmond) Hsieh (National Yang-Ming University)
Title: Targeting non-TLR receptor for the treatment of dengue hemorrhagic fever
Yvette Van Kooyk (VU Medical Center)
Title: Glycomic profiling and glycan targeting of dendritic cells
Kenneth Ng (University of Calgary)
Title: Clostridium difficile toxin structure and glycan binding specificity
Angela Gronenborn (University of Pittsburgh)
Title: The CVNH family of lectins - structure, folding and sugar binding
Dennis Burton (The Scripps Research Institute)
Title: Targeting the glycan shield of HIV in vaccine design
Thilo Stehle (University of Tuebingen)
Title: Structural and functional analysis of polyomavirus interactions with their ganglioside receptors
Terrence Tumpey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Title: Relevance of human and avian influenza virus binding specificity on infection and transmission in ferrets
Other planned events include:
Poster sessions
Open discussion forums for CFG subgroups and their Subgroup Leaders (preview)
For planning purposes - Please notify Anna Crie (annacrie@scripps.edu) if you are
planning to attend. A detailed agenda will be sent to you prior to the meeting.
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