Invited Lectures

Shoshana Arad, Red Microalgal Polysaccharides: from Test Tube to Products

Yves Bleriot, Seven-Membered Iminosugars: from Glycosidase Inhibition to Skeleton Rearrangement

David Bonnaffe, Glycosaminoglycans : Synthetic Tricks, Mimetics and Chimeras to Unravel New Therapeutic Targets

Nicolai Bovin, ABO Blood Group System: Chemical Synthesis meets Immunology

Bjorn Christensen, Periodate Oxidised Polysaccharides: Basis for Novel Biomaterials?

Domenico Garozzo, The MALDI TOF/TOF Mass Spectrometer as a Chemical Lab for the structural characterization of   
lipooligosaccharides               

Rita Gerardy-Schan, the Role of (Poly)Sialo Glycotopes in Brain Development and Functions

Milos Hricovini, Structure of Heparin Oligosaccharides. Reconciliation of Theoretical and Experimental NMR Data

Yukishige Ito, Synthesis of Eukaryotic and Bacterial glycans

Knud Jensen, New Chemical Tools to Study the Glycobiology of Plant-Microbe Interactions

Motomitsu Kitaoka, Molecular Basis on the Predominant Intestinal Growth of Bifidobacteria in Breast-fed Infant

Paul Kosma, Higher-Carbon Sugars of Bacterial Lipopolysaccharides: Synthesis and Binding Interactions with Antibodies and Lectins

Vladimir Kren, Promiscuity of Fungal beta-N-Acetylhexosaminidases

Sonsoles Martin-Santamaria, Molecular Modelling in Molecular Recognition: Protein-Carbohydrate and Carbohydrate-Carbohydrate Interactions. Some Examples

Chris Meier, Efficient Synthetic Access to Functionalized Nucleosidediphosphate-Sugars

Herman S. Overkleeft, Activity-Based Glycosidase Profiling

Francesco Peri, Synthetic Glycolipids Targeting the LPS-TLR4 Signaling: a New Generation of Immunotherapeutics

Hans-Ulrich Reissig, Synthesis of Novel Carbohydrate Mimetics

Amélia Rauter, Exploring Glycochemistry for Molecular Diversity and Bioactivity

Javier Rojo, Targeting DC-SIGN by Carbohydrate Multivalent Systems

Anthony Serianni, 1,2 -Dicarbonyl Sugars in Biology:  Phosphate-Catalyzed Sketetal Rearrangement Involving C1-C2 Transposition

Alba Silipo, Protein-carbohydrate interactions at host pathogen interface

Salvatore J. Turco, D-Arabinosylation of the Surface LPG of Leishmania Major Parasites

Dusai Uhrin, Interactions of Complement Factor H with Glycosaminoglycans

Chris Whitfield, Assembly and Export of Bacterial Polysaccharides in ABC Transporter-Dependent Pathways

Göran Widmalm, Carbohydrate Structure: an NMR and Computational Approach

Robert J. Woods, Computational Carbohydrate Threading Leads to the Discovery of Novel Glycan-Binding Specificities for a Diagnostic Protein

Biao Yu, Synthesis of Cyclic Triterpene saponins with potent antitumor activities