Program

Plenary Speakers

1. Marek Chmielewski (Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
   Synthesis of iminosugars from unsaturated lactones and nitrones
   
   
2. Ole Hindsgaul (Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen-V, Denmark)
   Carbohydrate chemistry yields new tools for glycobiology
   
   
3. Maria Hrmova (University of Adelaide, Plant Genomics Center, Glen Osmond, Australia)
   Structural basis of catalysis by hydrolytic enzymes that modify plant cell walls
   
   
4. Satoshi Kaneko (Food Biotechnological Division, National Research Institute Tsukuba, lbaraki, Japan)
   Structural characterization of substrate specificities of hemicellulases
   
   
5. Monica M. Palcic (Carlsberg Laboratory, Valby Copenhagen, Denmark)
   Structure-function studies on glycosyltransferases
   
   
6. Vernon Reinhold (Department of Chemistry, UNH-Glycomics Center, Molecular Cellular & Biomedical Sciences, Durham, USA)
   Spatial resolution of carbohydrate complexity; IT-MSⁿ sequencing
   
   
7. László Somsák (Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)
   Glucose-derived inhibitors of glycogen phosphorylase go nanomolar
   

Invited Speakers

1. Maija Tenkanen (Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland)
   An interplay of accessory enzyme in xylan and mannan degradation
   
   
2. Paul Dupree (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
   Synthesis and structure of xylan and arabinogalactan
   
   
3. F.I. Javier Pastor (Faculty of Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain)
   Xylanases for biotechnology of lignocellulose
   
   
4. Don A. Cowan (Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa)
   Metagenomic Gene Discovery: Widening the search for the novel enzymes
   
   
5. Sandra Hinz (Dyadic Netherlands, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
   Functional analysis of the xylanolytic enzyme spectrum of the fungus Chrysosporium lucknowense C1
   
   
6. Gustav Styger, Bernard A. Prior & Florian F. Bauer (Institute for Wine Biotechnology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa)
   Identification of genes that impact on aroma profiles produced by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae from saccharides
   
   
7. Christopher D. Warner, Clark Ford, and Peter Reilly (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
   Structure and properties of a GH44 xyloglucanase/endoglucanase
   
   
8. Paul Christakopoulos (Chemical Engineering Department, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
   Glycosyl hydrolases from Sporotrichum thermophile with biotechnological potential
   
   
9. Gregory Côte (National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, USA)
   Applied research on glucansucrases
   
   
10. Barry V. McCleary, Ania Draga and Ruth Ivory (Megazyme International Ireland Ltd., Bray Bussines Park, Bray, Ireland)
    Measurement of dietary fibre and dietary fibre components
    
    
11. Satoshi Makishima (Department of Chemistry and Material Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan)
    (Marketing Administration Division, B Food Science Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan)
    Efficient recovery of β-linked sugar from soft-biomass cell wall with hydrothermal and enzyme hybrid reaction
    
    
12. Hung Lee (NSERC Bioconversion Network, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
    Xylose fermentation
    
    
13. Maria G. Tuohy, Manimaran Ayyachamy, Anthonia O’Donovan, Vijai K. Gupta, Deborah M. Waters, Mary Shier, Jeremy Brebion, Dagmar B. Stengel and Zoe A. Popper
    (National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland)
    Enzymatic deconstruction of plant biopolymers by the thermophilic fungus Talaromyces emersonii
    
    
14. Carme Rovira (ICREA / Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
    Substrate conformational itineraries in glycoside hydrolase catalysis. Insight from QM/MM metadynamics simulations
    
    
15. Caroline Nugier-Chauvin (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, Rennes, France)
    Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of bioactive furanosyl-containing glycoconjugates
    
    
16. Steen Hansen (Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, Manchester, United Kingdom)
    New approaches to Heparin like oligosaccharides-Synthesis and studies of biological and physical properties
    
    
17. Vincent Ferriers (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Rennes, Rennes, France)
    UDP-Furanoses: Synthesis and their impact on mycobacteria and Leishmania sp.
    
    
18. Andriy Synytsya, Miroslav Novák, Gordon K. Gomba, Jana Čopíková (Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic)
    Medicinally important mushroom polysaccharides: Isolation and structural characterization
    
    
19. Masahiro Mizuno, Shuji Kachi, Nobuaki Satoh, Kouichi Nozaki, Yoshihiko Amano (Faculty of Engineering, Shinshu University, Wakasato, Nagano, Japan)
    Enzymatic degradation of regenerated cellulose and biomass treated with ionic liquid
    
    
20. Michaela Wimmerová, Josef Houser, Jan Komárek, Gianluca Cioci, Anne Imberty (Central Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
    Host cell recognition by carbohydrate-binding proteins from human pathogens
    
    

Facilities for projecting (Data projector for PowerPoint presentations) will be provided. A lecture hall will be equipped also with a pointer and equipment for voice amplification. A drawing blackboard will also be available. For any other services please contact the Organizing Committee.

Poster boards are 120 cm height x 110 cm width. Each author will be assigned a numbered board and the time of her/his poster display will be indicated in the Symposium program. Posters are supposed to be mounted on boards by the authors themselves. Suitable materials for attaching the posters will be supplied.