Schedule of Events
| Friday, September 16th, 2011 | |
| 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm | Registration and Poster Setup |
| Session 1. Chair: Professor Xuefei Huang | |
| 6:30 pm – 6:35 pm | Introduction by Professor Xuefei Huang Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University |
| 6:35 pm – 6:45 pm |
Dr. James Kirkpatrick
Dean, College of Natural Sciences, Michigan State University
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| 6:45 pm – 6:55 pm |
Professor Robert Maleczka
Chair, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University
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| 6:55 pm – 7:25 pm |
Oral #1: Dr. Jeffery Gildersleeve, National Cancer Institute
“New Cancer Vaccine Biomarkers from Glycan Array Profiling”
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| 7:30 pm – 7:45 pm |
Oral #2: Dr. Yang Yang, University of Cincinnati
“Synthesis of C-Sialosides for Capturing Influenza Viruses”
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| 7:50 pm – 8:05 pm |
Oral #3: Hovig Kouyoumdjian, Michigan State University
“Sialic Acid Functionalized Nanoparticles for ?-Amyloid Detection”
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| 8:10 pm – 8:40 pm |
Oral #4: Professor Alexander Wei, Purdue University
“Cell-Surface Glycans: Immutable Ligands for Pathogen Detection”
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| End of Day 1 Sessions | |
| Saturday, Sept. 17th, 2011 | |
| Session 2. Chair: Professor Jianglong Zhu | |
| 9:00 am – 9:30 am |
Oral #5: Professor Xiangqun Zeng, Oakland University
“Carbohydrate-Protein Interactions and Their Biosensing Applications”
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| 9:35 pm – 9:50 am |
Oral #6: Satya Nandara, Cleveland State University
“Fabrication of Oriented and Density Controlled Glycopolymer Microarray”
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| 9:55 am – 10:25 am |
Oral #7: Professor Birgit Zipser, Michigan State University
“Trimannosyl-Like Motif on Stem Cells and Carcinomas/Inflamed Tissue Uniquely Recognized by Mannitou Antibody”
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| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Intermission and Poster Viewing |
| Session 3. Chair: Professor Xue-long Sun | |
| 10:45 am – 11:15 am |
Oral #8: Professor John Wang, Michigan State University
“SR Proteins and Galectins: What's in a Name?”
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| 11:20 am – 11:50 am |
Oral #9: Professor Avraham Raz, Wayne State University
“On the Role of Galectin-3 in Cancer Metastasis: From the Bench to the Clinic and Back”
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| 11:55 am – 1:25 pm | Boxed Lunch and Poster Viewing |
| 12:00 pm | PI meeting |
| Session 4 Chair: Professor Suri Iyer | |
| 1:25 pm – 1:55 pm |
Oral #10: Professor Fuming Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Glycobiology and Glycoengineering Research on Heparin”
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| 2:00 pm – 2:15 pm |
Oral #11: Juliana Sacoman, Michigan State University
“Carbohydrate Sulfonic Acid Analogs as Tools for Manipulating Biochemical Pathways”
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| 2:20 pm – 2:35 pm |
Oral #12: Tarick El-baba, Wayne State University
“Kinetic Products under Thermal Conditions: Rapid Entry into -D- Galactofuranosides Using Microwave Irradiation and Selective Lewis Acids”
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| 2:40 pm – 2:55 pm |
Oral #13: Bo Yang, Michigan State University
“Towards the Synthesis of Homogenous Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans”
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| 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm |
Oral #14: Vishwanath Gaitonde, University of Toledo
“Synthesis of Glycosyl Amides via dNBS-Thioacid Ligation”
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| 3:20 pm – 3:50 pm | Intermission |
| Session 5 Chair: Professor Pavel Nagorny | |
| 3:50 pm – 4:20 pm |
Oral #15: Dr. Seok-Ho Yu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
“Light Induced Covalent Capture of Binding Partners of O-GlcNAc Proteins”
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| 4:25 pm – 4:55 pm |
Oral #16: Professor Nicole Koropatkin, University of Michigan
“A paradigm for Glycan Acquisition by the Human Distal Gut Bacteroidetes: The Starch Utilization System (Sus) of Bacteroides Thetaiotaomicron”
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| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm |
Oral #17: Professor Lai-xi Wang, University of Maryland
“Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Glycoproteins”
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| 5:40 pm | Dinner, Award Ceremony and Concluding Remarks (BPS Room 1425) |
