Sunday, May 19, 2019
| Time | Event | |
| 14:00 - 16:00 | Registration (welcome coffee) - Registration (welcome coffee) | |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | Welcome (Amphitheater) - Magali Remaud-Siméon | |
| 16:10 - 17:10 | Opening lecture - Glycans as Microbial IDs - Chair: Magali-Remaud-Siméon (Amphitheater) - Laura Kiessling (MIT, US) |
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| 17:10 - 17:40 | Coffee break | |
| 17:40 - 19:00 | Carbohydrate structure & complex carbohydrate-based matrices (Amphitheater) - Chair: Birte Svensson | |
| 17:40 - 18:20 | › Breaking the limits in understanding glycan recognition by NMR - Jesús Jiménez-Barbero, CIC bioGUNE, Derio, Bizkaia, Spain, Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › Host interactions of O-antigen specific bacteriophages: Linking tailspike glycan recognition to particle opening - Stefanie Barbirz, Universität Potsdam | |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | › Single-cell visualization of glycan uptake and strain-specific saccharolytic fingerprinting of rumen bacteria - Wade Abbott, Agriculture and Agri-Food - AAFC (CANADA), University of Lethbridge | |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Poster pitch talks (12-15, 3' each) (Amphitheater) | |
| 20:00 - 21:30 | Welcome reception |
Monday, May 20, 2019
| Time | Event | |
| 08:30 - 10:10 | Enzymes for carbohydrate synthesis and modification (Amphitheater) - Chair: Antoni Planas | |
| 08:30 - 09:10 | › Synthesis by CAZymes from extremophiles - Eva Nordberg Karlsson, Biotechnology, Dept of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund Sweden | |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | › A novel enzyme module system for the one-pot synthesis of hyaluronic acid from sucrose and N-acetylglucosamine - Lothar Elling, RWTH Aachen University | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | › Single step S-GlcNAcylation of peptides and proteins using a mutant hexosaminidase - Gregor Tegl, University of British Columbia | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | › Molecular study of hydrolysis/transglycosylation modulation in retaining glycoside hydrolases - Jiao Zhao, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | Enzymes for carbohydrate synthesis and modification (Amphitheater) - Chair: Vladimir Kren | |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | › Dissection of Sulfoglycolytic (sulfo-EMP) pathway - Mahima Sharma, University of York [York, UK] | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | › Enlarging the toolbox of GH70 sucrose-active enzymes by mixing discovery and rational engineering - Moulis Claire, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés | |
| 11:20 - 12:20 | Poster pitch talks (12-15, 3' each) (Amphitheater) | |
| 12:20 - 13:50 | Lunch (1h30) | |
| 13:50 - 15:30 | Glycobiotechnologies (Amphitheater) - Chair: Carsten Andersen | |
| 13:50 - 14:30 | › Biocatalytic cascades to bifunctional carbohydrates - Emma Master, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University; FI-00076 Aalto, Kemistintie 1, Espoo, Finland | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | › Ultra-high-throughput droplet microfluidics CAZymes functional screening using coupled enzymatic assays - Simon Ladevèze, University of Cambridge | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | › Cyanobacterial Conversion of CO2 to Sugars - Xuefeng LU, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | › Enzymatic synthesis of Glucan Dendrimer (GD) and its application for drug delivery carriers - Ryo Kakutani, Institute of Health Sciences, Ezaki Glico Co.,Ltd. | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Poster session #1 (1h) | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 - 18:40 | Omics and CAZyme discovery (Amphitheater) - Chair: Gideon J. Davies | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | › Estimating glycan natural diversity using CAZymes - Bernard Henrissat, AFMB, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | › Large-scale screening of activities in unexplored CAZy sub-families, and distant or non-classified CAZymes - Marie Couturier, Cermav | |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | › Ultra-high-throughput discovery of dietary and host glycan utilization pathways in gut microbiomes - Gabrielle Potocki-Veronese, Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés (LISBP) | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › Discovery of new enzymes for universal donor blood production - Peter Rahfeld |
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
| Time | Event | |
| 08:30 - 10:10 | Auxiliary activities enzymes & carbohydrate esterases (Amphitheater) - Chair: Bernd Nidetzky | |
| 08:30 - 09:10 | › Peptidoglycan deacetylases. Dual N-acetylglucosamine and N-acetyl-muramic acid specificities, structures and biological functions - Antoni Planas, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Institut Químic de Sarrià, University Ramon Llull, 08017 Barcelona, Spain | |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | › Structural and functional insights into the mode of action of a modular lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase - Gaston Courtade, NOBIPOL, Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway | |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | › The human GDP-mannose-4,6-dehydratase reveals the minimal active site needed for NDP-sugar dehydration. - Pfeiffer Martin, Technische Universität Graz | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | › Enzymatic cleavage of lignin-carbohydrate complexes by fungal glucuronoyl esterases - Jane Agger, Technical University of Denmark [Lyngby] | |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40 - 12:20 | Glycobiotechnologies (Amphitheater) - Chair: Takashi Kuriki | |
| 10:40 - 11:20 | › Engineering of the production of health-promoting glucos-inolates in heterologous hosts - Barbara Ann Halkier, DynaMo Center of Excellence, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Thorvald-sensvej 40, DK-1871 Frederiksberg C, Denmark | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | › Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of Thio-linked Heparinoid Polysaccharides for Anti-Cancer Applications - Paul DeAngelis, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | › Glycosidase-catalyzed synthesis of glycosyl esters and phenolic glycosides - Vladimir Kren, Institute of Microbiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences,Laboratory of Biotransformation, Vídeňská 1083, CZ 14220, Prague 4 | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | › Metabolic and enzyme engineering to produce high quantities of the steviol glycoside Rebaudioside M in S. cerevisiae - Gale Wichmann, Amyris | |
| 12:20 - 13:50 | Lunch (1h30) | |
| 13:50 - 15:30 | CAZyme engineering and computer-assisted design (Amphitheater) - Chair: Pedro M. Coutinho | |
| 13:50 - 14:30 | › Tools for structural bioinformatics; design of a chimeric GH10 CBM-containing hydrolase - Narcis Fernandez-Fuentes, IBERS, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | › Efficient conversion of GHs into transglycosylases: a conservation-based approach - David Teze, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | › BindScan: a computer-assisted protein design algorithm with applications in re-engineering CAZymes. - Xevi Biarnés, Laboratory of Biochemistry, Institut Químic de Sarrià. Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | › Enzymatic glucosylation of a chemically-protected tetrasaccharide to access antigenic oligosaccharides - Mounir Benkoulouche, Laboratoire dÍngénierie des Systèmes Biologiques et des Procédés | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Poster session 2 | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:00 - 18:40 | Polysaccharide metabolism & carbohydrate transport (Amphitheater) - Chair: Marco Moracci | |
| 17:00 - 17:40 | › Completing the pathways of polysaccharide metabolism by marine heterotrophic bacteria - Mirjam Czjzek, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 8227, Integrative Biology of Marine Models, Station Bio-logique de Roscoff, CS 90074, Roscoff, Bretagne, France | |
| 17:40 - 18:00 | › Prevotella beta-Mannan Utilization Loci: From the Rumen to the Human - Harry Brumer, University of British Columbia | |
| 18:00 - 18:20 | › The Ruminococcus bromii amylosome: Structure of the Amy12 pullulanase and its starch-binding protein partner Doc20 - Nicole Koropatkin, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] - Darrell Cockburn, Pennsylvania State University - Ryan Kibler, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor] | |
| 18:20 - 18:40 | › Novel insights into mucin degradation by key members of the human gut microbiota - Lucy Crouch, Newcastle University | |
| 20:00 - 23:55 | Dinner |
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
| Time | Event | |
| 09:00 - 10:40 | Mechanisms, structure-function relationships and dynamics of CAZymes (Amphitheater) - Chair: Steve G. Withers | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | › Structural analysis of β-L-arabinofuranosidases in GH127 and GH146 - Shinya Fushinobu, Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan | |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | › Early stages of glycogen biosynthesis: mechanism of action of glycogenin - Carme Rovira, University of Barcelona | |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | › Structural and Mechanistic Basis for Peptidoglycan O-Acetylation in both Gram-Positive and Negative Pathogens - Anthony Clarke, University of Guelph | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | › Findings of new CAZymes, β-1,2-glucan-associated enzymes - Masahiro Nakajima, Tokyo University of Science [Tokyo] | |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Coffee break | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Mechanisms, structure-function relationships and dynamics of CAZymes (Amphitheater) - Chair: Steve G. Withers | |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | › Discovering and Characterizing Alginate Lyases from Human Gut Microbiota - Emil G P Stender, Technical University of Denmark - DTU, Dept. of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Kgs. Lyngby | |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Closing lecture: Jean-Guy Berrin - Chair: Magali-Remaud-Siméon (Amphitheater) - Closing lecture: Jean-Guy Berrin |
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| 12:30 - 12:40 | Closing remarks (Amphitheater) - Magali Remaud-Siméon |
