Program

The meeting chairs have put together an amazing and diverse scientific program. View the current preliminary program below and check back regularly for updates!

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Summary of Program Events

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Sunday, November 11th

 

Advances in Glycoprotein Production, Characterization and Modification

 Co-Chairs: Qun Zhou (Genzyme) and John Briggs (Genentech)

 

WHS Satellite TBA

 

TERMIS Satellite TBA

 

CFG Satellite: Consortium for Functional Glycomics (CFG) Participating Investigator Meeting
and Symposium
 

 James Prestegard, University of Georgia

 

Keynote Lecture:

 Bioorthogonal Chemistry for Glycoprofiling and Beyond

 Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley

Monday, November 12th

 

Plenary I: Stem and Progenitor Cells, Genetic Therapy and Regenerative Medicine

 Glycobiology of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

 Steve Dalton, University of Georgia

 

Siglec-Sialoglycan Binding Regulates Cell-Cell Interactions

 Ronald Schnaar, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

 

Stem Cell Therapies in Epidermolysis Bullosa

 Angela Christiano, Columbia University Medical Center

Plenary II: Biomaterials and Matrix Engineering

Hydrogels as Synthetic Extracellular Matrices

 Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado at Boulder

 

Mechanical Regulation of Cell Adhesion and Function

 Christopher Chen, University of Pennsylvania

 

Biofunctional Hydrogels: ECM-mimetic Materials for Tissue Repair

 Andres Garcia, Georgia Institute of Technology

CS1: Matrix and Carbohydrate Immunology

 Siglecs in B cell Tolerance

 Jim Paulson, The Scripps Research Institute

 CS2: Matricellular Proteins

 Thrombospondin-1 signaling via CD47 limits cell immortalization

 David Roberts, NIH, NCI, CCR

CS3: Receptors, Signaling, and Cytoplasmic Glycosylation

 Role of Collagen Binding Receptor in Diabetic Nephropathy

 Ambra Pozzi, Vanderbilt University

CS4: Vascular Biology, Elastic Fibers, and Related Diseases

 Vascular Matrix Calcification

 Cecilia Giachelli, University of Washington

CS5: Carbohydrate and Matrix Metabolism in Disease States

 Key Roles of Proteoglycans and their Partners in Skeletal Homeostasis and Disease

 Marian Young, NIH, NIDCR

CS6: Basement Membranes

 Collagen XIII – A Novel Neuromuscular Junction Component

 Taina Pihlajaniemi, University of Oulu

CS7: Genetics and Gene Expression

 Regulation and Recombinant Production of Mammalian Glycosylation Enzymes

 Kelley Moreman, University of Georgia

CS8: Mechanobiology and Biomedical Engineering

 ASMB Junior Investigator Awardee

 Mechanochemical Signaling of the ECM

 Thomas Barker, Georgia Institute of Technology

 SFG Award Lectures:

 Rosalind Kornfeld Award

 Karl Meyer Award

 ASMB Award Lectures:

 ASMB Senior Investigator Award

 Collagen IV Glycoprotein: An Essential Innovation at the Dawn of Tissue Evolution

 Billy Hudson, Vanderbilt University

 

ISMB Distinguished Investigator Award 

Tuesday, November 13th

 

Plenary III: Biosynthesis, Secretion and Assembly

Stabilizing Proteins by N-Glycosylating their Reverse Turns is also a Prescription for Increased N-Glycosylation Efficiency

Jeffery Kelly, The Scripps Research Institute

 

Imaging the Secretory Pathway and its Dynamics

 Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD

 

Collagen Glycosylation

 Theirry Hennet, University of Zurich

Plenary IV: Immunology and Inflammation

 The Lymphocyte Homing Cascade Updated

 Steve Rosen, University of California, San Francisco

 

Integrins and the Immune Response

 Yoji Shimizu, University of Minnesota

 

Regulation of Leukocyte Migration through Galectin-Glycan Interactions

 Linda Baum, UCLA

CS9: Stem/Progenitor Cells and Their Environment

 Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Gradients and Niche

 Hiroshi Nakato, University of Minnesota

CS10: Biosynthesis, Protein Folding, Secretion, and Matrix Assembly

 Remodeling of Glycans on Mammalian Cells

 Lance Wells, University of Georgia

CS11: Cancer Microenvironment

 Altered O-Glycan Expression in Tumor Glycoproteins: Genetics and Consequences

 Rick Cummings, Emory University

CS12: Chemical Glycobiology/Glycomics

 Chemoenzymatic Tools for Glycan Detection and Their Applications to Biology

 Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Caltech/Howard Hughes Medical Institute

CS13: Development

 Roles for Glycans in Development

 Pamela Stanley, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

CS14: Fibrosis, Proteolysis, and Tissue Repair

 Regulation of Pulmonary Fibrosis by Hyaluronan Synthase 2

 Paul Noble, Duke University

CS15: TBA

 

CS16: Host-Pathogen Interactions

 Lectin-Mediated Defense of the Intestinal Epithelial Surface

 Lora Hooper, UT Southwestern

Wednesday, November 14th

 

Special Guest Lecture: Howard Garrison, FASEB, OPA

 

Plenary V: Rare Glycosylation and Matrix Diseases

 The Physiological Function of Heparan Sulfate: Insights that can be gained from the study of multiple hereditary exostoses

 Yu Yamaguchi, Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute

 

 Matrix-Cell Interactions and Ascending Aortic Aneurysms

 Hiromi Yanigasawa, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

 

Exome Sequencing for Novel Disease Gene Discovery in Families with Rare Mendelian Phenotypes

 Sessions Cole, Washington University, St. Louis

Plenary VI: Development and Morphogenesis

Anchor Cell Invasion in C. elegans:  Pushing a Path through the Basement Membrane

 David Sherwood, Duke University

 

Protein Glycosylation in ECM formation and Organogenesis

 Kelly TenHagen, NIH

 

The Role of MMP-17 Ortholog in Embryonic Zebrafish Development

Raman Ramachandran, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin