Preliminary Programme MGC2026

Opening remarks and keynote lecture

by Kelvin Anggara, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany

Synthetic Carbohydrate-based materials

by Martina Delbianco, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany

Intact Microbial Cell Wall Organization Studied by Solid-State NMR

by Antoine Loquet, University of Bordeaux, France

High-Field 13C NMR for Improved Complex Carbohydrate Analysis

by Arthur Edidson, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Athens, USA

Bacteriophages crossing glycan barriers on bacterial cell surfaces

by Stefanie Barbirz, MSD Medical School, Berlin, Germany

Biosynthesis of Capsular Polysaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni

by Frank M. Raushel, Texas A&M University, USA

Lipopolysaccharides from the microbiota: a journey from structure to function

by Flaviana Di Lorenzo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Session 3: Biofilms, capsules and bacterial cel walls (II)

Biosynthesis of arabinogalactan in mycobacteria - facts and gaps

by Katarina Mikusova, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia

Molecular mechanisms on priming and polymerization of polysaccharide capsules in pathogenic bacteria

by Marcelo Guerin, IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

Getting a Handle on E. coli Capsules

by Tim Keys, Baxiva, Schlieren, Switserland

Contribution of the Different Neisseria gonorrhoeae Lipooligosaccharide Structural Variants to Functional Responses Elicited by GMMA Outer Membrane Vesicles

by Filippo Carboni, Glaxo Smith Kline, Siena, Italy

Lectins from pathogens: from structural glycobiology to antiadhesive strategies

by Anne Imberty, CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble, France

Title TBD

by Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon, USA

Immune recognitionof microbesby myeloid C-type lectin receptors

by Bernd Lepenies, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Germany

Title TBD

by Nina van Sorge, Amsterdam Medical Center, The Netherlands

Cyclic dinocleotides as switches for carbohydrate physiology in Streptomyces

by Natalia Tschowri, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany

Mechanisms of activation and diversification of the bacterial cellulose synthases 

by Petya Krasteva, IECB, Pessac, France

Sugar Selectivity of Microbial Glycosyltransferases to Establish Define Glycan Sequences

by May Tania Lupoli, New York University, USA

Structural Decoding of the Lipopolysaccharide Architecture of the Emerging Pediatric Pathogen Kingella kingae 

by Artur Muszyński, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Athens, USA

Title TBD

by Jeroen Codée, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

The two major human Schistosoma parasite species express different glycans with immunological and diagnostic implications

by Cornelius Hokke, University of Leiden, The Netherlands

The Glycan Language of Nematodes: Decoding the Glycome and Engineering Parasite Vaccine Antigens

by Shi Yan, University of Vienna / soon at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

The organisation of chitin fibres in the arthropod cuticle - interplay between self assembly and cellular control

by Yael Politi, Dresden University of Technology