| SUNDAY October 4 | |
| 12:00-5:00 PM | Conference registration |
| 3:00-4:00 | Opening remarks and keynote lecture by Kelvin Anggara, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany |
| Session 1: Complex Carbohydrate Structure, Function and Analysis | |
| 4:00-4:30 pm | Synthetic Carbohydrate-based materials by Martina Delbianco, Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany |
| 4:30-5:00 pm | Title tbd by Antoine Loquet, University of Bordeaux, France |
| 05:00-5.30 pm | Title tbd by Arthur Edidson, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Athens, USA |
| 05:30-6:00 pm | Poster Talks |
| MONDAY October 5 | |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast at the Four Elements Hotel |
| Session 2: Biofilms, capsules and bacterial cell walls (I) | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Bacteriophages crossing glycan barriers on bacterial cell surfaces by Stefanie Barbirz, MSD Medical School, Berlin, Germany |
| 9:30-10:00 | Biosynthesis of Capsular Polysaccharides from Campylobacter jejuni by Frank M. Raushel, Texas A&M University, USA |
| 10:00-10:30 | Lipopolysaccharides from the microbiota: a journey from structure to function by Flaviana Di Lorenzo, University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| 10:30-11:00 | Poster Talks |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee/Tea break |
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Session 3: Biofilms, capsules and bacterial cel walls (II) |
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| 11:30-12:00 |
Biosynthesis of arabinogalactan in mycobacteria - facts and gaps |
| 12:00-12:30 | Molecular mechanisms on priming and polymerization of polysaccharide capsules in pathogenic bacteria by Marcelo Guerin, IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain |
| 12:30-1.30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00-4:00 pm | Poster Talks |
| Session 4: Microbial Glycobiology in Industry and Biotech | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Title tbd by Tim Keys, Baxiva, Schlieren, Switserland |
| 5:00-5:30 | Title tbd by Lana Saleh, New England Biolabs, Ipswitch, USA |
| 5:30-6:00 | Title tbd by Filippo Carboni, Glaxo Smith Kline, Siena, Italy |
| 6:00-6:30 | Poster Talks (3x) |
| 7:00-8:30 | Dinner |
| TUESDAY October 6 | |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast at the Four Elements Hotel |
| Session 5: Mucins and lectins in health and disease | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Lectins from pathogens: from structural glycobiology to antiadhesive strategies by Anne Imberty, CERMAV-CNRS, Grenoble, France |
| 9:30-10:00 | Title tbd by Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon, USA |
| 10:00-10:30 | Immune recognitionof microbesby myeloid C-type lectin receptors by Bernd Lepenies, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität Munich, Germany |
| 10:30-11.00 | Poster Talks (3x) |
| 11.00-11:30 | Coffe/tea break |
| Session: Microbe host Interactions & antibiotic resistance | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Title tbd by Nina van Sorge, Amsterdam Medical Center, The Netherlands |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00-7:00 | Social event in Amsterdam |
| 7:00-8:00 | Dinner |
| 8:00-10.00 | Drinks & networking at the hotel |
| WEDNESDAY October 7 | |
| 7:00 AM | Breakfast at the Four Elements Hotel |
| Session 7: Complex carbohydrates synthesis, remodeling and degradation | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Cyclic dinocleotides as switches for carbohydrate physiology in Streptomyces by Natalia Tschowri, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany |
| 9:30-10:00 | Title tbd by Petya Krasteva, IECB, Pessac, France |
| 10:00-10:30 | Title tbd |
| 10:30-11:00 | Poster Talks (3x) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee/tea break |
| Session 8: Carbohydrate chemistry, engineering and characterization | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Title tbd by Artur Muszyński, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Athens, USA |
| 12:00-12:30 | Title tbd by Jeroen Codée, University of Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 12:30-1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00-4:00 | Poster Talks |
| Session 9: Carbohydrates in multicellular pathogens | |
| 4:30-5:00 | Title tbd by Cornelius Hokke, University of Leiden, The Netherlands |
| 5:00-5:30 | 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 |
| 5:30-6:00 | Title tbd by Yael Politi, Dresden University of Technology |
| 7:00-9:00 | Conference dinner followed by drinks at the hotel |