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°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Carbohydrate Group Winter Meeting

1 November 2023 12:00 - 2 November 2023 18:00, Manchester, United Kingdom


Introduction
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The meeting will feature an excellent line up of Early Career speakers from the UK, Ireland and beyond, including a Plenary from the winner of the Dextra Award '23 - Dr Benjamin Schumann. The conference will also feature a dedicated ECR oral presentation session with our first Biosynth Award for the best ECR oral presentation. A Thesis in Three minutes competition will also be held with a £200 prize from the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Carbohydrate Committee and a dedicated poster session with prizes from Biosynth. 

The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±¼Ç¼ Carbohydrate Committee would like to thank Dextra, Radley and Biosynth for their support and contributions towards the event. 

Confirmed Speakers
Rebecca Miller â€“ University of Copenhagen, Denmark 
Research area: Applying genetic engineering of biosynthetic pathway, mass spec, glycomics on GAGs
https://icmm.ku.dk/english/research-groups/r-miller-group/
 
Ana Arda Freire â€“ Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain 
Research area: NMR, protein-glycorecognition
https://www.ikerbasque.net/en/ana-arda-freire
 
Lianne Willems â€“ University of York, UK
Research area: Development of chemical tools to study fundamental processes in glycobiology
https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/t-z/lwillems/
 
David Falck â€“ University of Leiden, Netherlands
Research area: Antibody glycosylation in autoimmunity, Glycoform-resolved pharmacokinetics studies of therapeutic proteins
https://cpm.lumc.nl/research/glycomics-209/david-falck-31
 
Timm Fiebigg â€“ Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
Research area: understanding the enzymes involved in bacterial capsule biosynthesis and developing synthesis tools for glycoconjugate vaccines
https://www.mhh.de/institute-zentren-forschungseinrichtungen/institut-fuer-klinische-biochemie/ag-fiebig
 
Prof Gurdyal Besra â€“ University of Birmingham, UK
Research area: The cell wall of Mycobacterium tuberculosis 
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/biosciences/besra-gurdyal.aspx
 
Prof Nic Harmer â€“ University of Exeter, UK 
Research area: Enzyme cascades and their applications
https://biosciences.exeter.ac.uk/staff/profile/index.php?web_id=nic_harmer
  
Plenary speaker for Dextra Award: Ben Schumann- Francis Cricks Institute UK 
Research area: synthetic ‘precision tools’ to understand how particular carbohydrate molecules control processes in and on the living cell.
https://www.crick.ac.uk/research/labs/ben-schumann
Sponsorship & supporting organisations
The carbohydrate committee would like to kindly thank their event sponsors: 
Biosynth 
Dextra 
Radley
Venue
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 7DN, United Kingdom

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