Organizing Committee
Biography
George Bousfield completed his PhD at Indiana University in 1981. He then pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center with Darrell Ward. He is currently the Dr. L.M. Jones Distinguished Professor in the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University, and director of the WSU Protein Core Facility. He has published more than 56 journal articles.
Research Interest
His research interests are follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH), play central roles in the control of reproduction by connecting neuroendocrine hypothalamic/pituitary activities to gonadal function.
Biography
Ying Qing is a Principal Scientist in the Pharmaceutical group at Waters Corporation. She joined Waters Corporation since 2001, shortly after she received her Ph.D. from the Analytical Chemistry Department at Purdue University. She is a group leader in the Biopharmaceutical lab unit at Waters. Her group’s focus is on Protein Biotherapeutics characterization using UPLC/QTOF MS platform. The projects she is currently working on range from glycan profiling, peptide mapping and lately the Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry for protein higher order structure analysis. She has extensive experience in Mass Spectrometry, Gas-Phase Ion Chemistry and Liquid Chromatography Separation Techniques.
Research Interest
Her research interest focus is on Protein Biotherapeutics characterization using UPLC/QTOF MS platform.
Biography
Professor Marzabadi completed her PhD at the University of Missouri – St. Louis and carried out postdoctoral studies at Hunter College- CUNY. She has been at Seton Hall University for the past 15 years and has been a Visiting Professor at Harvard University Medical School and a Visiting Researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She has published numerous papers in the carbohydrate literature and currently serves as a Member at Large for the ACS Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry.
Research Interest
Her research interest includes the synthesis and biological evaluation of new carbohydrate structures with the capacity to act as immunomodulators.
Biography
Guijun Wang has completed her PhD in 1999 from Michigan State University and postdoctoral research at Yale University in 2002. She started her independent career as an assistant professor at the University of New Orleans in 2002. In 2012, she relocated to Old Dominion University (ODU), currently she is a professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at ODU.
Research Interest
Her research interests include synthetic methodology development; asymmetric synthesis; and the synthesis and study of carbohydrate based self-assembling systems. She has co-authored 50 peer reviewed papers and is the co-inventor on 20 international and US patents.
Biography
Konrad Sandhoff completed his PhD in biochemistry in Munich. After research stays in Munich, Israel and the USA he became a full professor of biochemistry at the University of Bonn in 1979. Since 2007 he is a senior professor at the LIMES institute, Bonn.
Research Interest
Major Research Interests: Molecular life sciences: analysis and pathobiochemistry of lysosomal (glyco-)sphingolipid storage diseases, structure and function of lysosomal enzymes and lipid binding proteins, topology of endocytosis and glycolipid metabolism, and regulation of glycolipid biosynthesis. He has published more than 480 peer-reviewed papers. Among many other prizes he also received the International Glycoconjugate Organization Award (2005).
Biography
Jiahua (Jay) Xie has completed his PhD in Biophysics at the age of 31 from Zhejiang University and postdoctoral studies from Departments of Genetics and Horticultural Science, North Carolina State University. He served as a Senior Scientist at the Vector Research Inc. (a subsidiary of Vector Group Ltd) for five years. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the PI of the BRITE, NCCU. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Zhejiang University (Agriculture and Life Sciences).
Research Interest
His research areas include Asialo-rhuEPO, a non-hematopoietic recombinant human erythropoietin (EPO) derivative lacking sialic acid, has been reported to display broad tissue-protective effects against damage triggered by ischemia/reperfusion, hypoxia or cytotoxic agents in the brain, the heart, the kidneys and the liver.
Biography
Dr Tony Velkov completed PhD in 2000 from Monash University. His anti-infective discovery research is at the leading edge globally. He was awarded a NHMRC Research Fellowships in 2006, 2011 and 2014. The quality and impact of his independent research was recognized by the NHMRC with an Excellence Award in 2011. He has published over 50 papers in high-caliber journals, 3 book chapters and 15 conference presentations. The dynamic team he leads consists of 3 postdocs, 3 RAs and 9 PhD students. Over the last 6 years, he has obtained >$9M funding from the NIH, NHMRC and foundations.
Research Interest
His research includes Influenza a constant global burden to human health.
Biography
Barbara Klajnert-Maculewicz has completed her Ph.D in 2002 from the University of Lodz, Poland and postdoctoral studies from the McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. She is a professor at the University of Lodz, Poland and an external scientific member at Leibniz IPF in Dresden, Germany. She is a co-author of 2 books and 9 chapters in monographs. She has published more than 90 papers in reputed journals (h-index 23). In the years 2009-2012 she was the Management Committee Chair of COST Action TD0802 “Dendrimers in biomedical applications†that gathered 24 countries. She has been awarded L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science.
Research Interest
Her research interests include Anticancer drugs such as cytarabine (araC) belong to nucleoside analogues (NAs). NAs are commonly used in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, and lymphomas.
Biography
Dr. Wu obtained his Ph.D degree with W. Pigman, who is the pioneer in glycoproteins, at New York Medical College; and had his postdoctoral training at E.A. Kabat’s Lab for quantitative immunochemistry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York. He joined as a faculty position at Texas A&M University in 1982; promoted as a full professor at Chang-Gung University since 1989; and as Emeritus Professor in 2011. Dr. Wu published over 120 polyvalent glycotopes related papers. He is the chief editor for three volumes of Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates 1 to 3 in Adv. Exp. Med. Biol. 228, 451, 705 (Springer Publisher).
Research Interest
His major interests are (i) Glycan purification and characterization; (ii) recognition factors of glycans; (iii) combining sites of lectins and antibodies. He received many Outstanding Research Awards (1997-2008) from government agents in Taiwan.