Organizing Committee
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
Maria Longas completed her PhD at New York University in 1978, and did her postdoctoral training at Columbia University School of Medicine with Dr. Karl Mayer. She has an MA in Organic Chemistry from New York University (1973) and a BA in Chemistry from Hunter College (1971). She is a full Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, IN. She has more than 24 papers published in reputable journals, and served as a reviewer for several journals.
Research Interest
Her research interest includes arthritis, tuberculosis and autoimmune disorders.
Biography
Michael Strano is currently the Carbon P. Dubbs Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. He received his B.S from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, NY and Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, both in Chemical Engineering. He was a post doctoral research fellow at Rice University in the departments of Chemistry and Physics under the guidance of Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley. From 2003 to 2007, Michael was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before moving to MIT.
Research Interest
His research focuses on biomolecule/nanoparticle interactions and the surface chemistry of low dimensional systems, nano-electronics, nanoparticle separations, and applications of vibrational spectroscopy to nanotechnology.
Biography
Peter Quinn is the Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at King’s College London. His research interests are the structure and properties of biological membranes. He has published more than 500 research papers and reviews of the subject. The experimental approach has been to investigate the structure and molecular arrangement of the different lipids and proteins using a variety of biophysical methods and more recently all atomistic molecular dynamic simulations. The role and arrangement of glycosphingolipids in membranes has been a particular challenge.
Research Interest
His research interests are the structure and properties of biological membranes
Biography
Jorge Justino has his expertise in the biological evaluation and toxicity studies of natural and synthetic compounds and food chemistry. Full Professor of Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém, MSc. and Ph.D in Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Habilitation in Food Chemistry at Universidade de Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro. He is President of Instituto Politécnico de Santarém and former Director of Escola Superior Agrária de Santarém, He was a member of the networks Euroglycoforum and Prion Chemical Biology Network and is the representative member of the Instituto Politécnico de Santarém at the European Innovation Partnership A3 Group FCUL consortium.
Research Interest
Expertise in the biological evaluation and toxicity studies of natural and synthetic compounds and food chemistry.
Biography
Myron R Szewczuk has completed his PhD in 1974 from University of Windsor in Biology and Immunochemistry and Postdoctoral studies from Cornell University Medical College, New York City, USA in Cellular Immunology with Dr Greg Siskind (1975-1978). He is presently a Full Professor of Immunology and Associate Professor of Medicine, Queen’s University, Canada. He has published more than 100 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial Board Member of repute.
Research Interest
His research interest includes the alternate therapeutic treatment of cancer and the role of glycosylation in the activation of neurotrophin Trk, EGFR, insulin and TOLL-like receptors.
Biography
András Guttman, MTA-PE Lendulet professor of Translational Glycomics, directs the Horváth Csaba Laboratory of Bioseparation Sciences in Hungary and leads the application efforts in Sciex in California. His work is focused on capillary electrophoresis and CESI-MS based glycomics and glycoproteomics analysis of biomedical, cell biology and biopharmaceutical, interests. Professor Guttman has close to 300 scientific publications, wrote 35 book chapters, edited 4 textbooks and holds 23 patents. He is on the board of several international organizations, on the editorial boards of a dozen scientific journals, has been recognized by numerous awards and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Research Interest
His research interests include the glycomics and glycoproteomics analysis of biomedical, cell biology and biopharmaceutical development.
Biography
Dr. Khosravi obtained his PhD in polymer science from Sussex University, UK, 1982. He joined the polymer group at Chemistry Department, Durham University, UK, in 1987 where he is now a Reader in Polymer Chemistry. His research interests ranges from well-defined polymerisation chemistry to novel polymers and biopolymers. He has given 88 invited lectures worldwide, has been chairman in 16 international conferences, published 59 papers; has written 15 chapters for books, has edited 4 books and has filed 7 patent applications. He is an FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry) and a member of the American Chemical Society.
Research Interest
His research interest includes synthetic polymer chemistry and biopolymers.
Biography
Amélia Pilar Rauter has made her Habilitation at Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (FCUL, 2002) and completed her PhD at Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria (1982). She is the Head of the Carbohydrate Chemistry Group - Center of Chemistry and Biochemistry (FCUL), and has been serving as Editor (RSC Carbohydrate Chemistry book series), Associated Editor (Mediterranean Journal of Chemistry), and member of journals advisory board in Organic/Carbohydrate Chemistry. She is Secretary of the European Carbohydrate Organisation and Secretary of the IUPAC Division on Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, has published more than 130 papers and book chapters, and authored 12 patents.
Research Interest
Her research interest includes promising molecules for metabolic (diabetes), degenerative diseases (Alzheimer´s and Prion diseases, cancer) and infection.
Biography
Ulrich Zähringer obtained his PhD degree in 1979 with H Grisebach, Biochemistry of Plants, Freiburg University, Germany. In 1981 he moved with Prof. Ernst T Rietschel, Director at the Research Center Borstel, where he obtained a tenure position as head of the Division of Immunochemistry. He made three postdoctoral trainings: i) 1980-1981 in O Lüderitz’s Lab at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg; ii) 1983-1984 at T Shiba’s and S Kusumoto’s Lab, University of Osaka, Faculty of Sciences, Osaka, Japan, and iii) during 2004-2005 with S Grzesiek, NMR Structural Biology at the Biozentrum in Basel, Switzerland. In 1996 he finished his habilitation and promoted in 2002 as extraordinary Professor at the University of Lübeck till his retirement in 2012. He published more than 250 papers in peer-reviews journals and 55 reviews.
Research Interest
His major interests are the analysis of structure-function relationship of pro-inflammatory bacterial compounds, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), oligosaccharides, lipopeptides, lipoteichoic acids (LTA) and peptidoglycan (PGN).
Biography
Professor Alexander A. Kamnev, DSc in physical chemistry, is a Leading Scientist at the Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Plants and Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saratov, Russia). His current research has been focused on the application of spectroscopic techniques in studying biomolecules (including biopolymers), biocomplexes, supramolecular structures and microbial cells; spectroscopic detection of biospecific interactions using functionalised plasmonic nanoparticles; bioanalytical applications of vibrational (FTIR, Raman) and Mössbauer (nuclear gamma-resonance) spectroscopies. Professor Kamnev has published over 120 papers in peer-refereed international journals, has been regularly involved as an organiser of, and as an invited/plenary lecturer at a number of international conferences and in refereeing manuscripts for many scientific journals published by Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, RSC, ACS, etc. He is a member of Editorial Boards of several specialised scientific journals including Spectrochimica Acta Part A (“Elsevierâ€) and Current Enzyme Inhibition (“Bentham Science Publishersâ€).
Research Interest
His current research has been focused on the application of spectroscopic techniques in studying biomolecules (including biopolymers), biocomplexes, supramolecular structures and microbial cells.
Biography
Dr. Wu obtained his PhD 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.