4^th Glycobiology World Congress September 17-19, 2018 Rome, Italy

Robert Engel is Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Queens College and has been in that position since 1968. He has also served there as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and Dean of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences.

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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.

Expertise in the biological evaluation and toxicity studies of natural and synthetic compounds and food chemistry.

Thisbe K. Lindhorst is serving as a Professor of Organic and Biological Chemistry at Otto Diels Institute, Kiel University, Germany. Currently she is the elected president of GDCh (German Chemical Society).

My research focuses on a basic understanding of molecular interactions with glycoconjugates on eukaryotic cell surfaces, or glycocalyx. Synthetic modelling systems are employed in combination with biophysical and biochemical methods.

Professor Yuriy Knirel has completed his PhD at the age of 26 years, and 15 years later received ScD degree from the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2005, he is the head of the Laboratory of Carbohydrate Chemistry in the Zelinsky Institute. Yuriy Knirel represents Russia in the International and European Carbohydrate Organisations; in 2015-2017, he was the president of the ECO. Yuriy Knirel has published more than 700 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has been serving as an editor of Carbohydrate Research and an editorial board member of a number of scientific journals.

Reserach interests of Dr. Y.A. Knirel include studies of the lipopolysaccharides of medically important Gram-negative bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Aeromonas hydrophila etc.

Neil Price has a PhD from the University of London, and has postdoctoral experience at the Univ. of Geneva in Switzerland, Paul-Sabatier University in Toulouse, and the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center in Athens, GA. He held a faculty position the U. of Rochester, NY before moving to the NCAUR, Peoria.

His research includes carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry, mass spectrometry, and microbial metabolism. He currently serves on the ARS National Chemical Patent committee, and has over 90 peer-reviewed research publications.

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.

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.

Dr. Menter received his PhD degree in Chemistry from the George Washington University in 1969. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Dr. Theodor Foerster at the Institut fuer physikalische Chemie der Universtiaet Stuttgart, Germany. Subsequently, he was at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the VA Medical Center (Atlanta) He currently serves as Research Professor of Biochemistry at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Menter is recognized internationally for his work in the areas of collagen photochemistry and melanin photobiology as pertaining to redox reactivity.

His research interest includes in the areas of collagen photochemistry and melanin photobiology as pertaining to redox reactivity.

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.

His research interests include the glycomics and glycoproteomics analysis of biomedical, cell biology and biopharmaceutical development.

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.

Her research interest includes promising molecules for metabolic (diabetes), degenerative diseases (Alzheimer´s and Prion diseases, cancer) and infection.

Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma has completed his M.D. and Ph.D. at the age of 30 years from the University of San Luis Potosi, School of Medicine, and the Chicago Medical School. He did a postdoctoral training at the Chicago Medical School (USA) and the University of Western Ontario, School of Dentistry and Medicine (Canada). He is the chairman of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of San Luis Potosi, School of Medicine. He has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals.

His research interest focuses on GPCR signaling and lectini binding proteins.

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.

Her research interest includes arthritis, tuberculosis and autoimmune disorders.

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.

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).

Ferdinando Chiaradonna has completed his PhD in Life Science at Open University of London and postdoctoral studies at European Institute of Oncology in Milano. He is Professor of Biochemistry at University of Milano Bicocca. He has published more than 30 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of three Journals and as referee for 20 Journals.

Protein Glycosylation and Cancer

Olivier Renaudet received his PhD in 2002 in the field of peptide and carbohydrate chemistry in the group of Prof. P. Dumy at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble (France). Thereafter, he pursued postdoctoral researches in the group of Prof. J.-L. Reymond at the University of Berne (Switzerland) then he returned to Grenoble to obtain an Assistant Professor (2004) and a full Professor position (2012) at the Department of Molecular Chemistry. He was awarded junior member at the Institut Universitaire de France in 2011 and ERC Consolidator Grant in 2014. He has published over 90 publications and has co-edited a themed issue on “Multivalent Scaffolds in Glycoscience” published in the Chemical Society Reviews (RSC Publishing) in 2013. His current research activities focus on the development of multi-click approaches to synthesize multi-functional homo- and heteroglycoclusters as antitumoral synthetic vaccines, nanovectors or anti-pathogenic agents.

His current research activities focus on the development of multi-click approaches to synthesize multi-functional homo- and heteroglycoclusters as antitumoral synthetic vaccines, nanovectors or anti-pathogenic agents.

Cheorl-Ho Kim has completed his Ph.D at the age of 28 years from The University of Tokyo and was positioned as a senior scientist from Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology. He is a professor of Molecular Glycobiology, SungKyunKwan University, Korea, leading organization of Korea, which is cooperated with the SamSung Group. He has published more than 341 papers in reputed journals and serving as an editorial board member, executive editor and editor-in chief of the international journals. His work was contributed to the mechanisms of glycan-mediated Hepatis B viral oncogenesis and invasion, sialoglycan-mediated leukemic differentiation and vascular biology. He is being serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Glycobiology, Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Microbial and Biochemical Technology, Executive Editor of Journal of Glycomics and Lipidomics, Editor of eCAM, Editor of The Peer Journal and Editor of Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology.

His research work was contributed to the mechanisms of glycan-mediated Hepatis B viral oncogenesis and invasion, sialoglycan-mediated leukemic differentiation and vascular biology.

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).

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.