The scientific programme will encompass the following categories:
Contributions related to industrial aspects will be particularly welcome in each of the above areas.
The following scientists have accepted an invitation to present plenary lectures with titles as indicated:
Alessandro Dondoni (Ferrara, Italy)
Synthesis of oxygen- and carbon-linked glycosides of
biological relevance
George Fleet (Oxford, UK)
Synthesis of sugar mimics
Michael Gibney (Dublin, Ireland)
Nutritional aspects of carbohydrates
Anne Imberty (Grenoble, France)
Molecular modeling of complex glycans and their interactions
with lectins
Jesús Jiménez-Barbero (Madrid, Spain)
NMR studies of interactions between carbohydrates with
proteins and enzymes
Markwart Kunz (Obrigheim, Germany)
Carbohydrates - raw materials for industrial chemistry and
biochemistry
Morten Meldal (Valby, Denmark)
Combinatorial glycopeptide libraries in the investigation of
carbohydrate binding proteins
Staffan Normark (Stockholm, Sweden)
Bacterial sensing and adaptation to surfaces
Amos B. Smith III (Philadelphia, USA)
Modulation of receptor and receptor subtype affinities using
diastereomeric and enantiomeric monosaccharide scaffolds as a
means to structural and biological diversity
Pamela Stanley (New York, USA)
Discovering functions of mammalian glycans through
glycosyltransferase mutants
Alphons G.J. Voragen (Wageningen, The
Netherlands)
Plant cell wall polysaccharides: basic research for progress
in food technology
Stephen G. Withers (Vancouver, Canada)
Mechanisms of glycosyl transferases and hydrolases
The following scientists have accepted an invitation to present keynote lectures with titles as indicated:
Carolyn Bertozzi (Berkeley, USA)
Chemical approaches to glycobiology
Anthony Davis (Dublin, Ireland)
Synthetic receptors for carbohydrates and their derivatives
Soren B. Engelsen (Frederiksberg, Denmark)
The hydration of carbohydrate model compounds
Sabina Flitsch (Edinburgh, UK)
Novel chemo-enzymatic methods in oligosaccharide synthesis
Harry Gilbert (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Genetic aspects of microbial plant polysaccharidases
Elizabeth Hounsell (London, UK)
Glycobiology: piecing together the cell surface jigsaw
Slawomir Jarosz (Warsaw, Poland)
Synthesis of optically pure, highly oxygenated carbocycles
from sugar allyltins
Cheng Jin (Beijing, China)
Cloning and expression of sialyltransferase and
fucosyltransferase from humans
Marta Kacurakova (Bratislava, Slovakia)
FT-IR spectroscopy of plant cell wall polysaccharides
Laura Kiessling (Madison, USA)
New applications of multivalent saccharide ligands
Paul Kosma (Wien, Austria)
Chemical synthesis of bacterial lipopolysaccharide core
antigens
Horst Kunz (Mainz, Germany)
Synthetic glycopeptides and neoglycoproteins with
tumor-associated antigen structure
Annamaria Naggi (Milan,
Italy)
Regiospecific chemical sulfation of animal and
biotechnological glycosaminoglycans
Francesco
Nicotra (Milan, Italy)
Recent advances in the synthesis of glycomimetics
Rafael Oriol (Villejuif, France)
Carbohydrates and glycosyltransferases in xenotransplantation
Stefan Oscarson (Stockholm, Sweden)
Synthesis of bacterial carbohydrate surface antigens
Natalya Ptitchkina (Saratov, Russia)
Phase separation in the polymer-polymer-water system
Amelia Pilar Rauter (Lisbon, Portugal)
Advances in the synthesis of bioactive carbohydrates
Alexander Shashkov (Moscow, Russia)
NMR investigation of novel sugars from bacterial
polysaccharides
Gudmund Skjåk-Bræk (Trondheim, Norway)
Alginates-a family of polymers suitable for polysaccahride
engineering
André Verbert (Lille, France)
Regulation of N-glycosylation of proteins
Pierre Vogel (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Synthesis and properties of carbohydrate mimetics
Liisa Viikari (Espoo, Finland)
Enzymes for modification of pulp carbohydrates
Gary Williamson (Norwich, UK)
Enzymatic release of anti-oxidants from plant materials
Houming Wu (Shanghai, China)
Structures and conformations of carbohydrate constituents of
traditional Chinese medicines
Thematic sessions, which will include a Plenary and/or Keynote lecture along with oral communications, will be organised around the following topics:
All participants are invited to contribute a presentation in the scientific sessions. Most contributions will be made during the Poster Sessions. However, the Scientific Advisory Committee, along with the Local Organising Committee, will select a number of abstracts from the contributed papers to be presented as 15-minute oral communications in the Thematic Sessions. Participants delivering their communication orally are strongly recommended to also present their data in poster form. The presenting author must be a registered participant.
Abstracts of all presentations i.e. plenary lectures, keynote lectures, oral communications and posters, will be printed in the Abstract Book of Eurocarb X. One page will be allowed for each abstract. Abstracts may include tables, schemes, figures and references within the allotted space.
One camera-ready original and three clear copies of the abstract plus the Abstract Submission Form should be mailed and postmarked no later than March 17, 1999. Please use a protective sheet and do not fold the abstract.
Please consult the reverse of the Abstract Submission Form for an example of abstract style. Since abstracts will be reproduced by photo-offset and photo-reduced to 75%, authors are required to follow exactly the instructions given.
Please enter up to five key words on the Abstract Submission Form. These will be used to construct the index of the printed Abstract Book.
Each lecture hall will be equipped with one slide projector (2 x 2 inch or 50 x 50 mm), one overhead projector, a pointer, and equipment for voice amplification. Please mark each slide with a small coloured label so that when oriented correctly in the projector carousel, the label will be on the top right of the slide frame on the side away from the screen. Slides should be prepared preferably in landscape orientation. A slide preview facility will be available.
In addition, each lecture hall will have facilities for electronic presentation of PowerPoint 97 slides. Please write the presenting author's name along with the time of presentation on your diskette or zip disk and deposit it at the slide preview facility on your arrival. Alternatively, you may wish to bring your own laptop computer. If so, please contact the staff at the slide preview facility on your arrival.
Posters will be allocated a space approximately 1.5 m high x
1.0 m wide.
All posters should be headed with the title and name and
addresses of authors as submitted in the Abstract and contain a
clear survey of the research data. Suitable materials for
attaching the posters will be supplied. Scheduling of posters
will be announced in the Final Programme.
Prizes will be awarded for the best posters.
A special issue of the journal Carbohydrate Polymers will be issued subsequent to the symposium. This will comprise of reviews and papers given by selected invited speakers. A limited number of additional papers, in areas that fall within the scope of the journal, will also be included. Papers for consideration by the peer-review process may be submitted in triplicate during the meeting. Instructions for authors may be obtained the Eurocarb X web site.
During the conference, a trade exhibition of books, scientific and technical equipment as well as computer software related to the topics of the symposium will be held. For further information, please contact the Eurocarb X Secretariat.