University of Glasgow Meeting, 7-9 April 1999
Themed Meeting, centred around: "Complex Protein Assemblies as Molecular Machines"
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Meeting Programme
Thursday 8 April/ Friday 9 April 1999
Glycobiology Group Colloquium:
Glycobiology of pathogen/ host interactions
- Sponsors:
- Biorad
- Pharmacia & UpJohn
- SmithKline Beecham
- Pharmacia & UpJohn
- Organisers:
- G. Turner (Newcastle)
- P. Crocker (Dundee)
Pathogen lectins and host interactions
- 09.10 K. Karlsson (Goteborg, Sweden)
- Overview of bacterial lectins and pathogenicity
- 09.50 B.Appelmelk (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Role of Helicobacter lipopolysaccharide in host-parasite relationship
- 10.30 Coffee
- 11.00 Medal Lecture
- 12.10 R. Ramphal (Florida, USA)
- 11.00 Medal Lecture
- The molecular basis of mucin-Pseudomonas interactions
- 12.50 Lunch
- 14.00 P. Duffy (Washington, USA)
- The pathogenesis of maternal malaria: interactions between P. falciparum and chondroitin sulfate A
- 14.40 U. Frevert (New York, USA)
- Cell surface and intracellular binding sites for the malaria CS protein
- 15.20 M. Wahlgren (Stockholm, Sweden)
- Receptor-ligand interactions of importance for the development of severe malaria
- 16.00 Poster Session
- 17.00 Glycobiology Group AGM
Pathogen glycosylation and host interactions
- Speakers:
- 09.15 D. Hood (Oxford, UK)
- Haemophilus influenzae Lipopolysaccharide
- 10.00 Poster Session
- 11.00 M. Virji (Bristol, UK)
- Glycans in meningococcal pathogenesis
- 11.40 I. Roberts (Manchester, UK)
- The biosynthesis and export of capsular polysaccharides in Escherichia coli and their role in disease
- 12.20 N. Gow (Aberdeen, UK)
- Candida cell wall mannosylation: importance in host-fungus interactions and potential as a target for the development of antifungal drugs
- 13.00 Lunch
- 14.00 S. Schenkman (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
- Trypanosoma cruzi and transialidase
- 14.40 I. Almeida (Dundee, UK)
- Structural requirements for macrophage activation by Trypanosoma cruzi glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchors
- 15.20 T. Ilg (Tubingen, Germany)
- Structure and potential functions of proteophosphoglycans from Leishmania promastigotes and amastigotes
- 16.00 Close
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