JCGG Symposia
Expanding of Glycoscience Research: From basic and applied biology to health and medical applications
October 26-27, 2017
at Centennial Hall of Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University (Fukuoka)
at Centennial Hall of Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University (Fukuoka)
Program on October 26 (Thur), 2016
| Opening Address Daisuke Kohda (Kyushu University) |
| Keynote Speech Glycoscience road map in Japan Naoyuki Taniguchi (JCGG President) |
| Chair : Kaoru Takekawa, Takane Katayama |
| ◊ Session 1 :Interactions through Glycan Chains between Microbes and Higher Organisms Biological roles of pyruvic acid-containing oligosaccharides in microorganisms Kaoru Takekawa (Kyushu University) Symbiosis and co-evolution between humans and bifidobacteria, driven by human milk oligosaccharides Takane Katayama (Kyoto University) Structure-function relationships of a new family of β-mannosyltransferases from Candida pathogenic yeasts Yann Guérardel (Université de Lille) |
| Chair : Sho Yamasaki, Daisuke Kohda |
| ◊ Session 2 :Complex Glycans and Infection Fungal strategies for escaping from host immune system: Novel functions of glycolipid hydrolases Makoto Ito (Kyushu University) Complement and inflammasome activation caused by GPI-anchor dysregulation Taroh Kinoshita (Osaka University) Glycoconjugates from cell surface: Analysis of their immune balance modulation with chemically synthesized compounds Yukari Fujimoto (Keio University) Immune regulation of bacterial glycolipids via C-type lection receptors Sho Yamasaki (Osaka University) |
| Industry-Academia Joint Session An originally developed reagent for highly efficient preparation of exosome and its proteome analysis Ayako Kurimoto (Miraka Co.) |
| Special Lecture The surprising nature of human T cell response to glycolipids D. Branch Moody (Brigham and Women's Hospital) |
Program on October 27 (Fri), 2016
| Chair : Yoshimitsu Kakuta, Daisuke Kohda |
| ◊ Session 3 :Glycan-related Proteins and Structure Biology Integrative structural biology approach to understand the structural and dynamic basis of Asn-glycosylation Daisuke Kohda (Kyushu University) Structural diversity of marine invertebrate lections Tomomitsu Hatakeyama (Nagasaki University) Structures and mechanisms of glycosyltransferases Yoshimitsu Kakuta (Kyushu University) |
| Chair : Yasuo Suda |
| ◊ Session 4 :Sugars, Food and Their Industrial Advances Cultivation of Okinawamozuku and production of fucoidan Masahiko Iha (Southproducts Co.) Production of sugar of high function from starch and its application to food industry Kazuhiro Yoshinaga (Sanasu Co.) and Junichi Abe (Kagoshima University) Unbreakable ties between saccharide and shochu Yumiko Yoshizaki (Kagoshima University) |
| Luncheon Seminar (sponsored by Shimadzu Co.) SALSA : A novel derivatization for sialyl linkage isomer discrimination by mass spectrometry Takashi Nishikaze (Shimadzu Co.) Ability and possibility of the microchip electrophoresis apparatus “MultiNA” in the analysis of carbohydrate chain Mitsuhiro Kinoshita (Kinki University) |
| Chair : Yoshiko Miura |
| ◊ Session 5 :Glycan Nanomedicines Synthesis and application of sugar chain-immobilized fluorescent nanoparticles Masahiro Wakao (Kagoshima University) Polysaccharide-graft copolymers as biofunctional materials Atsushi Maruyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Synthetic glycopolymers shine at predesigned location: from cancer cell targeting to cell surface engineering Gaojian Chen (Soochow University) Glycopolymer nanomedicine by protecting-group-free synthesis Tomonari Tanaka (Kyoto Institute of Technology) |
| Chair : Kazunari Akiyoshi |
| ◊ Session 6 :Frontiers of Polysaccharide Material Science Supramolecular materials formed by cyclodextrins Akira Harada (Osaka University) Chitin nanofibers from crab shell and its biological properties Shinsuke Ifuku (Tottori University) A novel polysaccharide carrier for immunocyte targeting delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides Kazuo Sakurai and Shinichi Mochizuki (The University of Kitakyushu) |
| Closing Remarks |
