Special Talk

  • Richard D. Cummings

    Harvard Medical School

    Connecting Genetics, Glycomics, and Biological Functions of Glycans

Keynote Talk

  • Salome Pinho

    University of Porto

    Glycans as master regulators of immune response in inflammation, autoimmunity and cancer: from disease prediction to therapeutic opportunities.

  • Kelvin Anggara

    Max Planck Institute

    Analyzing Structures of Glycans and Glycoconjugates at Single Molecule Level by Direct Imaging on Surface

  • Masayuki Yamamoto

    Tohoku University/ToMMO

    Aim and Progress of Tohoku Medical Megabank Project

  • Matthew Macauley

    University of Alberta

    New tools to probe the ligands and functions of Siglecs

  • Minoru Yoshida

    RIKEN

    From Chemical Genetics to Drug Discovery

  • Takeshi Iwatsubo

    The University of Tokyo/NCNP

    Alzheimer's disease: molecular pathology and disease-modifying therapies

 

Invited Talk

  • Jin-ichi Inokuchi

    Osaka University

    SIGLEC family gene polymorphisms including risk of disease onset in Japanese

  • Jennifer Kohler

    University of Texas/Nagoya University

    Glycan recognition by bacterial toxins

  • Shinobu Kitazume

    Fukushima Medical University

    Brain-specific glycan on PTPRZ is a key player in glioma biology and diagnosis