The Society for Glycobiology (SfG) Symposium: Harness the GLYCOme in Immunity

Sunday, May 12, 2019
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Room 30AB

The Society for Glycobiology (SfG) Symposium: Harness the GLYCOme in Immunity

Chairs:

  • Galit Alter, Ragon Inst. of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
  • Jim Paulson, Scripps Res. Inst.

Speakers:

  • Mattias Collin, Lund Univ., Sweden, Sweet revenge – bacterial immune evasion through specific antibody glycan hydrolysis
  • Fikri Avci, Univ. of Georgia, Adaptive immune responses induced by HIV envelope glycoprotein
  • Brian Cobb, Case Western Reserve Univ., B cell-independent glycan programming of IgG function
  • Katharina Ribbeck, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Mucin glycans in the regulation of microbial virulence