Inaugural Meeting
1st April 2025, 13:00 CEST
Gorlaeus Building CM 1.26, Einsteinweg 55, 2333 CC, Leiden
Leiden Glycoscience has its inaugural meeting with 10 scientific talks.
The Program:
- 13:00 – 13:10 | Welcome & Introduction to Leiden Glycoscience
- 13:10 – 13:45 | Plenary Talk by Prof. Jeroen Codée (LIC) – Sugars and Phosphates: synthesis and application of bacterial glycans and mimetic.
- 13:45 – 14:45 | Short Presentations – Session 1 (4 talks, each 10 min + 5 min Q&A)
• 13:45 – 14:00 | Vincent Verhoeks (LIC) – Four of a kind: chemical synthesis and glycosylation of bacterial nonulosonic acids.
• 14:00 – 14:15 | Willianne Hoepel (LUMC) – Bittersweet? Antibody glycosylation in virus-induced asthma exacerbations.
• 14:15 – 14:30 | Tessa Gote (LIC) – Targeting Sialic Acid Esterases: an Underexplored Enzyme Class for Combating Infectious Disease.
• 14:30 – 14:45 | Wieke van Oostveen (LUMC) – Antigen-specific IgG Fc Glycosylation Differs Between Anti-Centromere Protein B and Anti-Topoisomerase I Autoantibodies in Systemic Sclerosis.
14:45 – 15:15 | Coffee Break ☕
- 15:15 – 16:15 | Short Presentations – Session 2 (4 talks, each 10 min + 5 min Q&A)
• 15:15 – 15:30 | Nika Šimičić (LUMC) – Cell Surface N-Glycoproteomics to Map the Colorectal Cancer Glycome.
• 15:30 – 15:45 | Rob Lammers (LIC) – β-D-Arabinofuranosyl cyclitol aziridines as first-in-class scaffold for selective and covalent inhibitors, ABPs and PROTACs targeting GBA2.
• 15:45 – 16:00 | Qianyue Zhang (LUMC) – Obesity affects the adipocyte glycosylation machinery and N-glycan profiles in mice.
• 16:00 – 16:15 | Thijs Voskuilen (LIC) – The Synthesis of D-Alanylated Wall Teichoic Acids from Staphylococcus aureus. - 16:15 – 16:50 | Plenary Talk by Dr. Lise Hafkenscheid (LUMC) – F(ab)₂ulous Glycans: Decoding ACPA-IgG Glycosylation in Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 16:50 – 17:00 | Closing Remarks
17:00 – 18:00 | Drinks & Networking 🍷