The 22nd European Carbohydrate Symposium
6th-10th July 2025, Gdansk, Poland

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Conference Program:

SundayConcert Hall
13:00 – 19:00Registration
15:30 – 16:00Welcome session
16:00 – 16:50Emil Fischer Award 2025
PL1: Sabine Flitsch – APPLICATION OF ENZYMES IN CARBOHYDRATE CHEMISTRY

Chair: David Bonnaffé
 Coffee break
17:15 – 18:05Emil Fischer Award 2025
PL2: Carmen Galan – FROM SYNTHESIS TO APPLICATIONS: SYNTHETIC GLYCO-TOOLS FOR EXPLORING AND EXPLOITING THE GLYCOME

Chair: Antonio Molinaro
18:05 – 18:50PL3: Todd Lowary – SYNTHESIS OF GLYAN PROBES FOR UNDERSTANDING THE ASSEMBLY AND FUNCTION OF MICROBIAL GLYCANS

Chair: Chris Whitfield
19:00 – 21:00Welcome reception
MondayConcert HallGreen HallWhite HallOak Hall
9:00 – 9:45PL4: Cristina De Castro – AUTONOMOUS GLYCOSYLATION IN GIANT VIRUSES

Chair: Todd Lowary
9:45 – 10:30PL5: Suvarn Kulkarni – ARE THERE SUGARS IN BACTERIA? WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM?

Chair: Koichi Fukase
10:30 – 10:40Plenary Sponsor: Elicytil
 Coffee break
  Session 1
Topic: Glycoproteomics

Chair: Yehia Mechref

 Session 2
Topic: Mechanisms of glycosylation

Chair: Charles Loh

 Session 3
Topic: Sialylated carbohydrates

Chair: Xuefei Huang

 Session 4
Topic: N-glycans

Chair: Cristina De Castro
11:00 – 11:30 KL1: Celso Reis KL2: Thomas Boltje KL3: Anne Harduin-Lepers KL4: Jerry Eichler
11:30 – 11:45 OL1: Parastoo Azadi OL5: Clay Bennet OL9: María Asunción Campanero-Rhodes OL13: Luca Unione
11:45 – 12:00 OL2: Chi-Kung N OL6: Beata Liberek OL10: Helena Coelho OL14: Mateusz Marianski
12:00 – 12:15 OL3: Gaël Vos OL7: Jennifer Johns OL11: Marina Corbella Morató OL15: Anna Notaro
12:15 – 12:30 OL4: Weiwei Wang OL8: Daan Hoogers OL12: Maria Elena Laugieri OL16: Łukasz Sobala
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
  Session 5 (flash)
Keynote topic: Plant PS synthesis

Chair: Atsushi Shimoyama

 Session 6 (flash)
Keynote topic: Glycodrugs

Chair: Thomas Boltje

 Session 7 (flash)
Keynote topic: Glycosaminoglycans

Chair: Jerry Eichler

 Session 8 (flash)
Keynote topic: Bacterial PS

Chair: Adam Choma
14:00 – 14:30 Duo-KL1: Mads Clausen and Fabian Pfrengle KL5: Francesca Cardona KL6: Serge Perez KL7: Sabina Górska
14:30 – 14:45   OL17: Deepak Kushwaha OL18: Gavin Miller OL19: Gordon Boehlich
14:45 – 14:50 FL1: Fayliesha Spyker FL8: CorinneLepetit FL16: Caroline Gilleron FL24: Andrea Iovine
14:50 – 14:55 FL2: Rei Hattori FL9: Daria Grzywacz FL17: Han Zhang FL25: Jordi Guixeras
14:55 – 15:00 FL3: Christopher Herailh FL10: Mariusz Dziadas FL18: Nam-Hai Hoang FL26: Eliška Filipová
15:00 – 15:05 FL4: Irene Pasini FL11: Alexandra Couto Oliveira FL19: James Jeffries FL27: Pedro J. Hernando
15:05 – 15:10 FL5: Camille Bedu FL12: Lucy Spicer FL20: Lisa Coddens FL28: Francesca Milano
15:10 – 15:15 FL6: Yadiel Vazquez FL13: Grzegorz Detlaff FL21: Emeline Richard Millot FL29: Håvard Hoel
15:15 – 15:20 FL7: Zoe Beato FL14: Rob Lammers FL22: Léa Latour FL30: Amina Maalej
15:20 – 15:25   FL15: Francesca Mangiavacchi FL23: Szymon Jarząbek FL31: Yonatan Sukhran
15:30 – 17:30Poster Session 1 + coffee break
  Session 9
Topic: Disease treatment

Chair: Suvarn Kulkarni

 Session 10
Topic: Probes

Chair: TPhilippe Compain

 Session 11
Topic: Glycoenzymes

Chair: Antoni Planas

 Session 12
Topic: Natural drugs

Chair: Fabian Pfrengle
17:30 – 17:45 Duo-OL1: O. Vidal-Girones and M. Artola OL23: Tanja Wrodnigg OL28: Yuval Shoham OL33: Kecheng Li
17:45 – 18:00   OL24: Roy Steneker OL29: Maher Abou-Hachem OL34: Kari Tvete Inngjerdingen
18:00 – 18:15 OL20: Vladimír Kren OL25: Patricia Busca OL30: Liang Wang OL35: Marta Krychowiak-Maśnicka
18:15 – 18:30 OL21: Jonathan Cramer OL26: Laia Saltor Núñez OL31: Xevi Biarnés OL36: Mina Gravdahl
18:30 – 18:45 OL22: Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos OL27: Lloyd Murphy OL32: Mahima Sharma OL37: Milo Malanga
TuesdayConcert HallGreen HallWhite HallOak Hall
9:00 – 9:45PL6: Göran Widmalm – GLYCAN STRUCTURE

Chair: Jesús Jiménez Barbero
9:45 – 10:30PL7: Hiromune Ando – CHALLENGE TO THE SYNTHESIS OF HIGHLY COMPLEX SIALO-GLYCANS

Chair: Alba Silipo
 Coffee break
  Session 13
Topic: Arrays

Chair: Valentin Wittmann

 Session 14
Topic: Stereocontrolled glycosylation

Chair: Guozhi Xiao

 Session 15
Topic: Vaccines

Chair: Laurence Mulard

 Session 16
Topic: Hydrogen bonds and glycomimetics

Chair: Serge Perez
11:00 – 11:30 KL8: Ratmir Derda KL9: Charles Loh KL10: Atsushi Shimoyama KL11: Bruno Linclau
11:30 – 11:45 OL38: Michelle Kilcoyne OL42: Alexei Demchenko OL46: Roberto Adamo OL50: Emiliano Bedini
11:45 – 12:00 OL39: Jin Yu OL43: Eoghan McGarrigle OL47: Cyrille Grandjean OL51: Agata Zykwinska
12:00 – 12:15 OL40: Mattan Hurevich OL44: Yugen Zhu OL48: Giuseppe Stefanetti OL52: Fabiana Esposito
12:15 – 12:30 OL41: Michaela Wimmerova OL45: Chun-Wei Chang OL49: Magda Faijes OL53: Luca-Cesare Blawitzki
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
  Session 17 (flash)
Keynote topic: Carbohydrate modelling

Chair: Miloš Hricovíni

 Session 18 (flash)
Keynote topic: Carbohydrate synthesis

Chair: Francesca Cardona

 Session 19 (flash)
Keynote topic: Host-guest interactions

Chair: Roberta Marchetti

 Session 20 (flash)
Keynote topic: Glycomimetics

Chair: Pavla Bojarova
14:00 – 14:30 Duo-KL2: Sergey Samsonov and Martin Zacharias KL12: Philippe Compain KL13: Alba Silipo KL14: Anikó Borbás
14:30 – 14:45   OL55: José Danglad Flores OL57: Joseph Byrne OL59: Alla Zamyatina
14:45 – 15:00 OL54: Laura Diaz Casado OL56: Daniel Hoard OL58: Yang Zou OL60: Guillaume Blondy
15:00 – 15:05 FL32: Tobias Dorn FL39: Alessandro Petronilli FL46: Mirane Florencio-Zabaleta FL53: Anna Kovalová
15:05 – 15:10 FL33: Jakub Zýka FL40: Oana Popa FL47: Luca Pisapia FL54: Oliwier Dulawa
15:10 – 15:15 FL34: Mathieu Scalabrin FL41: Ajay Sharma S FL48: Juan Carlos Villegas Ruiz FL55: Daniel Garcia de Otazo Hernandez
15:15 – 15:20 FL35: Rasha Ghanem Kattoub FL42: Carla Jasmine Oliveira e Silva FL49: Anastasia Tsagkarakou FL56: Sean Austin
15:20 – 15:25 FL36: Nawar Ahmad FL43: Vincent Verhoeks FL50: Alessandro Antonio Masi FL57: Yujin Kitai
15:25 – 15:30 FL37: Jacob Clark FL44: Rachel Carpaye FL51: Intan Hawina Anjari  
15:30 – 15:35 FL38: Marta Pągielska FL45: Marie-Claire Jiang FL52: Thomas Rexer  
15:35 – 17:30Poster Session 2 + coffee break
  Session 21
Topic: Glycoproteomics 2

Chair: Parastoo Azadi

 Session 22
Topic: Fluorinated carbohydrates

Chair: Bruno Linclau

 Session 23
Topic: Green carbohydrates

Chair: Bjørge Westereng

 Session 24
Topic: GAGs modelling

Chair: Sergey Samsonov
17:30 – 17:45 OL61: Yehia Mechref OL65: Koichi Fukase OL69: Alberto Marra OL73: Hector Martinez-Seara
17:45 – 18:00 OL62: Ronghu Wu OL66: Jindřich Karban OL70: Serena Traboni OL74: Sandra Rother
18:00 – 18:15 OL63: David Falck OL67: Abhijit Sau OL71: Wieslaw Kaca OL75: Stefano Elli
18:15 – 18:30 OL64: Kevin Pagel OL68: Estelle Gallienne OL72: Guoqing Zhang OL76: Miguel Riopedre-Fernandez
 
19:30 – 21:00Jantar’s performance – folk songs and dance ensamble
WednesdayConcert HallGreen HallWhite HallOak Hall
9:00 – 9:45PL8: Anne Imberty – LECTINS AND LECTOMES FOR DECIPHERING THE GLYCOCODE

Chair: Sabine Flitsch
9:45 – 10:30PL9: Herman Overkleeft – ACTIVITY-BASED GLYCOSIDASE PROFILING

Chair: Hiromune Ando
 Coffee break
  Session 25
Topic: Glycoproteins

Chair: Ratmir Derda

 Session 26
Topic: Polysaccharide synthesis

Chair: Paul Kosma

 Session 27
Topic: Molecular interactions

Chair: Martin Zacharias

 Session 28
Topic: Natural PS

Chair: Wieslaw Kaca
11:00 – 11:30 KL15: Tiehai Li KL16: Guozhi Xiao KL17: June Ereño-Orbea KL18: Bjørge Westereng
11:30 – 11:45 OL77: Yasuhiro Kajihara OL81: Laurence Mulard OL85: Maria Pia Lenza OL89: Sabrina Bertini
11:45 – 12:00 OL78: Ping Wang OL82: Cheng-Chung Wang OL86: Ana Gimeno OL90: Mélanie Marquis
12:00 – 12:15 OL79: Dror Ben Abba Amiel OL83: Uwe Osswald OL87: Martin Kurfirt OL91: Hana Maalej
12:15 – 12:30 OL80: Ulla Gerling-Driessen OL84: Daniele Zucchetta OL88: Angela Marseglia OL92: Marta Fiedot
12:30 – 13:30Lunch
 Excursions
ThursdayConcert HallGreen HallWhite HallOak Hall
  Session 29
Topic: Glycan interactions

Chair: Michaela Wimmerova

 Session 30
Topic: Inhibitors

Chair: Tanja Wrodnigg

 Session 31
Topic: Bacterial envelope

Chair: Jolanta Lukasiewicz

 Session 32
Topic: Carbohydrate modelling 2

Chair: Hector Martinez-Seara
9:00 – 9:30 KL19: Bruce Turnbull KL20: Pavla Bojarova KL21: Chris Whitfield KL22: Miloš Hricovíni
9:30 – 9:45 OL93: Valentin Wittmann OL97: Kamil Parkan OL101: Antoni Planas OL105: Denys Biriukov
9:45 – 10:00 OL94: Alexander Titz OL98: Vojtech Hamala OL102: Adrià Alcaide-Jiménez OL106: Wojciech Plazinski
10:00 – 10:15 OL95: Kazuya Kabayama OL99: Patrick Weber OL103: Satish Raina OL107: Rafał Slusarz
10:15 – 10:30 OL96: Iris Bermejo OL100: Ashis Dhara OL104: Gracjana Klein OL108: Tomasz Pieńko
12:30 – 14:00Coffee break
  Session 33
Topic: Nanomaterials

Chair: Martina Delbianco

 Session 34
Topic: Glycoconjugates

Chair: Tiehai Li

 Session 35
Topic: Bacterial PS

Chair: Flaviana Di Lorenzo

 Session 36
Topic: Enzyms and glycoproteins

Chair: Anne Harduin-Lepers
11:00 – 11:15 OL109: Bjørn Christensen OL115: Yukari Fujimoto OL121: Jolanta Lukasiewicz OL125: Yves Bleriot
11:15 – 11:30 OL110: David Bonnaffé OL116: Jun-ichi Tamura OL122: Ferran Nieto-Fabregat OL126: Tessa Keenan
11:30 – 11:45 OL111: Camilla Matassini OL117: Charles Gauthier OL123: Anna Maciejewska OL127: Filipa Marcelo
11:45 – 12:00 OL112: Chiara Mangini OL118: Laurent Legentil Duo-OL2: Michelle Kuttel and Neil Ravenscroft OL128: Rachel Hevey
12:00 – 12:15 OL113: Nives Hribernik OL119: Stephanie Norsikian   OL129: Marko Anderluh
12:15 – 12:30 OL114: Angela Casillo OL120: Hiroaki Matoba OL124: Nicole Richardson OL130: Amélia Rauter
12:30 – 14:00Lunch
  Session 37
Topic: Glycoengineering

Chair: Bruce Turnbull

 Session 38
Topic: Glycomimetics

Chair: Anikó Borbás

 Session 39
Topic: Bacterial PS 2

Chair: Satish Raina

 Session 40
Topic: Glycoanalytics

Chair: Göran Widmalm
14:00 – 14:15 OL131: Barbara Richichi OL135: Jérôme Desire OL138: Flaviana Di Lorenzo OL142: Sebastian Galuska
14:15 – 14:30 OL132: Kamil Godula OL136: Hanna Zinchenko OL139: Tomasz Niedziela OL143: Davide Ret
14:30 – 14:45 OL133: Sebastien Gouin OL137: Jakub Lagiewka OL140: Marcello Mercogliano OL144: Hana Ishikawa
14:45 – 15:00 OL134: Niels Reichardt   OL141: Roger Laine OL145: Clemens Lütjohann
 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15PL10: Xuefei Huang – DEVELOPMENT OF SIALYL LEWISA-BASED ANTI-CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY

Chair: Herman Overkleeft
16:15 – 17:10Carbohydrate Research Award 2025
PL11: Martina Delbianco – CARBOHYDRATES FOLDAMERS AND ASSEMBLIES

Chair: Carmen Galan
17:15 – 17:45Poster Awards; ICS 2026; EUROCARB 2027; Closing
19:00 – 23:00Symposium Dinner

Book of abstracts:

The 22nd European
Carbohydrate Symposium
July 6th-10th, 2025
Gdańsk, Poland
BOOK OF ABSTRACTS
(PDF file, 19 MB)

Conference program (updated on July 1):

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