Meeting Program

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Sunday, March 6
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Alpine Gallery
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Alpine Gallery
7:30 - 8:30 PM	Keynote Address Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	James C. Paulson, The Scripps Research Institute, USA Targeting Immune Cells with Glycan Ligands of Siglecs
Monday, March 7
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Victoria
8:00 - 11:00 AM	B and T Cell Responses and Recognition Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Brian A. Cobb, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, USA MHCII-Mediated T Cell Activation by Bacterial Carbohydrate Antigens
	Michael B. Brenner, Harvard Medical School, USA CD1-Mediated T Cell Activation by Glycolipid Antigens
	Mitchell Kronenberg, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA Recognition of Glycolipids from Pathogenic Microbes by Natural Killer T Cells
	Linda G. Baum, University of California, Los Angeles, USA CD45 and CD43 Glycosylation during T Cell Maturation, Activation and Survival
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Heritage Hall
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Mt Temple C
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Mt Temple C
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Heritage Hall
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Innate Immune Responses and Recognition Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Paul R. Crocker, University of Dundee, UK Siglecs, Leukocyte Activation and the Innate Response
	Jamey D. Marth, Burnham Institute at UC Santa Barbara, USA A Novel Mechanism of Autoimmune Disease Induced by Altered Host Glycosylation
	Caetano Reis e Sousa, Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, UK C-Type Lectins at the Cross-Road of Innate and Adaptive Immunity
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Mt Temple C
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple C
Tuesday, March 8
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Victoria
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Cell Communication, Homing and Inflammation Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Yvette van Kooyk, Vrije University Medical Center, Netherlands Carbohydrate Recognition by Dendritic Cells and Cell Communication
	Rodger P. McEver, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA Selectin-Glycoconjugate Interactions in Cell Communication
	Sachiko Sato, Laval University, Canada Roles of Host Cytosolic Lectin, Galectin-3 in Innate Immune Responses in Parasitic and Bacterial Infections
	Fu-Tong Liu, University of California, Davis, USA Galectin Roles in Allergic Inflammation
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Heritage Hall
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Mt Temple C
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Mt Temple C
2:30 - 4:30 PM	Workshop: Glycobiology and Its Implications for HIV-1 Vaccine Design
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Heritage Hall
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Workshop and Panel: High-Throughput Screening in Glycomics of the Immune Response Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011 NOTE: This workshop and panel will discuss new technologies and techniques to study glycobiology at the "glycomic" scale. After the invited talks, the audience will join in a roundtable interactive session designed to promote glycomics to understand the immune response and to foster potential collaborations.	Mt Temple A/B
	* Anne Dell, Imperial College London, UK High-Sensitivity Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Glycosylation Patterns
	Ten Feizi, Imperial College London, UK Ligand Discovery of Carbohydrate-Binding Receptors
	Michael Pierce, University of Georgia, USA Novel Proteins that Recognize Specific Glycan Structures
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Mt Temple C
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple C
Wednesday, March 9
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Victoria
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Host-Pathogen Interactions Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Richard Cummings, Emory University, USA O- and N-Glycosylation Pathways in Host-Pathogen Interactions
	Stephen M. Beverley, Washington University School of Medicine, USA Role of Leishmania Glycoconjugates in Virulence and Immuno Evasion
	Gerardo R. Vasta, University of Maryland, USA Galectins and C-Type Lectins in Host-Parasite Interactions
	Teunis B.H. Geijtenbeek, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands DC Viral Responses via DC-SIGN Recognition
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Heritage Hall
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Mt Temple C
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Mt Temple C
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Heritage Hall
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Hematopoiesis and Lymphocyte Development Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Pamela Stanley, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA O-Fucose Glycans in NOTCH Signaling and T Cell Development
	Claudine Schiff, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille, France Galectins and B Cell Development
	John B. Lowe, Genentech, Inc., USA Fucosylation and Leukocyte Biology
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Mt Temple C
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple C
Thursday, March 10
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Victoria
8:00 - 11:00 AM	Autoimmunity and Chronic Inflammation Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Gabriel A. Rabinovich, Instituto de Biologia y Medicina Experimental, Argentina Tolerogenic Circuits Mediated by Galectin-Glycan Interactions in the Resolution of Autoimmune Inflammation
	Rikard Holmdahl, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Glycosylation Alteration of Autoantigens in Disease
	Michael Demetriou, University of California, Irvine, USA N-Glycan Branching, T Cells and Autoimmunity
	Hugh J. Willison, University of Glasgow, UK Protein-Carbohydrate Interactions in Neuronal Autoimmunity
	Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Heritage Hall
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Heritage Hall
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Tumor Immunity Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/06/2011	Mt Temple A/B
	* Minoru Fukuda, Burnham Institute, USA Glycan Roles in Leukocyte Trafficking during Inflammation and Cancer
	Olivera J. Finn, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA Mucin Glycosylation and Cancer Epitopes
	James W. Dennis, Mount Sinai Hospital, Canada N-Glycans in Tumor Progression
	Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Victoria
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Victoria
Friday, March 11
	Departure
*=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

Carbohydrates are often overlooked in the study of the immune system, yet mounting data show that glycans, whether microbial or host in origin, play central roles in essentially all immune response pathways. Changes in glycosylation of host proteins can lead to autoimmunity, indicate oncogenic transformation, or even promote metastasis. Inflammation can be strongly influenced by carbohydrate binding proteins on immune cells. Selectins play critical roles in cell homing to the site of infection, while glycosylation directly influences cellular development and differentiation. Recent advances also highlight how glycan-mediated antigen recognition by dendritic cells impacts our understanding of the innate immune response, while other findings reveal that glycolipids and bacterial polysaccharides can lead to NKT and T cell activation. The goal of this meeting is to bring together the international “glycoimmunology” community to foster interactions and promote the latest insights into the role of glycans in the immune system.