There are five types of contributions to the XI Jornadas de Carbohidratos symposium:

4 Plenary Lectures (PL):
45 min. including the questions (only by invitation).

10 Invited Lectures (IL):
30 min. including the questions (only by invitation).

12 Oral Communications (OC):
15 min. including the questions.

5 Flash Communications (FC):
5 min. including the questions.

35 Posters (P).

PL = Plenary Lecture
IL = Invited Lecture
OC = Oral Communication
FC = Flash Communication

Meeting Program

Wednesday 28th May

12:30–15:00
Registration

15:00–15:30
Opening

15:30–16:15
Chairman: Francisco Corzana
PL1 Geert-Jan Boons
Functional glycomics through chemical synthesis

16:15–16:45
IL1 Sonsoles Martín-Santamaría
TLR4/MD2 and galectins recognition by modulators. Molecular modelling approaches

16:45–17:30
Coffee Break and Poster Session

17:30-18:00
Chairman: Javier Rojo
IL2 Juan Luis Asensio
Studies on the molecular recognition of aminoglycoside antibiotics by RNA and resistance enzymes

18:00-18:30
Oral Communications (Session I)

OC1 Ángeles Canales
Breaking pseudo-symmetry in multiantennary complex N-glycans using lanthanide-binding tags and NMR pseudo-contact shifts

OC2 Jesús Angulo
NMR conformational analysis of glycosylated iminosugars inhibitors of barley ß-amylase

Thursday 29th May

09:00-09:45
Chairman: Francisco Santoyo
PL2 James C. Paulson
Sialic acids as determinants of self

09:45-10:15
IL3 Carmen Ortíz Mellet
Glycosidase inhibitors and effectors as therapeutic tools

10:15-10:45
Oral Communications (Session II)

OC3 José J. Reina
Development of BODIPY-labeled sulphated carbosilane and mannose dendrons as topical microbicides to prevent HIV-1 sexual transmission

OC4 Laura Gallego-Yerga
Glycotargeted self-assembled nanocarriers from calixarene-cyclodextrin heterodimers for site-specific delivery of docetaxel

10:45-11:30
Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:30-12:00
Chairman: José Manuel García Fernández
IL4 Emilio Cocinero
Elucidating the structure of sugars in the gas phase

12:00-12:30
IL5 Carme Rovira
Molecular mechanism of retaining glycosyltransferases investigated by QM/MM metadynamics

12:30-13:00
Oral Communications (Session III)

OC5 Francisco Plou
Galactooligosaccharides formation during enzymatic hydrolysis of lactose:
Towards prebiotic-enriched milk

OC6 Juan M. Benito
Tailoring self-assembling and targeting capabilities of CD-based nanoparticles for gene delivery

13:00-13:30
Flash Communications
FC1 Alessandra Lacetera
FC2 Luca Unione
FC3 Lucía Pérez-Regidor
FC4 Pilar Elías-Rodríguez
FC5 David Madariaga

13:30-15:30
Lunch

15:30-16:15
Chairman: Soledad Penadés
PL3 Anthony P. Davis
Synthetic lectins: Progress in biomimetic carbohydrate recognition

16:15-16:45
IL6 José L. de Paz
New approaches to the synthesis of hyaluronic acid and chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides

16:45-17:30
Coffee Break and Poster Session

17:30-18:00
Chairman: Ramón Estévez
IL7 Ramón Hurtado-Guerrero
Combined structural snapshots and metadynamics reveal a substrate-guided SNi-type reaction for polypeptide GalNAc-transferase T2

18:00-18:30
Oral Communications (Session IV)
OC7 Rosalino Balo
Shikimic acid: A promising scaffold for new materials, drugs and catalysts

OC8 Marcelo E. Guerín
Conformational transitions as key features of PimA-mediated glycosyl transfer

Friday 30th May

09:00-09:30
Chairman: Sergio Castillón
IL8 Concepción González-Bello
Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria:
Structure-based design and simulation studies

09:30-10:00
IL9 Omar Boutureira
Fluorinated carbohydrate probes for chemical biology

10:00-10:45
Oral Communications (Session V)

OC9 Laura Masgrau
Molecular insights into the synthesis of the heparin/ HS linker by retaining glycosyltransferase EXTL2.
A QM/MM study

OC10 Juan Echevarría
Rapid and quantitative glyco-analysis by MALDI using isotopically labelled glycans

OC11 Jorge R. López-Benito
Augmented reality applied to molecular modeling

10:45-11:30
Coffee Break and Poster Session

11:30-12:00
Chairman: Javier Cañada
IL10 Niels C. Reichardt
Studying the chemical biology of N-glycans with microarrays

12:00-12:15
Oral Communications (Session VI)

OC12 Alberto Fernández-Tejada
Development of QS-21−inspired minimal synthetic saponins as novel vaccine adjuvants:
Improving on nature

12:15-12:30
Ceremony in honour of Prof. Manuel Martín-Lomas

12:30-13:15
Chairman: Jesús Jiménez-Barbero
PL4 Manuel Martín-Lomas
The activation of fibroblast growth factors by glycosaminoglycans

13:15– 13:30
RSEQ Carbohydrate Group Meeting & Closing Remarks

13:30-15:30
Lunch