Program April 29, 2005

MINISYMPOSIUM
GLYCOSTRUCTURES IN BIOSYSTEMS XIV

Glycochemistry: Synthesis, Biology and Application

April 29, 2005

Department of Chemistry North Wing of Library
Martin Luther King Platz 6
20146 Hamburg

9:00	Introductory remarks
9:15	Chris McGuigan, Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK Application of the Phosphoramidate ProTide Approach Transforms the Biological Properties of Bioactive Nucleosides and Sugars
10:00	Gilles Gosselin, Laboratoire de Chimie Organique Biomoléculaire de Synthese, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France Telbivudine (LdT) and Valtorcitabine (VAL-LdC): Two Potent and Selective anti-HBV Nucleoside Analogues
10:45	Coffee break
11:15	Benjamin G. Davis, Department of Chemistry, Chemistry Research Laboratory, Oxford, UK Sugars and Enzymes
12:00	Lunch Break
14:00	Valentin Wittmann, Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Germany Syntheses and Applications of Sugar Diamino Acids
14:45	Silvana Pedatella, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica e Biochimica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy Design and Synthesis of New Sialyl LEWIS^X Mimics as E- and P-Selectin Antagonists
15:30	Coffee break
16:00	Stefan Oscarsson, Department of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Approaches Towards Anti-Microbial Glycoconjugate Vaccines Based on Synthetic Oligosaccharide Structures
16:45	David W. Gammon, Department of Chemistry, University of Cape Town, South Africa Strategies and Synthesis in the Development of Inhibitors of the Deacetylase (MshB) Implicated in the Biosynthesis of Mycothiol in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
17:30	End of Minisymposium XIV