Program October 22, 2004

MINISYMPOSIUM
GLYCOSTRUCTURES IN BIOSYSTEMS XII

Focus on Fucosyltransferases

October 22, 2004

University Clinic Eppendorf (UKE) Clinic for Orthopedics, Lecture Hall
Martinistr. 52
20246 Hamburg

9:15	Introductory remarks
9:30	John B. Lowe, Dept. of Pathology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan, USA Control of leukocyte biology by fucosylation
10:15	Bruce A. Macher, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA Structure/function studies of fucosyltransferase: Amino acids of the FucT motif and other critical for sLex vs. VIM2 synthesis
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Peter Pahlsson, Dept. of Biomedicine and Surgery, Division of Clinical Chemistry, Linköping, Sweden Naturally occurring mutations in human fucosyltransferases
12:15	Lunch Break
13:45	Risto Renkonen, Institute of Biotechnology and Dept. of Bioscience, University of Helsinki, Finland Leukocyte traffic into sites of human inflammation
14:30	Michael P. Schön, Rudolf-Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine and Department of Dermatology, Julius-Maximilians University, Würzburg, Germany Mechanisms of lymphocyte recruitment in the pathogenesis of inflammatory disorders
15:15	Coffee break
15:45	Stefan Ehlers, Research Institute Borstel, Borstel, Germany The role of fucosyltransferases IV and VII in experimental tuberculosis
16:30	Rodger P. McEver, Cardiovascular Biology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma, USA Molecular and cellular contributions to selectin-dependent leukocyte rolling
17:00	End of Minisymposium XII