Monthly Meetings (Second Tuesday Evenings)
6:30--8:00 pm      Physiology 612, WBSB, 725 N. Wolf St.

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"Sugar-based Drug Discovery by Modulating Gene Expression:
The Hexosamine Platform"

Kevin Yarema
Dep. of Biomed. Eng.
Feb 10 (Tuesday) 2009

612 Physiology

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PAST PERFORMANCES (Click here for 1998-2003 posters)

Jan. 13 (2004) -- "Selectin Ligands -- Men are not (always) mice" by R. Schnaar, Dept. of Pharmacology & Molecular Sciences, JHU-SOM Baltimore, MD

Feb. 10 (2004) -- "Potential Role of Sialidase(s) of PBMCs in Influencing Cell Function and Infectivity of HIV-1" by Dr. Nicholas Stamatos, Inst. of Human Virology, Univ. of Md., Biotech. Institute. Baltimore, MD 21201
Mar. 23 (2004) -- "What is the meaning of serotype?--- The differing structures of O-polysaccharide chains of E. coli O86" by Dr. Allen Bush, UMBC, Baltimore, MD.

April 20 (2004) -- " Metabolic Pathways of Glycosylation in Mammalian & Insect Cells" by  Julian Jones, Karthik Viswanathan
S. Krag, M. Betenbaugh, Dept of Chem & Biomol Eng (JHU) & Dept of Biochem & Mol Biol (JHSPH)
Baltimore, MD

May 18 ( 2004) -- " The Sweet Kiss of Death: Galactin-1, Autoimmunity and Tumor Escape", Gabriel Rabinovich, Laboratorio de Inmunogenetica Hospital de Clinicas "José de San Martín", Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Buenos Aires

Oct. 12 (2004) "Metabolic connections between sialic acid biosynthesis, human disease, and apoptosis" by Kevin Yarema, Dept. of Biomed. Eng. (JHU)

Dec. 14 (2004) "C-Reactive Protein: not for Phosphorylcholine only" by Reiko Lee & Y.C.Lee
Dept. of Biology (JHU)

Jan. 11 (2005) "Fluorophore-Assisted Carbohydrate Electrophoresis Studies of CDG-Ia: A SLOw about-FACE"
by Dr. Mark Lehman, Dept of Pharmacol., Univ. of Texas Southwestern Med. Ctr.

Feb. 16 (2005) "Mining Structural Details by MSn and Automation"
by Vernon Reinhold, Univ. of New Hampshire

March 15 (2005)"Siglec-8 -- A lectin regulator of allergic inflammation with unique glycan binding specificity" by Bruce Bochner (Div. Clin. Immun. JH Asthma and Allergy Center) & Ron Schnaar (Dept Pharm. & Mol. Sci., JHMS)

April 20 (2005) "Catch-bond mechanism of saccharide-specific bacterial adhesion" by Evgeni Sokurenko (Dept. Microbiology, Univ. Of Washington)

May 24 (2005) "Glucose Uptake by Escherichia coli (Pursuit of an artefact)" by K. Vyas, H. Patel, & S. Roseman

Oct. 11 (2005) "Bioorganic synthesis of glycopeptides and HIV-1 vaccine design" by Lai-xi Wang (IHV, Univ. of Md.)

Nov. 15 (2005) "Dynamic Interplay Between O-GlcNAc and O-phosphate:
Roles in Transcription, Apoptosis, and the Cell Cycle" by Hart, Houskey, Butkinaree, & Slawson (JHUMI)

Dec. 13 (2005) "Lectin Repertories in Invertebrates and
Ectothermic Vertebrates:Their Roles in Embryogenesis and Innate Immunity¨
by Gerardo Vasta (COMB)

Jan. 10 (2006) "Structure and Function of b-1,4-Gal-transferase family members: Structure-based design of new glycosyltransferases" by P. K. Qasba, E.Boeggeman
& B.Ramakrishnan (NIH/NCI)

Feb. 14 (2006) "Sialic acid: A regulator of apoptosis, proliferation, and differentiation" by K.Yarema (BME, JHU)

March 21 (2006) "An O-Glycosyltransferase is Required During
Multiple Stages of Drosophila Development"  by Kelly Ten Hagen (Developmental Glycobiology Unit, NIDCR/NIH)

April 18 (2006) "Harnessing glycobiology to help in nerve repair" by Ron Schnaar et al. (JHUSOM)

May 9 (2006) ""GPI Anchoring of Fungal Proteins:Challenges of Studying Membrane-Bound Proteing" by Tamara Hendrickson (Dept. Chem., JHU)

Sept. 7 (2006) "Hi-Speed Screening of Total Glycans in Cancer Cells" by K. Kakehi (Kinki Univ.)

Oct 17 (2006) "How do sugars modulate Notch activity" by R. Haltiwanger (Stoney Brook Univ.)

    Nov 21 (2006) "All the neus that is fit to print:The role of Neu1 and Neu3 sialidases in the immune system" by N. Stamatos (UM, IHV)

    Dec. 14 (2006) "The Malaria Parasite's Proclivity for Sweets: Role of Protein-Glycan Interactions in Plasmodium Host Cell Invasion" by R. R. Dinglasan (JHSPH)

    Jan 16 (2007) "Glyconanotechnology:Synthesis, Characterization and Therapeutic Potential of Sugar-coated Nanoparticles" by J. Barchi (NCI, Frederick, MD)

    Feb. 20 (2007) "Molecular Basis of Streptococcal Receptor Polysaccharide Structure and Function" by John Cisar, NIH/NIDCR (Bethesda, MD)

    March 20 (2007) "Glycobiology of Single Cells: Enzyme assays and glycolipid metabolomics" by Drs. M. Palcic and O. Hindsgaul, Carlsburg Lab., Denmark.

    April 19 (2007) "Glycobiology of Leishmania Parasites" by Dr. Sam Turco (Univ. of Kentucky).

   Sept. 11 (2007) " Polymerization of sialic acid by bacterial polysialyltransferases" by Willie Vann, FDA/CBER, Bethesda, MD

  Oct. 9 (2007) "In Pursuit of Carbohydrate-Based HIV Vaccine" by Lai-xi Wang, Inst. Human Virol., Univ. of Md.
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Dec.  4 (2007) "The Sweet Nature of the Cellular Stress Response" by Natasha Zachara, JHMI.

Jan. 8 (2008)  "Galectins as mediators of  developmental and immune mechanisms: Zebrafish and oyster as alternative animal models to
elucidate their biological roles" by Dr. Gerardo Vasta, COMB, Univ. Md, Baltimore, MD

Feb. 12 (2008) " Global Profiling of Glycosylation Using Protein Chip Approach" by Dr. Heng Zhu, Dept. of Pharmacol. & Mol. Sci., JHMI

Mar 11 (2008) "A Rosetta Stone for the O-GlcNAc code: Worms, Flies, Mice and Human Diseases" by Dr. John Hanover, NIH.

April 8 (2008) "N-Glycosites as molecular signatures of extracellular proteins for different cell types and diseases" by Hui Zhang, JHMS

May 13 (2008) "Enzyme I of the Bacterial Phosphotransferase System, a Potential Global Regulator" by Drs. Saul Roseman, Himat Patel, & Kavita Vyas, Dept. of Biology, JHU

Sept 9 (2008) "Modeling glycan processing in normal and tumor cells" by F. Krambeck, M. Betenbaugh, S. Bennum, & K. Yarema, Depts of Che & Biol. Eng., and BME, JHU.

Oct. 14 (2008) "Vascular Adhesion of Colon Carcinoma Cells: Roles of Sialofucosylated CD44 and Carcinoembryonic Antigen" by K. Konstanopoulos

Dec. 9 (2008) "Spreading the neus: the role of sialic acid modulation in inflammation" by Alan Cross, Dept. Med., Univ. Md

Jan 13 (2008) "The Road to AvioGlycomics and Beyond" by Y.C. Lee, Biol. Dept., JHU.
 

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