Posters List

Presenting at 11:20 am – 12:00 pm MDT on June 25, 2020.

#	Presenting Author	Affiliation	Topic
1	Adam McTague	University of Western Ontario	Participation of O-GlcNAc and galectins in neutrophilic differentiation of human acute promyelocytic leukemia HL-60 cells
2	Alexander Garner	University of British Columbia Okanagan	Quantitation of acetylated and non-acetylated sialic acids found in milk samples
3	Alexander Eddenden	University of Toronto	An inactive mutant of the hexosaminidase dispersin B acts as a selective probe for the biofilm-associated polysaccharide poly-N-acetylglucosamine
4	Andrew Lees	Fina Biosolutions LLC	EcoCRM®, a recombinant CRM197 carrier protein for conjugate vaccines
5	Anna Niedzwiecka	University of Calgary	Synthesis and extension of AltdiNAc for the synthesis of pseudamininc acid
6	Austin Che	University of Calgary	Synthesis of a novel amphiphilic cyclodextrin for liquid crystalline studies
7	Brian Lowrance	Wilfrid Laurier University	Structural and functional characterization of the Clostridioides difficile glycosyl hydrolase CcsZ
8	Bruce Motyka	University of Alberta	ABO-mismatched hematopoietic cell transplantation and ABO tolerance: assessment of ABH subtype-specific antibodies
9	Bushra Anjum	University of Alberta	High-level natural anti-A antibody production and IgM to IgG class switch in female vs male mice
10	Changqing Wang	University of British Columbia	Development of novel glyco-caged prodrugs to treat enteric inflammatory diseases
11	Diana Czuchry	Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology	Using metaproteomics to identify galactosidases in the mouse gut microbiome for biomedical and industrial applications
12	Daniel Mattox	Dartmouth College	Computational characterization of lectin binding sites: uncovering determinants of glycan recognition
13	Danny Galleguillos	University of Alberta	Gangliosides control inflammatory activation, chemotaxis, phagocytosis and growth factor synthesis in mouse primary microglia
14	Edward Schmidt	University of Alberta	New approaches for studying Siglec-ganglioside interactions
15	Emily Rodriguez	Wilfrid Laurier University	Characterization of the putative O-acetyltransferase CcsI: role in cellulose biofilms
16	Erum Razvi	The Hospital for Sick Chidren	Developing a small molecule inhibitor of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm exopolysaccharide deacetylase PelA
17	Fatma Eljabu	University of Alberta	Analysis of intramolecular hydrogen-bonding in DANA derivatives by 13C NMR spin-lattice relaxation
18	Yazan Abu Yousef	McGill University	Identification of new metabolic pathways regulating galactosaminogalactan synthesis and biofilm formation
19	Jaesoo Jung	University of Alberta	A shotgun mass spectrometry-based glycomics strategy for delivering glycan ligands of CD33
20	Jennifer Kaminker	Western University	Investigating O-GlcNAc and galectin gene expression in the human choriocarcinoma cell line BeWo
21	Keegan Turner-Wood	University of Victoria	Enhancing chimeric CAZyme complexes by introducing agarose binding modules
22	Kejia Yan	University of Alberta	Intramolecular hydrogen bonds influence Wittig reaction rate by stabilizing transition state
23	Kelli McCord	University of Alberta	Evaluating the role of Siglecs in regulating neutrophils and monocytes using a liposome-based approach
24	Laura Streith	University of Alberta	Coordinated changes of carbohydrates regulate the function of CD22 on germinal centre B cells
25	Lena Sobze	University of Alberta	Synthesis of peptide macrocycles using 1,5-dichloro-2,4-pentadione
26	Lyann Sim	University of British Columbia	In vivo production of sialylated therapeutic proteins in E. coli
27	Vijay Tejwani	SUNY Polytechnique Institue	Optimization of heparan sulfate expression and purification in batch shake-flask studies
28	Nishaka William	University of Alberta	Modulating intracellular ice recrystallization in hepatocytes using small carbohydrate-based ice recrystallization inhibitors

Presenting at 12:20 am – 1:00 pm MDT on June 25, 2020.

#	Presenting Author	Affiliation	Topic
29	Gour Daskhan	University of Alberta	Modulating phagocytosis by targeting CD33 with multivalent glycodendrimers
30	Josh Kofsky	Queen’s University	Towards the synthesis of O-glycan ligands for probing glycan-protein binding interactions
31	Jonathan Babulic	Queen’s University	Developing photo-crosslinking probes to investigate Siglec-7-glycan interactions through cell-surface glyco-engineering
32	Lucy Ross-Blevis	University of Alberta	Teasing out the function of protein O-mannosylation in Actinobacteria: a proteomic approach
33	Martin Lepsik	Université Grenoble Alpes	Calcium bridging between carbohydrates and lectins: Classical molecular dynamics augmented with effective electronic polarisation
34	Marrie Boddington	Queen’s University	Chemoenzymatic synthesis of multiantennary N-glycans displaying SLe^X epitopes
35	Michel Prévost	Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal	Synthesis of sialyl Lewis-x analogues as selectin antagonists
36	Mostafa Radwan	University of Alberta	Optimizing linker design of human neuraminidase inhibitors
37	Nahoko Yagami	University of Alberta	Synthesis and pharmacokinetic study of selective inhibitors of human neuraminidases
38	Nevin Elsayed	University of Alberta	The development of pharmacophore, 2D and 3D QSAR models for the discovery of novel human neuraminidase inhibitors
39	Nicole Thompson	University of Alberta	An HPLC approach to glycoform quantification in the development of therapeutic proteins with mucin type O-Glycans
40	Nageswari Yarravarapu	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Chemoenzymatic methods to map glycan-mediated interactions
41	Peter Nguyen	Wilfrid Laurier University	Novel strategies for treatment of periodontal disease and remediation of oral dysbiosis
42	Princey Raju	University of Alberta	A synthetic strategy For glycopeptide mimetics
43	Reilly Pidgeon	McGill University	Glycan-based prebiotic adjuvants in cancer immunotherapy
44	Rui Qin	University of Alberta	Global protein glycosylation profile is altered in osteoarthritic equine synovial fluid
45	Ryan Sweeney	University of Alberta	Synthesis of novel montbretin A analogs as specific and potent inhibitors of human pancreatic amylase
46	Samantha Bakker	University of British Columbia Okanagan	Evaluation of bovine milk oligosaccharides using tandem mass tags
47	Samar Barazesh	University of Alberta	O-Glycan sequon engineering of therapeutic proteins in Escherichia coli
48	Shuaiqi Guo	Queen’s University	Molecular basis for ligand recognition by a bacterial lectin involved in biofilm formation
49	Simona Notova	University Grenoble Alpes	Janus lectins as scaffold for double specificity
50	Starr Dostie	Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montréal	Novel classes of bioactive nucleoside analogues
51	Taylor Gray	University of British Columbia Okanagan	Development of high-throughput methods for the analysis of dairy protein N-Glycans
52	Thu Chu	University of Alberta	High-throughput mapping miRNA-glycogene interactomes
53	Wei Li	University of Victoria	Preliminary X-Ray structure of a Fab fragment of antibody targeting tumour-associated carbohydrate antigens
54	Jil Busmann	Simon Fraser University	Affinity capture of endogenous O-GlcNAc transferase (OGT) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
55	Youjin Kim	Queen’s University	Chemoenzymatic synthesis of type I and Type II poly-LacNAc’s and their derivatives
56	Zachary Morrison	University of Toronto	Probing the mechanism of glycosyltransferase PgaCD with UDP-GlcNAc substrate analogs
57	Jonathan Cartmell	GlycoNet	Core services for glycomics research