Keynote Speakers
Banquet Keynote

Cara Tannenbaum
The Sweet Side of Sex: Why Sex Matters in Glycobiology
Scientific Director, Institute of Gender and Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research and
Departmental Science Advisor, Health Canada
Keynote Speakers

Josef Penninger
ACE2 and Spike Glycosylation
Professor, Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia

Kirk Bergstrom
Holistic Glycoscience: Combining the power of preclinical models of glycosylation deficiencies with glycomics to interrogate the biologic functions of glycans and their defects in chronic diseases
Assistant Professor, Biology, University of British Columbia Okanagan

Meghan Azad
7 Years of Human Milk Oligosaccharide Research in the CHILD Cohort: What have we learned and what’s up next?
Associate Professor, Immunology, Community Health Sciences, Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Manitoba