Notícia

O 8th International Meeting of the Portuguese Carbohydrate Group (GLUPOR 8) decorrerá na Universidade do Minho, em Braga, entre os dias 6 e 10 de Setembro de 2009. O evento é dirigido a todos os investigadores com interesse em alguma das áreas da química dos carbohidratos.

Os Encontros internacionais denominados GLUPOR`s tiveram o seu início em 1995, sob os auspícios da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química.

Ana Paula Esteves, presidente da Comissão Organizadora, faz o seguinte enquadramento destas reuniões científicas:
«A multidisciplinaridade que os caracteriza permitiram tornar estes eventos numa oportunidade de reunião bienal de investigadores nacionais e internacionais a trabalhar em qualquer tema relacionado com a química dos carbohidratos para apresentarem e discutirem os desenvolvimentos mais recentes.»


Temas a abordar:
A - Synthesis, Structure and Analysis;
B – Medicinal and Biomolecular Chemistry;
C – Glycobiology of Disease and Pathogenesis;
D – Other Carbohydrate Applications.

Scientific Program

Plenary Lectures

Ramon Alibés, University Autónoma of Barcelone, Spain
New chiral backbones for the design of nucleoside analogues

David Bonnaffé, University of Paris Sud, France
Glycosaminoglycans: combinatorial and total syntheses of fragments, mimetics and chimeras. Validation of new therapeutic targets.

Sergio Castillón, University of Rovira i Virgili, Spain
New methodologies in the synthesis of glycolipids and oligosaccharides

Marek Chmielewski, Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Anomeric hydroperoxides and their use for enantioselective epoxidation

Carmen Claver, University of Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Carbohydrate ligands in asymmetric catalysis

Beat Ernst, University of Basel, Switzerland
Fragment-based lectin antagonists: nanomolar, what else?

Alfonso Fernandez-Mayoralas, Institute of Organic Chemistry, CSIC, Spain
Exploring the mechanism of action of a synthetic glycolipid with antitumoral activity

Laurence Mulard, Institute Pasteur, France
Synthetic oligosaccharide-based conjugates as potential vaccines against bacillary dysentery: from conception to in vivo evaluation

Patrick Rollin, University of Orléans, France
From Brassicale vegetables to organic synthesis: making use of non-classic thio-functions in glycochemistry

Hans Peter Wessel, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Switzerland
Carbohydrate Pharmaceuticals

Zbigniew J. Witczak, Wilkes University, USA
Thio-sugars as emerging targets for antimalarial and antitubercular carbohydrate therapeutics discovery

Invited Speakers

Ramon Alibés, University Autónoma of Barcelone, Spain

Pilar Areces, University of Extremadura, Spain

El Mustapha Belgsir, BioCydex, France

Luís S. M. Bento, Sucropedia, Portugal

Gonçalo Bernardes, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Surfaces, Germany

David Bonnaffé, University of Paris Sud, France

Sergio Castillón, University of Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Marek Chmielewski, Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Carmen Claver, University of Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Beat Ernst, University of Basel, Switzerland

Alfonso Fernandez-Mayoralas, CSIC, Spain

Dulcineia Ferreira, Agricultural Polytechnic School of Viseu, Portugal

J. Albertino Figueiredo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

John Jones, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Laurence Mulard, Institute Pasteur, France

Celso Reis, IPATIMUP, Portugal

Patrick Rollin, University of Orléans, France

Rita Ventura, ITQB, Portugal

Hans Peter Wessel, F. Hoffman-La Roche, Switzerland

Zbigniew J. Witczak, Wilkes University, USA







Para mais informações/Further informations:
Dr. Ana Paula Esteves (Chairperson)
Departamento de Química
Universidade do Minho
Campus de Gualtar
4710-057 Braga
Portugal
phone: + 351253604373
fax: + 351253604382
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.glupor8.quimica.uminho.pt