CARBSunday, 28 August 2005

1:00 PM-4:50 PM Washington DC Convention Center -- 202A, Oral
Wolfrom/Isbell New Investigator Award Symposium
Organizer:Zbigniew J. Witczak
1:00 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:05 PMMultivalent carbohydrate-lectin interactions
C. Fred Brewer
1:35 PMPerception of the oligosaccharide signal that initiates the nitrogen-fixing rhizobium-legume symbiosis
Marilynn E Etzler, Gurpreet Kalsi, Biao Wu
2:05 PMCarbohydrate recognition and control of bacterial chemotaxis
Laura L. Kiessling
2:35 PMIntermission
2:45 PMExpression, purification and characterization of a mycobacterial galactofuranosyltransferase
Todd L. Lowary
3:15 PMCarbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions at membrane interfaces
Amit Basu
3:45 PMDerivation of novel therapeutics from the diversity-oriented chemical modification of bioactive polyanions
Robert J. Kerns
4:15 PMStudies toward total synthesis of sperm CD52, a GPI-anchored glycopeptide antigen
Zhongwu Guo
4:45 PMConcluding Remarks

Symposium Grid -- Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry -- Session Listing

The 230th ACS National Meeting, in Washington, DC, Aug 28-Sept 1, 2005