CARBThursday, April 10, 2008

1:30 PM-5:30 PM Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 214, Oral
Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry
Organizer:Dev P. Arya
Presiding:Balagurunathan Kuberan
Maria Gonzalez-Moa
1:30 PMApplications of cross-linked enzyme crystals (CLEC) in synthesis of designer carbohydrates for biomedical uses
Nawal K. Sharma, Pramod K. Sharma, Ashok K. Prasad, Virinder S. Parmar
1:50 PMChemical transformations of chicory carbohydrates and their consumption in food technologies and medicine
Galyna Lezenko, Inna Popova, Vadym Pavlenko
2:10 PMMapping sialyltransferase active sites using isotopically labeled and spin-labeled NMR probes
Shan Liu, James H. Prestegard
2:30 PMStar polymers based on cyclodextrins are applied to artificial hemichannels
P. Guégan, Huin Cecile, Nehza Badi, Loic Auvray
2:50 PMChemical biology of heparan sulfate proteoglycans
Balagurunathan Kuberan
3:10 PMIntermission
3:30 PMIntricate protein binding and neutralization of edema factor during phagocytosis
April Jones, Lee Soderberg, Olga Tarasenko
3:50 PMNew sensing tools for starch research
Mian Jiang, An Vo, Akif J. Uzman, Larry G. Spears
4:10 PMSynthesis of fluorinated SLex analogs to probe selectin-mediated adhesion
Gizem Akcay, Krishna Kumar, Marc d'Alarcao
4:30 PMTemplate assembled artificial lectins
Maria Gonzalez-Moa, Kathryn Boltz, Stephen Albert Johnston, Sergei A. Svarovsky
Paper Withdrawn
5:10 PMTheory and computer simulation of mechanical properties of carbohydrates and proteins in single molecule AFM experiments
Igor M. Neelov, Emanuele Paci, David B Adolf, Tom CB. McLeish

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

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008