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3rd German-Polish-Russian
Meeting on
Bacterial Carbohydrates
1st Baltic Meeting on Bacterial Carbohydrates
with INTAS Strategic Workshop "Bacterial
glycoconjugates in prevention and
diagnostics of emerging pathogens"
October 6-9, 2004
Wrocław, Poland
Scientific program
Abstracts of lectures NEW
Abstracts of posters NEW
Meeting program
Practical information
Excursions NEW
Sponsors
Wroclaw - Tourist Information and Cultural Events
Organizing Committee
Andrzej Gamian, Poland
Zygmunt Sidorczyk, Poland
Wieslaw Szeja, Poland
Yuriy A. Knirel, Russia
Vladimir N. Shibaev, Russia
Leon V. Backinowsky, Russia
Otto Holst, Germany
Ulrich Zähringer, Germany
Christian Vogel, Germany
Contact
In Germany
Otto Holst
Forschungszentrum Borstel
Parkallee 4a
23845 Borstel
Phone: +49-(0) 4537-188-472
Fax: +49-(0) 4537-188-745
e-mail: oholst@fz-borstel.de
In Russia
Yuriy A. Knirel
N.D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry
Leninsky Prospekt 47
119991 Moscow, Russia
Phone: +7-095-9383613
Fax: +7-095-1355328
e-mail: knirel@ioc.ac.ru
In Poland
Andrzej Gamian
L. Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology
and Experimental Therapy
Weigla 12
53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
Phone: +48-71-3371172
Fax: +48-71-3371382
e-mail: gamian@immuno.iitd.pan.wroc.pl
Secretariat
Bogumiła Szponar
L. Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology
and Experimental Therapy
Weigla 12
53-114 Wroclaw, Poland
Phone: +48-71-3371172 ext. 277
Fax: +48-71-3371382
e-mail: szponar@immuno.iitd.pan.wroc.pl
Meeting date and venue
October, 6-9, 2004
National Labour Inspectorate's Professor Jan Rosner Memorial Training Centre, 5 Kopernika Street, Wrocław
(Ośrodek Szkolenia Państwowej Inspekcji Pracy im. Prof. Jana Rosnera we Wrocławiu, ul. Kopernika 5)
homepage: www.ospip.pl
Registration fee
Registration fee including come-together party, lunches, coffee breaks, meeting dinner, excursion and hotel, will be:
Regular participants* 190 EUR
Students* 150 EUR
Accompanying persons 150 EUR
*Participants from Eastern Europe may apply for substantial reduction or waiving the registration fee.
Registration fee may be paid in cash at the registration against receipt or transferred to the bank account (please notify the secretariat about money transfer):
BRE Bank SA, O/ Wroclaw, Poland
SWIFT code: BREXPLPWWRO
Acc.-no: 19 1140 1140 0000 4146 1500 1001
Beneficient: Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw
Keyword: GPRIII meeting 2004
Accommodation and other information
Information on hotel accommodations will be supplied in the second circular.
Scientific oral presentations are welcome. Limited number of posters will be accepted for a poster session.
The language of the meeting is English.
Arrival and come-together party are planned on the first day, meeting dinner on the second day and excursion on the last day of the meeting.
Earlier arrival and/or later departure for more sightseeing and other reasons are possible.
Those who wish to attend the meeting are invited to fill in the registration form and send it to the secretariat.
Those who need visa please fill in and send also the visa application form.
Homepage
www.iitd.pan.wroc.pl/events/glycoGPR3
Deadline for registration is July 15, 2004.
The number of participants is limited to 90 persons.
Registration form
The topics of the meeting involve the biology and chemistry of bacterial carbohydrates, i.e., the glycobiology of bacterial molecules, a discipline employed in the structure and function analysis and synthesis of bacterial glycoconjugates. Glycobiology of microorganisms spans the problems in the field of chemistry, immunology, genetics, microbiology, medicine and other disciplines. Bacterial carbohydrates as polysaccharides and glycoconjugates take part in intermolecular and intercellular interactions, signal transduction, processes of infection and immunity. Sugars are used for syntheses of therapeutics, drug carriers and stabilisers, vaccines, antibiotics. Methodology is highly developed in glycobiology, involving nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, surface plasmon resonance, high resolution mass spectrometry, electron and atomic force microscopy, capillary electrophoresis, high performance chromatography as well as computer data bases and molecular modelling. In Poland, the tradition of carbohydrate investigations goes back to Jakub Parnas who contributed in studies of glycolysis called Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas metabolic pathway. A series of conferences on glycobiology were organised in Warsaw (1971), Jabłonna (1972, 1973) and Wrocław (1977) when Prof. Krystyna Kotełko was a Chairperson of Commission of Immunochemistry of Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1983, small national meetings have been occurring biannually, initiated and organised by Prof. Wiesław Szeja, in the field of chemistry of sugars with elements of glycobiology, called School on Carbohydrates. After the International Symposium on Glycoconjugates held in Kraków in 1993, the parallel glycoconjugate meetings have been organised by Prof. Jerzy Kościelak, focused more on tissue glycoconjugates. In 1995 our Laboratory of Medical Microbiology was an organiser of the VII School on Carbohydrates in Książ, with a main topic centred on problems of carbohydrates in infection and immunity. It was in 1998 in Ustroń, during the IX meeting of this series, when Professors Yuriy Knirel, Otto Holst, Leon Backinowsky, Wiesław Szeja and Andrzej Gamian established a shape of a German-Polish-Russian (GPR) Meeting on Bacterial Carbohydrates. The overall goals were to a) intensify the exchange of, and the collaboration between, scientists of these three countries and b) realise the concept of Prof. Otto Holst to establish a Baltic Meeting on Bacterial Carbohydrates. The 1st and 2nd GPR Meetings took place in 2000 at the Research Center Borstel (Borstel, Germany) and in 2002 at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow. Both Meetings have served as a platform for the exchange of the latest knowledge on the chemistry and biochemistry of bacterial carbohydrates and related topics. Scientists presented news and views from several aspects of bacterial carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. The 3rd GPR Meeting on Bacterial Carbohydrates will be organised by the Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław. Due to the relevance of the subject of the Meetings to biomedical sciences and the remarkable interest expressed during the two previous Meetings, the formula of the 3rd GPR Meeting is planned to be expanded by merging with the 1st Baltic Meeting on Bacterial Carbohydrates at the same time. The idea is that the Meetings are planned to occur biannually, at low cost, in familiar atmosphere, where up-to-date recent, possibly unpublished work could be presented and discussed in detail and information from the frontiers of organic chemistry, biochemistry and medical chemistry could be gained. Preferably presentations from all fields of bacterial carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry will be accepted. The Meetings in the form of a workshop will encourage young researchers and colleagues from East European countries to participate and present their work. We hope that our symposium will meet the interest of scientists and we cordially invite you to participate in this symposium.
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