The 2018 edition of the Structural Glycoscience Summer School will be held from 2nd to 4th of July at IBS on EPN campus and at CERMAV on UGA campus. The Summer School is co-organized by the Glyco@Alps CDP project from Idex UGA and the EEC network PhD4GlycoDrug.

Sabine Flitsch from the Manchester Institute of Technology will give a talk on "Metrology of carbohydrates: analytical issues". The event will take place on May, 31th at 11:00 am at Cermav.

The Glyco@Europe meeting is a prospective meeting on European projects that can be mounted following the CDP Glyco@Alps. It will take place on May 31, 2018 at Cermav, chartreuse room. All interested researchers are invited.

On April 3 and 4, Glyco@Alps delegation was in Trondheim for visiting the very large polysaccharide scientific community of Norway.

The first “Glyco@Alps scientific day” took place on March 29 at the CLV, University campus of Grenoble. More than 80 persons attended the event.

Glyco@Club is pleased to organize the first “Glyco@Alps days” for PhD students, post-docs and young researchers. It will take place on April, 23th and 24th at the Station Alpine Joseph Fourier

The first Glyco@Training will take place on April, 16th at Cermav.

Because of problem transport, we have to cancel this seminar.Juan C. Alonso from Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CSIC), Madrid, will give a talk about " Toxin-antitoxin system: impact on the bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis ".

On April 3 and 4, a Glyco@Alps delegation will visit the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research (SINTEF) in Trondheim, Norway.

Julien Leguy from Cermav will defend his thesis: Periodate oxidation of cellulose for internal plasticization and materials design. His thesis is directed by Yoshiharu Nishiyama (co-directors : Bruno Jean and Laurent Heux).

Glyco@Alps is pleased to organize the first “Glyco@Alps scientific day”. It will take place on March, 29th at the CLV, University campus of Grenoble.

Laura Gauthier from Glyco@Club will participate to the local final of "Ma Thèse en 180 secondes"

The Chair in Industrial Bioeconomy, Neoma Business School and the laboratory GAEL from the University Grenoble Alpes offer a joint doctoral contract about “Open innovation strategies to shape the new bioeconomy paradigm”. The doctoral project is co-funded by the Chair and Glyco@Alps.

Sébastien Mongrand, from Laboratory of Membrane Biogenesis, CNRS - Université de Bordeaux, is the 7th invited speaker participating to the Glyco@Events. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 14th at Cermav.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for co-financed thesis. Deadline is April 9, 2018

Marlène Rippe from Cermav will defend her thesis: "Stimuli-responsive polysaccharides-based biomaterials for controlled drug release".

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for guest researchers who intend to stay in Grenoble for 1 to 2 months. The researcher should have a work contract at his/her home institution that includes full salary and health insurance during the stay in France.Deadline is March 1st. 2018

On December 8, a Glyco@Alps delegation visited the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interface in Potsdam, Germany

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for tickets and scholarship to be used in 2018. Deadline is February 15.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for PhD students and young researchers who will attend a scientific event to present their work in 2018.Deadline is February 15.

Robin Poirot from Cermav will defend his thesis: "Design of polysaccharide-based nanogels for controlled release of insulin ". His thesis is directed by Rachel Auzély.

Emily D. Cranston, from McMaster University, Canada, is the 6th invited speaker participating to the Glyco@Events. The event will take place on Friday, December 15th at LGP2.

Carlo Pifferi from I2BM will defend his thesis : "Design and synthesis of multivalent glycoconjugates for anti-cancer immunotherapy ". His thesis is directed by Olivier RENAUDET (Director) and Nathalie BERTHET (Co-director)

Richard Daniellou from ICOA, CNRS and University of Orléans will give a talk on "Biocatalyzed synthesis of glycoconjugates for therapeutic and cosmetic applications". The event will take place on Thursday December, 14th at 3:00 pm at NanoBio building.

On December 8, a Glyco@Alps delegation will visit the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interface in Potsdam, Germany.

Emanuel Schneck from Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Biomaterials Department, Potsdam will give a talk on " The influence of glycolipids on membrane-membrane interactions ". The event will take place on Tuesday December, 5th at 1:30 pm at CEA.

The Glyco@Club first meeting will be held on December, 4 at 11:30 in Cermav laboratoy. It is opened to PhD students, post-docs and research engineers from Grenoble who are interested in the field of sugars.

Erwan Gicquel from LGP2 will defend his thesis : "Development of stimuli-responsive cellulose nanocrystals hydrogels for smart applications". His thesis director is Julien Bras.

David Vocadlo, from the Simon Fraser University, Canada, is the fifth invited speaker participating to the Glyco Morning Events. The event will take place on Friday, November 17th at Cermav.

The Glycosciences community gathered around the theme "From glycosciences to innovation: barriers and levers" on November 14 at the amphitheatre of the Centre Technique du Papier (CTP) in Grenoble. This day brought together more than 80 participants: academic researchers from various disciplines, companies, CTP, Satt Linksium and the Trimatech and Axelera competitiveness clusters.

Organised by the Glyco@Alps team, this conference will offer an overview of potential applications for glycosciences in industry and will discuss the difficulties and solutions that can facilitate the transfer from research to industry.

David Rose, from the University of Waterloo, Canada, is the fourth invited speaker participating to the Glyco Morning Events. The event will take place on Friday 20 October at Nanobio building.

The international conference GlycoMeeting "Glycans & Proteoglycans: The Sweet and Smart Molecules of the 21th Century" will take place in Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy on October 18 and 19, 2017.

The 2nd scientific days of GDR Gagosciences will take place on October 9 and 10 at IBS. The program of October 10 is open to everyone.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for tickets and masters scholarship to be used in 2018. Deadline is October 20.

Jacques Le Pendu, from Inserm Nantes, is the third invited speaker participating to the Glyco Morning Events. The event will take place on Thursday 7 September at Cermav.

The platform "caractérisation des intéractions" of the Institut de Chimie Moléculaire de Grenoble organises a Scientific Day on September 5th 2017.

An article published in Nature on July 6th, 2017 (Vol. 547, p. 127), explains the potential of the field and how many scientists find career opportunities studying glycans.

From 2 to 6 July 2017, the glycoscience community gathered in Barcelona for the 19th Eurocarb with a strong representation of Glyco@Alps.

It is a pleasure to invite and welcome the Glycoscience Community to 19th EUROCARB to be held in Barcelona on July 2nd-6th, 2017, hosted by the Institut Químic de Sarrià, University Ramon Llull, under the auspices of the European Carbohydrate Organization.

The talk will be given by Dr Arnaud Tatibouet, Professor at the Université d'Orléans. He will walk along his scientific results describing the thiohydroximate function in its synthesis and transformations applied to glucosinolates and glycochemistry.

On June 21st, Evelyn LIEOU KUI will present her thesis : New ketonitrones from ß-N-hydroxyamino a-diazoesters stemming from the nucleophilic addition of a-diazo esters on nitrones: application to the synthesis of new iminosugars.

The second Glyco Morning Event will take place on Tuesday 6 June at IBS. It will be animated by Dr. Christoph Rademacher, from the Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung (Potsdam, Germany).

The 1st Glyco@Alps Morning Event will be held on the 11th of May 2017 and animated by Professor Dr. Thomas Heinze, Institute for Organic Chemistry and Macromolecular Chemistry, Center of Excellence for Polysaccharide Research, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena

On the 10th of March 2017, the kickoff meeting of the Glyco@Alps project gathered more than 150 participants