Innogly is organizing a virtual training in GlycoAnalysis and in GlycoInformatics. The event will take place on November 2nd and 3rd at Central European Time (CET). The event is free.

Amina Ghorbel from LGP2 will defend her thesis entitled: « Reactive ozone flotation: impacts on paper qualities -processes, fibers and effluents - suspensions of lignocellulosic fibers ».

The Carbohydrate Chemistry Division of American Chemical Society has joined forces with Canadian Glycomics Network GlycoNet, a leader and pan-Canada network in glycomics research, to host webinars featuring renowned carbohydrate chemistry researchers across North America.

Yotam Navon from Cermav will defend his thesis entitled: "Interaction of Plant Cell Wall Building Blocks: Towards a Bio-inspired Model System"

We have the regret to cancel the 8th Warren Workshop on recent advances in glycoconjugate analysis and bioinformatics due to COVID19 outbreak.The workshop is supported by Glyco@Alps and Alliance Campus Rhodanien.

The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center’s Hands-On-Training Courses in 2020 will be short virtual online courses. These courses will be given free of charge to participants.

The first of the CarboMet seminar series will focus on the development of point-of-care diagnostics for COVID-19 and recent work on the role of carbohydrates in SARS-CoV-2 binding.

Due to COVID19 we have to modify the organization of the 24th International Symposium on Plant Lipids.An E-Symposium will be held on July 7 and the symposium is postponed to 2022, July 10-15.

The Virtual Structural Glycoscience Summer School took place on June 17th and 18th, 2020. The event gathered 46 participants from all over Europe. The Summer School was co-organized by Glyco@Alps and the SynBIOcarb European network. For the first time the event was online.

The Virtual Structural Glycoscience Summer School will be held on June 17th and 18th, 2020. Due to Covid19 pandemic, the event will be online. The Summer School is co-organized by the Glyco@Alps CDP project from Idex UGA and the SynBIOcarb European network.

We have the regret to announce that the "Chemistry in Grenoble" day is cancelled due to COVID19 outbreak.

Manon Le Gars from LGP2 will defend her thesis entitled: « Surface modifications of cellulose nanocrystals for biobased food packaging applications ».

Dr. David Goyard from DCM, I2BM team, will give a talk about "Synthesis of multivalent glycoconjugates for the study of sugar / protein interactions".

Dr. Laurence Mulard, head of the biomolecule chemistry laboratory, Institut Pasteur in Paris, will give a talk about "Synthetic carbohydrate-based Shigella vaccines: from concept to first-in-human. What’s next?". This conference is organized by ICMG.

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 2020.Deadline is March 6 at 1pm.

Camille Thibaut from LGP2 will defend her thesis entitled: « Development of fibrous cellulosic materials for the production of bio-sourced 3D printed objects by extrusion ».

Glyco@Alps is organizing a winter school on nanocellulose which will take place in "Col du Lautaret" (French Alps). The winter school will be from 11th to 13th of December 2019 and dedicated to Master and PhD students from all over Europe.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for guest researchers who intend to stay in a Glyco@Alps laboratory for 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.

Anaïs Vieira Da Cruz from DCM will defend her thesis entitled: « Synthesis of Novel Iminosugars and Study of their Interactions with Glycosidases ». Her thesis supervisors are Sandrine PY and Alice KANAZAWA.

Clémentine Darpentigny from Cermav, CEA-Leti and LGP2 will defend her thesis: "Nanocellulose-based materials functionalized in supercritical carbon dioxide for antimicrobial wound dressing applications".

The Labex Arcane organizes a mini-symposium on « Advanced Functional Materials » which will take place at Cermav on November 28 at 3:45 pm

Professor Carme ROVIRA, Univ. Barcelona (Spain), will be an Invited Professor of Idex Université Grenoble Alpes (Graduate School of Doctoral College) from nov. 19 to nov. 21, 2019. She will give a cycle of 3 conferences for a large audience.

Benjamin Liet from DCM, will defend his thesis :"Synthesis and study of multimeric peptide conjugates for selective binding of cancer cells". His thesis directors are Olivier Renaudet and Nathalie Berthet.

The Glyco@Club organized the second “Glyco@Club days” on November, 4th and 5th at Autrans. 38 persons attended this event.

Francesco Peri from University of Milan (Italy) will give a talk about “Small molecules targeting Toll-Like Receptors: towards a new generation of therapeutics”.

Thorsten Bauersachs from University of Kiel (Germany) will give a talk about "Temperature controlled synthesis of cyanobacterial glycolipids and its role in studying climate change".

Glyco@Club is pleased to organize the second “Glyco@Club days” for PhD students, post-docs and young researchers. It will take place on November, 4th and 5th at Autrans.

Aurore Cabanettes from Cermav, will defend her thesis :"Characterization and modification of fungal lectins for specific binding to carbohydrates patterns mainly involved in cancers". Her thesis director is Annabelle Varrot.

Glyco@Alps organize, as part of its workpackage 3, a Mini-symposium on Smart Glycomaterials. The aim is to promote exchanges between scientific and industrial peoples, on the subjects of glycosciences and bio-sourced materials. The event is postponed in 2020 !

Glyco@Alps through the Glyco@Club will be at the Science Festival. The international scientific event will be held in the campus of Grenoble from October 10 to 12, 2019. We will hold a stand the 2 first days for the high school students.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for tickets and scholarship to be used still September 2020. Deadline is November 4.

Rana El Masri from IBS, SAGAG Vivès team, will defend her thesis : "Functional and structural characterization of human endosulfatase HSulf-2". Her thesis director is Romain Vivès.

Ramzi Khiari, researcher at Faculty of Sciences of Monastir, Tunisia received a Glyco@Alps grant as a guest researcher. He stayed two months at LGP2.

Professor Orlando Rojas from Aalto University, Helsinki (Finland) and UBC, Vancouver (Canada) will give a talk about "Interfacial Assembly and structuring of renewable nanoparticles for advanced materials".

Glyco@Alps organized an international workshop "On the future of glycoscience?" during the Global Challenges Science Week on June, 5 and 6.

From June 30 to July 4, the glycoscience community gathered in Leiden (Netherlands) for the Eurocarb XX 2019. Three PhD students from Glyco@Club received fundings from Glyco@Alps to participate to this event.

Sebastián Cerminati, researcher at IPROBYQ- CONICET, Argentina received a Glyco@Alps grant as a guest researcher. He stayed two months at CERMAV.

Prof. Tadahisa Iwata, from Science of Polymeric Materials, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo (Japan) will give a talk about "High Performance Biomass-based Biodegradable Plastics from Microbial Polyesters and Polysaccharide Derivatives".

Sebastian Cerminati from CONICET Argentina Science and Technology Council (Argentina) will give a talk about “High level expression of industrially relevant proteins and products”.

Dulce Papy Garcia (Gly-CRRET, UPEC, Créteil) and Romain Vives (IBS, Grenoble and Glyco@Alps member) are organizing the next INSERM (French national institute for Health Sciences) international workshop on Glycosaminoglycans that will take place in Bordeaux, on the 19-21th of June 2019.

Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos, lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the Department of Chemistry, Maynooth University, Ireland will give a talk about "Combating infection with sweet tools".

Within the Global Challenges Science Week from June 3rd to 6th at Grenoble, we are pleased to invite you to the Glyco@Alps International Workshop about "On the future of glycoscience?".

Paul DeAngelis from University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (USA) will give a talk about “Glycosaminoglycan Engineering: Designing Natural Sugar-based Therapeutics & Drug Delivery Systems”.

The second Glyco@Training will take place on May, 24th at Cermav.

Cécile Bidan from Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) will give a talk about “Principles of Matrix Architecture in Biofilms: a Top-Down Approach”.

Two Glyco@Club students presented posters at Grenoble Chemistry Day on March 21, 2019.

Adeline Stewart from Glyco@Alps won the first prize of the Scientifc Game Jam 2018 with the video game Algocalypse Now.

Glyco@Alps contributed with a conference and two visits of laboratories to the training day for scientific culture in chemistry.

Koichiro Awai from Shizuoka University (Japan) is the 11th invited speaker participating to the Glyco@Events. The event will take place on Wednesday, March 13th at Cermav, Chartreuse room.

We offer a three-year post-doctoral position within the “SAGAG” team at IBS to work on the heparan sulfate biosynthesis machinery

Hippolyte Durand from LGP2 will defend his thesis: "Functionalization of cellulose nanofibrils for the development of biobased medical devices".

Timo Laaksonen from Tampere University of Technology (Finland) will give a talk about "Nanofibrillar cellulose in controlled drug release formulations".

Fleur Rol from LGP2 will defend her thesis: "Cellulose pretreatment for a nanofibrillation by twin-screw extrusion".

In the framework of Glyco@Alps WP4, important advances have been performed to provide the international community with glyco-related databases. Four publications deal with three new databases developed thanks to national and international collaborations (DTU, ICBMS and SIB).

The CarboMet workshop on glycomaterials took place in CERMAV on January 24th and 25th 2019. Its aim was to explore how the interplay between physics, chemistry, biology and material science can generate highly-defined bio-based glycomaterials.

Glyco@Club offered 10 grants for PhD students and young researchers who attended a scientific event to present their work in 2018.

Dan Wang from Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products, Chinese Academy of Forestry (Nanjing, China) will give a talk about "Preparation and properties of forestry chemical product: Rosin based benzocyclobutene monomer".

Eugenie Laigre from DCM-I2BM will defend her thesis: "Design, synthesis, and study of multivalent antibody binding modules".

Philippe Compain from University of Strasbourg will give a talk about "From square sugars to sweet giants: new challenges in glycoscience".

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 2019.Deadline is January 25.

Arnaud Masselin from Cermav will defend his thesis: “Chemo-enzymatic synthesis of affinity-based probes for the study of chitin-binding proteins”.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for tickets and scholarship to be used in 2019. Deadline is January 25.

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for guest researchers who intend to stay in Grenoble for 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.

Salia Tangara from DCM will defend his thesis: “Synthesis of aziridinyl iminosugars from nitrones and evaluation of their glycosidase inhibitory activities”.

Olga Makshakova, researcher, Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics FRC KazSC RAS, received a Glyco@Alps grant as a guest researcher for two months at CERMAV (Grenoble), molecular and structural glycobiology group.

Rebekka Wild from ETH (Zürich, Switzerland) will give a talk about "Cryo-EM structure of the yeast oligosaccharyltransferase complex gives insight into N-linked protein glycosylation".

Tamiris Figueiredo from Cermav will defend her thesis: "Injectable and self-healing polysaccharide hydrogels via boronate ester bonds: relationships between the binding mode of boronic acids to saccharide moieties and the macroscopic mechanical properties".

Cong Anh Khanh Le from Cermav will defend his thesis: "Inclusion complexes of amylose: morphogenesis, crystal structure and release of bioactive molecules".

Lynda Djerbal from IBS-SAGAG will defend her thesis: "Characterisation of semaphorin 3A-chondroitin sulphate interaction in the central nervous system".

Milène Nitenberg from Cermav will defend her thesis: "Biosynthesis of plant galactolipids: a structural and functional study of MGDG synthase 1 (MGD1) from Arabidopsis thaliana".

Glyco@Alps organized a symposium about: Upscaling glycosciences: from the test tube to the eco-innovating industry. It happened on November 9th at Grenoble in the School of Industrial Engineering, Grenoble INP.

Miroslaw Cygler from University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada), will give a talk about " The structures and catalytic mechanisms of ulvan lyases from three PL families ".

Isabelle Capron from INRA will give a talk about "Cellulose nanocrystals at interfaces: from Pickering emulsions to materials". The event will take place on October 23th at 10:00 am at Cermav, Chartreuse room.

Glyco@Alps through the Glyco@Club will be at the Science Festival. The international scientific event will be held in the campus of Grenoble from October 11 to 13, 2018. Come to visit us on our stand!

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for tickets and scholarship to be used in 2019. Deadline is October 15.

Professor Steve W. Cui from Guelph Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, is the 10th invited speaker participating to the Glyco@Events. The event will take place on Friday, September 21th at Rassat building, conference room.

Rodica M. Dinica, researcher at Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, received a Glyco@Alps grant as a guest researcher. She stayed one month at the DPM (Department of Molecular Pharmacochemistry).

Polysolvat-12, the 12th International IUPAC Conference on Polymer-Solvent Complexes and Intercalates, will take place on September 4-7 at Laue-Langevin Institute (ILL).

The third edition of the Structural Glycoscience Summer School took place in Grenoble, on July 2nd to 4th. It introduced and trained young scientists, from a chemistry or biology background to the most up-to-date approaches for determining the structural and dynamic properties of carbohydrates, glycan binding receptors, along with the analysis of their complexes.

Herman Overkleeft, from Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Leiden University, Netherlands, is the 9th invited speaker participating to the Glyco@Events. The event will take place on Friday, July 6th at Nanobio building.

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.

Glyco@Alps and Immunoshape organize a mini-symposium on glycoinfection : sugar, pathogen & infection. The event will take place on June 25 at 2 pm at IBS, seminar room.

Gilberto Siqueira, from EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, is the 8th invited speaker participating to the Glyco@Events. The event will take place on Friday, June 22th at LGP2.

Juan C. Alonso from Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CSIC), Madrid, will give a talk about " Toxin-antitoxin system: impact on the bacterial peptidoglycan biosynthesis ".

Dave Fernig from Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, will give a talk on "The ins and outs of matrix: molecules, enzymes and viruses". The event will take place on June, 8th at 11:00 am at IBS.

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.

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.

We are looking for talented students for 6 PhD positions. The doctoral projects will be co-funded by Glyco@Alps.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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