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

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

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

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

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”.

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

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 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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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