Glyco@Club is pleased to announce the Structural Glycoscience Summer School that will be hold at CERMAV and IBS from June 5 to 7 2023. More than 50 applications were received and the organizers are currently selecting the candidates.

Prof Laura Kiessilng, Department of Chemistry at MIT (Boston), will be on a Tour de France, invited byt the Ambassadors@INC program. We will have the honor to receive her in Grenoble on Monday 24th of April and she will present her research on recognition of glycans and the possible application for therapeutic purposes.

Moustoifa Said will defend his thesis "Development of injectable hydrogels with imaging capability for cell therapy" at CERMAV on 21th of March, 2023.

Paul Rivollier will defend his thesis "Chemo-biotechnological synthesis of glycoconjugates for the development of nanoparticles against Influenza viruses" at CERMAV on 28th of February, 2023.

The kick-off meeting of the Glyco@Club was organized in DCM Grenoble on 9th of february 2023.

Glyco@Club is pleased to organize the kick-off of Glyco@Alps2 for PhD students, post-docs and young researchers. It will take place in Grenoble on 9th of february 2023.

Glyco@Club is pleased to support the Unite! Biomass Winter School about biomass valorization, organized by (Graduate School of Engineering in Paper, Print Media and Biomaterials) and the LGP2 laboratory.

François Bru completed his thesis at Cermav under the supervision of Laurent Heux, CNRS Research Director. He focuses on hydrophobization of cellulosic materials.

Malgorzata SULEWSKA, from CERMAV Grenoble and Hannover Medical School, will defend her thesis entitled "Biosynthesis, Depolymerization, Detection, and Analysis of Glycosaminoglycans with a Focus on Heparosan"

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 2023Deadline is January 31, 2023 at 1pm.

Maëva Touzard, from CERMAV, will defend his thesis entitled: "Biomimetic materials of the plant cell wall and enzymatic modifications" on Tuesday, May 24th at 9:30 am in Chartreuse Room (CERMAV laboratory).

Antoine Rousseau completed his thesis at Cermav under the co-supervision of Sébastien Fort (CNRS Research Director) and Sylvie Armand (Lecturers at Université Grenoble Alpes). It is entitled "Peptidoglycan oligomers synthesis to study the bacterial cell wall metabolism".

Kanhaya LAL is defending his thesis at CERMAV in the framework of the European project PhD4GlycoDrug, in co-tutorship with the University of Milan. It is entitled "Structure-based design of Glycomimetic ligands for the N-Terminal domain of BC2L-C Lectin".

Bastien MICHEL, from LGP2 and NTNU, will defend his thesis entitled: "Cyclodextrin-functionalized nanocellulose for biomedical applications".

Maxime Leprince is defending his thesis "Design of conductive inks and polysaccharide-based hydrogels for the development of biodegradable devices in a controlled manner" on 24 September. He carried out this work in co-supervision with the CERMAV (under the co-direction of Pr Rachel Auzély) and the CEA - Département Technologies Biologie et Santé "DTBS", Laboratoire Chimie Capteurs et Biomatériaux "L2CB" (under the co-direction of Dr Isabelle Texier-Nogue).

Dania Martínez-Alarcón completed her thesis in the framework of the European network PhD4GlycoDrug. It was co-directed by Annabelle Varrot (CNRS Research Director in our laboratory) and Roland Pieters (Utrecht University in the Netherlands) and has the following title: "Characterization of lectins from emergin fungi and identification from fungal extracts".

Juliette Francillon, from CERMAV and LGP2, will defend her thesis entitled: "Study of the molecular diversity of soluble hemicellulose oligosaccharides from wood autohydrolysates.

Rafael Bermeo from CERMAV and University of Milano will defend his thesis entitled: Design, synthesis and evaluation of antagonists towards BC2L-C

Lukas Gajdos, from ILL & Cermav, will defend his thesis entitled: "Neutron diffraction for deciphering lectin-glycan interactions in bacterial infection".

Meriem Maalej, from Institut of Biologie Structurale, RMN biomolecular group, will defend her thesis entitled: "Deciphering recognition patterns between Lipopolysaccharides and human lectins by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy".

Daniel Marquez-Martin from Cermav and SyMMES will defend his thesis entitled: "Versatile biosensor for deciphering glycoenzymatic activities".

Adeline Stewart from LECA and LPCV will defend her thesis entitled: "Evaluation of the biodiversity of green microalgae in alpine ecosystems".

François Bonnardel from Cermav and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland) will defend his thesis entitled: "Bioinformatics study of lectins: new classification and prediction in genomes".

Marie Carrière from Cermav and DCM will defend her thesis entitled: "Conception, characterization and application of glyconanoparticles in (bio)electrochemistry".

Glyco@Alps offers a limited number of grants for young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) to be used until April 2021.

Axel Fouques from Cermav and Cambridge University (UK) will defend his thesis entitled: "Bioinspired photonic cellulose films".

François Bulteau from IBS, IAB & DCM will defend his thesis entitled: "In vivo targeting of tumors via the Tn antigen: development of a Macrophage Galactose Lectin cluster".

Biagio Todaro from DCM will defend his thesis entitled: "Engineering of biomolecular systems for anti-tumoral immunotherapy".

Rubal Ravinder from Cermav will defend her thesis entitled: "Synthesis of (cyclo)maltooligosaccharides-based sulfated glycosaminoglycan mimetics and their interaction with heparin binding growth factors".

CBH graduate school has several calls for proposals that may interest our Glyco@Alps community.

Fangbo Lin from Cermav will defend his thesis entitled: "Regioselective modification of cellulose nanocrystals: synthesis, assemblies and functional properties".

Simona Notova and Dylan Jabeguero are both 2nd year PhD students at Cermav and are part of the synBIOcarb European Training Network. They made a video about their research projects.

Claire Desfrançois from Cermav will defend her thesis entitled: "Design, synthesis and characterization of hydrogels with high compressive strength for the sustainable delivery of hydrophobic drugs".

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

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

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.

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

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.

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".

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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