The Glyco@Club organized the second “Glyco@Club days” on November, 4th and 5th at Autrans. 38 persons attended this event.
The first day, an overview of the Glyco@Alps activites was presented by  Romain Vives, followed by conferences from two invited scientists.

• Gianluca Cioci (Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, France)
• Sophie Fourmentin (Littoral University, France)

The Glyco@Alps PhD students were invited to present the progress of the research, with communications in a large panel of topics.

At the end of the first day, everybody appreciated the poster session close to the chimney fire, specially with accompanying drinks.  Congratulations to our three winners: 1/ Kanhaya Lal (Cermav), 2/ Adeline Stewart (PCV, LECA, SAJF), 3/ Gabriel Banvillet (LGP2). The jury was very impressed by the quality of the posters and the presentations.

The second day, we learnt a lot thanks to our two other invited speakers:

• Thorsten Bauersachs (Kiel University, Germany)
• Sherif Abouelhadid (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK)

Ludovic Lecordier from Spontanez-vous ! taught to the participants how to talk in public with practical exercises on stage ! Every one will remember how to “be with the audience” and how to use her/his energy.

These two days were very efficiently animated by Adeline Stewart, Meriem Maalej and Bastien Michel from the organizing committee. All participants enjoyed the science, but also the facilities (hammam, spa, tennis, piano) and the beautiful environment despite the cloudy weather.