News and events

Our next Glyco@Alps scientific day will be on the 28th of November, with an amazing program and a focus on : Unlocking the Future in Glycan Science

Conference : Synthetic Glyco-Tools For Exploring And Exploiting The Glycome.

Aïcha Abdallah will defend her thesis "Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Glycoamphiphiles Integrated in a Liquid-Crystal-Based Biosensor for Pathogen Lectin Detection" on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 9:30 am, CERMAV - Salle Chartreuse, Domaine Universitaire of Grenoble

Jia Hui Lim will defend her thesis "Order and disorder in cellulose microfibrils"" on Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 9:30 am, DPM- conference room, Domaine Universitaire of Grenoble

Steve Nono Tagne will defend his thesis "Electrospinning of Cellulose Carbamates for Enantioselective Membrane Filtration" on Thursday, October 31, 2024, 2:00 pm, CERMAV - Salle Chartreuse, Domaine Universitaire of Grenoble

This year, Labex Arcane and Glyco@Alps, presented animation on click chemistry, focusing on the work of Carolyn R. Bertozzi, who was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2022

Dual seminar related to carbohydrate chemistry and natural product is organized on 3rd of October 2024 at the occasion of the visit of Prof Arnaud Tatibouët (ICOA Orléans) and Prof Ronaldo Nascimento de Oliveira (UFRPE Recife, Brazil)

Glyco@alps is pleased to announce the 2024 edition of the Summer School that will be hold at Grenoble INP Pagora and Chamrousse from July 9th to 12th, 2024.

Conference : Self-assembly of cellulose nanocrystals into structurally colored materials:
from controlling to understanding, and back

One day symposium: "Wood and Cellulose” is organized on April 15th 2024 at the occasion of the HDR of Yu Ogawa. Dr Ogawa's dissertation is planned in the morning, with conferences by comittee members in the afternoon.

Conference : Synthesis of oligosaccharide-containing block copolymers: From search for ultrafine nanostructures to biobased polymer applications

The event "La Science Taille XXElles" organised by the Association Café International de Grenoble was held at the Maison des Habitants Bois d'Artas in Grenoble on March 16th and 23rd.

Mini symposium : "Decoding Glycosaminoglycans, Morphogens and Chemokines: intricate partners for intriguing functions” is organized on the morning of 20th of october 2023.

Mini symposium : "Workshop on Nanocellulose Characterization : AFM & Rheology” is organized on the morning of 17th of november 2023.

The 2023 Glyco@Alps Scientific Day will take place on Friday 13 October 2023 at the MACI auditorium.

Lénaïc Soullard will defend his thesis "Synthesis of photosensitive cellulose derivates and development of hydrogels by additive manufacturing for the design of medical devices" onThursday, November 30 2023, 9:30 am, GreEn-ER, amphithéâtre 2A006, 21 avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble

Glyco@Club offered 5 grants for PhD students and young researchers who attended a scientific event to present their work in 2023.

Thanks to support from Glyco@Alps, students in ENSAG Master program “Design, Résilience, Habiter” were able to take part in the TerCel workshop on the theme of "Exploration by design of earth/cellulose composite materials”.

Ons Dakhlaoui will defend her thesis "Improving selective DNP (SelDNP) for biomolecular applications" on Thursday 07 septembre 2023 - 14:30, Salle Chrome 1 Minatec

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.

New schedule : Ana S. Ramirez from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics (ETH Zurich) will give a conference entitled " Structural and mechanistic investigation of membrane enzymes involved in protein N-glycosylation" on Friday, MAY 26th, 2023, at 11 am in Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS Grenoble).

Emma Colombari presented a poster at the Spring meeting of GDR DUMBIO.

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.

Lars Berglundf from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) will give a conference entitled " Cellulosic biocomposites and nanomaterials - micro- and nanostructural effects on mechanical properties and optical transmittance" on Monday, Februrary 27th, 2023 at 10 am in CERMAV Laboratory (UGA).

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

Atelier "Femmes de science et chimie click" et Exposition "Science Taille XXElles" sur des chercheuses grenobloises

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.

Jean Le Pennec will defend his thesis "Biomimetic approach to decipher the how glycosaminoglycans regulate bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2) activity" on Friday, October 20 2023, 2 pm CEA Grenoble, Bât B, Amphitéatre Dautreppe

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".

The Glyco@Club Days 2023 took place November 26th and 27th at Col de Porte. The young organizers and the participants enjoyed excellent science, soft skill training and social activities under fresh snow.

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 2023 Deadline is January 31, 2023 at 1pm.

On November 20, Angela Martin Serrano Ortiz from DCM organized a workshop “Woman in Science and Click Chemistry” at the Cité Scolaire International de Grenoble