Galectin Symposium
Date and Time: Friday, August 25, 2023, 18:00-20:00 and Saturday, August 26, 2023, 09:00-12:00
Venue: Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Registration required, free for local and registered participants of Glyco26.
This satellite meeting of the Glyco26 conference will address the roles of galectins in cellular responses associated with physiological and pathological processes. The field of galectins has advanced extensively since the naming of this family of animal lectins in 1994. Now there are over 16 members that have been identified and studied, with some of them, in particular, galectin-1, -3, -4, -7, -8, -9, -10, and -12 being studied more extensively. As of March 2023, over 10,000 papers can be captured in PubMed search using the keyword “galectin”. Many studies have implicated galectins in the pathogenesis of a variety of diseases. In the meantime, the field is becoming increasingly complicated, with galectins being demonstrated to function both extracellularly and intracellularly, and in the latter, in both glycan-dependent and -independent fashions. This meeting is aimed at bringing together molecular and cellular biologists and glycoscientists to address modes of action of various galectins and discuss challenges and opportunities. We plan to have two keynote lectures, several invited talks, and short oral presentations selected from abstracts submitted for poster presentation.
Organizers:
Fu-Tong Liu (Chair)
Hakon Leffler (co-Chair)
Chun-Hung Lin
Hung-Lin Chen
Tentative Schedule
Day 1 _ August 25, 2023
Social Mixer starts from 17:30
18:00 - 18:10 Opening remarks by Fu-Tong Liu and Hakon Leffler
18:10 - 18:30 Introduction : Sean Stowell - " There and back again: A galectin tale"
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18:30 - 19:00
THE EMBO KEYNOTE LECTURE
Ludger Johannes - "Conformational glycoswitch to drive the formation of galectin-3 oligomers"
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19:00 - 19:20 Invited Talk : Fredrik Zetterberg - " Discovery and development of small molecule galectin-3 inhibitors "
19:20 - 19:40 Invited Talk : Laia Querol-Cano - "Galectin-Mediated Interactions Are Essential in Governing Dendritic Cell Anti-Melanoma Immunity"
19:40 - 19:50 Short talk: To be selected from abstracts
19:50 - 20:00 Panel Discussion
Day 2 _ August 26, 2023
09:00 - 09:30 Keynote Lecture : Vojo Deretic - "Galectins as coordinators of membrane repair, replacement, and renewal"
09:30 - 09:50 Invited Talk : Ralf Jacob - "Late domain mediated EV-recruitment of galectin-3"
09:50 - 10:10 Invited Talk : Yijuang Chern - "Microglial galectin-3 and neuroinflammation-with a specific focus on neurodegenerative diseases"
10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 10:50 Invited Talk : Betty Wu-Hsieh - "Cell intrinsic galectin-3 negatively regulate innate cell functions”
10:50 - 11:00 Short Talk : Chi-Shan Li - " Cytosolic galectin-4 in host-pathogen interaction"
11:00 - 11:10 Short Talk : To be selected from abstracts
11:10 - 11:30 Invited Talk : John L Wang - "Intracellular galectins: platforms for assembly of macromolecular complexes"
11:30 - 12:00 Panel Discussion
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