CDMX

MEXICO

PALACE OF THE SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE

OCTOBER

CONGRESS

4-7

th

LATIN AMERICAN
OF GLYCOBIOLOGY

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4
8:00 - 18:00 Pre-meeting course “Fundamentals of Glycobiology”
8:30-9:30
9:30-11:00
11:00-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-14:00
14:00-15:00
15:00-16:00
16:00-17:00
17:00-18:00
14:00-18:00
19:00-21:00

Principles of Glycobiology
Iván Martínez Duncker
N-glycosylation
Tania Villanueva
O-glycosylation
Kathya Gutiérrez
Coffee Break
Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
Iván Martínez Duncker
Lunch
Glycobiology and Cancer
Verónica Vallejo Ruíz
Glycobiology and Metabolic Disease
Yobana Pérez
Structural analysis of glycans
Gleysin Cabrera
Registry
Cocktail reception

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
08:30-09:00

Inauguration
Iván Martínez Duncker
President of the Latin American Society for
Glycobiology
Head of the Glycoscience in Health
Thematic Network

PRESIDIUM
1. Dr. Germán Fajardo Dolci, Director de la Facultad de Medicina
UNAM
2. Dr. Arturo Edgar Zenteno Galindo, Comité Organizador
3. Dra. Verónica Bunge Vivier, Directora de Redes e
Infraestructura Científica-Conacyt
4. Lic. Pablo Zazueta Carpinteyro/Lic. Alma Delia Pérez
Villanueva, Programa de Redes-Conacyt
5. Dr. Octavio Tonatiuh Ramirez Reivich, Director del Instituto de
Biotecnología UNAM
09:00-10:00

10:00-10:30

OPENING CONFERENCE
Robert Sackstein
Professor, Harvard Medical School, USA
Director, Program of Excellence in
Glycosciences
Coffee Break

Session 1: Glycobiology of pathogens
Chair - Everardo López
10:30-11:00

11:00-11:20

11:20-11:50

11:50-12:20

12:20-12:40
12:40-14:00

Keynote: Héctor Manuel Mora Montes Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Bringing glycobiology and immunology
together, a fungal perspective
Gustavo Niño Vega - Universidad de
Guanajuato, Mexico
Molecular mechanisms of fungal cell wall
assembly and remodeling, as potential
targets for the design of antifungal
strategies
Keynote: Leila Lopes Bezerra Universidad do Estado do Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil
The human endothelial cell proteome is
modulated by a cell wall polysaccharide
of an opportunistic fungal pathogen
Keynote: Luis Carlos Castillo Barahona Universidad La Serena, Chile
N and O-Glycosylation are involved in cell
wall organization, adhesion and virulence
in the ubiquitous plant pathogen Botrytis
cinerea
Poster “Lightning talks”
Lunch

Session 2: Microbial and pathogen glycobiology
Chair - Héctor Mora
14:00-14:30

14:30-14:50

14:50-15:20
15:20-16:00

16:00-16:20

16:20-17:00
17:00-19:00

Keynote: Gerardo Vasta - University of
Maryland, USA
Role(s) of galectin-glycan interactions in
microbial and parasitic infection
Juana Elizabeth Reyes Martínez Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Biocatalysis for the synthesis of complex
carbohydrates
Coffee Break
Keynote: Sabine Flitsch - University of
Manchester, UK
Tools for structure-function studies of
glycoconjugates
Igor C. Almeida - University of Texas at
El Paso, USA
Synthetic glycan- and peptide-based vaccines
protect against heart inflammation and parasite
burden in a nonhuman primate model of Chagas
disease
Selected oral presentations
Poster Session 1

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6
Session 3: Glycobiotechnology
Chair - Sabine Flitsch
09:00-09:20

09:20-09:40
09:40-10:00

10:00-10:20

10:20-11:00
11:00-13:00
13:00-14:00
14:00-15:00
16:00-------

Gleysin Cabrera Herrera - Centro de
Ingeniería Genética y Biotecnología, Cuba
Treatment with Heberprovac changes of
O-glycans profile in prostate cancer patients
Asapanalitica
Laura Alicia Palomares Aguilera Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM
Redox potential and the N-glycosylation
profile of monoclonal antibodies
Octavio Tonatiuh Ramirez Reivich Instituto de Biotecnología, UNAM
Influence of bioprocessing conditions on the
glycosilation profile of recombinant proteins
Selected oral presentations
Poster Session 2
Thematic Network: Challenges and
Opportunities
Lunch
Tour at Historical Center of CDMX

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7
Session 4 Metabolic and degenerative disease
Chair - Edgar Zenteno
9:00-9:30

9:30-9:50

9:50-10:20

10:20-10:40

10:40-11:10

11:10-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-14:00

Keynote: Dulce Papy-García - Universite
Heparan sulfate in the Alzheimer brain. Are these
glycans involved in the development of the
pathology?
Marie-Ange Krzewinski Reichhi - Université de
Lille, France
State of the art of CDG in Europe… and in Lille
(France)
Keynote: Hudson Freeze - Sanford Burnham Prebys
Medical Discovery Institute, USA
Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation: Progress and
perspectives
Vanessa Dehennaut Lefebvre - Institut de Biologie
de Lille, France
O-GlcNAcylation: a new link between nutrition,
epigenetics and colorectal cancer?
Keynote: Tony Lefebvre - Universite de Lille
1-Sciences et Technologies, France
OGT: an enzyme standing out from usual
glycosyltransferases
Coffee Break
Keynote: Chihiro Sato - Nagoya University, Japan
Mechanisms that SNPs of the ST8SIA2/STX gene
lead to psychiatric disorders
Lunch

Session 5 Sialic acid in cancer and immunology
Chair - Patricia Gorocica
14:00-14:20

14:20-14:50

14:50-15:10

15;10-15:30
15:30-15:50
15:50-16:10

Annick Pierce - Université des Sciences et des
Technologies de Lille, France
Crosstalk between posttranslational modifications
regulates delta-lactoferrin antitumoral activities
Keynote: Bo Rueda - Massachusetts General
Hospital, USA
Targeting the Sialyl-Thomsen-nouveau (STn)
antigen to develop treatment strategies for high
grade ovarian cancer
Verónica Vallejo Ruiz - Centro de Investigación
Biomédica de Oriente, Mexico
Human papillomavirus oncoproteins modulate
glycogene expression profiles
Coffee Break
Myron R. Szewczuk - Queen’s University, Canadá
Sialylation facilitates 3D multicellular tumor spheroid
formation and cancer initiation
Keynote: Ken Kitajima, Nagoya University, Japan
Differential fate of medaka fish, Oryzias latipes, with
different point-mutations in the CMP-sialic acid
synthetase gene

16:10-16:30

16:30-16:50
16:50-17:10

17:10-18:00

20:00

Ismael Secundino Velázquez - Instituto de
Biotecnología, UNAM, Mexico
Erythrocyte sialoglycoproteins bind Siglec-9 to
maintain neutrophil quiescence in the bloodstream
Tania María Villanueva Cabello - Universidad
Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Mexico
Novel sialoglycoconjugates in T CD4+ cells
Sophie Groux-Degroote - Université de Lille, France
Molecular mechanism of TNF-induced sialyl-Lewis
expression in human bronchial mucosa and effect on
bacterial adhesion
Closing Session
Rafael Rubio García, University of Virginia, USA
The role of endothelial luminal glycosylated
structures and their recognition by lectins in
endothelial functions
DINNER