Iain Wilson wrote:
>> The Second Electronic Glycoscience Conference (EGC-2) takes place
> between the 9. and 20. September 1996 on the Internet.
>> Abstracts for the following invited presentations at EGC-2 have been
> received (most will be in the "Perspectives" section):
>> Glycosylation of the Recombinant Kringle 2 Domain of Tissue-type
> Plasminogen Activator Produced in Pichia pastoris Cells.
> Francis J. Castellino and Roger K. Bretthauer,
> Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Transgene
> Research, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.
>> Recent Developments and Perspectives in Chemoenzymatic Carbohydrate Synthesis
> S. L. Flitsch, J-F. Pilard, L. Revers and G.Watt
> Chemistry Department, The University of Edinburgh, Kings Buildings, West
> Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JJ, UK
>> Perspectives on MALDI mass spectrometry.
> David J. Harvey,
> Glycobiology Institute, Department of Biochemistry, University of
> Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QU, UK
>> Retrospect and prospect of glycopathology
> Akira Kobata
> Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
> 35-2 Sakaecho, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 173, Japan
>> The UDP-Glc:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase and the quality control
> of glycoprotein folding
> A. Parodi
> Fundacion Campomar, A. Machado 151, 1405 Buenos Aires, Argentina
>> Cell Surface Glycosyltransferases: Current Issues
> Barry D. Shur,
> Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University
> of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
>> Perspectives of molecular biology study for Sialyltransferases
> Shuichi Tsuji
> Molecular Glycobiology, Frontier Research Program,
> The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN),
> Wako-shi, Saitama 351-01, Japan.
>> Carbohydrate Analysis: What Can Computational Methods Tell Us
> Robert J. Woods
> Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, Department of Biochemistry,
> University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, 30602, USA
>> We hope that the above papers will be the focus of interesting
> real-time and hypermail discussion.
>> Many more abstracts have been submitted across the sixteen sections
> of the conference. However, to be able to access the text of any
> EGC-2 presentations you must be registered. Please refer to
>http://bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk/egc2/ for further details.
>> EGC-2 is sponsored by Chapman and Hall, publishers of the
> Glycoconjugate Journal (through which some EGC-2 papers will be
> published), and Oxford GlycoSystems.
>> If you have any general queries on EGC-2 e-mail
>egc2org at bellatrix.pcl.ox.ac.uk>> If you have queries on the scientific programme of EGC-2
> e-mail wilson at edv1.boku.ac.at> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Iain Wilson Institut fuer Chemie
> Tel: +43-1-47654-6065 Universitaet fuer Bodenkultur
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> E-mail: wilson at edv1.boku.ac.at A-1180, WIEN, Austria
>http://www.boku.ac.at/chemie/bc1/staff/iw/iw.html
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