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AGRC Newsletter

AGRC Newsletter No. 1

AGRC Director appointed as new nui galway vice president for research

Professor Lokesh Joshi is appointed as the new Vice President for Research effective from January 2013. The role will see Professor Joshi lead the research mission for NUI Galway and firmly place NUI Galway among the top research led universities globally. Read full story NUI Galway Appoints new Vice President for Research

5th Annual meeting of glycoscience ireland

The 5th Annual Meeting of GlycoScience Ireland was organised by NUI Galway and held at the Galway Bay Hotel, Galway on 19th October 2012. The main theme of the meeting was Next Generation Glycotechnologies and their relevance to BioPharma and the growing Natural Food sector in Ireland.

GlycoScience Ireland is an academic organization which aims to build support for and promote Glycosciences research in Ireland and to provide visibility and collaborative opportunities for Irish glycoscientists with international academic and industrial communities.

The 5th GSI Meeting attracted a number of key sponsors (AGRC,Teagasc, Agilent, Cruinn Diagnostics, ForteBIO, Megazyme, Merck Millipore, New England Biolabs, and Scienion.

Web-site: http://www.glycoscienceireland.ie/

AGRC SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR RECIPIENT OF PRESTIGIOUS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Society for Glycobiology announced that the recipient of the 2011 Rosalind Kornfeld Award is jointly awarded to Sen-itiroh Hakomori and the AGRC Scientific Advisor, Yuan Chuan (Ed) Lee. The Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology was established in 2008 to honor the distinguished scientific career and service to the Society by Dr. Rosalind Kornfeld. The award is given by the Society to scientists who have, over their professional lifetimes, made significant contributions with important impact on the field...... more

AGRC joint Organisers of the China-Europe Symposium

The official launch of the EU Framework 7 collaborative SICA (Specific International Cooperation actions) project, entitled “GlycoHIT (Glycomics by High-throughput Integrated Technologies)” and coordinated by Professor Lokesh Joshi Director of the AGRC, was held in Hangzhou, China on April 15^th 2011. The launch occurred at the start of the 1st China-EU symposium on Functional Glycoproteomics: Technology and Clinical Applications, a two day symposium which was held during the 7th meeting of the China Human Proteome Organization ( CNHUPO). Members of GlycoHIT and the Chinese consortium selected by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology as a ’sister project’ to GlycoHIT attended the symposium and presented their research work to both teams.

The symposium was also attended and addressed by Dr. Fuchu He, President of CNHUPO; Dr. Xiaoming Jin, Director General of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Science and Technology; Jun Sun, the Director of Division of European Affairs from the Department of International Cooperation, Longchao Zhou, the Deputy Director of Division of European Affairs from the Department of International Cooperation, Xiaofeng Fu, the Director of Division of Major Projects from the Department of Basic Research, Dr. Philippe Vialatte, Head of the Science, Technology and Environment Section of the European Union Delegation to China and Dr. Tomasz Dylag, Project Officer, European Commission.

Left to right:

Prof Sheng-Ce Tao, Shanghai Center for Systems Biomedicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Dr Kirk Leister , Bristol Myers Squibb, Prof Lokesh Joshi, NUI Galway, Prof Yan Zhang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Prof Pauline Rudd , NIBRT, Ms Chan Lei Wu, Dr Mariasun Campanero, CSIC, Ms Xiaohong Qian, Beijing Proteome Research Center, Prof Janne Lehtio , Karolina Institute, Dr Tomasz Dylag, European Commission, Prof Yinkun Liu, Fudan University,Shanghai, Mr Duc Minh Duong, Dr Eric Dammer, Emory University, Dr Zohar Yakhini , Agilent, Prof Ping Xu, Beijing Proteome Research Center

AGRC involved in curation of Sugarbind database

The SugarBind database is a repository of all publically available sugar-binding data and a very useful resource for Glycobiologists. SugarBind was established in 2003 by the MITRE Corporation, a not-for-profit US national technology resource engaged in scientific and technical activities for various government organizations. SugarBind has recently been installed and made publically available on the ExPASy portal by members of the Proteome Informatics Group of the Swiss Institute of BioInformatics (SIB) in Geneva, Switzerland.

The AGRC have received an open source license for the SugarBind database from MITRE Corporation and will contribute to its continued development in collaboration with Elaine Mullen of MITRE and members of the BioMolecular Frontiers Research Centre (BFRC) of MacQuarie University New South Wales Australia. Improvements will include addition of newly curated material, the expansion of data fields and the cross-linking to other databases maintained at SIB. Website: http://sugarbind.expasy.org/sugarbind/

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