Teaching Workshop on Protein Glycosylation in Health and Disease 2 July 2019 in Heidelberg

Teaching Workshop on Protein Glycosylation in Health and Disease

The Teaching Workshop of the DFG Research Unit FOR2509: “The Concert of Dolichol-Based Glycosylation: From Molecules to Disease Models” took place at Heidelberg University on July 2^nd 2019.

The primary concern of this Teaching Workshop was to bring together leading scientists from diverse fields of glycosylation with PhD students and Postdocs with only basic knowledge in glycobiology. The interactive way to transfer the essential aspects for understanding the metabolic pathways and pathology of glycosylation was done by lectures and informal discussions during lunch and coffee breaks.

68 PhD students and Postdocs of the area Rhine–Neckar, Karlsruhe, Hannover, Frankfurt, Magdeburg and Munster got a comprehensive overview about the biosynthesis of glycoproteins and their function in mammalian cells.

The aim of this workshop was to raise the interest of young scientists for glycobiology in areas such as cell and developmental biology as well as to gain insight into the pathomechanisms of defective glycosylation as an exciting field of research.

Lecturer of the Teaching Workshop on Protein Glycosylation in Health and Disease of the Research Unit FOR2509

Lecturers and topics of the Teaching Workshop

Protein N-Glycosylation	Thierry Hennet	(University of Zürich)
Protein O-Glycosylation	Adnan Halim	(University of Copenhagen)
Glycans in Protein Folding and Quality Control	Ineke Braakman	(University of Utrecht)
Glycans in cancer	Salomé S. Pinho	(University of Porto)
Glycosyltransferases	Stefan Pfeffer	(Heidelberg University)
Glycans in immunology	Bernd Lepenies	(University of VM Hannover)
Protein Glycation	Rüdiger Horstkorte	(University of Halle)