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Dillon Centenary Symposium Celebrating 100 Years of Carbohydrates
9.00-9.30 Registration
Session 1 – Developing Renewable Carbohydrate Resources Chair: Patrick O’Leary, Head of the School of Chemistry
	9.20-9.30	Patrick O’Leary	Welcome and Opening
	9.30-9.55	Zoe Popper, NUI Galway	Sweetness and fight: carbohydrates for plant protection
	9.55-10.20	Stephen Dooley, TCD	The fuels we make from celluloses
	10.20-10.45	Maria Tuohy, NUI Galway	Dialogue, détente and devastation: Relevance of the interactions between plants and fungi to the potential of carbohydrates in the bioeconomy
	10.45-11.10	Tea/coffee & posters
Session 2 – Carbohydrates in Drug Discovery/Delivery and Anti-Infective Research Co-Chairs: Joe Byrne & Styliana Mirallai, Honorary Research Lecturers, School of Chemistry
	11.10-11.20	Short talk: Abdullah Hussein, UCD	Determining the role of sialic acids in pathogenic bacteria: synthesis of pseudaminic acid and related analogues
	11.20-11.30	Short talk: Ana Lúcia Rebelo, CÚRAM	Disaccharide-functionalised collagen hydrogels for neuronal cells delivery
	11.30-11.55	Eoin Scanlon, TCD	Glycosylated prodrug applications for targeted cancer therapy
	11.55-12.20	Trinidad Velasco-Torrijos, Maynooth	Tackling fungal infections with anti-adhesive glycoconjugates
	12.20-1.05	Rob Woods, CCRC, Athens, Georgia	Glycomimetics to Inhibit Influenza Infection
	1.05-2.00	Lunch & Poster Session
	2.00-2.45	Beat Ernst, Basle	Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions – What Makes Them Unique?
Session-3 Carbohydrates in the Gut and Relevance to Human Health Chair: Lokesh Joshi, Professor of Glycosciences, Vice President Research & CÚRAM
	2.45-3.10	Mary O’Connell Motherway, UCC	Carbohydrate metabolism and exopolysaccharide biosynthesis by the gut commensal Bifidobacterium breve
	3.10-3.35	Marguerite Clyne, UCD	Mucin and Glycan Mediated Interactions of the Intestinal Pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
	3.35-4.00	Michelle Kilcoyne, NUI Galway	Novel methods for assessing pathogen and commensal interactions with mucins and receptors
Short Break
Dillon Centenary Symposium Celebrating the Full Legacy Chair: Noel Lowndes, Professor of Biochemistry, School of Natural Sciences & Director of the Centre for Chromosome Biology
	4.05-4.50	Niall Dillon, Imperial College London	Signalling proteins that regulate cellular transitions in early development and cancer
From ~4.50-5.10pm: Tea/coffee will be served including for those arriving for the public session
Public Session
	5.10-5.45	The Dillon Threesis Challenge (three minute presentations for a lay audience)
		Rosalía Martinez Lopez	Brown seaweed polysaccharides as nutraceuticals of the future
		Neville Murphy	Metallacarborane antibiotics
		Sean Hennessey	Catalytic solar dyads – a bright future
		Fiach Meany	A dash of stereochemistry
		Liam Fitzgerald	Room to improve: architecture problems in Chemistry
		Sam Afoullouss	Ireland’s deep-sea pharmacy
		Syl Byrne	Glycomimetics are the best medicines
		Hayden Wilkinson	Oh Glycan, where art thou?
	5.40-6.00	Youth Ballet West	A Chemical Ballet: this performance is based on a synopsis on the benzene ring, choreographed by Ester O Brolchain
	6.00-7.30 and symposium reception	Honor O Brolchain (grand-daughter of Thomas Dillon, family historian and author)	Includes Historical Lecture The Remarkable Thomas P. Dillon: Chemist, Professor, Revolutionary

Reception to follow