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