2023 Mid-South Glycoscience Meeting

Thursday, June 29, 2023

University of Mississippi – Thad Cochran Research Center

Program Schedule and Poster Session Information

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8:15 a.m.-
  8:25 a.m.
Joshua Sharp Welcome
Session 1 – Session Chair:  Joshua Bloomekatz
8:25 a.m.-
  9:10 a.m.
Xuefei Huang Stereoselective chemical synthesis of sialyl Lewisa antigen and evaluation of its conjugate with bacteriophage Qβ as a potential anti-cancer vaccine
9:10 a.m.-
  9:30 a.m.
Jing Li Impact of Glycosylation on Ion Channel Gating and Assembly: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations
9:30 a.m.-
  9:40 a.m.
Sushil Mishra Poster Highlight: The Challenges in Predicting Protein-Glycan Binding Energies Through MD Simulations
9:40 a.m.-
  10:00 a.m.
Elex Harris Loss of Sialylation Compacts Mucin and Impairs Mucociliary Transport 
10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.    Break
Session 2 – Session Chair: James A. Stewart
10:15 a.m.-
  10:45 a.m.
Ryan Flynn Glycosylated cell surface RNAs
10:45 a.m.-
  10:55 a.m.
Jarrod Barnes Poster Highlight: O-GlcNAc Regulates Fibrosis Resolution in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 
10:55 a.m.-
  11:05 a.m.
Erik Alvavarez Valenzuela Poster Highlight: Visible-Light Induced Activation of Selenoglycosides for O-Glycosylation
11:05 a.m.-
  11:15 a.m.
Ally Hernandez Poster Highlight: Regulation of high mannose N-glycans by redox signaling: Implications for vascular inflammatory diseases
11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.    Poster Session 1
12:00 p.m.-12:45 p.m.    Lunch Break
Session 3 – Session Chair: Jing Li
12:45 p.m.-
  1:15 p.m.
Fikri Avci Immune Interactions of Carbohydrate Antigens in Health and Disease
1:15 p.m.-
  1:35 p.m.
Antim Kumar Maurya Structure, anti-SARS-CoV-2, and anticoagulant effects of two sulfated galactans from the red alga Botryocladia occidentalis
1:35 p.m.-
  1:55 p.m.
Joelle Saad The role of ST6Gal1 in regulating GBM metabolism including via GLUT3 sialylation
1:55 p.m.-
  2:25 p.m.
Jessica Kramer Synthetic mucins: from new chemical routes to engineered cells
2:25 p.m.-3:10 p.m.    Poster Session 2
Session 4 – Session Chair: Paul Boudreau
3:10 p.m.-
  3:40 p.m.
Jeffrey Esko
(Virtual)
Heparan Sulfate Mosaicism
3:40 p.m.-
  4:00 p.m.
Md. Saqline Mostaq Inhibition of GCS Effectively Overcomes Drug Resistance of Colon Cancer Cells Carrying p53 Mutation
4:00 p.m.-
  4:20 p.m.
Amrita Khakurel
(Virtual)
GARP complex is Essential for the Maintenance of the Golgi Glycosylation Machinery 
4:20 p.m.-
  5:05 p.m.
Umesh Desai Designing/Discovering Synthetic, Highly Sulfated Mimetics of Glycosaminoglycans as AntiThrombotic and AntiCancer Agents

Poster Session # 1  –  11:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Poster # Presenter Poster Title
1 Hoda Ahmed The competitive effect of sulfated glycans on thrombin binding to surface heparin using surface plasmon resonance.
3 Erik Alvarez Valenzuela Visible-Light Induced Activation of Selenoglycosides for O-Glycosylation
5 Joshua Bloomekatz The role of glycans in cell state transitions during cardiac development in zebrafish
7 Tiffany Duong Leveraging Benzyne Chemistry for the Development of 1,2-cis-Selective O-Glycosylation
9 Eslam Elhanafy Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Gating Regulation of N-Glycosylation on Voltage-Gated Sodium Channels Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
11 Sushil Mishra The Challenges in Predicting Protein-Glycan Binding Energies Through MD Simulations
13 Ally Hernandez Regulation of high mannose N-glycans by redox signaling: Implications for vascular inflammatory diseases
15 Sandeep Misra Determining the interaction site of a novel Coprinopsis cinerea lectin to Listera innocua peptidoglycan
17 GlyCORE/GSA Glycoscience Center of Research Excellence &
Glycoscience Student Advocates
19 Farhana Taher  Acute COG inactivation unveiled its immediate impact on Golgi and illuminated the nature of intra-Golgi recycling vesicles

Poster Session # 2  –  2:25 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.

Poster # Presenter Poster Title
2 Nicole Ashpole AGE/RAGE Signaling Impacts Cognitive Behaviors Throughout Adulthood
4 Jarrod Barnes O-GlcNAc Regulates Fibrosis Resolution in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis 
6 Rohini Dwivedi The sulfated fucan from Thyonella gemmata presents high anti-SARS-CoV-2 but low anticoagulant activity
8 Nidhi Gupta Acylated Double-Layered Electrospun Chitosan Nanofibrous Membranes reduce burst and extend the duration of elution of hydrophobic therapeutics
10 Marwa Farrag Structural specificity in anticoagulant and anti-SARS-COV-2 properties of holothurian fucosylated chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides
12 Joshua Sharp Probing the interactions of IGF2 with the full-length soluble domains of CI-MPR using hydroxyl radical protein footprinting
14 Joshua Zhu Ag2O Assisted Gram-Scale Synthesis of Core 2 Containing Glyco-Amino Acid
16 Anter Shami GlyCORE: Analytical and Biophysical Chemistry Research Core
18 Ruofan Cao The GLYCORE Imaging CORE: Bridge the gap between advanced imaging techniques and Glycoscience
20 Sushil Mishra Computational Chemistry and Bioinformatics Research Core