The scientific program will include Plenary Lectures, Invited Lectures and Contributed Papers. The meeting will cover eight main general topics in the following categories
(in alphabetical order):

• Biosynthesis & Metabolism of Glycoconjugates
• Carbohydrate-related diseases
• Cell biology
• Development & Differentiation
• Glycobiotechnology
• Infection & Immunity
• Physiology & Signalling
• Structural & Chemical Glycobiology and Glycomics

There is an open invitation to organise workshops during the course of the conference as well as satellite symposia.

Preliminary schedule

Confirmed plenary lecturers:

Varki (USA), P. Stanley (USA), H. Narimatsu (Japan), F. Platt (UK), M. Yazdanbakhsh (The Netherlands), T. Kinoshita (Japan), J. Hodgkin (UK), M. Novotny (USA), C.Raetz (USA), C.-H. Wong (Taiwan), P. Dupree (UK), M. Aebi (Switzerland), J. Hewitt (UK);