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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · 6h

🚨 Don't Miss These Dynamic Workshops at the SFG 2025 Annual Meeting! 🚨

Workshops and satellite sessions start on Sunday, November 9 and continue over lunch on Monday, November 10.

For all details and registration check out the programme at a glance ⬇️

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 By popular demand, the late-breaking abstract submissions ⬇️ are now open for the 2025 SfG Annual Meeting! 🥳

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Submission deadline Sept 12 at 11:59 PM ET

You must register to the meeting for the meeting before submitting your abstract.

See you in San Diego!

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

Heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to ALL our 2025 SFG Awardees!!! 🥳

PS. Apologies about the wrong thread counting, I promise there's not a somethingGPT behind the keyboard here, just a VERY jetlagged individual 😂

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

Last but most certainly not least, The President’s Innovator Award 2025 goes to
Dr. Nicki Packer, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia 👏🥂👏🥂

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

5/5 The 2025 ASBMB Molecular and Cellular Proteomics Lectureship goes to
Dr. Rebekah Gundry @gundrylab.bsky.social , University of Nebraska Medical Center 👏👏🥂

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

4/5 The Glycobiology Significant Achievement Award:
Dr. Ryan Flynn @raflynn5.bsky.social, Harvard University, 👏👏🥂

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

3/5 The Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology goes to Dr. Karen Colley, University of Illinois Chicago 👏👏🥂

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

2/5 The 2025 Karl Meyer Lectureship Award goes to
Dr. Laura Kiessling @laurakiessling.bsky.social, MIT 👏👏🥂,

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 13

🤩Announcing the 2025 Society for Glycobiology Awardees🤩

On behalf of the 2025 SFG Awards Committee, Board of Directors, and President Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita @kiyokof.bsky.social,
we are pleased to announce the 2025 SFG Awardees to the Membership 🧵1/5 ⬇️

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Interested in joining the Mentorship Program?

Sign up as a Mentor or Trainee (UG, PhD student, or postdoctoral fellow) and participate in this enriching experience. When registering for the annual meeting, be sure to add the Mentoring and Glycopalooza session

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 7

We are also recruiting mentors to support trainees in their personal and professional development. Whether you're a faculty member, industry professional, or senior trainee, your guidance can make a lasting impact ⬇️

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Through interactive sessions, networking opportunities, and informal discussions, participants can explore diverse career paths in academia and industry—and strengthen your place in the vibrant glycobiology community... ⬇️

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Aug 7

Get Ready to Empower the Next Generation
of Scientists at Glycopalooza 2025!! 🥳

As part of the 52nd SFG Annual Meeting, Glycopalooza 2025 is a trainee-focused event designed to empower the next generation of scientists through mentoring, career exploration and community building ⬇️

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MCGalan Lab @mcgalanlab.bsky.social · Aug 7

Check out our latest work with @JaviRamSor @AdrianMulholla1 @dengbowen9373 @chemistry_mike @DoudouLu319, Sofia Oliveira and others @bristolchem on a new bridged azobenzene with reversible photocontrolled binding to a G-Quadruplex DNA/Duplex junction. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Bridged Azobenzene Exhibits Fully Reversible Photocontrolled Binding to a G-Quadruplex DNA/Duplex Junction

The ability to selectively control DNA conformation using light as an external stimulus offers unique opportunities to control specific DNA sequences in biological settings and to develop nucleotide-b...

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨🚨 New extended deadline for Abstract Submissions ⬇️ Monday, July 28th, 11:59pm Eastern Time 🥳

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Please Note “World Glyco Expo” is a subtitle for the SFG annual meeting, not the title of a meeting being held by another glyco-related organization

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨 The deadline for abstract submissions for SFG's 2025 World Glyco Expo Annual Meeting has been extended to July 22, 2025, 11:59 PM ET! 🥳

You must register ⬇️ prior to submitting your abstract. Early Bird rates end on August 15, 2025.

www.glycobiology.org/registration...

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kiyokof.bsky.social @kiyokof.bsky.social · Jun 27

An exciting #glycotime meeting planned covering anything glycan ranging from carbohydrate chemistry, analytics, immunology to informatics with speakers from around the world!

SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨Abstract submissions and Travel Award applications to SFG's 2025 World Glyco Expo Annual Meeting 🎉

You must register for the conference prior to submitting your abstract! Deadline July 11th at 11:59 PM (ET), don’t miss the early bird rates! Details ⬇️

www.glycobiology.org/2025-annual-...

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨Abstract submissions and Travel Award applications to SFG's 2025 World Glyco Expo Annual Meeting 🎉

You must register for the conference prior to submitting your abstract! Deadline July 11th at 11:59 PM (ET), don’t miss the early bird rates! Details ⬇️

www.glycobiology.org/2025-annual-...

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨 Registration is now open for 2025 SfG Annual Meeting, November 9–12, 2025 at the Sheraton San Diego under the theme of “A world glyco EXPO!”🥳 🚨

All the details in the link below! See you in San Diego 👍

www.glycobiology.org/2025-annual-...

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · May 6

🚨 The ASBMB conference O-GlcNAcylation in Health and Disease is taking place on July 10–13, 2025 in Durham, NC

Early registration and oral abstract submission deadline on May 12, 2025!! 🚨

All details in the link below ⬇️
www.asbmb.org/meetings-eve...

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Apr 7

🚨 Don't miss one of the top #glycotime events of the year! The 27th International Glycoconjugate Symposium (Glyco27) and 8th Canadian Glycomics Symposium jointly hosted by the IGO and @glyconet.bsky.social will take place in Edmonton, AB 🇨🇦, from 25-30th of May 2025 🌟🍬 Details at www.glyco27.org/en

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GlyGen @glygen.bsky.social · Mar 20

Dr. Hudson Freeze and Dr. Michael Tiemeyer @flyglyco.bsky.social on Capitol Hill Day organized by @faseborg.bsky.social and @sfglycobiology.bsky.social , advocating for federal funding in the glyco domain and beyond!

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Apr 3

🚨 Conference Alert ⬇️
The 2025 Beilstein Glyco-Bioinformatics symposium is on! Omics meets Structure from July 1-3 in beautiful Limburg, Germany. All details ⬇️

www.beilstein-institut.de/en/symposia/...

Glyco-Bioinformatics - Beilstein-Institut

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SfG @sfglycobiology.bsky.social · Mar 3

Shi et al show ⬇️ that mucin-domain glycoproteins in the brain endothelial glycocalyx are highly dysregulated during ageing and neurodegenerative disease, leading to severe perturbations of the BBB function

#glycotime at its best! 💥🧠🍬🎉

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Glycocalyx dysregulation impairs blood–brain barrier in ageing and disease - Nature

Disruption of mucin-domain glycoprotein expression and function in the endothelial glycocalyx are associated with ageing and Alzheimer’s disease, leading to dysregulated blood–brain barrier function.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · Mar 1

Thank you @cenmag.bsky.social for this nice piece on @sophiamshi.bsky.social’s PhD work revealing a mucinome defect in the aging BBB, reversible with gene therapy to restore brain endothelial mucin glycosylation

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Feb 28

Stanford researchers have identified how the breakdown of a sugary layer in the blood vessels that feed the brain could result in aging-related cognitive decline. cen.acs.org/biological-c...

How a carbohydrate-rich mesh protects our brain

Study investigates the sugary-rich layer of the blood brain barrier and the link between its degradation and dementia

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