Building Networks to Excel in Glycoscience
A capacity-building network with the ambitious goal to provide a breakthrough in the research of UCIBIO-NovaFCT
Project
GLYCOTwinning is a capacity-building network with the ambitious goal to provide a breakthrough in the research of the Applied Biomolecular Sciences Unit, NOVA University Lisbon (UCIBIO-NOVA), from chemistry to microbiology, immunology and biomedicine. To achieve excellence, UCIBIO-NOVA needs further synergies, to be acquired through networking with topclass partners: Imperial College, LUMC and CICbioGUNE.
Objectives
Promote scientific excellence and innovation in Glycoscience;
Empower researchers’ capacity and creativity;
Strengthen research management and administration skills;
Raise dissemination activities;
Boost reputation, research profile and attractiveness.
Science
GLYCOTwinning brings synergy and multidisciplinarity in cutting-edge scientific methodologies: glycan microarrays, advanced electrophoresis, High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, to decode sugar recognition by glycan-binding proteins involved in disease.
Through GLYCOTwinning, UCIBIO-NOVA will reinforce its research capacity, expanding its current R&D+I profile to dissect glycan-protein interactions, from the atomic and molecular levels to the cellular context, boosting the development of innovative glycan-based tools, diagnosis, and therapies.
Furthermore, GLYCOTwinning will integrate its objectives in a project that explores glycan-protein interactions of the human microbiome in colorectal cancer, validating a GLYCOTwinning ToolBox, creating new knowledge, innovation and opening new research avenues for the widest dissemination and exploitation, with long term scientific and societal impact.
Events
7th Iberian Carbohydrate Meeting
(Sitges-Barcelona)
15—17 January 2024
Online Seminar & Joint Lab Retreat
11 December 2023
AGENDA: Online Seminar / Joint Lab Retreat
Summer School & Workshop on T. Skills
25—29 September 2023
More info. Consult the schedule
World Conference on CDG
21—23 July 2023
Eurocarb 21
9— 13 July 2023
GlycoBasque 6
(Edificio Barco-Bilbao)
23—24 November 2023
Filipa Marcelo, one of the project coordinators, will give a presentation
entitled “Integrative structural approach to uncover the molecular basis behind the specificity of an anti-α2,6-Neu5Ac antibody”.
Newsletters
News
NOVA Science & Innovation Day
Insights and Highlights
November 2023
The GLYCOTwinning project was present at NOVA Science & Innovation Day, an event aimed at celebrating research excellence and innovation at…
December 2023
Horizon Europe funding award to Glycotwinning project highlighted in the national news. Media
II Science Meeting in Paredes de Coura
March 2023
Dissemination of the Glycotwinning project at a National Science meeting was highlighted in the news. Alto MinhoTV