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
Guest Seminar
Zoom Session, 1 July 2024, 15h30
Nathalie Juge, from the Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, UK, will give a seminar entitled “Glycobiology of host-microbe interactions at the mucosal interface”.
Guest Seminar
Zoom Session, 27 June 2024, 15h
Lara Mahl, GlycoNet researcher from the Glycomics Institute of Alberta, Canada, will give a seminar entitled “Adding a little sugar: How integrating glycomics brings new insights into multi’omic analysis”.
4—6 September 2024
3 September 2024
Sunset with Industry
4 July 2024
Guest Seminar
(Library auditorium of NOVA FCT)
28 June 2024
Pedro Coutinho, from the Aix-Marseille University, will give a seminar entitled “Substrate and Binding Annotation of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes: interest and lessons for Post-genomics”.
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
NOVA & GlycoNet sign Agreement
May 2024
NOVA FCT and GlycoNET Sign Agreement to Advance Glycan Research and Develop Innovative Health Strategies.