Presenting Author
UGSF, CNRS, France
I am a researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). I perform research in the Unit for Structural and Functional Glycobiology (UGSF) in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, since 2010. I made my PhD (1996) and several postdoctoral fellowships (up to 2008) on researcher grants at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, with in between two years (2000-2001) of a life-changing mobility (financed by FWO) at the Department of Molecular Microbiology at the Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine, in the state of Missouri, USA. I have been protein crystallographer by PhD education and have been studying lectins, that are glycan-binding proteins, since, mainly the concanvalin A seed storage protein from jack bean and the fimbrial adhesin FimH from Escherichia coli. I have also studied glycan-processing enzymes, among which yeast beta-mannosyl transferases and bacterial sialidases. I like to combine my expertise in structural biology with analytical tools such as microscopy and mass spectrometry, to fully comprehend structure-function relationships in protein-glycan interactions. If you like this Bio, I warmly recommend you to go for the Spotlight session Recent advances in glycobiology
• Session Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022
• Session Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
• Session Location: Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 120 B