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UPDATES ON THE CONSORTIUM


PARTICIPATING INVESTIGATORS MEETING & SUBGROUP LEADERS MEETING ON NOVEMBER 12, 2008 IN FORTH WORTH, TEXAS
An open meeting of the Participating Investigators of the Consortium for Functional Glycomics held in conjunction with the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology (November 12 - 15), the meeting will cover a broad scope of topics involving the roles of glycans in cell communication, from host-pathogen interactions to functions of mammalian glycan binding proteins, glycomics and glycoinformatics. There will be poster session and Subgroup Leaders to meet with their respective group. For futher details please click here


INPUT NEEDED FROM PARTICIPATING INVESTIGATORS
  • Reorganizing Sub-groups: Self assign
  • Suggestions for synthesis of compounds for glycan microarray library, and N-linked and O-linked glycan standards for synthesis by Glycan Array Synthesis (Core D)
  • Pathogen Glycans for the pathogen glycan microarray (Core D and H)
  • Suggestions for KO targets for Mouse Transgenic (Core F)
  • Mentors for KO mice being phenotyped by (Core G)
  • Pure human and murine cell populations for glycomics profiling (Core C) and Gene expression analysis (Core E)
  • Annotation of glycan binding protein molecule pages for the CFG database (Core B)


DATA FROM THE SCIENTIFIC CORES
Consortium data is accessible from the database, with enhanced presentation interfaces for Core data for access to raw data and information on experiments, protocols and samples.


TIMELINES / STATUS OF CORE ACTIVITIES


'ASSOCIATED REQUESTS/DATA' LINK ADDED TO PARTICIPATING INVESTIGATORS PAGE
The Participating Investigator page has been enhanced by the addition of an “Associated Requests/Data” link next to each investigator’s name. Clicking this link displays that investigator’s resource requests, plus any gene microarray or glycan array data posted in the database resulting from those requests.


CONSORTIUM RESOURCES
View available resources and services by clicking on the following links: View the Approved Resource Request Table to see the list of resources and services that have been provided to investigators.


NOMENCLATURE ADOPTED
A Symbol and Text Nomenclature for the Representation of Glycan Structures has been proposed by the Nomenclature Committee and adopted by the Steering Committee.