ITN GLYTUNES training course

The Microscopic Imaging of Complex Assemblies Group (IBS/MICA) is part of the Innovative Training Network (ITN) GLYTUNES funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme and dedicated to the bioinspired development of glycomimetics tuning the Siglec-Sialoglycan cross-talk. Siglecs are transmembrane receptors expressed on surfaces of innate immune cells. They recognise sialic acids used as signatures of “self” by vertebrates but also by some microbial pathogens that thereby modulate host immune responses. Aberrant interactions between Siglecs and their ligands lead to a variety of pathologies including infection, autoimmune diseases and cancer.
The GLYTUNES training network involves scientists from seven academic institutions and four industrial partners and offers doctoral research projects for fourteen PhD students. As a part of their training, the students participate in four workshops on a scientific topic or discipline related to GLYTUNES.
The MICA group is in charge of the third workshop dedicated to the structural biology techniques used to define carbohydrate-protein interactions. This workshop will take place in the IBS May 9 to 11 and is aimed at the GLYTUNES students and their supervisors with conferences about NMR, X-ray and neutron crystallography, cryo-EM, modelling and bioinformatics in glycoscience. If it is possible to open some of the lectures to public, they will be announced later.