Hi all
I'm pleased to advise details below for the next U3A lecture at Griffith University on Friday 5 July by presenter Associate Professor Daniel Kolarich, Research Leader, Institute for Glycomics.
The lecture venue is the usual room, G34_1.05/1.06 and the schedule will be:
2:00pm Tea, Coffee, Water and Biscuits/ Muffins provided
2:05pm: Welcome & Lecture Introduction by Dr Andrew Bode
2:15 pm Presentation by Guest Lecturer
3:00pm Question time
3.15pm Close of lecture
Lecture title: Cancer Free Future
We sometimes get asked why we are called the Institute for Glycomics. What is ‘Glycomics’? Glycomics is the study of the sugar language within our body, referred to as the ‘glycome’. Every living organism is made of cells, which are building blocks in our body. Every cell in our body is decorated with these sugars, which are essential to our health and wellbeing. These simple sugar molecules connect together to create powerful structures called ‘glycans’. Cancers and infectious diseases can take advantage of these sugars. They play a significant role of how cancers and infectious diseases are developed and spread. The Institute for Glycomics is a flagship biomedical research institute, which focuses on a study of sugar language within our body and how it can use knowledge of this language to develop new vaccines, diagnostics and cures for cancer. Associate Professor Daniel Kolarich will take us on a journey that the researchers have undertaken to achieve significant breakthroughs in various cancers using the glycomics (sugar language) approach. Of recent significance, they have discovered that a number of the newest monoclonal antibody (mAb) drugs that are being developed or are already used in the clinic may fail or have reduced efficacy in some patients due to very subtle changes in the sugars (or glycans). Researchers are working on overcoming this problem.
Presenter bio - Associate Professor Daniel Kolarich
Daniel became fascinated with glycobiology and mass spectrometry during his undergraduate studies in Vienna. During his PhD with Professor Friedrich Altmann and his post-doctoral work with Professor Nicolle H. Packer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, he worked intensively on glycopeptide oriented glycoproteomics of human glycoproteins and plant/insect glycoprotein allergens. In late 2010 he took up the opportunity to establish his independent research group at Prof. Peter H. Seeberger’s Department of Biomolecular Systems at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. There his research was focusing on glycomics and glycoproteomics techniques to investigate the role glycosylation plays in health and disease. He was awarded an ARC future fellowship in late 2016 and joined the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University in January 2017 continuing his research in disease and evolutionary glycomics and glycoproteomics.
Please let me know if you plan to attend so I can advise the university of numbers, Email: [email protected] or Mobile: 0421 851 626
I look forward to seeing you there!
Jo Holman
U3A Broadbeach
I'm pleased to advise details below for the next U3A lecture at Griffith University on Friday 5 July by presenter Associate Professor Daniel Kolarich, Research Leader, Institute for Glycomics.
The lecture venue is the usual room, G34_1.05/1.06 and the schedule will be:
2:00pm Tea, Coffee, Water and Biscuits/ Muffins provided
2:05pm: Welcome & Lecture Introduction by Dr Andrew Bode
2:15 pm Presentation by Guest Lecturer
3:00pm Question time
3.15pm Close of lecture
Lecture title: Cancer Free Future
We sometimes get asked why we are called the Institute for Glycomics. What is ‘Glycomics’? Glycomics is the study of the sugar language within our body, referred to as the ‘glycome’. Every living organism is made of cells, which are building blocks in our body. Every cell in our body is decorated with these sugars, which are essential to our health and wellbeing. These simple sugar molecules connect together to create powerful structures called ‘glycans’. Cancers and infectious diseases can take advantage of these sugars. They play a significant role of how cancers and infectious diseases are developed and spread. The Institute for Glycomics is a flagship biomedical research institute, which focuses on a study of sugar language within our body and how it can use knowledge of this language to develop new vaccines, diagnostics and cures for cancer. Associate Professor Daniel Kolarich will take us on a journey that the researchers have undertaken to achieve significant breakthroughs in various cancers using the glycomics (sugar language) approach. Of recent significance, they have discovered that a number of the newest monoclonal antibody (mAb) drugs that are being developed or are already used in the clinic may fail or have reduced efficacy in some patients due to very subtle changes in the sugars (or glycans). Researchers are working on overcoming this problem.
Presenter bio - Associate Professor Daniel Kolarich
Daniel became fascinated with glycobiology and mass spectrometry during his undergraduate studies in Vienna. During his PhD with Professor Friedrich Altmann and his post-doctoral work with Professor Nicolle H. Packer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, he worked intensively on glycopeptide oriented glycoproteomics of human glycoproteins and plant/insect glycoprotein allergens. In late 2010 he took up the opportunity to establish his independent research group at Prof. Peter H. Seeberger’s Department of Biomolecular Systems at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany. There his research was focusing on glycomics and glycoproteomics techniques to investigate the role glycosylation plays in health and disease. He was awarded an ARC future fellowship in late 2016 and joined the Institute for Glycomics at Griffith University in January 2017 continuing his research in disease and evolutionary glycomics and glycoproteomics.
Please let me know if you plan to attend so I can advise the university of numbers, Email: [email protected] or Mobile: 0421 851 626
I look forward to seeing you there!
Jo Holman
U3A Broadbeach
