The First Symposium of Japan Consortium for

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The First Symposium of Japan Consortium
for Glycobiology and Glycotechnology
-Integration from functional analyses of sugar
chains to systems glycobiology-
November 4, 2003
Tokyo Conference Center Organizer Naoyuki
Taniguchi, Akemi Suzuki (the Japanese Society
of Carbohydrate Res. and Japan Consortium for
Glycoscience) Under the Auspices of the Ministry
of Education, Science, Culture, Sports and
Technology (MEX).
Secretariat The Mizutani Foundation (Dr.
Keiichi Yoshida) Over 450 people attended.
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• The goal
• To exchange information on on-going projects
• To share the resources such as synthetic
  carbohydrates, antibody, glycosyltransferase
  genes, animals with many scientists and database
  to facilitate collaborations world wide
• To encourage young scientists to involve in
  glycoscience for the next generation
• To develop new infrastructures and establish
  research core centers for glycoscience
• To integrate glycobiology to systems glycobiology

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• Core members Project leaders and PIs whose
  grants are supported by the Japanese Ministries
• MEXT (The Ministry of Science, Culture, Sports
  and Technology)
• The priority area, Hokkaido Univ.
  Postgenome Res.Bldg.
• 21st Century COE program Osaka Univ.
• Riken Frontier group
• JST (Japan Science and Technology Organization)
• CREST (Core Res. For Evaluation Science and
  Technology)
• projects.
• NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology
  Development Organization) projects AIST,
  Hokkaido Univ. Mitsubishi Kagaku Inst. Life
  Science
• OPRS (The Organization for Pharmaceutical Safety
  and Res.)

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• What is Systems Glycobiology ?
• the new field of glycobiology
• integrated systems of informatics, biology,
• nanotechnology and medicine
• the conversion from analog-based glycobiology to
• high-throughput digital glycobiology.
• This will change the way dynamic systems
  studied
• and how the mechanism of disease are
  elucidated.

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Microanalysis
Development
Neuron
Robotics Visualization
Regeneration
Immunity
Database
Biology
Sequencer
Synthesizer
Simulation
Glycobiology
Computation
Nanotechnology
Glycotechnology
Glycoinformatics
Systems Glycobiology
Production of Functional Glycoproteins
Glycofunction 1000
Medicine
Glycotherapeutics
Life-style diseases
Cancer
Infection
Inflammation
Drug design
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RIKEN Frontier Technology Center for DNA
Microarray and Mass Spectrometry
RIKEN Frontier Kyoto University
RIKEN Frontier Shimadzu Corp.
Glycopeptides, oligosaccharides glycolipids
8 collaboration projects
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AISTStructural Glycomics Project (Narimatsu )
Peptides.oligosaccharides
GTase library
Sugar and glycopeptides
MSn
Fragmentation predictive tool
MALDI
ESI
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Outlines of database for sugar structures
Mitsui Knowledge Indust.
lectin sequence sugar chain profiling
sugar chain structure mass data
sugar attached sites amino acid sequence
Database regist. Search interface
Software for sugar analysis
Sugar structure analysis
Sugar structure viewer
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• On-going projects for database/informatics in
  Japan.
• KEGG (Kanehisa and Kawasaki et al. )
• SG Project by NEDO (New Energy and Industrial
  Technology Development Organization) Narimatsu
  et al., (AIST, Advanced Industrial Science and
  Technology)
• Riken Frontier (Suzuki et al.,)
• MEXT( Nagai et al., Nishimura, Kanie et al,
  Mitsubishi Kagaku Life Scie. Inst., Riken Hokkaid
  Univ. Kyoto Univ,.Osaka Univ.)
• Others

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