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2025 SFG Annual Meeting Poster Awardees
Congratulations to these outstanding presenters for their excellent work and contributions to the meeting.

| Javid Aceil |
A New Biological Role of 3-O-Sulfation of Heparan Sulfate in IL-2 Signaling |
| Cyrus Au Yeung |
A Graph-Based AI Workflow for Mining Glycan Biomarkers And Related Annotations from Publications |
| Grace Carlson |
Proinflammatory signaling suppresses endothelial ST6Gal1: Interrogating the role of IFN-γ |
| Felix Goerdeler |
Siglec-7 and -15 recognize repeated clustered sulfo-sialo O-glycan motifs on select O-glycoproteins |
| Naomi Hitefield |
Intellectual Disability Causal TPR Domain Variants of O-GlcNAc Transferase Have Reduced Interactions with Components of the SET1/COMPASS Complex |
| Shih Hsiung |
A Semantic Framework for Glycoconjugate Vaccine Data Integration: Ontology Development and Data Curation |
| Carolina Ortiz Cordero |
Single-Cell and Spatial Functional Glycan Profiling with scGOAT-seq and GlycoScope |
| Neil Patel |
Non-canonical EZH2–TRIM28 axis regulates heparan sulfate biosynthesis and drives melanoma metastasis |
| Jose Pires |
Characterization of the Carbohydrate Complexity Along the Gastrointestinal Tract Using Human Derived Organoids of Stomach, Jejunum, and Colon |
| Shanmathi Ramasubramanian |
Sialylated N-Glycan Enrichment in Human Glioblastoma |
| Sree Seenivasan |
GnT-IVs prefer triantennary β1−6 GlcNAc branched over biantennary glycans, uncovered by sequential in vitro N-glycoprotein enzymatic modifications |
| Lubana Shahin |
Unraveling the Molecular Basis of Substrate Selectivity in Pectin O-acetyltransferases |
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Meet our new Board Members and Nominations Committee Representative
Please join us in welcoming the following individuals who have been elected to serve on the Board of Directors:
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President-Elect
Dr. Jennifer Kohler University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas, TX |
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Treasurer
Dr. Fikri Avci Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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Secretary
Dr. Chad Slawson University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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Nominations Committee Representative

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Mike Tiemeyer as the newest member of the Nominations Committee.
Dr. Tiemeyer is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia and Joint Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center.
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Announcing the 2025 Society for Glycobiology Awardees
On behalf of the 2025 SFG Awards Committee, Board of Directors, and President Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita, we are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 SFG Awards to the membership:
Heartiest CONGRATULATIONS to all of our 2025 SFG Awardees!!!
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Karl Meyer Lectureship Award:
Dr. Laura Kiessling Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
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Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology:
Dr. Karen Colley University of Illinois Chicago Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Glycobiology Significant Achievement Award:
Dr. Ryan Flynn Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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ASBMB Molecular and Cellular Proteomics Lectureship:
Dr. Rebekah Gundry University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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President's Innovator Award:
Dr. Nicki Packer Macquarie University Sydney, Australia
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