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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
 

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:

  Kohler-Jennifer   President-Elect

Dr. Jennifer Kohler

University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas, TX
     

Treasurer

Dr. Fikri Avci
Emory University, Atlanta, GA

    

Secretary

Dr. Chad Slawson
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS  


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.

 

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!!! 

Karl Meyer Lectureship Award:

Dr. Laura Kiessling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Rosalind Kornfeld Award for Lifetime Achievement in Glycobiology:

Dr. Karen Colley
University of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
 

Glycobiology Significant Achievement Award:

Dr. Ryan Flynn
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

 

ASBMB Molecular and Cellular Proteomics Lectureship:

Dr. Rebekah Gundry
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska, USA

 

President's Innovator Award:

Dr. Nicki Packer
Macquarie University
Sydney, Australia