| Program at a Glance |
| Day 1 (July 29, THU) |
12:50-14:00 |
Registration |
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14:00-14:10 |
Opening Remark
Yasuhito Takeda, Chair of PPAGW |
| Session 1: Chair H. Brumer and K. Igarashi |
14:15-14:45
Keynote Lectures 01 |
Cell wall microbial glyco-conjugates as elicitors or suppressors of plant innate immunity.
Antonio Molinaro (Italy) |
14:45-15:15
Keynote Lectures 02 |
Molecular mechanisms of cell wall-modifying exohydrolases from barley.
Maria Hrmova (Australia) |
15:15-15:30
Oral Presentations 01 |
Crystal structure and enzymology of a class V plant chitinase: a comparison with bacterial chitinase and class III plant chitinase.
Tamo Fukamizo (Japan) |
15:30-15:45
Oral Presentations 02 |
Arabinogalactan-protein degrading enzymes.
Satoshi Kaneko (Japan) |
15:45-16:15 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 2: Chair M. Hrmova and A. Planas |
16:15-16:45
Keynote Lectures 03 |
Structure-function relationships in xyloglucan degradation and rearrangement.
Harry Brumer (Sweden) |
16:45-17:00
Oral Presentations 03 |
Mutagenesis- and structural studies support the key role of a linker region in the cold-adaptation and activity of a psychrophilic cellulase.
Nushin Aghajari (France) |
17:00-17:15
Oral Presentations 04 |
Molecular dynamics simulation study of the cellulose crystal models in solution state: structure conversion and adsorption of carbohydrate binding module protein.
Toshifumi Yui (Japan) |
17:15-17:30
Oral Presentations 05 |
CaCCO process for efficient saccharification of various polysaccharides in herbaceous biomass.
Ken Tokuyasu
(National Food Research Institute / Biomass Research & Development Center, NARO, Japan) |
17:30-19:30 |
 Banquet |
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| Day 2 (July 30, FRI) |
| Session 3: Chair A. Molinaro and S. Kitamura |
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9:00-9:30
Keynote Lectures 04 |
Single molecular observations of processive glycosidases on crystalline substrates.
Kiyohiko Igarashi (Japan) |
9:30-10:00
Keynote Lectures 05 |
Periodate oxidised polysaccharides: basis for novel biomaterials?
Bjørn E. Christensen (Norway) |
10:00-10:15
Oral Presentations 06 |
Secondary substrate binding affects the mobility of GH11 Bacillus subtilis xylanase A: a fluorescence recovery after photobleaching study on native substrates.
Sven Cuyvers (Belgium) |
10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 4: Chair N. Aghajari and B. Svensson |
10:45-11:15
Keynote Lectures 06 |
Glycosynthases as enzymatic tools for the synthesis of artificial polysaccharides.
Antoni Planas (Spain) |
11:15-11:30
Oral Presentations 07 |
Hemicellulose modification: rational engineering of beta-mannanase active site clefts.
Henrik Stãlbrand (Sweden) |
11:30-11:45
Oral Presentations 08 |
Subtle structural differences have a significant effect on the substrate specificity of GH8 xylanases.
Annick Pollet (Belgium) |
11:45-12:00
Oral Presentations 09 |
Recognition of cellooligosaccharides by a family 28 carbohydrate-binding module.
Shinya Fushinobu (Japan) |
12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
13:00-15:00 |
Poster Session
| Due time: |
odd number 13:15-14:00 |
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even number 14:00-14:45 |
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| Session 5: Chair S. Ball and T. Kuriki |
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15:00-15:30
Keynote Lectures 07 |
Formation of resistant starch and elongated starch granules in high-amylose maize starch.
Jay-lin Jane (USA) |
15:30-16:00
Keynote Lectures 08 |
Distinct and overlapping functions of multiple isozymes of starch biosynthetic enzymes in rice endosperm.
Yasunori Nakamura (Japan) |
16:00-16:15
Oral Presentations 10 |
Physico-chemical and degradative properties of engineered potato starches.
Takahiro Noda (Japan) |
16:15-16:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 6: Chair J. Jane and N. Inouchi |
16:45-17:15
Keynote Lectures 09 |
Starch metabolism and primary endosymbiosis of plastids: the ADP-glucose connection.
Steven Ball (France) |
17:15-17:30
Oral Presentations 11 |
Production of rice double mutant lines of starch synthase (SS) isozymes.
Naoko Fujita (Japan) |
17:30-17:45
Oral Presentations 12 |
Isoforms of isoamylase ISA1, ISA2 and ISA3 show different hydrolysis patterns on selected substrates.
Hasnain Hussain (Malaysia) |
17:45-18:00
Oral Presentations 13 |
State diagrams and physical properties of normal and waxy corn starches treated with high hydrostatic pressure.
Kazutaka Yamamoto (Japan) |
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| Day 3 (July 31, SAT) |
| Session 7: Chair B. E. Christensen and Y. Nakamura |
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9:00-9:30
Keynote Lectures 10 |
Characterization of resistant starch of wx ae double-mutant rice.
Shinichi Kitamura (Japan) |
9:30-9:45
Oral Presentations 14 |
Structures of clusters and their building blocks in sweet potato amylopectin.
Fan Zhu (Hong Kong) |
9:45-10:00
Oral Presentations 15 |
Shifting specificity of Aspergillus niger α-glucosidase from short-chain substrates to long-chain substrates.
Takayoshi Tagami (Japan) |
10:00-10:15
Oral Presentations 16 |
Oligosaccharide binding and hydrolysis by rice beta-glucosidases.
James R. Ketudat Cairns (Thailand) |
10:15-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 8: Chair G. L. Côté and K. Tokuyasu |
10:45-11:00
Oral Presentations 17 |
Biological conversion of lactose to calcium lactobionate.
Hiromi Murakami (Japan) |
11:00-11:15
Oral Presentations 18 |
Effect of mannuronate content and molecular weight of alginate on intestinal immunological activity through Peyer’s Patch cells of C3H/HeJ mice.
Shiho Suzuki (Japan) |
11:15-11:45
Keynote Lectures 11 |
Immunostimulating activity of enzymatically synthesized glycogen.
Takashi Kuriki (Japan) |
11:45-12:15
Keynote Lectures 12 |
Production, purification, characterisation and protein-protein interaction measurements of barley limit dextrinase and barley limit dextrinase inhibitor.
Birte Svensson (Denmark) |
12:15-12:20 |
Closing Remark
Hirokazu Matsui, Co-chair of PPAGW |
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