Current Courses
- Current Literature
- Intro to Glycoscience
- Advances in Glycobiology
- Glycoscience Bootcamp
- Glycoscience Workshop
MED 225/CHEM 237/CMM 225
Offered every two years, Next Offering Spring 2023, First Day April 4, 2023
Location: Biomedical Research Facility 2 building, Room 1102
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. Tuesday & Thursday
Co-Directors: Jeffrey Esko and Philip Gordts
Additional Instructors:
Prof. Hudson Freeze, Sanford Burnham Prebys
Prof. Carlos Hirschberg, Boston University
Prof. Markus Aebi, ETH Zurich
Prof. Gerald Hart, University of Georgia
Prof. James Paulson, Scripps Research
Prof. Richard Cummings, Harvard Medical School
Prof. Ron Schnaar, Johns Hopkins University
Units: 4
Grading is based on regular attendance and class participation.
Advanced elective for upper level undergraduates, graduate, and health sciences students who have taken Introduction to Glycoscience (Chem 142/242) and courses in cell biology or biochemistry. This course consists of discussions of classic papers leading to modern concepts in glycobiology, with the objective of exploring the structure, metabolism, and function of glycans in biological systems. Students should develop a sense of the history of the field, seminal discoveries, and how these discoveries led to changes in the way scientists think about glycans. Students will be divided up into teams and make 1-2 presentations in consultation with a faculty member.
This year the course will be divided up into 5 modules:
DATE | TOPIC/MODULE | INSTRUCTOR | PAPERS |
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4/4/23 | Introduction LECTURE 1: A Short History of Glycobiology |
Jeff Esko Philip Gordts Richard Cummings |
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4/6/23 | No Class Meeting due to San Diego Glycobiology Symposium | ||
4/11/23 | MODULE 1: Virus Host Interactions: Adaptation of influenza to human airway receptors |
Jim Paulson | Influenza Virus Receptor Specificity The genetic character of O-D change in influenza A Receptor specificity in human, avian, and equine H2 and H3 influenza virus isolates |
4/13/23 | MODULE 1: Virus Host Interactions: Adaptation of influenza to human airway receptors |
Jim Paulson | |
4/18/23 | MODULE 1: Virus Host Interactions: Adaptation of influenza to human airway receptors |
Jim Paulson | |
4/20/23 | MODULE 1: Virus Host Interactions: Adaptation of influenza to human airway receptors |
Jim Paulson | |
4/25/23 | MODULE 2: N-glycans and Protein Folding |
Markus Aebi | |
4/27/23 | MODULE 2: N-glycans and Protein Folding |
Markus Aebi | |
5/2/23 | MODULE 2: N-glycans and Protein Folding |
Markus Aebi | |
5/4/23 | MODULE 2: N-glycans and Protein Folding |
Markus Aebi | |
5/9/23 | MODULE 3: Discovery of O-GlcNAc |
Jerry Hart | |
5/11/23 | MODULE 3: Discovery of O-GlcNAc |
Jerry Hart | |
5/16/23 | MODULE 3: Discovery of O-GlcNAc |
Jerry Hart | |
5/18/23 | MODULE 3: Discovery of O-GlcNAc |
Jerry Hart | |
5/23/23 | MODULE 4: Nucleotide Sugar Metabolism |
Carlos Hirschberg | |
5/25/23 | MODULE 4: Nucleotide Sugar Metabolism |
Carlos Hirschberg | |
5/30/23 | MODULE 4: Nucleotide Sugar Metabolism |
Hud Freeze | |
6/1/23 | MODULE 4: Nucleotide Sugar Metabolism |
Hud Freeze | |
6/6/23 | LECTURE 2: History of lectins |
Ron Schnaar | |
6/8/23 | LECTURE 3: Introduction to Bertozzi Nobel Prize / Watch Video Bertozzi Nobel Prize |
Jeff Esko Philip Gordts |
If you are off campus and would like access to course materials, contact Tracy:
Tracy Gilstrap
Education Program Specialist
(858) 882-1378
tgilstrap@health.ucsd.edu