Current Literature in Glycobiology / Glyco Journal Club
MED 246 / CMM 246 | Every Fall, Winter, Spring Quarter | Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Day: Friday
First Day Spring Quarter: Friday, September 26, 2025
Location: Israni Biomedical Research Facility, Room 4103
Course Director: Amanda Lewis
Co-Instructors: Jeffrey D. Esko, Pascal Gagneux, Kamil Godula, Lars Bode
Course TAs: Dani Berman, Xin Du
Units: 1
Symbol Nomenclature for Glycans (SNFG):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/glycans/snfg.html
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine:
https://accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/book.aspx?bookid=3095
Current Literature in Glycobiology is a one-credit (per quarter) elective that provides a forum for informally discussing current papers in glycobiology research. Topics include glycan chemistry, biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, and molecular biology in animals, plants and microbes, as well as medical aspects of glycobiology.
| DATE | PAPER | PRESENTER |
FALL QUARTER 2025 |
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| 9/26/25 | Course introduction Paper Selection
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Course TAs: |
| 10/3/25 | Basic Glycobiology Introduction | Dani Berman, PhD student, A. Lewis Lab Xin Du, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pediatrics |
| 10/10/25 | CLASS CANCELED |
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| 10/17/25 | Identification and characterisation of vaginal bacteria-glycan interactions implicated in reproductive tract health and pregnancy outcomes | Dani Berman, PhD student, A. Lewis Lab |
| 10/24/25 | Glycobiology and Virology Lecture | Professor Scott Biering |
| 10/31/25 | RNA N-glycosylation enables immune evasion and homeostatic efferocytosis |
Christy Armstrong, SRA, A. Lewis Lab |
| 11/7/25 | Milk and mucin glycans orchestrate a synthetic infant gut microbiota structure | Sarah Wax, PhD student, Godula Lab |
| 11/14/25 | Power Calculations Lecture | Prof. Warren Lewis |
| 11/21/25 | Angstrom-resolution imaging of cell-surface glycans | Paulo Olivieri, Postodc, Esko Lab |
| 11/28/25 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | |
| 12/5/25 | Methods Lecture | Prof. Sam Meyers |
WINTER QUARTER 2026 |
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| 1/9/26 | ||
| 1/16/26 | Broad-spectrum synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) inhibit viral entry across multiple virus families | Veena Ramalingam, Postdoc, W. Lewis Lab |
| 1/23/26 | ||
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| 2/20/26 | ||
| 2/27/26 | ||
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| 3/13/26 | ||
| 3/20/26 | NO CLASS - FINAL EXAMS | |
| 3/27/26 | NO CLASS - CESAR CHAVEZ HOLIDAY | |
SPRING QUARTER 2026 |
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| 4/3/26 | ||
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| 4/17/26 | ||
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| 5/29/26 | ||
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Contact
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