CARBMonday, August 20, 2007

9:00 AM-12:10 PM BCEC -- 162B, Oral
Galectins: Structures, Functions and Therapeutic Targets
Organizers:Zbigniew J. Witczak
Anatole Klyosov
David Platt
Presiding:Samuel H. Barondes
Robert S. Bresalier
Fu-Tong Liu
9:00 AMIntroductory Remarks, A. Klyosov
9:30 AMPersonal Reflections on Galectins, S. H. Barondes
9:45 AMGalectin-induced cell death: Different galectins, different deaths
Linda G. Baum
10:30 AMIntermission
10:40 AMNuclear and cytoplasmic localization of galectin-1 and galectin-3 and their roles in pre-mRNA splicing
John L. Wang, Kevin C. Haudek, Patricia G. Voss, Ronald J. Patterson
11:25 AMFine specificity of galectins: Molecular mechanism, cellular function and design of inhibitors
Hakon Leffler, S. Carlsson, E. Salomonsson, Michael Carlsson, C. Cederfur, B. Kahl-Knutson, Y. Qian, J. Tejler, C. Oberg, UJ. Nilsson

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