Building Networks to Excel in Glycoscience
A capacity-building network with the ambitious goal to provide a breakthrough in the research of UCIBIO-NovaFCT
Project
GLYCOTwinning is a capacity-building network with the ambitious goal to provide a breakthrough in the research of the Applied Biomolecular Sciences Unit, NOVA University Lisbon (UCIBIO-NOVA), from chemistry to microbiology, immunology and biomedicine. To achieve excellence, UCIBIO-NOVA needs further synergies, to be acquired through networking with topclass partners: Imperial College, LUMC and CICbioGUNE.
Objectives
Promote scientific excellence and innovation in Glycoscience;
Empower researchers’ capacity and creativity;
Strengthen research management and administration skills;
Raise dissemination activities;
Boost reputation, research profile and attractiveness.
Science
GLYCOTwinning brings synergy and multidisciplinarity in cutting-edge scientific methodologies: glycan microarrays, advanced electrophoresis, High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, to decode sugar recognition by glycan-binding proteins involved in disease.
Through GLYCOTwinning, UCIBIO-NOVA will reinforce its research capacity, expanding its current R&D+I profile to dissect glycan-protein interactions, from the atomic and molecular levels to the cellular context, boosting the development of innovative glycan-based tools, diagnosis, and therapies.
Furthermore, GLYCOTwinning will integrate its objectives in a project that explores glycan-protein interactions of the human microbiome in colorectal cancer, validating a GLYCOTwinning ToolBox, creating new knowledge, innovation and opening new research avenues for the widest dissemination and exploitation, with long term scientific and societal impact.
Events
Guest seminar
4 February 2025
Sandra van Vliet, from the Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands, will give a seminar entitled “The pleiotropic C-type lectin MGL and its dual role in shaping anti-tumor immunity”.
26 November 2024
Workshop on Transferable Skills
10—11 October 2024 - Innovation, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship
4—6 September 2024
Joint Lab Retreat (2nd)
4 September 2024
Scientific Network Meeting (2nd)
3 September 2024 - programme
News
10 March 2025
Angelina Palma, one of the coordinators of GLYCOTwinning, gave a talk entitled “Unraveling Glycan-Protein Interactions in Bacterial Systems: Integrating Glycan Microarrays with Structural Biology” at AFMB (Architecture et Fonction des Macromolécules Biologiques) in Marseille, France.
10-11 December 2024
June Ereño-Orbea, from CIC bioGUNE was invited to serve as a member of the jury for the PhD thesis defense of Daniela Barreira. More
Workshop on Innovation & Technology
Transfer & Entrepreneurship
10-11 October 2024
6 December 2024
Ana Sofia Grosso, member of GLYCOTwinning, will give a talk titled Mechanism of MUC1 O-glycosylation orchestrated by C1GalT1 and ST6GalNAc-I unveiled by NMR.
European Glycoscience Community Webinars
26 September 2024
Angelina Palma, one of the coordinators of GLYCOTwinning, delivered a talk titled "Unraveling Glycan-Protein Interactions in Bacterial Systems: Integrating Glycan Microarrays with Structural Biology".
25 September 2024
Paula Videira, coordinator of GLYCOTwinning, talks about mechanisms and…