2008 Agricultural Biotechnology Symposium

Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes: Structure, Function, and Applications

September 26-27, 2008

Auditorium, CALS, Seoul National University

Organized by Center for Agricultural Biomaterials, Seoul National University,

Seoul, Korea

Program

Sept. 26

09:00 – 09:40 Registration

09:40 – 09:50 Opening address

09:50 – 10:50 Dr. Kwan-Hwa Park (Seoul National University, Korea)

"Enzymes for carbohydrate engineering and their applications: enzymatically structured starch for food industry"

10:50 – 11:30 Dr. John Robyt (Iowa State University, USA)

"Mechanisms involved in the biosynthesis of polysaccharides"

11:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:10 Dr. Takashi Kuriki (Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd., Japan)

“Glycosylation of carboxly group: a new reaction of sucrose phosphorylases”

14:10 – 14:50 Dr. Byong Hoon Lee (McGill University, Canada)

“Structure, function and application of microbial lactases (beta-galactosidases)”

14:50 – 15:30 Dr. Atsuo Kimura (Hokkaido University, Japan)

“Molecular mechanism of alpha-glucosidase”

15:30 – 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 – 16:30 Dr. Motomitsu Kitaoka (National Food Research Institute, Japan)

"Strategy for converting an inverting glycoside hydrolase into a glycosynthase"

16:30 – 17:10 Dr. Doman Kim (Chonnam National University, Korea)

“Synthesis and characterization of various glycosides and oligosaccharides”

Sept. 27

09:00 – 09:30 Registration

09:30 – 10:10 Dr. Winfried Boos (University of Konstanz, Germany)

“Maltose utilization system in E.coli”

10:10 – 10:50 Dr. Birte Svensson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)

“Alpha-amylases.iInteraction with polysaccharide substrates, proteinaceous inhibitors and regulatory proteins”

10:50 – 11:30 Dr. Stefan Janecek (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)

“Classification and characterization of amylase family”

11:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 14:00 Dr. Eui-Jeon Woo (Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Korea)

“Structural feature of glycogen debranching enzyme”

14:00 – 14:30 Dr. Tae-Jip Kim (Chungbuk National University, Korea)

“High yield enzymatic production of functional sugar L-arabinose by combination of endo- and exo-arabinohydrolases”

14:30 – 15:00 Dr. Sung-Ho Lee (Genencor International Wisconsin, Inc., USA)
“Enzymes for grain Processing: review of recent development in glucose production”

15:00 – 15:30 Dr. Dan Li (Changchun University, China)
“Cloning and Characterization of a hyperthermophilic maltogenic amylase from Staphylothermus marinus”