International Young Researchers Symposium on Marine
and Plant Polysaccharides (MPP 2020)
6th- 7th September, 2020, Grand Hotel Kazan, Kazan, Russia
Program Committee
Chairs: Svetlana Yu. Bratskaya and Vladislav M. Chernov
Members:
O.N. Ilinskaya,The Federal Research Center “Kazan Scientific Center” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
V.P. Varlamov, The Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
I.M. Ermak, Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry FEBRAS, Russia
S.N. Kulikov, Kazan Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Russia
I.V. Yakovleva, The Federal Research Centre “Fundamentals of Biotechnology” of the Russian Academy of Sciences
P.V. Zelenikhin, Kazan (Volga-Region) Federal University, Russia
N.L. Zakharchenko, Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Federal Research Center “Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Russia
M.G. Holyavka, Voronezh State University, Russia
F.M. Goycoolea, University of Leeds, UK
M.G. Peter, University of Potsdam, Germany
I. Aranaz, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Topics
Marine polyssacharides (Chair of the section – S. Bratskaya)
- Chitin and chitosan: sources, characterization, derivatization
- Algal polysaccharides: sources, structure, properties, applications (non-biomedical)
- Biomedical application of marine polysaccharides and derivatives
- Functional materials based on marine and synthetic polysaccharides
Plant and microbial polysaccharides (Chair of the section – T. Gorshkova)
- Comparative effectiveness of different polysaccharides as drug carriers
- Polysaccharides in cell walls of plants
- Polysaccharides in bacterial biofilms
- Cellulose and its enzymatic destruction in practical codicology
Invited speakers
(to be confirmed)
Marine Polysaccharides
Prof. Vitaliy V. Khutoryanskiy , Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, UK - “Chitosan and its derivatives for transmucosal drug deliver”
Prof. I.M. Ermak, Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry FEBRAS, Russia - “Why are carrageenans so interesting?”
Dr. Marcela Mihai, Head of Department of Functional Polymers, “Petru Poni” Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania - “Chitosan and Starch: building blocks for advanced materials”
Plant and microbial polysaccharides
Prof. Tatyana Gorshkova, Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Federal Research Center “Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences” Russia - “Glucuronoarabinoxylans of the type II plant cell walls”
Prof. Yuri Zuev. Kazan Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, FRC KazSC RAS, Russia - “Polysaccharide matrices as carriers of pharmacological protein drugs”
Dr. Airat Kajumov, Kazan (Volga-Region) Federal University, Russia - “Antagonism in mixed bacterial biofilms: role of exopolysaccharides”
