Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., (SPRI)
16th New
Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium (NOCS)
“Further Insights into Carbohydrate Research”
MARCH
27, 2009
USDA-ARS
Southern Regional
Research Center
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
This stimulating information exchange on all aspects of carbohydrate
chemistry is sponsored by the Sugar Processing Research Institute,
Incorporated, in New Orleans.
Participants are able to present recent research and insights to share with
fellow carbohydrate chemists in a Gordon Conference atmosphere. This next
assembly of the New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium will convene on the day
after the 237th National American Chemical Society meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah,
on March 22 through 26, 2009. Carbohydrate chemists attending that meeting are
invited to come to New Orleans
on their route home from the meeting. Papers will be given on a range of topics
from glycobiology, synthetic organic methods, fiber
chemistry advances, industrial processing, and pharmaceutical chemistry of
carbohydrates. The New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium was founded by the late
Dr. Margaret Clarke, then Managing Director of the Sugar Processing Research
Institute. Her spirit of innovation in carbohydrate chemistry is preserved in
this continuation of her vision.
The New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium is an ideal venue for
meaningful discussions with colleagues in a variety of areas of carbohydrate
science. The atmosphere of New Orleans
in the springtime is always refreshing. The hosts at the Sugar Processing
Research Institute, Inc. have a long experience in welcoming scientists to this
city. They would guarantee a long lasting memory of a good scientific
impression as well as pleasant amenities for which the city of New Orleans is famous.
PROGRAM
Coordinators:
Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.
– (SPRI)
USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center
V-Labs, Inc.
N.O.C.S. Technical Session,
Friday, March 27, 2009
USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research Center,
Main Conference Room 3rd Floor
1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124
8:30
a.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Friday, March 27
Session I
Chairman: Dr. Alfred French, U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS, Southern Regional Research Center
LUNCHEON – USDA-ARS Southern
Regional Research Center
Session II
Chairman: Dr. John Vercellotti,
V-Labs, Inc.
Speaker's Dinner - Seafood Boil
- Friday, March 27, 2009
Landry’s Seafood House on
the Lakefront – New Orleans Marina
8000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, LA 70124
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
2009 Program
PROGRAM- New Orleans Carbohydrate
Symposium, March 27, 2008
Friday, March 27,
Session I:
Chairman:
Dr. Al French, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural
Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center,
New Orleans, LA, USA
8:30 a.m. Welcome: Dr. Charley Richard, Managing
Director, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., New Orleans, LA, USA
8:40 a.m. Opening of Symposium - Words from the
Chairman
8:50 a.m. Lipoteichoic Acids:
Synthesis and Some Biological Properties, Dr. Richard R. Schmidt, Universität Konstanz, Germany
9:25 a.m. Novel
Carbohydrate-based Anticancer Agents, Dr.Waldemar
Priebe, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
10:00 a.m. Biochemical
Studies of Tay-Sachs Disease, Drs. Yu-Tėh and Su-Chen Li, Tulane
University School
of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA
10:35 a.m. Coffee Break
10:50 a.m. Biological
Studies of Rare Sugars, Dr. Roger A. Laine, Louisiana
State University,
Baton Rouge, LA, USA
11:25 a.m. Studies
on Pro and Prebiotics, Prof. Dr. Hans Vliegenthart, Bijvoet Center,
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
12:00
p.m. Lunch – (USDA-ARS
Southern Regional Research Center – Director’s Conference Room, 1st
Floor)
Session
II:
Chairman:
Dr. John Vercellotti,
V-Labs, Inc., Convington,
LA, USA
1:30
p.m. Antimicrobial Agents Derived from Natural Polymers, Prof. William Daly, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
2:05 p.m. Ultra
Light-weight Cellulose Aerogels: Novel Biomaterials
with Fascinating Properties, Dr. Falk Liebner, University
of Natural Resources, Vienna, Austria
2:40 p.m. Mechanochemical Degradation of Polysaccaharides,
Dr. Andre M. Striegel, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL, USA
3:15
p.m. Coffee Break –
3:30 p.m. Bulk and Fine
Chemicals Using Really Old Science, Dr. Donald Kiely, Shafizadeh
Rock Mountain Center for Wood and Carbohydrate Chemistry, University of
Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
4:05
p.m. X-ray Diffraction and
Quantum Mechanics Studies of the Electron Density in α,
α-Trehalose Dihydrate, Dr. Edwin D. Stevens, Dr. Michael K. Dowd,
Dr. Glenn P. Johnson and Dr. Al French, USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research
Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
4:40
p.m. Impact of Ethanol Production on Farmland Values, Alexandre
Vialou, PhD Candidate, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
and Richard Nehring, Economist, Economic Research
Service, United States Department of Agriculture, USA
5:15 p.m. Adjourn
Speaker’s Dinner – Crawfish Boil –
Landry’s Seafood House, 8000
Lakeshore Dr.
6:30 pm –
8:30 pm - New Orleans Lakefront Marina
Poster Presentations
–
Carbohydrate-Lectin Interactions
at the Nanostructure Interface, Prof. David C. Baker, The
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN, USA
Hydrogen Bonding in the Methanol Dimer, Dr. Alfred French, G.P. Johnson, USDA-ARS
Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, and G.I. Csonka, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
Recent Chemistry of the Industrial Hydrocolloid Gum Arabic
as a Plant Glycoprotein and Approaches to its Analysis for Quality Assurance,
Drs. John and Sharon Vercellotti, V-Labs, Inc.,
Covington, LA, USA
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