Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., (SPRI)
18th New
Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium (NOCS)
CHATEAU LEMOYNE FRENCH QUARTER
APRIL
1, 2011
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,
and Event Support Sponsors. Participants are able to present recent research
and advancements in carbohydrates with insights to share with fellow
carbohydrate chemists in a Gordon style conference atmosphere. This next
assembly of the New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium will convene on the day
after the 241st Spring National American Chemical Society meeting in
Anaheim, California,
on March 27 through 31, 2011. 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, pharmaceutical chemistry of
carbohydrates, and carbohydrates in biofuels. 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.
Please contact the SPRI office if you wish to attend as a
delegate at spri@ars.usda.gov, Tel:
504-286-4343, Fax: 504-282-5387
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Previous Sponsors
2010 – ACS-Carbohydrate Chemistry Division
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2010-Xavier Miranda
2009-Mary An Godshall and Xavier Miranda
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PROGRAM
Coordinators:
Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.
– (SPRI)
Special
acknowledgement to American Chemical Society Carbohydrate Chemistry Division
for support of this year’s NOCS
N.O.C.S. Technical Sessions,
Friday, April 1, 2011
New
Orleans, LA
8:15
a.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Friday, April 1, 2011
6:30pm—8:30 p.m. –
Speaker’s Dinner
18th
NEW ORLEANS
CARBOHYDRATE SYMPOSIUM
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
PROGRAM
Friday, April 1, 2011
Session I: Chateau
LeMoyne French Quarter -
Bienville Room
Chairman: Dr.
Alfred French, USDA-ARS-Southern Regional Research
Center, New Orleans, LA
8:15 a.m. Welcome:
Dr. Charley Richard, SPRI Inc., New Orleans, LA
8:30 a.m. Birth
of a Carbohydrate Based Chemical Company, Dr. Donald Kiely, Rivertop Renewables, Inc.,
Missoula, MT
9:00 a.m. Supercritical
Carbon Dioxide: A Powerful Tool for Manufacturing Value-Added Products from
Native Carbohydrates, Dr. Falk Liebner, University of Natural Resources and
Life Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Vienna, Austria
9:30 a.m. Carbohydrate
Based Molecular Self-Assemblies: Modification of Monosaccharides
for Functional Gelators, Dr. Guijun Wang,
Department of Chemistry, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
COFFEE BREAK 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. POSTER SESSION
Session II:
Chairman: Dr.
André Striegel, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, Florida
10:30 a.m. Truncation
of N-Glycans by 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose in Glioblastoma and Glioblastoma
Derived Stem Cells, Dr. Mark Emmett1, Xu
Wang1, Alan G. Marshall1, Yongjie
Ji2, Izabela Fokt2, Stanislaw
Skora2, Charles A. Conrad2 and Waldemar Priebe2,
1National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University,
Tallahassee, FL; 2The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center, Houston, TX
11:00 a.m. Exploring
D-Glucose and D-Mannose Metabolism to Target Cancer, Prof. Waldemar Priebe,
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
11:30 a.m. Galectin-1
Has a Unique Phosphorylation Site that Impacts Both
Cell Cycle and Invasion in Gliomas, Dr. Charles
Conrad, University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center,
Houston, TX
12:00 p.m. Biochemical
Studies of Tay-Sachs Disease, Dr. Su-Chen Li and Dr. Yu-Tëh
Li, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA
LUNCH 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (On your own)
Session III:
Chairman: Sharon
Vercellotti, President, V-Labs, Inc. Covington,
LA
2:00 p.m. Bioactive
Polysaccharides from Plants, Prof. Berit Smestad Paulsen, School of
Pharmacy, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2:30 p.m. Biofuels
Production from Bacterial Metabolism of Cellulose, Dr. Harshad Velankar,
Tulane University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
3:00 p.m. Studies in Glycoproteins,
Prof. Vliegenthart, Bijvoet
Center, Division Bioorganic Chemistry,
Utrecht University,
Utrecht, The Netherlands
COFFEE BREAK 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. POSTER
SESSION
Session IV:
Chairman: Dr.
Gillian Eggleston, Lead Scientist/Research Chemist, USDA-ARS Southern Regional Research
Center, New Orleans, LA
4:00 p.m. Chemical
Modifications of Cotton-Based Natural Materials, Dr. H.N. Cheng, Southern
Regional Research Center, USDA/Agricultural Research Service, New Orleans, LA
4:30 p.m. Effects
of 2-Fluoroglucose on Formosan Subterranean Termite Workers, Dr. Roger
Laine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Adjourn
Poster
Presentations
Exploring Biomedical
Applications of Cotton, Dr. J.
Vincent Edwards, USDA-ARS Southern Regional
Research Center,
New Orleans, LA
Characterizing Alternan by Hydrodynamic and Size-Exclusion Chromatography,
Dr. André M. Striegel1,
Gregory L. Côte2, Amanda K. Brewer1, Samantha L.
Isenberg1, 1Florida
State University,
Tallahassee, FL,
2USDA/ARS/NCAUR, Peoria,
IL
Conformations of
Disaccharide Analogs Revisited, Dr.
Al French1, G. P. Johnson1, Carlos A. Stortz2,
and Gábor
I. Csonka3. 1USDA-ARS
Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, LA; 2Departamento de Química Orgánica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; 3Dept. Inorganic
and Analytical Chemistry, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
Sustainable Raw Materials
from Separations of Polysaccharide Fiber Sources in Biomass, Dr. John Vercellotti and Sharon Vercellotti,, V-Labs
Inc., Covington, LA
Past NOCS Meeting
Programs
ABSTRACTS
Bioactive
Polysaccharides from plants, Berit Smestad Paulsen, School of Pharmacy, University of Oslo, PO Box 1068 Blindern, 0316 Oslo, Norway
In several cultures medicinal
plants have an extended use as wound healing agents and they are also used
against illnesses that are related to the immune system. Traditionally the water extracts are used as
the medical remedy, and based on this it was natural to study the water soluble
polysaccharides that could be present in these water extracts. We have interviewed traditional healers in Mali on what
plants they use for wound healing, and identified the polysaccharides in the
water extracts to be the active ingredients.
Pectic polysaccharides from different plants, Vernonia kotchyana, Glinus oppositifolius, Opilia celtidifolia, Biophytum petersianum and Cola cordifolia, are all rich in
polysaccharides that have an effect in bioassays related to the immune
system. We have studied their finer
structure as well as determined what parts of the polymers that is important
for the bioactivities.
Structure-activity relations for the different polysaccharides will be
presented.
Chemical
Modifications of Cotton-Based Natural Materials, H.N. Cheng1, M. K. Dowd1,
and Atanu Biswas2 1Southern
Regional Research Center, USDA/Agricultural Research Service, 1100 Robert E.
Lee Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124, 2National Center for Agricultural
Utilization Research, USDA/Agricultural Research Services, 1815 N. University
Street, Peoria, IL 61604
The processing of cotton
generates a number of byproducts, two of which are cotton burr and cottonseed
hull. It would be useful to find more
uses for them and improve their value. They contain about 28-34% cellulose,
17-21% lignin, 6-25% hemicellulose, and lesser
amounts of protein and oil. Under
suitable conditions, both byproducts are susceptible to chemical
reactions. Examples are the formation of
cellulose esters and carboxymethyl derivatives. IN the case of esterification,
an iodine-catalyzed esterification reaction has been
found to be particularly suitable for these materials; the process required no
solvent during synthesis and entailed solvents only during workup. In the case of carboxymethylation,
a mixture of carboxymethylcellulose and carboxymethylxylan is produced. These products have been fully characterized
by NMR.
Sustainable raw
materials form separations of polysaccharide fiber sources in biomass, John
R. Vercellotti and Sharon V. Vercellotti, V-Labs Inc., 423 N. Theard Street, Covington, LA
7043-2837, v-labs@v-labs.com
In order to achieve maximum
utility of polymeric materials from renewable biomass sources efficient
separations must be devised which can approach a mass balance of
components. As the economics of various
sources of carbohydrate containing fiber become more important, improving
yields from each of the well-known separations processes in biorefining
becomes more important. Several examples
will be given of separations of isolations from corn ethanol stillage, relative mass balance of components in sorghum
varieties under study, composition of torrefied wood
as a high energy fuel source, corn stover
hemicelluloses isolation and organic chemical modification to industrial gums
as flocculants or chelators, and components of
powdered sawdust as a pretreatment feedstock for cellulosic
ethanol. Flowcharts and reaction schemes
will illustrate in the poster each of the above examples from our research.
Chateau LeMoyne
French Quarter
The Chateau LeMoyne is
a small gem of a New Orleans hotel named after
the founder of the city of New Orleans,
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. At the age of eighteen, Bienville
joined his brother Iberville on an expedition to establish the colony of Louisiana. Before heading back to France, Bienville took
another expedition up the Mississippi River and wrote to the Directors of the
Company in 1717 that he had discovered a crescent bend in the Mississippi River
which he felt was safe from tidal waves and hurricanes and proposed that the
new capital of the colony be built there.
Bienville ordered an assistant engineer, Adrien
de Pauger, to draw up plans for the new city in 1720. Pauger drew up the
eleven-by-seven block rectangle now know as the French Quarter of the Vieux Carre. Bienville named the new
city “La Nouvelle-Orleans” in honor of Philippe II,
Duke of Orleans, the Prince Regent of France, thus New Orleans
became the capital of French Louisiana
by 1723.
The buildings which
house this historic French Quarter hotel were designed by James Gallagher, an
Irish immigrant, thought by some to be creole (he
changed his name to Gallier) who settled in New
Orleans in 1847. The hotel begins at 317 Dauphine Street,
where three elegant Greek Revival townhouses are set several feet back from the
street behind small gardens originally enclosed by iron fences. The hotel then sweeps around the
downtown-lake corner where it comes to a beautiful ending in another handsome Gallier-designed edifice in the 900 block of Bienville St, built
around 1857.
For many years, the
properties that lie between the old residences on Bienville and Dauphine streets were
held by members of the Mercier family.
The first of the properties in the Bienville-Dauphine were acquired by
Dominic Mercier in 1851. Today his
descendants retain ownership of all the property upon which the hotel stands,
except for a small portion along Dauphine,
another one of Gallier’s designs.
The Chateau LeMoyne
had a most auspicious debut, officially opening its doors on October 30, 1971,
as a new city
hotel renovated from three existing French Quarter townhouses. The Chateau
LeMoyne now part of the Holiday Inn hotel family has a ideal location just
three blocks from the famous Canal Street and one block from Bourbon Street and
a short distance to all other New Orleans tours and attractions.
We hope you will enjoy the meeting and your stay in New Orleans.
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