Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

CARBODAZE

NEW ORLEANS CARBOHYDRATE SYMPOSIUM

Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., (SPRI) held annually the New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium – NOCS, from 1985 with it’s first meeting of its kind in New Orleans, Louisiana, in conjunction with the ACS National Meeting: Carbohydrate Division. The New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium better known as “Carbodaze” was organized by Dr. Margaret A. Clarke, Managing Director of SPRI from 1981 until her untimely death in June 1998, holding its last meeting in April 1998. This series of Gordon style conferences were small informal meetings, hosted in New Orleans, Louisiana, to bring together the frontiers of the highest caliber of carbohydrate chemists and chemistry in the world to present their research. Gordon Conference rules applied to these meeting, which explains that there were no publications of NOCS presentations. The meeting is in an informal, round table format, with extensive and open discussions.

14^th New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium

Dauphine Orleans Hotel, New Orleans

April 2-4, 1998

PROGRAM

Friday, April 3

Session I

Chairman: Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

8:30 a.m. Opening of Symposium

9:00 a.m. New aspects of glycosidase inhibitors, Andrea Vasella, ETH, Zurich

9:45 a.m. Recent advances in the synthesis of carbohydrate mimics, Francesco Nicotra, University of Milan

10:30 a.m. Coffee

11:00 a.m. Anomeric o-alkylation, o-arylation, and o-hetarylation: general importance and recent results, Richard R. Schmidt, Universität Konstanz

11:45 a.m. Reaction at the anomeric centre: o-glycosidic bond formation and cleavage, Peter Konradsson, University of Stockholm

12:30 p.m. Lunch, Arnaud’s Restaurant

Session II

Chairman: Alfred D. French, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center

2:15 p.m. Towards the synthesis of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol anchor substances, Per J. Garegg, University of Stockholm

3:00 p.m. Coffee

3:30 p.m. An update on the synthesis and reactivity of sugar derivatives focused on agrochemical applications, Amelia Pilar Rauter, University of Lisbon

4:15 p.m. Computer simulations of oligo- and polysaccharides, Milou Kouwijzer, University of Groningen

Saturday, April 4

Session III

Chairman: John R. Vercellotti, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

8:30 a.m. Enzymatic conversions of carbohydrates: fundamentals and industrial applications, Tom Kieboom, Gist-brocades

9:15 a.m. Diagnostics for microbes using carbohydrate degrading enzymes, Roger A. Laine, LSU and LSU Agricultural Center

10:00 a.m. Coffee

10:30 a.m Crystal structure of an intramolecular trans-sialiase L, Yu-Teh Li, Tulane University Medical Center

11:15 a.m. Commercially useful materials from sucrose and baggasse-based cellulose, Nozar Sachinvala, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center

12:00 noon Posters and sandwich lunch

Poster Presentations

Synthesis and formulation of covalently and ionically bound peptido-cellulose conjugates, J. Vincent Edwards, U.S. Department of Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center.

Improved quantification of carbohydrates using ion chromatography, Gillian Eggleston, U.S. Department of Ariculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center

Quantum mechanical studies of an analog of cellobiose, Alfred D. French and Michael K. Dowd, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center

Dendrimers, dextrans and maltodextrins, André M. Striegel, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research

Dauphine Orleans Hotel

415 Dauphine Street

New Orleans, LA 70116

Records of the Dauphine Orleans’ site date from 1775, and several of the original structures have survived the test of time. The most notable jewel of the Dauphine Orleans is the Audubon Cottage where, from 1821- 1822, John James Audubon painted his famous “Birds of America” series. The restored cottage now serves as the hotel’s main meeting room.

The property’s initial owners were among the first families of the city’s Spanish and French settlements. Ownership of the site changed 21 times until 1966, when it was purchased to house the Dauphine Orleans Hotel, which opened in 1969.

The cottages all have beautiful stone fireplaces and original Pecky cypress and pine beams. The original brick walls and wooden posts decor the rooms after a renovation project in 1991. Fourteen spacious Patio Rooms, some of them suites, located across Dauphine St. from the hotel’s main building, were originally built in 1834 to serve as the town home of a prosperous merchant, Samuel Hermann.

May Baily’s Place, once one of the better known bordellos in the wildly infamous red-light district known as Storyville, now serves as the hotel bar.

The red light, the memorabilia and the Baily name are all that remain of an era that made even decant Old New Orleans blush.

13^th New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium

Maison Dupuy Hotel, New Orleans - Toulouse Room

April 8-10, 1997

PROGRAM

Wednesday, April 9

Session I

Chairman: Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

8:30 a.m. Opening of Symposium

8:45 a.m. Antimetastatic oligosaccharides from hyaluronic acid, David C. Baker, University of Tennessee

9:15 a.m. Cloning and expression of a NeuAc2,3Gal-specific sialidase, sialidase L, Y.-T. and S.-C. Li, Tulane University School of Medicine

9:45 a.m. Coffee and Posters

10:15 a.m. Design and synthesis of new and potent HIV-1 protease inhibitors from carbohydrates, Bertil Samuelson, Astra Hässle AB

10:45 a.m. A new entry to β-D-fructofuranosides: Synthesis of the repeating unit of capsular Haemophilus influenzae type E polysaccharide, Per J. Garegg, Stockholm University

11:15 p.m. Sugar mimics from sugar lactones, George W. J. Fleet, University of Oxford

12:15 p.m. Lunch

Wednesday, April 9

Session II

Chairman: John R. Vercellotti, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

2:00 p.m. From a complex polysaccharide to potential synthetic drugs: 20 years of “heparinology,” Maurice Petitou, Sanofi Research

2:30 p.m. Analogs of blood-group related oligosaccharides: Chemical and enzyme-catalyzed syntheses, Frank Unger, Agricultural University of Vienna

2:45 p.m. Coffee and Posters

3:15 p.m. The Glyco Design story, Jeremy Carver, Glyco Design, Inc.

3:45 p.m. Targetting DNA with anthracyclines, Waldemar Priebe, University of Texas

4:15 p.m. New developments in the chemistry of inositol phosphoglycans, Manuel Martin-Lomas, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas

Thursday, April 10

Session III

Chairman: Gillian Eggleston, Southern Regional Research Center

8:30 a.m. Plant cell wall pectic polysaccharides, Alan Darvill, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

9:00 a.m. Theory and applications of DMAc/LiCl in the analysis of polysaccharides, André Striegel, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research

9:30 a.m. Coffee and Posters

10:00 a.m. Diagnostics for microbes using carbohydrate degrading enzymes or N-linked glycosylation in archaebacteria without a golgi, Roger A. Laine, Louisiana State University

10:30 a.m. Preparation and characterization of yeast beta-1->3 glucans as immunopotentiating agents, John and Sharon Vercellotti, V-Labs, Inc.

11:00 a.m. Molecular mechanics and dynamics studies of cyclolaminaradecaose, Alfred D. French, USDA-ARS-SRRC

12:00 p.m. Transportation to Southern Regional Research Center, ARS, USDA for lunch, and visit to S.R.R.C., and S.P.R.I., Inc.

Poster Presentations

MM3(92) modeling of ribose and 2-deoxyribose ring puckering, Michael K. Dowd, USDA-ARS-SRRC

Effect of constant pH conditions on the thermal degradation of concentrated aqueous solutions of sucrose, glucose and fructose, Gillian Eggleston, USDA-ARS-SRRC

Atomic force microscopy of cotton fiber cell wall surfaces in air and water, computer demonstration, Barbara A. Triplett, USDA-ARS-SRRC

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Tour of USDA-ARS-SRRC and SPRI

The bus will depart the Maison Dupuy Hotel at 12:00 noon

April 10, 1997

USDA-ARS-SRRC

The Southern Regional Research Center is one of four regional facilities created by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, otherwise known as the Farm Bill. It is located in the beautiful state of Louisiana just minutes form Lake Pontchartrain. The Center also has a field location in Houma, Louisiana dedicated to sugarcane research. The Center continues to be one of the leading agricultural contributors to the American consumer and the agricultural research industry abroad.

Some developments that have resulted form the Center’s research include durable press cotton, flame retardant cotton fabrics, frozen orange juice concentrate, partially defatted peanuts, and improved varieties of sugarcane.

SPRI

The history of the Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc. began 60 years ago with formation of the Bone Char Research Project at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., under the direction of Dr. Victor Dietz. In 1963, it became the Cane Sugar Refining Research Project and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, with Dr. Frank Carpenter as its director. In 1981, its scope was greatly expanded under Dr. Margaret Clarke when it became Sugar Processing Research, Inc. then being renamed the Sugar Processing Research, Institute, Inc., in 1991.

Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., is housed in the United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Research Service, Southern Regional Research Center building at the end of the former New Orleans City Park grounds with its majestic collection of one of the largest variety of Oak trees in the nation and just a few miles from Lake Pontchartrain.

11^th New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium

Maison Dupuy Hotel, New Orleans - Renoir Room

March 28-30, 1995

PROGRAM

Wednesday, March 29

Session I

Chairman: Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

8:30 a.m. Studies on parasite glycoconjugates, John S. Brimacombe, University of Dundee

9:15 a.m. Characterization of a KDN-containing glycoprotein from loach skin mucus, Y.-T. Li and S.-C. Li, Tulane University School of Medicine

10:00 a.m. Coffee

10:30 a.m. Glycosaminoglycans from E. coli K5 and K4 polysaccharides, Bentio Casu, University of Milan

11:15 a.m. Novel oligosaccharides synthesized using glycosyl hydrolase transglycosylation and by using transesterases with loosened acceptor specificity, Roger A. Laine, Louisiana State University

12:00 p.m. Some aspects of thioglycosides in glycoside synthesis, Per J. Garegg, Stockholm University

12:45 p.m. Lunch

Wednesday, March 29

Session II

Chairman: Judy D. Timpa, Southern Regional Research Center

2:00 p.m. Structural studies on active human chorionic gonadotropin, Han Kamerling, University of Utrech

2:45 p.m. Coffee

3:15 p.m. Some synthetic uses of aldonolactones, Christian Pedersen, Technical University of Denmark

4:00 p.m. Synthesis of some natural products containing myoinositol, Peter Konradsson, Stockholm University

4:45 p.m. Anthracycline antibiotics – importance of carbohydrate moiety, Waldemar Priebe, University of Texas

Thursday, March 30 – Southern Regional Research Center, Director’s Conference Room

Session III

Chairman: John R. Vercellotti, Southern Regional Research Center

8:30 a.m. How and why β – (1→3) – glucans make triple-stranded helial macrocycles, David A. Brant, University of California at Irvine.

9:15 a.m. Structural studies on di-D-fructose dianhydrides, Merilyn Manley-Harris, University of Montana

10:00 a.m. Polyhydroxypolyamides – some properties and practical use considerstions, Donald E. Kiely, University of Alabama at Birmingham

10:45 a.m. Coffee

11:15 a.m. Some pharmaceutical uses of β – glucans, Manssur Yalpani, Alpha-Beta Technology

12:00 p.m. Structure and unique properties of some plant and microbial polysaccarides, Akira Misaki, Osaka City University

12:45 p.m. Lunch and Posters

POSTERS

1. Modeling the inositol ring puckering with MM3, Michael K. Dowd, Alfred D. French and Peter J. Reilly¹ , Southern Regional Research Center and ¹ Iowa State University

2. The measurement of dextran in raw sugars using ¹H nmr, Les A. Edye, Shaoxiong Wu¹ and Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., and ¹Tulane University

3. Effects of salts on the initial thermal degradation of concentrated aqueous solutions of sucrose, Gillian Eggleston, John Vercellotti, Les A. Edye¹ and Margaret A. Clarke¹, Southern Regional Research Center and ¹Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

4. Modeling fructose tautomers with MM3, Alfred D. French and Michael K. Dowd, Southern Regional Research Center

5. Characterization of cell-wall polymers from cotton ovule culture fiber cells by gel permeation chromatography, Judy D. Timpa and Barbara A. Triplett, Southern Regional Research Center

Afternoon: Individual arrangements for visits with SRRC scientists.

5^th New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium

Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans - Director’s Conference Room

April 5-7, 1989

PROGRAM

Thursday, April 6

Session I

Chairman: Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

9:00 a.m. Opening of Symposium

9:30 a.m. We can build your sugars, Serge Pérez, Institute, de la Recherche Agronomique, Nantes, France

10:00 a.m. Recent developments in methodology for glycoside and oligosaccharide synthesis, Per J. Garegg, University of Stockholm, Sweden

10:30 a.m. Coffee

11:00 a.m. On the flexibility of oligosaccharides in solution, Igor Tvaroska, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslavakia

12:00 p.m. Lunch

Session II

Chairman: John R. Vercellotti, Southern Regional Research Center

2:00 p.m. Understanding the preferred structure of a dihydropyran, Alfred D. French, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

2:45 p.m. Coffee

3:00 p.m. Substrate specificity of enzymes used in the processing of starch, Klaus Bock, Carlsberg Research Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

3:30 p.m. Crystal and molecular structure of amylopectin in A and B type starch granules, Anne Imberty, Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, Nantes, France

Friday, April 7

Session III

Chairman: Noelie R. Bertoniere, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

9:00 a.m. New twists to old polysaccharides, Gerald O. Aspinall, York University, Toronto, Canada

9:30 a.m. Changes in molecular structure of cellulose fiber during development of the cotton plant, Judith D. Timpa, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

10:15 a.m. Coffee

10:30 a.m. N-carboxymethylchitosan: food grade preparation and application to meat flavor preservation, John R. Vercellotti, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

4^th New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium

Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans - Director’s Conference Room

September 21-22, 1988

PROGRAM

Wednesday, September 21

Session I

Chairman: Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

9:00 a.m. Opening of Symposium

9:15 a.m. Synthesis of oligosaccharide segments of lipoploysaccharides, Hans Paulsen, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany

9:45 a.m. Thioglycosides in oligosdaccharide synthesis: A progress report, Per J. Garagg, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

10:30 a.m. Coffee

11:00 a.m. Fructose as a chiral precursor of spiro-ketals and indolizidine alkaloids, Leslie Hough, King’s College, London, United Kingdom

12:00 p.m. Lunch

Wednesday, September 21

Session II

Chairman: Noelie R. Bertoniere, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

2:00 p.m. Synthesis of carbohydrate-derived biosurfactants, A.P.G. Kieboom, University of Delft, Delft, The Netherlands

2:30 p.m. Synthesis of trisaccharides from sucrose, W.S. Charles Tsang, Sugar Processing Research Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana

3:30 p.m. Coffee

3:45 p.m. Acyclic carbohydrate polymers—synthesis and potential uses, Donald E. Kiely, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

Thursday, September 22

Session III

Chairman: John R. Vercellotti, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

9:00 a.m. The distribution of substituents in ethyl (hydroxyethyl) cellulose, Bengt Lindberg, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

9:25 a.m. Recent studies on oligosaccharide structure, Roger Laine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

9:45 a.m. Composition of polysaccharides produced in sugarcane, Earl J. Roberts, Sugar Processing Research, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana

10:10 a.m. Composition of a fructan synthesized from sucrose, Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana

10:30 a.m. Coffee

10:45 a.m. Tour of Southern Regional Research Center.

2^nd New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposium

Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans - Director’s Conference Room

August 6-7, 1986

PROGRAM

Wednesday, August 6

Session I

Chairman: Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc.

9:00 a.m. Opening of Symposium

9:30 a.m. The photochemistry of carbohydrate tosylates, Roger W. Binkley, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio

10:00 a.m. Potential carbohydrate applications of photo-induced electron transfer reactions, Gary W. Griffin, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

10:30 a.m. Coffee.

10:45 a.m. Synthesis of artificial carbohydrate antigens, Per J. Garegg, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden

11:45 a.m. Lunch.

Wednesday, August 6

Session II

Chairman: Noelie R. Bertoniere, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

2:00 p.m. Topics in carbohydrate chemistry – a practical oxidation method, and then there’s Huckel’s Rule, Donald E. Kiely, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

2:30 p.m. Carboxy1-amine reactions of carbohydrates as flavor intermediates, John R. Vercellotti, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

Thursday, August 7

Session III

Chairman: Dr. Fred W. Parrish, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

9:00 a.m. Dextrans: structural studies, Gwen J. Walker, Institute of Dental Research, Sydney, Australia

9:30 a.m. HPLC studies, Norman Cheethan, University of New South Wales, Australia

10:00a.m. Conformational analyses of inulin and levan, Alfred D. French, Southern Regional Research Center, New Orleans, Louisiana

10:30a.m. Coffee

10:50 a.m. A new method for mehtanolysis of polysaccharides, Earl J. Roberts, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana

11:20 a.m. Polysaccharides of sugarcane, Margaret A. Clarke, Sugar Processing Research Institute, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana

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