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12th European Training Course on Carbohydrates - 2012/Jun/3-7

Pedro — 2012-02-29T10:47:07Z

12th European Training Course on Carbohydrates (Summer Course in Glycosciences) in Groningen, The Netherlands, from June 3 to 7, 2012.

The Summer Course Glycosciences is a broad course in glycosciences that combines general introductions in the field of polysaccharides and glycoproteins with in-depth parallel sessions. The course is at graduate level and may be valuable for those working in research and industry that are willing to refresh their knowledge within the broad field of carbohydrates and for graduate students working on a PhD related to carbohydrate chemistry, biochemistry, biology, chemical technology or food science.

Postdoctoral position(s) at CAZy

Corinne — 2012-01-19T09:00:00Z

A 12-24 month postdoctoral position is available in our group for a candidate with expertise in molecular modelling and bioinformatics.

Please contact Bernard Henrissat at bernard.henrissat@afmb.univ-mrs.fr for more details.

NEW ! Protein lists for genomes

Bernie — 2011-09-20T12:42:58Z

Important new addition

Many users have asked to provide a listing of the encoded proteins on our genome pages. This is now done. Let us know if you find it useful !

6th European Symposium of Enzymes in Grain Processing - 2011/Nov/28-30

Corinne — 2011-06-08T09:22:24Z

6th European Symposium of Enzymes in Grain Processing in Copenhagen, Denmark, from November 28 to 30, 2011.

The European Symposium of Enzymes in Grain Processing is a forum where researches and technologists across academia and industry share recent progress and exchange ideas that will direct future use of enzymes in grain processing.

9th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting (CBM9) - 2011/May/15-18

Pedro — 2011-03-08T20:16:37Z

9th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting (CBM9) in Lisbon, Portugal, from May 15 to 18, 2011.

The Conference will include sessions on structure, function and synthesis of carbohydrates; mechanisms and structure-function relationships of CAZymes; Glycoproteomics and systems glycobiology; Carbohydrate and enzyme engineering; Microbial communities and proteogenomics; High-throughput analysis: gene cloning and enzyme screening in the genomic era; Chemicals from carbohydrates: applications in renewable resource utilization and health.

PL family classification article reveals PL subfamilies !!

Pedro — 2010-10-25T22:10:46Z

A recent article by the CAZy team [1], defines and describes in an extended manner:

(i) the catalytic mechanisms covered by the PL classification;
(ii) the know PL activities and how these are distributed in the present PL families;
(iii) the diversity of folds exhibited in structurally characterized PL families;
(iv) the new layer of PL subfamilies that has been defined throughout the PL families.

[1] Lombard V, Bernard T, Rancurel C, Brumer H, Coutinho PM, Henrissat B (2010) A hierarchical classification of polysaccharide lyases for glycogenomics. Biochem. J. 432:437-444 [PMID: 20925655].

Three new families in CAZy !

Bernie — 2010-04-30T11:41:00Z

New families

The following three new GH families have been added to CAZy on April 30, 2010 : GH116 , GH117 and GH118.

New CAZy Look and Website

Pedro — 2010-01-27T23:00:00Z

The CAZy Team welcomes you to the new site!

We have entirely redesigned the http://www.cazy.org site to accommodate the growing size of families. We also have designed a new logo, and now provide more interactivity in the display of information associated with each family.
In each family a new tab is now available, 'Characterized', which lists those individual CAZymes that we believe have been experimentally characterized. Of course and despite our efforts, this information is probably incomplete or sometimes erroneous. Please contact us if you find something wrong so that we provide the best possible information. For missing experimental characterization please send an electronic copy or appropriate link to the support material (article(s), thesis, database, etc), to cazy@afmb.univ-mrs.fr.

4th Symposium on the α-Amylase Family - 2010/Sep/26-30

Pedro — 2010-01-22T14:33:14Z

4th Symposium on the α-Amylase Family (ALAMY_4), at the Smolenice Castle, Slovakia, from September 26 to 30, 2010.

Sessions will include and cover the α-amylase clan GH-H: (i) Structure-function relationships; (ii) Metabolism of starch and glycogen; (iii) Novel GH13 subfamilies; (iv) Extremophilic amylolytic enzymes; (v) Starch-binding domains as CBM families; and (vi) Industrial aspects of starch processing.

Message

Corinne — 2009-12-23T15:01:22Z

Experimental characterization exclusively covers enzyme activities at present. If you are aware of any missing experimental characterization that should be mentioned here, we encourage you to send your comment and support of the experimental evidence, including an electronic copy or appropriate link to the support material (i.e., article(s), thesis, database, etc), to cazy@afmb.univ-mrs.fr.