Protein glycosylation is unfamiliar territory for most basic scientists, physician scientists, and clinicians. Yet, the number of human diseases caused by mutations in glycosylation is skyrocketing. These 20+ diseases now claim a few thousand patients, but the diversity of clinical features and the basic science needed to understand these diseases offers many opportunities for ambitious and curious physicians and scientists.

Here you can watch experts as they presented their latest discoveries in San Diego, CA on December 3, 2003. I hope you find them as interesting as we did on that day.