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KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The Growing Impact of Glycobiology on Medicine
Stuart Kornfeld, M.D., Washington University School of Medicine

GLYCOSYLATION-BASED MYOPATHIES

The PMT family of protein O-mannosyltransferases: from
yeast to novel associations with human disease

Sabine Strahl, Ph.D., Universität Regensburg

Synaptic glycosylation and muscular dystrophy
Paul Martin, Ph.D., University of California San Diego

Studies of the Metabolic Basis of Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy
Donna Krasnewich, M.D., Ph.D., National Institute of Human Genome Research

MOUSE MODELS OF HUMAN GLYCOSYLATION DISEASES

A Murine Model for Hereditary Multiple Exostosis (HME)
Jeffrey D. Esko, Ph.D., University of California San Diego

Perlecan gene mutations in two classes of skeletal dysplasias
Eri Arikawa-Hirasawa, M.D., Ph.D., Juntendo University School of Medicine

Pathophysiology in fucosylation-defective mice
John Lowe, M.D., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Michigan

Generation of a mouse model for CDG-Ia
Christian Körner, Ph.D., University of Göttingen

CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF GLYCOSYLATION

Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation: Group III? 
Hudson H. Freeze, Ph.D., The Burnham Institute, La Jolla

New types of CDG: Mannosyltransferase I deficiency and a CDG with defective a2,3 sialylation
Thorsten Marquardt, M.D., University of Münster

Variability of cellular responses and of clinical manifestations in ER-glycosylation defects
Thierry Hennet, Ph.D., University of Zürich

Some tricks for the diagnosis of aberrant N-glycan glucosylation
Stuart Moore, Ph.D., INSERM, Villejuif

CDG PATIENTS AND PATIENCE

Biochemical Studies of Growth and Puberty in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
Bradley S. Miller, M.D., Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Discovery
Cindy Wren-Gray, President, CDG-Family Network Foundation