It is a great pleasure to invite you to our 2^nd International Symposium on “Dynamic Hydrogels at Biointerfaces“ which will take place from October 1-2, 2024 at the Freie Universität Berlin. Further details will be announced soon.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Katharina Ribbeck (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Leveraging Mucin Glycans for Enhanced Innate Immune Function
  
• Dave Thornton (University of Manchester, UK) Control of mucus barrier function
  
• Bart Lambrecht (Ghent University, BE) Protein crystals as key components of airway mucus plugging
• Gerald Fuller (Stanford University, USA) Live Cell Rheometry of Airway Mucus: Application to Acute Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis
• Ron Raines (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Biocompatible Hydrogels from the Self-Assembly of Collagen-Mimetic Peptides
• Jessica Krämer (University of Utah, USA) Synthetic mucins for engineering mucus and the glycocalyx
• Xing Chen (Peking University, Beijing, CN) Labeling and Engineering of Protein O-Glycosylation
  
• Rachel Heavy (Universität Basel, CH) Mucin glycans: synthesis & virulence attenuating properties
• Malin Johanson (University of Gothenburg, SE) Complex mucus structures protect the intestinal epithelium
  
• Patricia Danke (Eindhoven University of Technology, NL) Supramolecular structures and hydrogels to tune the cell-material interface
• Benjamin Schuhmann (Imperial College London, UK) Chemical Precision Tools to Dissect Protein Glycosylation

contact: conference@sfb1449.de