Oxford Glycobiology Institute

• Institute Details - address, map, photo of the Institute and contact details for the Institute Director
• Glycobiology at Oxford - a personal view by Prof R.A. Dwek, FRS.
• Oxford University’s first spin-off company - Oxford GlycoSystems - The Biochemist.
 
• Prof R.A. Dwek, FRS, Kluge Chair of Technology and Society, Library of Congress
• The other green line and the sweetest tomato in the world - article
• George Washington and the first mass military inoculation - article
• Eradicating HIV and Hepatitis B - video
• Commercializing University Research - Threats and Opportunities: The Oxford University Model - video
• The Oxford model - the threats and opportunities of commercializing university research. - by T.Cook, R.A. Dwek, T. Hockaday and B.S. Blumberg in The Biochemist.

• Institute Members - phone numbers, E-mail addresses

• Current Vacancies

• Institute Seminars - for Michaelmas Term 2007.
  • Seminar archive
  
  
  • Rodney Porter Memorial Lectures - next lecture 5th May 2010
  
  
  • Distinguished Lectures in Virology - next lecture 18th November 2009 - Poster
  
  
  • Distinguished Lecture Series
  
  
  • The Darwin debate, 12th February 2009 - video.

• Current Research Programs -
• Antiviral Iminosugars - Dr Nicole Zitzmann
• Chemical biology and application to disease - Prof Paul Wentworth
• Chemistry and biology of imino sugar inhibitors - Dr Terry Butters
• Structural glycobiology - Dr David Harvey and Dr Mark Wormald
• Research Facilities - including joint Institute / Department of Biochemistry facilities

• Institute Publications 1982-present
• Posters
• Journal and book covers

• Molecular model archive - Pictures of oligosaccharides and glycoproteins available for downloading and personal use

• Glycobiology Institute Photo Album - Varied and unedited

Internal links

• Oxford University
• Department of Biochemistry

• OxLIP on the Web - Oxford Libraries' Information Platform

External Glycobiology links

• Society for Glycobiology - with information about jobs, grants, meetings, etc.
• UK Carbohydrate Chemistry Network
• Consortium for Functional Glycomics - includes glycan databases.

• GlycoSciences.de - databases and bioinformatics tools for glycobiology and glycomics
• Carbohydrate databases - CCSD (sequence) and Sugabase (1D NMR spectra)
• CAZY - database of carbohydrate active enzymes
• GlycoSuiteDB - relational database of glycan structures
• Lectin Database - crystallographic structures with bibliographic details and further links
• SimGlycan - prediction of glycan structures from a glycan mass spec profile