New bioRxiv preprint from the BioF:GREAT team!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Glydentify — a deep learning to predict sugar donor usage across GT-A/GT-B glycosyltransferases 🍭🤖

Congrats to co-first authors Ruili Fang & Lan Na!

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #GlycoTime #AIinScience

Great to attend the Biofoundry session at ACS Spring 2026🧪!

Thanks to George Heintz & Zhao Huimin for organizing and inviting BioF:GREAT.

Also, thanks to Sydney Bedillion, Ruili Fang & Digantkumar Chapla for great flash talks! 🚀

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #GlycoTime #Biofoundry

🔬Trouble expressing glycoside hydrolases or glycosyltransferases? BioF:GREAT can help!

JP Gourdine’s lab (Lewis & Clark College) now expresses🧪 GFP-tagged GH enzymes using our GH platform—empowering undergrads & accelerating research🍭.

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#BioFGREAT #NSF #Glycoscience #Glycobiology

🚀 Join the GlySpace Alliance Webinar – Feb 17 | 10 AM (Zoom)

Hear from BioF:GREAT’s Dr. Lance Wells on democratizing glycoscience + Dr. Rene Ranzinger on new GlyGen v2.10 tools!

See you there!

#BioFGREAT #Glycoscience #Glycobiology #GlyGen #NSF

🚀 BioF:GREAT at #ACSSpring2026!

We’re excited to be speaking in two sessions in Atlanta:

🧬 Biofoundry Session — Tues, Mar 24
🧪 BioF:GREAT Symposium — Wed, Mar 25

Keynotes by Rui Kong & Richard Drake + 12+ talks from the BioF:GREAT team!

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycoscience #Glycobiology #GlycoTime

Huge congrats to Sydney Bedillion (UGA & BioF:GREAT) on winning the 2026 Beverly B. Ledakowski Cancer Research Fellowship! 🎉

She studies cancer cell surface glycans 🍭🧪 and will present at the UGA–Emory Cancer Summit (Mar 20, 2026).

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Cancer #UGA #Emory #glycotime

ASBMB names 2026 fellows The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology announced that it has named 16 members as 2026 fellows of the society.

Congrats to BioF:GREAT's very own, Lance Wells @docgatordawg1.bsky.social for being named as one of ASBMB's 2026 Fellows!!! 🧪🍭

www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #Glycoscience #GlycoTime

BioF:GREAT & CCRC are excited to host Dr. Vlad Panin (Texas A&M) for an upcoming seminar!

🗓 Feb 11 | ⏰ 12:30 PM
📍 CCRC Auditorium

“Unraveling Protein O-mannosylation in the nervous system & regulation of RPTPs” 🍭 🧪

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #Glycoscience #GlycoTime

Novel HIV-1 fusion peptide immunogens using glycan-engineered alphavirus-like particles - npj Vaccines npj Vaccines - Novel HIV-1 fusion peptide immunogens using glycan-engineered alphavirus-like particles

New BioF:GREAT publication in Nature Vaccines.

Dr. Lance Wells and Dr. Peng (Linda) Zhao, with Dr. Rui Kong (Emory), show how glycan 🧪 engineering can advance HIV vaccine design.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #Glycoscience #VaccineResearch #GlycoTime

Throwback Thursday:

Congrats to BioF:GREAT’s 🧪own Erin Dolan on receiving SABER’s Mary Pat Wenderoth Lectureship Award in July! 🎉 Her passion for STEM education🎓 inspires us all.

#NSF #BioFGREAT #STEMeducation #Glycoscience

In Georgia! Wednesday Novermber 5th at 12:30pm in the CCRC Auditorium.

Come see Dr. Alison Roberts give her talk on Wednesday, December 5th 12:30pm in the CCRC 🧪auditorium.

She will give a talk titled "Spinning Yarns: Structure and Evolution of Cellulose Synthesis Complexes"

web.uri.edu/bio/meet/ali...

#biofgreat #NSF #glycotime #glycobiology

🚀 New #LetsTalkChemistry episode!

Dr. Lance Wells discusses how mutations in OGT cause XLID and how glycosylation 🧪 can make drugs more effective.

Discover how glycans 🍭 shape biology & medicine:

🔗 lnkd.in/gF-MfVaY

#NSF #Glycobiology #Glycoscience #glycotime

The Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for multiple open faculty positions, beginning August 1, 2026. See the attached png files for a description of the six faculty positions.

Dr. Megna Tiwari gave a seminar at Morehouse College on glycobiology🧪 & science education!

“Curiosity led me from studying infectious agents to glycobiology. Now with Dr. Erin Dolan & BioF:GREAT, I’m helping democratize glycoscience!” 🧬🍭#biof:great #NSF

Our group has a PhD position available in 'The vaginal microbiota – understanding how this microbial community forms'.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

There are also many other amazing projects to choose between from other groups, so check out the MIBTP website!

BioF:GREAT is hosting a workshop at the 2025 Society for Glycobiology Conference!
Learn how we support your research with Glycoenzymes, Glycoanalytics, and Glycoinformatics (AI/ML).
Visit our booth — proud sponsor of #SFG! 🧪

#nsf #glycotime #biofgreat #uga #sfg

Postdoc at the Copenhagen Center for Glycocalyx Research at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho...

Hi all! We’re hiring at our brand new Center for Glycocalyx Research, across all areas - but I am also looking for postdocs to join my group specifically!

Origins and evolution of the essentials of glycobiology textbook Ajit Varki; Origins and evolution of the essentials of glycobiology textbook, Glycobiology, , cwaf062, https://doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cwaf062

Origins and evolution of the essentials of glycobiology textbook
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Also, on top of the postdoc and PhD positions open, you should also get in touch if you would like to try your hand at an EMBO or Marie Curie fellowship with us to get a headstart on your independent career.

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Opportunity for a #Master' s Student. #Glycotime #Chemsky

Dedicated Issue of ‘Carbohydrate Research’ as Part of celebration of 90th Birth Anniversary of Prof. (em.) Dr. Richard R. Schmidt

Check out the latest issue of Carbohydrate Research. It's a massive, international celebration honoring the incredible career of a true giant in the field: Prof. Richard R. Schmidt on his 90th birthday! 🧪 Happy Birthday Prof. Schmidt! 🎂
#glycotime

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Enzyme-converted O kidneys allow ABO-incompatible transplantation without hyperacute rejection in a human decedent model Nature Biomedical Engineering - An ex vivo model and pre-clinical study in a brain-dead recipient provide enzyme-converted O organs to avoid hyperacute rejection in ABO-incompatible kidney...

Imagine if the blood type of a donor organ no longer mattered.

Researchers from Canada and China used glycoenzymes FpGalNAc deacetylase and FpGalactosaminidase to "convert" a Type-A donor kidney into a Universal organ by removing unwanted A-antigens. Great glyco-work!! #glycotime

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☀️ Your Brain Needs a Tan, Too! 🧠

Are you coming to San Diego for the SFG Annual Meeting (Nov 9–12), so why not make the most of it?

Jump straight into the focused, high-impact Workshops! Sign up today to take advantage of all the #glycotime goodness
www.glycobiology.org/annual-meeting

Think DNA and proteins are the whole story? Think again! 🤯 The Flynn lab just found a powerful new way to map out glycoRNAs using their super-sensitive rPAL-seq method. This innovative technique revealed glycoRNA patterns on snRNAs/snoRNAs and extracellular vesicles. #CellBiology #glycotime 🧪

GIA2025 Join us for our fourth annual symposium, a celebration of knowledge and innovation in the field of glycoscience! Whether you’re an aspiring scientist or a seasoned researcher…

We’re excited to invite you to the @giaglyco.bsky.social GIA2025 Symposium on Thursday and Friday, November 6–7. Registration is free and the event will take place in person and virtually for those joining online. glyco-alberta.ca/gia2025/ Come get the latest #Glycogang swag!

The key to cancer's sugar shield (O-GalNAc glycosylation) is the enzyme GalE! 🎯 Ben Schuman's lab just unveiled powerful new GlaE inhibitors of using a new fragment screening + structure-based design approach, opening new paths for oncology therapeutics! #ChemicalBiology #DrugDesign #glycotime 🧪