Principal speaker
Professor Anne Dell
"Communicating With Sugars"
How does a parasite camouflage itself against its host’s immune system? How do pathogens infect cells in our tissues and organs? Why are developing foetuses not detected and rejected as "foreign" by their mothers? Why isn’t sperm attacked by women’s immune systems? How do defensive white blood cells circulating in the bloodstream know when to enter diseased tissues to fight infection? And how do metastatic cancer cells make their way to sites remote from the primary tumour?
Professor Dell will answer these questions and introduce a general audience to the exciting field of structural glycobiology.
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RSVP on or before Wednesday 1 October 2014 , by email glycomics@griffith.edu.au , or by phone 55528051