THE CONFERENCE

As the scientific community has turned its attention to renewable and sustainable resources as a source of novel and advanced chemicals, polymers, and composites, interest in polysaccharide chemistry has naturally increased. The result has been a renaissance of investigations into the biosynthesis, structure, properties, and performance of polysaccharides and their derivatives available from the natural pool. To illustrate, the biosynthetic pathways and the complex self-assembly of higher order polysaccharide structures are areas of rapid development. The complex problems of analysis at the molecular, aggregate, and structural levels are being addressed by modern analytical techniques. This ability to probe structure at the molecular level has likewise energized synthetic efforts to create novel and functional materials from these renewable feedstocks. The scope of this renaissance is truly international. Significant centers of polysaccharide chemistry activity and excellence exist in Japan, Europe, and North America, as well as in many other parts of the world. For this reason, the inaugural Chemistry of Polysaccharides Gordon Conference will be held in the United States and then will be rotated around these three general areas of the globe: The 2003 conference is planned for a summer European location, and the 2005 conference for a summer location in Japan.

• "Novel Gelation Mechanism in High Methoxy Pectin"
  Ulrike Becker, Susan Wrenn
• "High Molecular Weight Wood-Based Cellulose in Cellulose Derivatives Applications"
  Tove Schult, Torgeir Hjerde
• "CP/MAS 13C NMR Spectroscopy on the Crystal Structures of Cellulose Polymorphs"
  Tomoki Erata, Mitsuo Takai, Hiroyuki Kono
• "Characterization of Hydrogen Bonds in O-Methylcellulose / DimethylSulfoxide / Water System by FT-NIR Analysis"
  Yuka Sekiguchi, Chie Sawatari, Tetsuo Kondo
• "Triacetylcyclodextrin Complexes as Polymer Additives for Cellulose Ester Thermoplastics"
  Charles Buchanan, Debra Tindall, Matthew Wood, Joszef Szejtli, Lajos Szente
• "Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Viscometry Study of the Aggregation Process of Chitosans and their Derivatives in Aqueous Solution"
  O.E. Philippova, N.L. Sitnikova, A.R. Khokhlov, J. Desbrieres, M. Rinaudo
• "Quantitative Analysis of Wood Sugar Hydrolyzates with NMR"
  Arthur J. Stipanovic, David J. Kiemle, Hannu P. Makkonen, Yalcin Copur
• "Toward Solid-Phase Analysis and Sequencing of Polysaccharides"
  Fanny Guillaumie, Owen R.T. Thomas, Knud J. Jensen
• "Structural Polysaccharides in Prion Rods and Other Amyloid"
  Thomas R. Appel
• "Observations of Individual Molecules of Arabinoxylans by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM); Fine Structure, Branching, and Heterogeneity Revealed"
  Liz Adams, Paul Kroon, Gary Williamson, Patrick Gunning, Andrew Kirby, Victor Morris
• "HR/MAS NMR as a Probe of Polysaccharide Particle Surfaces"
  W.T. Winter, D. Bhattacharya, M. Grunert, H. Hu
• "Structural Determination of the Glycogen Branching Enzyme from E. coli"
  James H. Geiger, Marta C. Abad
• "Analysis of Alginates and Chitosans by Size-Exclusion Chromatography with On-Line Light Scattering and Viscometry"
  Bjørn E. Christensen
• "Structural Characterization of the Xyloglucan Produced by Suspension-Cultured Tomato Cells (Lycopersicon esculentum)"
  Zhonghua Jia, Qiang Qin, Peter Albersheim, Alan G. Darvill, William S. York

• "Progress in the Development and Application of Surface Trimethylsilylated Cellulose Nanocrystals"
  Maren Grunert, William T. Winter
• "Hydrophobic Polygalactomannan: Synthesis and Properties in Water Solution"
  Chang Jeanne, Harris Frank, Fleury Etienne, Perier Marie-Eve
• "Topochemical Modification of Cellulosic Fibres with Bipolar Activators"
  Tom Lindström, Janne Laine
• "Highly Phosphorylated Starch Derivatives: Synthesis and Characterization"
  U. Heinze, D. Klemm, E. Unger, F. Pieschel
• "A Simple Solution to the Synthesis of Amine-Substituted Cellulose Derivatives" U. Mais, S. Knaus
• "Chemical Derivatization of Polysaccharides Activated by Microwave Radiation"
  Balint Koroskenyi, Guangji Li, Stephen P. McCarthy
• "Chitosan Derivatives Bearing Pendant Cyclodextrin Derivatives: Synthesis, Characterization, and Complexation Properties"
  R. Auzely-Velty, M. Rinaudo
• "Cellulose Nanocrystals as a Reinforcement in High Performance Engineering Thermoplastics"
  Deepanjan Bhattacharya, William T. Winter
• "Cellulosic Composites"
  Wolfgang Glasser
• "Self-Assembly of Amylose and Amylopectin Segements for Controlled Oral Drug Delivery"
  Robert H. Marchessault
• "Cellulose as a Source of Levoglucosenone and other Chiral Intermediates"
  Zbigniew J. Witczak
• "Chemical Modification of Cellulose and Chitin Microcrystals for Novel Applications"
  Shigenori Kuga, Jun Araki, Dae-Young Kim, Yoshiharu Nishiyama

• "On Anti-Viral and Anti-Hyaluronidase Activities of fully O-sulfonated Glycosaminoglycans"
  Toshihiko Toida
• "Characterization of Biofilms of P. aeruginosa with NMR-Methods"
  Natascha Schürks
• "13C NMR Studies of Intermolecular Interactions in Bacterial Polysaccharide of P.aeruginosa"
  Daniel Lattner
• "Bacterial Recognition of Surface Structure of Cellulose: Biomacromolecular Rail"
  Tetsuo Kondo
• "Synthesis of Complex Oligosaccharides Related to the Repeating Unit of the Antigen from Escherichia coli O157 with the Objective of Preparing a Conjugate Vaccine"
  Nirmolendu Roy
• "Enzymatic Degradation of 4-O-methyl Glucuronoxylan from Aspen Wood"
  Jojannes P. Roubroeks, Paul Gatenholm
• "Immunomodulatory and Adjuvant Activity of Emulsan Structural Variants"
  Bruce Panilaitis
• "Enzymatic Treatment of Normal and High-Amylose Starch for the Fractionation of Linear Glucan Chains"
  Kristine Koch, Kristina Arn, Paul Gatenholm
• "Extracellular Polysaccharides of Phytopathogens"
  Byung Y. Yang, Qiong Ding, James S. Gray, Rex Montgomery
• "Recent Results on the Biodegradation of Chitosan"
  Martin G. Peter, Marcin H. Struszczyk
• "Synthesis of Hyaluronan Conjugates and their use in Targeted Drug Delivery"
  Wei-Lien Chuang
• "Production of Glycolipids by the Fermentative Utilization of Nickel Contaminated Fatty acid Residues"
  Arthur P. Felse, Rao J. Kandula, Richard A. Gross