Seminarium Wydziałowe 5.10.2022

30 09 2022

Dziekan Wydziału Chemii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego zaprasza na
SEMINARIUM WYDZIAŁOWE

5 października 2022 (środa), o godz. 15:00,
w Sali Starej Biblioteki (I p.)

Prof. MATEUSZ MARIAŃSKI

(Hunter College, Department of Chemistry, City University of New York, New York, U.S.A.)

wygłosi wykład

“Synthetic carbohydrate receptors: Tools for exploring and exploiting
the most complex recognition in biology in viral diseases”

Serdecznie zapraszam Pracowników, Doktorantów i Studentów Wydziału Chemii, oraz inne zainteresowane osoby.

Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Kudelski

ABSTRACT: Viruses use glycans as an attachment factor during a viral docking to the host cell, which precedes viral infection and, ultimately, replication. Although disrupting glycan-receptor interactions could mitigate the viral threat, glycans are considered “undruggable targets”, meaning there is no widely adopted therapeutic strategies which exploit them as feasible targets. In this contribution, I will discuss the development of synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs), small molecules and potent antivirals that are able to recognize selectively complex glycans.