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GlycoNet
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The only pan-Canadian research network focusing on leveraging #glycomics and #glycoscience to drive tangible health innovations. #glycotime
Website: glyconet.ca
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For #WorldDiabetesDay we’re spotlighting how glycomics supports diabetes management.
Research by Dr. Michael Riddell (YorkU) shows that ZT-01, by blocking the SSTR2 receptor, boosts glucagon release, preventing dangerous blood sugar drops in type 2 diabetes. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha...
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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What makes brain cells communicate—and what happens when that system breaks down? GlycoNet Investigator Dr. Simonetta Sipione (UAlberta) shows gangliosides help neurons communicate and purge waste—opening new paths to treat neurodegenerative disease canadianglycomics.ca/researchers-...
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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🌟 Save the Date! 🌟
The 9th Canadian Glycomics Symposium comes to Canmore, AB — May 12–14, 2026!
3 days of learning & networking with researchers, trainees & industry — all set in the Rockies. 🌄 Sponsor opportunities available!
📅 Details coming soon: symposium.canadianglycomics.ca

#CGS2026
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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GlycoNet et le centre espagnol @cicbiogune.bsky.social ont signé un protocole d’entente pour renforcer la collaboration internationale en glycomique et stimuler l’innovation en santé et en biotechnologie.

canadianglycomics.ca/fr/glyconet-...
October 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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GlycoNet and Spain’s @cicbiogune.bsky.social have signed an MOU to strengthen international collaboration in glycomics—advancing research, training, and innovation in health and biotechnology.

🔗 canadianglycomics.ca/glyconet-and...

#GlycoNet #Glycomics #Research #Innovation
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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💡 Beyond tanks and missiles: Bioinnovation offers opportunities for defence
From biodefence to food and health security, glycomics is enabling new solutions that strengthen #NationalSecurity while driving economic growth:
canadianglycomics.ca/beyond-tanks...

🔗 canadianglycomics.ca/beyond-tanks...
October 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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👨🔬 Meet GlycoNet trainee Blake Soares, an MSc student at Queen's University! Whether he’s in the lab investigating how bacteria stick to hosts or unwinding with sports and music, Blake brings curiosity and energy to everything he does.

Read more: canadianglycomics.ca/trainee-at-g...

#STEM
October 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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🎗️ #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth: Glycans—complex sugars—play key roles in how tumours grow and resist therapy.
GlycoNet researcher Dr. Simonetta Sipione at UAlberta is studying how to block these signals as a potential path for better treatments.
Learn more: canadianglycomics.ca/revealing-th...
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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📢Join us Oct 28 for the next GlycoNet Integrated Services (GIS) Webinar with Dr. Yves St-Pierre (@inrsciences.bsky.social ). Learn how the Molecular & Cellular Biology Facility (MCBF) advances discovery in cell culture, omics, & nanobody development.

Register: canadianglycomics.ca/training/web...
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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📢Join us Oct 28 for the next GlycoNet Integrated Services (GIS) Webinar with Dr. Yves St-Pierre (@inrsciences.bsky.social ). Learn how the Molecular & Cellular Biology Facility (MCBF) advances discovery in cell culture, omics, & nanobody development.

Register: canadianglycomics.ca/training/web...
October 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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It’s #EdmontonStartupWeek! We’re spotlighting GlycoBead, from GlycoNet investigators Drs. West & Anne Halpin (UAlberta). Their diagnostic test will reduce blood-group barriers in organ transplantation & open the door to more life-saving matches.

canadianglycomics.ca/breaking-bou...
October 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Des avancées majeures dans le traitement du cancer, le contrôle des infections, les maladies neurodégénératives et l’agroalimentaire durable sont rendues possibles grâce à la glycomique — l’étude des glucides complexes.

Découvrez-en plus : canadianglycomics.ca/fr/rapport-a...
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Innovative advances in cancer care, infection control, neurodegeneration, and sustainable agri-food are being unlocked by #glycomics—the study of complex sugars.

Learn more in our annual report: canadianglycomics.ca/2025-annual-...

#OneHealth #Bioinnovation #glycotime
October 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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🎗️ For #WorldCancerResearchDay, explore how GlycoNet researchers are advancing cancer care through glycomics—
🔬 sugar-based drug carriers
🧬 immune-boosting therapies
🧪 better early detection

Learn more about the work being done across Canada: canadianglycomics.ca/revealing-th...
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🌍 It’s officially #GlobalBiotechWeek!

We’re proud to be part of Canada’s biotech ecosystem. This week, we’re joining #LifeSciencesWeek and sharing how glycomics research is driving innovation and discovery.
Stay tuned 👀

#GBW2025 #LifeSciencesWeek #Biotech #HealthInnovation
September 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🧠 Alzheimer’s impacts millions of families. On #WorldAlzheimersDay, we’re sharing GlycoNet research that reveals a surprising dual role for CD33—a carbohydrate-binding protein receptor that may increase or reduce risk.

Read more: canadianglycomics.ca/new-study-yi...

#Neuroimmunology
September 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🚀 GlycoNet is at Life Sciences Week!

Catch CEO Dr. Elizabeth Nanak at Next at U of A → luma.com/5e4fmzul?utm...

🤝 Meet our team at the Life Sciences Career Expo → luma.com/wa3x2g7a?utm...

Discover the future of biotech & your place in it.

#LifeSciences #Biotech #HealthInnovation #Glycotime
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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📢 Join us & the European Glycoscience Community for a joint webinar!
🗓 Sept 25 | 5:30 PM CEST / 9:30 AM MT

Speakers:
🔹 Anna Blakney (UBC) – Next gen RNA vaccines & therapies
🔹 Stephen G. Withers (UBC) – Engineering bacterial glycoside hydrolases

🔗 Register: unibas.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Congrats to GlycoNet investigator Dr. @siglecdude.bsky.social (UAlberta) named a Member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists! His research on carbohydrates and immunity is uncovering links to Alzheimer’s and cancer.

canadianglycomics.ca/glyconet-inv...
September 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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🧬 For #DuchenneAwarenessDay, hear from GlycoNet Investigator, Dr. Sachiko Sato from Ulaval, exploring how N-acetylglucosamine—a natural sugar—might help reduce muscle damage in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

🎥 Watch now:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOrKfOSVs4

#RareDisease #Glycomics #Duchenne
September 7, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Pleased to have @ualberta.bsky.social President Bill Flanagan visit us and hear from GlycoNet investigators Drs. John Klassen, Lisa Willis, and @siglecdude.bsky.social about their carbohydrate research and how this field is advancing health, agriculture, and biotechnology.

#Glycotime #Glycomics
September 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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🚨 Applications are now open for the GlycoNet Trainee Executive Committee (GTA‑EC) 2025–2026!
Make your voice heard. Build your network. Shape trainee programming across the Network.

🔗https://canadianglycomics.ca/training/application/

#Glycotime #Glycomics #Trainees #STEM
September 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Want to share your science with impact?

The GTA-EC is organizing a workshop for GlycoNet trainees at UBC (Oct 31–Nov 2) on Effective Science Communication. Learn to write for audiences, design clear figures & connect with peers. Only 12 spots—apply by Aug 24

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August 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Join Dr. Kelly McNagny (UBC) for the next GTA webinar as he shares how low-dose antibiotics alter microbial metabolites like SCFAs and bile acids, influencing allergic asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis.

📅 August 13, 2025 | 11 AM MST
Register canadianglycomics.ca/training/web...
August 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🧪 Explore disease mechanisms with GIS' Analytical R&D node (@ChuSteJustine)!

Using LC-MS, CE-MS/MS & MALDI imaging, this node analyzes glycosylated metabolites like GAGs (e.g., heparan sulfate).
🔬 Metabolomics
🧠 Spatial mapping
📊 GAG profiling
🔗 canadianglycomics.ca/services/

#Glycomics
July 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM