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New bioRxiv preprint from multiple BioF:GREAT co-PIs! biorxiv.org/content/10.648… Glydentify = deep learning to predict sugar donor usage across GT-A/GT-B family GTs 🍭🤖 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. Thanks to Sydney Bedillion, Ruili Fang & Digantkumar Chapla for great flash talks! 🚀 #NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #GlycoTime #Biofoundry

Exploring the structural complexity of glycans through NMR. Techniques like these continue to be essential for unraveling the structural details behind biologically relevant glycans. We can help. Please connect: ast.uga.edu #glycotime #NMR #glycomics

🔬 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🍭. BioF:GREAT - BioF:Great Glycoscience #BioFGREAT #Glycoscience #NSF #Glycobiology

Paulding County HS students Khalil Owens & Ian Ondieki extracted health-promoting phenolics in olives, purified hydroxytyrosol @CCRC & @biofgreat & testing its effects on lipid metabolism in Drosophila. Regional science fair champions, now headed to state. #Glycotime, #Training

🚀 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 #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

Congrats to BioF:GREAT's very own, Lance Wells @DocGatorDawg1 for being named as one of ASBMB's 2026 Fellows!!! 🧪🍭 asbmb.org/asbmb-today/pe… #NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #Glycoscience #GlycoTime #ASBMB

BioF:GREAT & CCRC are excited to host 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

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. nature.com/articles/s4154… #NSF #BioFGREAT #Glycobiology #Glycoscience #VaccineResearch #GlycoTime

Snapshots - annual Society for Glycobiology (SfG) meeting at San Diego! This year's satellite meeting showcased the incredible breadth of glycobiology. We also held our @biofgreat workshop, a fun trivia, posters, and hosted our @CCRCUGA and @biofgreat booth. #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

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/aliso… #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 #Biofgreat #glycotime #glycobiology

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.

BioF:GREAT’s 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!” 🧬🍭#BioFGREAT #NSF

The latest issue of Carbohydrate Research is a massive, international celebration honoring the incredible career of a true giant in the field: Prof. Richard R. Schmidt on his 90th birthday! 🧪🎂 #glycotimehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0008621525003271

My PhD work is out in @NatureComms !✨For the first time, we show that bacteria can glycosylate full-length monoclonal antibodies. A proof of concept and a key step toward making antibody therapies accessible to all.. nature.com/articles/s4146… #biotech #glycotime #SyntheticBiology