Contribution to International Exchanges
1 Gordon Research Conferences"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipids and Sphingolipids"(Chair: R. Laine, USA, January 1995)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: S. Spiegel, USA, January 1998)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: G. Tettamanti, Italy, May 2000)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology"(Chair: A.Dell, USA, March 2001)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: A.H. Merrill, USA, January 2002)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: A. Lander, USA, July 2002)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology"(Chair: R.D. Cummings. USA, March 2003)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: A. Plaas, USA, July 2004)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: Akemi Suzuki, Japan, July 2004)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology"(Chair: R.Haltiwanger, USA, March 2005)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: T. Futerman, USA, January 2006)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: A. C. Rapraeger, USA, July 2006)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: Gerrit van Meer, Italy, February 2008)"Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrate"(Co-Chair: Todd L., USA, June 2007)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: Thomas N. Wight, USA, January 2009)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology"(Chair: Christopher M. West, USA, January 2009)"Gordon Research Conference on Carbohydrate"(Co-Chair: Peter H. Seeberger, Stephen G. Withers, USA, June 2009)"Gordon Research Conference on Cell Contact & Adhesion"(Chair: Pierre D. McCrea, USA, June 2009)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: Lina M. Obeid, USA, February 2010)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans - Development, Disease and Therapeutics"(Chair: Mrian F. Young, Robert J. Linhardt, USA, July 2010)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology"(Chair: Hudson Freeze, Italy, May 2011)"Gordon Research Conference - Cell Contact & Adhesion"(Chair: Alpha Yat, USA, June 2011)

"Gordon Research Conference on Glycolipid and Sphingolipid Biology"(Chair: Yasuyuki Igarashi, Italy, April 2012)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: Robert J. Linhardt, USA, July 2012)"Gordon Research Conference on Glycobiology"(Chair: Kelley Moremen, USA, March 2013)"Gordon Research Conference on Cellulosomes, Cellulases and Other Carbohydrate Modifying Enzymes"(Chair: Harry Brumer, USA, August 2013)"Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans / Gordon Research Seminar on Proteoglycans(Chair: Nick Shworak, USA, July 2014)NEW
2 International Symposium for Glycoconjugates"XV International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: A. Kobata, Japan, August 1999)"XVI International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: J.F.G. Vliegenthart, Netherlands, August 2001)"XVII International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: A. Suroulia, India, January 2003)"XVIII International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: G. Tettamanti, Italy, September 2005)"XX International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: Dipak K. Banerjee, Puerto Rico, November - December 2009)"XXI International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: Leopold Maerz, Austoria, August 2011 )"XXII International Symposium on Glycoconjugates"(Chair: Jianxin Gu, Dalian, P.R. China, June 2013 )3 International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases"International Symposium on Glycosyltranferases and Cellular Communication"(Chair: N. Taniguchi, Japan, March 1997)"The 2nd International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases"(Chair: H. Schachter, Canada, May 2000)"The 3rd International Glycosyltransferase Symposium"(Chair: H. Leffler, Sweden, September 2002)"The 4th International Glycosyltransferase Symposium"(Chair: P. Delannoy, France, November 2004)"The 5th International Glycosyltransferase Symposium"(Chair: H. Narimatsu, Tsukuba, June 2006)"The 6th International Glycosyltransferase Symposium"(Chair: J. Michael Pierce, Atlanta, May 2008)"The 7th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferase "(Chair: Naoyuki Taniguchi et al., Japan, July - August 2010)"GlycoT 2012 - 8th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases"(Chair: Rita Gerardy-Schahn, Germany, June 2012)"GlycoT 2014- 9th International Symposium on Glycosyltransferases"(Chair: Celso Albuquerque Reis, Portugal, June 2014) NEW
4 International Meeting on Proteoglycans

"International Conference on Molecular Interactions of Proteoglycans"(Chair: K. Kimata, Japan, August 1999)"International Meeting on Proteoglycans 2001"(Chair: J. T. Gallagher, UK, August 2001)"3rd International Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: R. Perris, Parma, Italy, September 2003)"Proteoglycans in Signaling"(Chair: L. Kjellen, Sweden, September 2005)"5th International Conference on Proteoglycans"(Chair: Mauro S.G. Pavao, Brazil, September 2007)"The 6th International Proteoglycan Meeting"(Chair: Hugues Lortat-Jacob, France, September 2009)"The 7th International Proteoglycan Meeting"(Chair: Johan Whitelock, Australia, October 2011)"The 8th International Proteoglycan Meeting"(Chair: Liliana Schaefer, John Couchman, Germany, August 2013)
5 Pan-Pacific Conference on Sialobiology"International Symposium on Sialobiology and Other Novel Forms of Glycosylation"(Chair: Y. Inoue, Taiwan, November 1998)"Sialoglycoscience and other Novel Forms of Glycosylation"(Chair: M. v. Itzstein, Australia, July 2002.
"The 4th Pan-Pacific conferences on Sialobiology"(Chair: G. Taylor, UK, July 2004)"The 5th Pan-Pacific conferences on Sialobiology"(Chair: Y. Suzuki, Japan, August 2006)"The 6th Pan-Pacific conferences on Sialobiology"(Chair: Nicolai Bovin, Russia, July 2008)"13th International Meeting on Biology and Chemistry of Sialic Acids (Sialoglyco 2010)"(Chair: Rita Gerardy-Schahn, Germany, August 2010)"Sialoglyco 2012 International Symposium"(Chair: Fu-Tong Liu, Taipei, Taiwan, September 2012)"Sialoglyco 2014 International Symposium"(Chair: Mark von Itzstein, Australia, September 2014) NEW6 Commemoration Symposium of the Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience"International Symposium for Glycoscience in commemration of the establishment of the Foundation"(Japan, March 1993)"International Symposium for Glycoscience in commemration of the 5th anniversary of the Foundation"(Japan, December 1997)"International Symposium for Glycoscience in commemration of the 10th anniversary of the Foundation"(Japan, December 2002)"International Symposium for Glycoscience in commemration of the 15th anniversary of the Foundation"(Japan, October 2007)"International Symposium for Glycoscience in commemration of the 20th anniversary of the Foundation"(Japan, November 2012)
7 Others

"Hudson Award Symposium"(USA, April 1995)"The 15th ISN Meeting"(Japan, June 1995)"The 15th ISN Meeting"(Japan, July 1995)"Japan-The Netherlands 400 Years Symposium on Recent Advances in Glycobiology"(Organizer: M. Saito, Japan, April 2000)"International Symposium on Developments in the New Glycotechnology using the specific activity ofEndo-glycosidase" (Chair: M. Endo, Japan, October 2000)"Glycobiology Symposium, Pacifichem 2000"(Organizer: K. Kasai, USA, December 2000)"International Symposium on Protein Traffic, Glycosylation, and Human Health"(Organizer: J. Roth, Switzerland, May 2001)"The First International Conference on Multiple Hereditay Exostosis"(Organizer: J. Esko, USA, October 2002)"New Vistas in Glycobiology beyond the Genome"(Organizer: N. Taniguchi, P.R.China, October 2002)"Viruses and Glycans"(Organizer: T. Bergstrom, Sweden, June 2003)"9th International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry"(Organizer: S. Kusumoto, Japan, November 2003)"Symposium on Glyco-Neurology (International Society for Neurochemistry)"(Organizer: R.K. Yu, Taiwan, February 2004)"The 21st International Lectin Meeting"(Organizer: Ken-ichi Kasai, Japan, May 2004)"The 1st Sapporo Summer Conference 2004- Sapporo Sphingolopid Symposium"(Organizer: Yasuyuki igarashi, Japan, July 2004)"Glycobiology Symposium, Pacifichem 2005"(Organizer: N. Taniguchi, USA, September 2005)"The Second International Conference on Multiple Hereditay Exostosis"(Organizer: D. Wells, USA, November 2005)"The 6th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting(CMB6)"(Organizer: A. Planas, Spain, April 2005)"The 13th European Carbohydrate Symposium (EUROCARB)"(Organizer: J. Hirsch, Slovakia August 2005)"Half a Century at the Carbohydrate-Protein Interface" (the 80th anniversary of Prof. Sharon)(Organizer: T. Baasov, Israel, November 2005)"Intn'l Symposium on Glycans on Proteins & Lipids"(Organizer: A. Surolia, India, Febraury 2006)"The 23rd National International Carbohydrate Symposium (ICS 2006) "(Organizer: M. Pinto, Canada, July 2006)"IUPAC Post-Symposium (Sapporo)- Highlights in Natural Product Chemistry "(Organizer: H. Oikawa, Japan, July 2006)"The 23rd National International Carbohydrate Symposium (ICS 2006) "(Organizer: M. Pinto, Canada, July 2006)"Gratama Workshop 2006 "(Organizer: A. Harada, Japan, October 2006)

"Frontiers in Glycomics: Bioinformatics and Biomarkers in Desease "(Organizer:J. C. Paulson & N. Taniguchi , USA, September 2006)"The 13th Int'l Congress of Immunology, Workshop "Glycobiology of Inflammation" "(Chair:Jorg Kalil, G. Rabinovich , Brazil, October 2007)"The 7th International Conference on Hyaluronan (Hyaluronan 2007) "(Chair:B.P.Toole & V. Hascall, USA, April 2007)"FEBS Advanced Lecture Course "Matrix Pathobiology, Signaling and Molecular Targets" "(Chair:N. Karamanos, Greece, May 2007)"Glycomics: New Perspectives in Cancer Cell Behavior"(Chair:N.
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Biology"(Chair: Naoyuki Taniguchi, Japan, December 2008)"The 67th Haden Conference - Decoding the Biology of Heparan Sulphate Proteoglycans"(Chair: Jerry Turnbull, UK, March - April 2009)"JSPS(HGPI)-JST-NEDO International Symposium - Clinical and Translational Research on Cancer:
Glycomics Applications"(Chair:Naoyuki Taniguchi, Hisashi Narimatsu, Japan, March 2009)"Advanced Lecture Course FEBS-MPST-2009"(Chair: Nikos Karamanos, Greece, July 2009)"The 8th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting"(Chair: Marco Moracci, Italy, May 2009)"Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemical Biology toward A New Paradigm for Drug Discovery"(Chair: Koichi Fukase, Japan, September 2009)"Austria-Japan Seminar on Comparative and Developmental Glycobiology"(Chair: Tadashi Suzuki, Hayama, Japan, September 2009)"The 8th International Conference on Hyaluronan (HA2010)"(Co-Chairs: Kouji Kimata, Masaki Yanagishita, Japan, June 2010)"The 1st ACGG Conference"(Co-Chairs: Hisashi Narimatsu, Akemi Suzuki, Japan, October 2009)"20th Joint Glycobiology Meeting Cologne/Satellite Core-to-Core Meeting of the Japanese and German
Societies"(Chair: Franz-Georg Hanisch, Germany, November 2009)"The 4th ISN Special Neurochemistry Conference"(Chair: Alessandro Prinetti, Italy, May 2010)"The 25th International Carbohydrate Symposium"(Chair: Tomoya Ogawa, Japan, August 2010)"2010 Pacifichem Symposium - Carbohydrate Recognition in Health and Disease"(Chair: Geert-Jan Boons, USA, December 2010)"2010 Pacifichem Symposium - New Aspects of Chemical Glycobiology toward Development of new
Diagnostic and Therappeutics""(Chair: Koichi Fukase et al., USA, December 2010)"9th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting"(Chair: Carlos Fontes, Portugal, May 2011)"New Frontiers at the Interface of Immunity and Glycobiology"(Chair: Brian A. Cobb, Canada, March, 2011)"FEBS Advanced Lecture Course "Matrix Pathobiology, Signaling and Molecular Targets"(Chair: Nicos Karamanos, Island of Spetses, Greece, September, 2011)"16th European Carbohydrate Symposium (Eurocarb 16)"
(Chair: Antonio Molinaro, Italy, July, 2011)"Glycobiology Japan-Netherland Joint Seminar 2011"(Chair: Koichi Furukawa, Japan, October 2011)

"2nd Austria/Japan Seminar on Comparative and Developmental Glycobiology"(Chair: Tadashi Suzuki, Austria, August 2011)"21th International Symposium on Glycoconjugates (Glyco 21)"
(Chair: Leopold Marz, Wien, Austria, August 2011)"7th International Conference on Proteoglycans and the Annual Scientific meeting of the Matrix Biology ofAustralia and New Zealand"(Chair: Johan Whitelock, Australia, October 2011)"4th Conference on Biosynthesis of Plant Cell Wall"(Chair: Taku Demura, Japan, October 2011)"The Second Asian Chemical Biology Conference"(Chair: Koichi Fukase, Japan, July 2012)"The 6th Spanish Portuguese Japanese Organic Chemistry Symposium"(Chair: Amelia Pilar Rauter, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2012)"International Endotoxin & Innate Immunity Society Meeting 2012 , Homeostatic Inflammation
Symposium, Japan Endotoxin and Innate Immunity Society 2012"(Chair: Kensuke Miyake, Japan, October 2012)"The 4th ACGG Conference"(Chair: Jin Won Cho, Korea, October 2012)"International Symposium on Glyco-minded Biology of Deseases as a Basis of a Pharmaceutical Sciences"(Chair: Nobuaki Higashi, Japan, November - December 2012)"17th European Carbohydrate Symposium (EuroCarb 17)"
(Chair: Timor Baasov, Israel, July 2013)"3rd Austria/Japan Seminar on Comparative and Developmental Glycobiology"(Chair: Ian B. H. Wilson/Tadashi Suzuki, Japan, July 2013)"1st Asian Conference for "MONODUKURI" Strategy by synthetic Organic Chemistry"(Chair: Katsunori Tanaka, Japan, July 2013)"The 5th Annual Conference for Asian Communication of Glycobiology and Glycotechnology (ACGG)"(Chair: Sopit Wongkham, Thailand, October 2013)"Asia-Canada Glycoscience Satellite Meeting"(Chair: Todd L. Lowary and B. Mario Pinto, Canada, May - June 2014) NEW"Microbial Glycobiology"(Chair: Warren Wakarchuk, USA, June 2014) NEW"Joint Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology and Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research - Satellite
Symposia"(Chair: Naoyuki Taniguchi / Yukishige Ito, USA, November 2014) NEW"2nd ISSOL - the International Astrobiology Society and Bioastronomy (IAU C51) Joint International
Conference"(Chair: Kenji Ikehara, Japan, July 2014) NEW