Keynote Speaker - Kwan Hwa Park (University of Incheon, Korea):
Functional characterization of carbohydrate-active enzymes in bacteria: What is known and what is unknown in bacterial sugar utilization system

Birte Svensson (Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark):
Barley limit dextrinase and limit dextrinase inhibitor

Pierre Monsan (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees, Toulouse, France):
Design of regioselective glucosyltransferases from amylosucrase scaffold for the chimio-enzymatic synthesis of antigenic oligosaccharides

Thomas Smith (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, USA):
The atomic structures of several starch utilization system proteins

Matthew S. Gentry (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA):
100 years of research links 'plant starch' to neurodegeneration

Pedro M. Coutinho (AFMB, CNRS, Marseille, France):
Genomics and amylase-related enzyme systems

Haruhide Mori (Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan):
Dextran glucosidase and isomaltooligosaccharide 6-alpha-glucosyltransferase: mechanism of substrate recognition and transglucosylation

Alison Smith (John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K.):
Starch degradation: different plants have different pathways

Nushin Aghajari (Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines, Lyon, France):
Structural studies of Drosophila melanogaster α-amylase.

Banquet Speaker - Takashi Kuriki (Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan):
Discovery of neopullulanase and proposal of my concept of the alpha-amylase family

Carsten Andersen (Novozymes A/S, Bagsvaerd, Denmark):
Starch affinity has high importance for industrial applications

Pauline Teunissen (Genencor - A Danisco Division, Leiden, The Netherlands):
Granular starch hydrolysis enzymes: potential in the fermentation industry

Closing Lecture - Marc J.E.C. van der Maarel (University of Groningen, The Netherlands):
It's all in the family