Keynote Speaker - Samuel C. Zeeman (ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland)
The roles of amylolytic enzymes in starch metabolism in plants

 Lifetime Achievement Award - Richard Haser (Laboratory for Biocrystallography and Structural Biology of Therapeutic Targets, Molecular and Structural Bases of Infectious Diseases, CNRS, Lyon, France)
Into the third dimension of glycosidases for contributing to understand and exploit their functions

 Banquet Speaker - Pierre Monsan (INRA, Ingenierie des Systemes Biologiques et des Procedes, Toulouse, France)
From sucrose to starch, thanks to GH family 13 enzymes

Birte Svensson (Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark)
Analysis of surface binding sites within GH13 and GH77

 Alain Buléon (INRA, Unite Biopolymeres, Interactions, Assemblages, Nantes, France)
A synchrotron view of enzymatic hydrolysis and synthesis of starch buiding blocks

Elizabeth Ficko-Blean (Station Biologique de Roscoff, France)
The structure and function of a novel alpha-amylase produced by the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium perfringens

Harry Brumer (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
A new alpha-transglucosidase from glycoside hydrolase family 31

 David I. Stapleton (University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
The AMP-activated protein kinase uses a unique CBM48 to associate with glycogen particles

 Nicole Koropatkin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Tandem starch-binding CBMs enhance starch sensing and acquisition by human gut symbionts

 B. Mario Pinto (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada)
Modulation of starch digestion for slow glucose release through “toggling” of activities of mucosal alpha-glucosidases

 Adrienne Davenport (Verenium, San Diego, CA, USA)
Use of archaeal amylases in industry and insight into structural features conferring thermal stability