POLYSAC 2021 - 2nd International Conference POLYSAC

11-13 Dec 2021 Sfax (Tunisia)

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Welcome

It is with honor and great pleasure that we welcome you to Sfax (Tunisia) for the 2nd edition of the POLYSAC International Conference from December 11 to 13, 2021.

This conference is the initiative of three laboratories from Maghreb and a French laboratory and is part of Hubert Curien Projects co-funded by the Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan and France embassies and ministries. The ambition of POLYSAC is to bring together academic researchers but also industrialists from the Maghreb, more generally from Africa and France, who are interested in polysaccharides (from macro and/or microalgae but also higher plants), their extraction, analysis, uses and valorizations. The main goal is to promote and perpetuate an active scientific network of specialists in this very promising field. We are pleased to offer you the following scientific program, structured into Thematic Sessions in order to cover different fields of study of polysaccharides.

We hope that you will take advantage of this event and this opportunity to come and share your ideas and experience. Wishing you an excellent conference and a very good stay in Sfax!

On behalf of the members of the organizing committee

Goals

Polysaccharides are highly variable and complex biomolecules whose inventory of structures is still very incomplete since Nature still preserves unexplored biotopes. Plants, macro- and microalgae are an integral part of the daily life of human being regardless of culture, time, or knowledge development of a country. Widely distributed throughout the world, natural medicine is an ancestral knowledge handed down for centuries from generation to generation by those commonly referred to as “nganga” healers, shamans, or traditional healers. Also called alternative medicine, traditional medicine or complementary medicine, it remains associated for millennia to myths, legends, rituals and beliefs. 2nd International Conference POLYSAC gives an emphasis regarding ethnobotanic approach associated to the structural variability of poly- and oligosaccharides, with the purpose to design the new polysaccharide-based drugs and hydrocolloids of tomorrow. Overall, the philosophy is to explore the potential of plants, macro- and microalgae from Africa as a source of polysaccharides with original structures and, secondly, to correlate these structures with biological activities and technofunctional properties, in particular to address Biotechnology and Bioprocess fields. Making your own oligo- and/or polymers (e.g. glycosaminoglycan mimetics) by enzymatic and/or chemical approaches is included in the topics.

POLYSAC 2021 International Conference, which will be held in Sfax, Tunisia, within the framework of the PHC MAGHREB Hubert Curien Project (PHC) EXPLORE 2019-2021 (41423UC), funded by the Algerian, Tunisian, Moroccan and French embassies and ministries, as well as Campus France.