The “Sweet Crosstalk” team consists of 7 academic groups that are all renowned leaders in the glycoscience and microbiome fields. The complementary 4 companies are specialized in glycan-based diagnostics and prophylactic therapies. Below you will find brief profiles for each of the main ESR supervisors of our team.
Prof. Hermen Overkleeft
the Netherlands
Leiden University
- Chemical Biology
- Bio-organic Chemistry
- Carbohydrate Chemistry
Supervisor of Project: ESR4
Prof. Carme Rovira
Spain
University of Barcelona
- Computational Chemistry
- Computation Biology
- Enzyme mechanism studies
Supervisor of Project: ESR9
Prof. Patrice Cani
Belgium
University of Louvain (UCL)
- Gut Microbiota & Human Physiology
- Nutrition
- Metabolic Diseases
Supervisor of Project: ESR11
Dr. Joeri Beauprez
Belgium
Inbiose & Ghent University
- Complex Carbohydrates
- Enzymology - CAZy
- Cell Factories
Supervisor of Project: ESR12
Dr. Louise Vigsnæs
Denmark
Glycom & Technical University Denmark
- Human Milk Oligosaccharides
- Glycobiology
Supervisor of Project: ESR13
Dr. Annick Mercenier
the Netherlands
Nutrileads & Utrecht University
- Dietary Fibres
- Structural Analysis
- Nutrition
- Gut Microbiota
Supervisor of Project: ESR14
Prof. Rob FIeld
United Kingdom
Iceni Diagnostics & University East Anglia
- Carbohydrate Chemistry
- Analytical Chemistry
- Point of care diagnostics
Supervisor of Project: ESR15
