Carbohydrate Symposia

Dedicated to Roy L. Whistler who has done more than any other person to promote and organize the International Carbohydrate Symposia. 

The ICO issued guidelines, originally compiled by James N. BeMiller in 1989, for the organization of international carbohydrate symposia and these have been of considerable assistance to future organizers. The locations for future symposia are approved tentatively for six years, and definitively for four years, in advance. There has been difficulty only once, with the meeting scheduled for 2006. This date... 

The ICO has been an Associated Organization of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry since 1970 and an Interest Group of the International Union of Biochemistry since 1982. The plenary lectures of the Carbohydrate Symposia between 1972 and 1998 were printed in Pure and Applied Chemistry. 

There is significant current demand for the carbohydrate symposia as shown by the fact that 1000 people would attend, many of them at great expense. In the first half of the 20th century there were very few scientific symposia. With the great increase in quantity and complexity of research in the second half of the 20th century, researchers seek direct communication with leaders in the field and... 

The list of participants at the New Orleans Carbohydrate Symposia reads... 

S. J. Angyal, International Carbohydrate Symposia—A history, Adv. Carbohydr. Chem. Biochem., 61 (2008) 29-58. 

President, American Institute of Chemists. Past President, International Carbohydrate Organization. President, US. Advisory Committee for International Carbohydrate Symposia, Inc. General Chaiman, XIII International Carbohydrate Symposium. 

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