Eva Regel, Martin Bonin, and Maximilian Evers participated at the Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting in Toulouse, France

The Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting - 13 CBM 2019 - was held this week in Toulouse, France, and our two doctoral candidates Eva Regel and Martin Bonin as well as our Master candidate Max Evers actively participated with three posters. This meeting is the one that is perhaps closest to our own research interests, and its size - about 200 participants - is ideal for exchange with colleagues. Unfortunately, it is held in a biannual cycle, concomitant with the conferences of the European Chitin Society, often even overlapping in time. This is why we have rarely participated in CBM in the past. But his year, our EUCHIS conference had to be cancelled and has been postponed to next year. From now on, hopefully, we will have EUCHIS and CBM in alternating years. There had been two poster sessions in Toulouse, and the first one, in which Eva and Max presented their results, was very well visited, unlike the second one in which Martin presented, when the weather was better and people tended to enjoy the sun rather than the posters. Still, all three of them had good discussions at their posters, and possible new collaborations have been initiated. We are looking forward to a short presentation of the highlights of the conference, together with Anna’s and Max’ report from ISGC in La Rochelle.