Charles E. Warren

{{short description|American glycobiologist (1962–2005)}}

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| birth_place = Guildford, U.K.

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| death_place = Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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| field = Glycobiology

| work_institution = New Hampshire University

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| doctoral_advisor = Raymond Dwek

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| known_for = Glycobiology

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Charles E. Warren (September 17, 1962 – July 30, 2005){{Cite web|url=https://eu.fosters.com/story/news/2005/08/02/paraglider-crash-kills-unh-professor/52602676007/|title=Paragliding Accident in Canada}} was an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of New Hampshire.

Early life and education

Warren was born on September 17, 1962, in Guildford, UK. He was son of Joan (Staples) Warren and the late Charles Peter Warren. He was educated at Oxford University, where he received his PhD in 1989 under the mentorship of Raymond Dwek, an eminent early leader in glycobiology. His thesis was entitled Glycosylation in Mice and Rats.{{Full citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Research

After graduation he helped establish the first commercially focused effort in glycotechnology: Oxford Glycosystems, Ltd.{{Cite web|url=https://www2.bioch.ox.ac.uk/glycob/|title=Oxford University's first spin-off company}} He subsequently moved to Toronto, Canada, to broaden his interest in glycosyltransferase and spent his postdoctoral time with Dr. Harry Schachter at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, and two years later across the street with Dr. Jim Dennis{{Cite web|url=http://www.lunenfeld.ca/researchers/dennis|title=Dr Jim Dennis}} at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute. Charles Warren moved to the University of New Hampshire in 2002 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

He conducted research on the structure-function relationships of glycosylation. These specific efforts focused on evolution, animal development and human diseases.{{cite journal|last=Dennis|first=Jim W|first2=Maria |last2=Granovsky|first3=Charles E| last3=Warren|year=1999|title=Protein glycosylation in development and disease|journal= BioEssays| volume=21|issue=5|pages=412–421|pmid=10376012|doi=10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199905)21:5<412::AID-BIES8>3.0.CO;2-5}}{{cite journal|last=Dennis|first=Jim W|first2=Maria |last2=Granovsky|first3=Charles E| last3=Warren|year=1999|title=Glycoprotein glycosylation and cancer progression|journal= Biochim Biophys Acta|volume=1473|issue=1|pages=21–34|pmid= 10580127|doi=10.1016/s0304-4165(99)00167-1}} He used C. elegans as his model organism.{{cite journal|first=Charles E|last=Warren|first2=Aldis| last2=Krizus|first3=Jim W| last3=Dennis|year=2001|title=Complementary expression patterns of six nonessential Caenorhabditis elegans core 2/I N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase homologues|journal= Glycobiology|volume=11|issue=11|pages=979–988|pmid=11744632|doi=10.1093/glycob/11.11.979|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|first=Charles E|last=Warren|first2=Aldis| last2=Krizus|first3=Peter J| last3=Roy|first4=Joseph G| last4=Culotti|first5=Jim W|last5=Dennis|year=2002|title=Complementary expression patterns of six nonessential Caenorhabditis elegans core 2/I N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase homologues|journal= J Biol Chem|volume=277|issue=25|pages=22829–38|pmid=11937505|doi=10.1074/jbc.M201390200|doi-access=free}}

Awards

After only three years at the University of New Hampshire, he was nominated for a named professorship, the Class of 1944 Award. This university-wide award recognizes outstanding faculty members.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unh.edu/provost/faculty-professorships-and-chairs|title=Professorship at UNH}}

Death

Charles Warren died on July 30, 2005, in a paragliding accident.

Warren Workshops

Since 2006, Warren Workshops are held every second years in Warren's memory. The initial purpose of the Warren Workshop series on Glycoconjugate Analysis was to bring together concerned analysts in the field to discuss the various methodologies in use with the aim to share and appraise protocols for carbohydrate sequencing. Discussion among the experts in the discipline would hopefully lead to establishing a working framework and course of action to bring unanimity to the goals and requirements of glycoconjugate structural analysis. The growing need, aspirations of automation and high throughput analysis, made open discussion among experts very timely and important.

WW-I, July 6–9, 2006, UNH Glycomics Center, Durham, NH, USA; Organiser: Vern Reinhold {{Cite web|url=https://colsa.unh.edu/person/vernon-reinhold|title=Prof. Vernon Reinhold|date=2017-11-21}}

WW-II, July 9–12, 2008, UNH Glycomics Center, Durham, NH, USA; Organiser: Vern Reinhold

WW-III, August 27–30, 2010, Hindasgarden Conference Center, Hindås, Sweden; Organiser: Niclas G. Karlsson{{Cite web|url=https://biomedicine.gu.se/ominst/avd/medkem/forskare/niclas-karlsson|title=Niclas Karlsson research group}}

WW-IV, August 8–11, 2012, CCRC,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ccrc.uga.edu/|title=Complex Carbohydrate Research Center}} Athens, Georgia USA; Organisers: Mike Tiemeyer {{Cite web|url=https://www.ccrc.uga.edu/~mtiemeyer/|title=Tiemeyer lab}} and Lance Wells

WW-V, August 6–9, 2014, University of Galway, Ireland; Organisers: Rob Woods{{Cite web|url=http://glycam.org/docs/aboutus/|title=About the creators of GLYCAM-Web}} and Pauline Rudd

WW-VI, August 24–26, 2016, Hokkaido University, Japan; Organisers: Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita{{Cite web|url=https://www.soka.ac.jp/en/faculty-profiles/kiyoko-kinoshita/|title=Kiyoko Aoki-Kinoshita}} and Hisashi Narimatsu

WW-VII, August 15–18, 2018, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA; Organisers: Joseph Zaia{{Cite web|url=http://www.bumc.bu.edu/zaia/|title=Zaia research group}} and Catherine Costello{{Cite web|url=http://www.bumc.bu.edu/msr/catherine-e-costello-director/

|title=Catherine E. Costello}}

WW-VIII, originally planned in August 2020, Grenoble University, France; Organisers: Anne Imberty,{{Cite web|url=https://cermav.grenoble.cnrs.fr/en/the-teams/structural-and-molecular-glycobiology/|title=Anne Imberty's group}} Sylvie Ricard-Blum {{Cite web|url=http://icbms.univ-lyon1.fr/aspe/|title=Sylvie Ricard-Blum's group}} and Frederique Lisacek,{{Cite web|url=https://www.sib.swiss/frederique-lisacek-group/|title=Frederique Lisacek's group}} was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemics. It became a joint event with the Glyco-bioinformatics Symposium of the Beilstein Institute for the Advancement of Chemical Sciences, held on-line, June 23–25, 2021.

WW-IX, was held in conjunction with the [http://ags-2022.w.kamevents.currinda.com/ 4th AustralAsian Glycoscience Symposium], 22nd-25 November 2022, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Organisers: Daniel Kolarich,{{cite web|url=https://experts.griffith.edu.au/7126-daniel-kolarich|title= Daniel Kolarich's profile}} and Nicholas Scott.{{cite web|url=https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/756128-nichollas-scott|title= Nicholas Scott's profile}}

WW-X, was held in conjunction with the [https://symposium.canadianglycomics.ca/ 7th Canadian Glycomics Symposium], 28-29 May 2024 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Organisers: Ratmir Derda {{Cite web|url=https://derda.chem.ualberta.ca/|title=Derda research group}} and Warren Wakarchuk {{Cite web|url=https://www.wakarchuklab.com/|title=Wakarchuk Lab for GlycoScience}} of University of Alberta.

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