1. Basics in carbohydrate chemistry / Heinrich H¿hnerfuss -- 2. Glycoconjugates : a brief overview / Peter Grunwald -- 3. Oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates in recognition processes / Thisbe K. Lindhorst -- 4. Glycoside hydrolases / Motomitsu Kitaoka -- 5. Disaccharide phosphorylases : mechanistic diversity and application in the glycosciences / Christiane Luley-Goedl and Bernd Nidetzky -- 6. Enzymatic and chemoenzymatic synthesis of nucleotide sugars : novel enzymes, novel substrates, novel products, and novel routes / Leonie Engels and Lothar Elling -- 7. Iteratively acting glycosyltransferases / Marta Luzhetska and Andreas Bechthold -- 8. Bacterial glycosyltransferases involved in molecular mimicry of mammalian glycans / Warren Wakarchuk -- 9. Sulfotransferases and sulfatases : sulfate modification of carbohydrates / Eli Chapman and Sarah R. Hanson -- 10. Glycosylation in health and disease / Peter Grunwald -- 11. Sialic acid derivatives, analogues, and mimetics as biological probes and inhibitors of sialic acid recognizing proteins / Joe Tiralongo and Thomas Haselhorst -- 12. Enzymes of the carbohydrate metabolism and catabolism for chemoenzymatic syntheses of complex oligosaccharides / Julian Thimm and Joachim Thiem -- 13. From gene to product : tailor-made oligosaccharides and polysaccharides by enzyme and substrate engineering / J¿rgen Seibel -- 14. Synthesis and modification of carbohydrates via metabolic pathway engineering in microorganisms / Xian-wei Liu ... [et al.] -- 15. Metabolic pathway engineering for hyaluronic acid production / Esteban Marcellin, Wendy Y. Chen, and Lars K. Nielsen -- 16. Microbial rhamnolipids / Markus M. M¿ller ... [et al.] -- 17. Chitin-converting enzymes / Karin Moss ... [et al.] -- 18. Linear and cyclic oligosaccharides / Hajime Taniguchi -- 19. Fungal degradation of plant oligo- and polysaccharides / Ronald P. de Vries ... [et al.] -- 20. Bacterial strategies for plant cell degradation and their genomic information / Yutaka Tamaru and Roy H. Doi -- 21. Design of efficient multienzymatic reactions for cellulosic biomass processing / Anne S. Meyer.