Fourth European Workshop in Drug Design

May 25 - June 01, 2003

Programme

 

During the sessions in Sala Bracci will be available a SGI Reality CenterTM including a graphics supercomputer SGI Onyx300 and a Barco stereoscopic projection system. Stereo capable applications on the Onyx will control the stereo projection system: the active stereo signal from the Onyx will be converted into passive stereo and sent to the pair of Barco SIM6 LCD projectors. People in the audience, wearing lightweight polarized eyewear, will perceive the stereo visualization and will be immersed in the virtual models and environments projected on the screen.

 

 

Sunday, May 25

 

16:00-19:00: registration

20:00: dinner

 

Monday 26

 

09:00-09:50: Anna Tramontano (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy): "Handle with care: model inside"

09:50-10:40: James P. Snyder (Emory University, USA): "Alzheimer's disease: structure & dynamics of amyloid fibrils"

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Andrew R. Leach (GSK, UK): "Virtual screening and library design in lead generation"

11:50-12:40: Johanna M. Jansen (Chiron Corporation, USA): "Analyzing high throughput docking results in drug discovery: applications of the expert system 'Magnet' "

13:00: lunch

14:30-18:00: case study

16:30-17:00: coffee break

19:30: dinner

21:00-22:00: Wine tasting in Certosa

 

Tuesday 27

 

09:00-09:50: Garland R. Marshall (Washington University, USA): "Scoring functions: the key to success (assuming you have the lock)"

09:50-10:40: Peter Goodford (UK):"Factors which influence ligand binding"

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Thierry Langer (University of Innsbruck, Austria): "High-throughput structure-based pharmacophore model generation for reverse in silico screening"

11:50-12:40: John J. Irwin (Northwestern University, USA): "Current research frontiers of molecular docking"

13:00: lunch

14:30-18:00: case study

16:30-17:00: coffee break

19:30: dinner

 

Wednesday 28

 

09:00-09:50: Hans-Dieter Hoeltje (University of Duesseldorf, Germany): "Modelling of G-Protein coupled receptors"

09:50-10:40: Gabriele Cruciani (University of Perugia, Italy): "In silico approaches for prediction of eADME and P450 mediated drug metabolism using Molecular Interaction Fields"

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Eric Martin (Chiron Corporation, USA): "Understanding contradictory claims about library design: an opinionated review"

11:50-12:40: Robert D. Clark (Tripos, USA): "OptDesign: a tool for balancing conflicting priorities in combinatorial library design"

13:00: lunch and free afternoon

20:00: Dinner in Siena (Piazza del Campo)

 

Thursday 29

 

09:00-09:50: Gerd Folkers (ETH Zurich, Switzerland): "Correlation of biophysical experiments and molecular design"

09:50-10:40: Wolfgang Guba (F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland): "From hit to lead: computational chemistry as an integral component of lead generation"

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Chris M.W. Ho (Drug Design Methodologies, USA): "RACHEL: a new tool for structure-based lead optimization"

11:50-12:40: Regine S. Bohacek (Boston De Novo Design, USA): "De Novo Design of Potent Ligands"

13:00: lunch

14:30-18:00: case study

16:30-17:00: coffee break

19:30: dinner

21:00-22:00: To be defined

 

Friday 30

 

09:00-09:50: Hugo Kubinyi (Germany): "Virtual screening. Problems and success stories"

09:50-10:40: Adriano Martinelli (University of Pisa, Italy): "Molecular modeling of metalloproteins"

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Hugues-Olivier Bertrand (Accelrys, USA): "Molecular determinants involved in odorant receptor 5.24 (OR 5.24) agonist activity"

11:50-12:40: Martin Hilgeman(SGI, USA): "Visualisation and computational strategy to improve Drug Design"

13:00: lunch

14:30-18:00: case study

16:30-17:00: coffee break

20:00: Social dinner

 

Saturday 31

 

09:00-09:50: Gennady Verkhivker (Pfizer, USA): "Computational engineering of protein-protein interfaces for structure-based drug design: from detecting binding sites and identifying hot spots on protein surfaces to designing novel inhibitor scaffolds and specificities"

09:50-10:40: Susan McGovern (Northwestern University, USA): "Identification and prediction of promiscuous hits, leads and drugs"

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Pavel Pospisil(ETH Zurich, Switzerland): "Advanced virtual docking: the issue of tautomers"

13:00: lunch

14:30-18:00: case study, attendees reports and discussions

16:30-17:00: coffee break

19:30: dinner

 

Sunday, June 1

 

9:00-11:30: attendees reports and discussions

13:00: lunch

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