Fifth European Workshop in Drug Design

May 29-June 5, 2005 - Certosa di Pontignano, Siena (Italy)

Programme

 

 

Sunday, May 29

 

16:00-19:00: registration

19:00:   Welcome

19:30:   dinner

 

Monday 30

 

09:00-09:50: Stephen Hanessian (Université de Montréal, Canada): “Man, machine and heuristics in synthesis planning”

09:50-10:40: Hugo Kubinyi (Germany): “Chemogenomics in Drug Discovery”

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Anna Tramontano (University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy): “Protein structure prediction”

11:50-12:40: Franco Lombardo (Pfizer, USA): “A (brief) Discussion of Computational ADME”

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 31

 

09:00-09:50: Peter Goodford (University of Oxford, UK): “How and why Ligands bind”

09:50-10:40: Rebecca Wade (EML Research, Germany): “Estimation of protein-ligand binding affinity and specificity”

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Thierry Langer (University of Innsbruck, Austria): “Pharmacophore-based Affinity Profiling: A Concept for Addressing Selectivity Issues in Drug Design”

11:50-12:40: Andreas Klamt (Cosmologic, Germany): “COSMO-RS: “From quantum chemistry to drug solubility, pKa, physiological partitioning, and drug similarity”

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

 

Wednesday, June 1

 

09:00-09:50  James P. Snyder (Emory University, USA): “Virtual Fusion Inhibitors”

09:50-10:40: Robert D. Clark (Tripos, USA): “Non-parametric Methods for Identifying the Robust QSAR Models”

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Eric Martin (Chiron Corporation, USA): “Ab Initio Conformational Analysis Of Melanocortin Agonists”

11:50-12:40: Wolfgang Sippl (University of Halle, Germany): “Simulation and Analysis of Protein Structure and Function the Constitutive Androstane Receptor”

13:00:   lunch

14:00-20:00: free afternoon

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

 

Thursday 2 

 

09:00-09:50: David Livingstone (Chemquest, UK): “Molecular beauty is but skin deep”

09:50-10:40: Hanneke Jansen (Chiron Corp., USA): “Target bias in virtual screening: you get what you ask for”

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Paolo Carloni (International School of Advanced Studies, Italy): “Ligand binding to biomolecules explored by molecular simulation”

11:50-12:40: Vladimir A. Palyulin (Moscow State University, Russia): “Design and Generation of active structures. Molecular field Topology Analysis (MFTA)”

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 3

 

09:00-09:50: Gabriele Cruciani (University of Perugia, Italy): “Molecular Interaction Fields. Applications in Drug Discovery and ADME Prediction”

09:50-10:40: Wolfram Altenhofen (Chemical Computing Group, Germany): “Structure- and Ligand-Based Design using MOE. A Case Study”

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Hugues-Olivier Bertrand (Accelrys, USA): “Virtual Screening Workflow Development Guided by the ‘Receiver Operating Characteristic’ Curve Approach. Application to High-Throughput Docking on Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Subtype 4”

11:50-12:40: Hanoch Senderowitz (Predix Pharmaceuticals, Israel): “QSPR Models in Lead Discovery and Lead Optimization”

13:00:   lunch

14:30-18:00: case study

16:30-17:00: coffee break

20:00:   Social dinner

 

Saturday 4

 

9:00-9:50: Martin Noble (University of Oxford, UK): “GRID-hydrophobicity at molecular surfaces: a useful tool in the analysis and prediction of molecular–recognition events”

9:50-10:40: Rino Ragno (University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Italy): “HDACI: Design of New Inhibitors Through Molecular Modeling and Classical Medicinal Chemistry Approaches”

10:40-11:00: coffee break

11:00-11:50: Eric Werner (Cellnomica Inc.): “A research paradigm for systems and natural biology: integrating in vivo and in silico modeling methodologies for minimal multicellular systems in drug discovery”

11:50-12:15: Stefano Alcaro (Università di Catanzaro): Computational approaches in the drug design of DNA cross-linking agents”

13:00:   lunch

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

16:30-17:00: coffee break

19:30:   dinner

 

Sunday, 5

 

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

13:00:   lunch

 

Lectures

With the purpose to stimulate helpful discussions, attendees are invited to present in poster format their own research results. Posters will be set up on Monday and will remain exposed until Sunday

 

 

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