[QSAR] Symposium & Special Memorial Issue of JCAMD in honor of Phil Magee

[List for Members of QSAR and Modeling Society]

Dear  fellow  Society members:
 
The Editors of the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design have
graciously offered to publish a special issue of the Journal in honor of
Phil Magee, who passed away in 2005.  Papers presented at the Memorial
Symposium that John Block, Lowell Hall and I are organizing for the ACS
meeting  in Boston this fall will automatically  be considered for
inclusion, but people who cannot make it to the meeting are welcome to
submit papers as well.   To do so, go to the Journal website at
www.editorialmanager.com/jcam/ <http://www.editorialmanager.com/jcam/>
and follow the instructions you find there.  Be sure to select "Special
Issue: Magee Memorial" as the article type as you make your electronic
submission.  Please send me an e-mail after you have submitted the
manuscript so that I can know to look for it.   
 
The deadline for submitting abstracts for presentation at the ACS
meeting is April 2, which is only a week and a half away - you still
have time, but not much. The full Symposium title is: "QSAR Reborn:
Modern QSAR Techniques and Applications - A Symposium in Memory of  Dr.
Phillip Magee."   
 
Phil <http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/qsar_soc/news/pmageeobit.htm>  was a
long-standing member of the QSAR community and one of the pioneers in
utilizing QSAR, utilizing his knowledge of physical organic chemistry to
model bioactivities of agrochemicals, transdermal properties of
molecules and molecular toxicities.  Whereas it is common to apply this
technique to bioactivities in humans, he showed its application to
agrochemicals.  After retiring from the Ortho Chemical Division of
Standard Oil, Phil used QSAR to study transdermal properties of
molecules.  Until his stroke, Phil was utilizing both his knowledge of
physical organic chemistry and qsar descriptors to model bioactivities.
Thus, it is appropriate that a symposium in his honor be broad in scope
and that it include speakers who develop qsar methodologies and who
apply qsar methodologies to solve difficult problems.  Phil was the
first President of the International QSAR Group and served for a number
of years ion that position. People who knew or worked with Phil are
particularly encouraged to participate.

Appropriate topics include but are not limited to: QSAR descriptor
development (physico-chemical, topological, quantum mechanical,
structural, geometrical and stereochemical), analysis techniques (2D, 3D
and topological QSAR, neural networks, classification methods, etc.) and
real-world applications (drug and agrochemical design; toxicity
prediction; and environmental property modelling).

Abstracts for talks  must be submitted electronically.  To do so, go to:

http://oasys.acs.org/acs/234nm/comp/papers/index.cgi

and select "QSAR Reborn" as your topic of choice.   Again, the deadline
for submission is 2 April 2007.

The symposium is being sponsored by the COMP and AGRO Divisions of the
American Chemical Society and by the QSAR and Modelling Society. Some
money from commercial sponsorships is already in hand and more is
anticipated, so we will probably be able to help with expenses in a few
cases.  If you need such support, please contact myself (bclark #at#
tripos.com) or one of the other organizers (john.block #at#
oregonstate.edu or halllh #at# comcast.net) as soon as possible. 
 
I apologize in advance for overlapping notifications due to postings
made in the hope of ensuring a broad participation.  

Best regards,

Bob Clark   




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