From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Sun Jan 15 20:31:00 2006 From: "Jonathan Essex jwe1,+,soton.ac.uk" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Meeting Announcement - Structure Guided Drug Design, April 2006 Message-Id: <-30505-060115193506-31558-kZSL/ekuTsPnuIaPx8pX7A ~~ server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Jonathan Essex" Sent to CCL by: "Jonathan Essex" [jwe1~~soton.ac.uk] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ DOCKING AND SCORING IN STRUCTURE GUIDED DRUG DESIGN April 5th - 7th 2006 Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society University of Southampton, United Kingdom Registration is now open for this meeting looking at docking, scoring and free energy calculations in Structure Guided Drug Design. The conference brings together experts in the field of docking and scoring, with a particular emphasis on solvation and free energy methods. Case studies are also included so as to highlight the crucial role of these methods in drug discovery today. Plenary speakers: Ruben Abagyan, Scripps Research Institute Chris Chipot, Universite Henri Poincare Andrew Good, Bristol-Myers Squibb Bill Jorgensen, Yale University Andrew Leach, GlaxoSmithKline Hans Matter, Sanofi-Aventis Didier Rognan, Universite Louis Pasteur Marcel Verdonk, Astex Therapeutics Abstracts for contributed oral presentations are invited, and a limited number of student bursaries are available. Please see the conference website for more information (www.soton.ac.uk/~jwe1/main.html) or contact Dr Christine Richardson (c.richardson() vernalis.com) or Dr Jonathan Essex (jwe1() soton.ac.uk). Closing date for registration is 5th March, 2006 -- Dr Jonathan W. Essex Phone: +44 (0)23 8059 2794 School of Chemistry Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3781 University of Southampton Email: j.w.essex() soton.ac.uk Highfield http://www.soton.ac.uk/~chemphys/jessex Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom