From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Mon Feb 20 13:00:00 2012 From: "Shirley Peng speng+/-chemcomp.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: CCG UGM & Conference - June 26-29, 2012 - Speakers/Titles/Workshops Message-Id: <-46346-120220111344-869-U56pJdQr49jtuKLkAxerzQ : server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: "Shirley Peng" Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:13:43 -0500 Sent to CCL by: "Shirley Peng" [speng,,chemcomp.com] CCG UGM & Conference will be taking place this summer in Montreal - June 26-29, 2012. An exceptional group of speakers will be participating. We hope you can make it to the meeting! There will be workshops on June 26-27. A poster session and the official Opening Cocktail for the conference will take place on June 27 (evening). Talks will be scheduled on June 28-29 with a gala dinner/cocktail on June 28. The meeting will close on Friday June 29 at 4:00 pm with a wine & cheese reception. Early registration ends March 30, 2012. Register online at http://www.chemcomp.com/ugm-2012.htm >>> PRELIMINARY DETAILS June 26-29, 2012 | Montreal, Canada | Le Saint-Sulpice Hotel ======================================================= WORKSHOPS Tuesday & Wednesday - June 26-27 ======================================================= - Pharmacophore in Drug Discovery Overview | Query generation | Searching | Use in docking and SBDD - Binding Pocket Analysis Solvent analysis | Hot spot identification | Non-standard interactions - Protein Modeling Structure preparation | Loop grafting | Conformational searching - Structure-Based Drug Design Ligand optimization in the pocket - Scientific Vector Language Overview & Programming concepts - One-on-One Sessions Q&A discussions with application scientists ====================================================================== SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS Thursday & Friday - June 28-29 ====================================================================== - Ali Zarrin, Immunology Discovery Group, Genentech An Evolutionary Conserved PILRa Domain Mediates Its Interaction with Diverse Sialylated Ligands ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Diane Joseph-McCarthy, Associate Director, AstraZeneca Computational Target Evaluation and Lead Generation Strategies ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Igor Mochalkin, Senior Principal Research Investigator, EMD Serono Synergistic Use of Computational Chemistry, Structural Biology and Biophysics to Design Covalent Inhibitors of Kinases ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - James Fraser, QB3 Fellow, Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF Some Like it Hot: Conformational Ensembles from Room Temperature X-ray Crystallography ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Jean-Francois Truchon, Research Scientist, Chemical Computing Group Talk Title to be Announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Jeff Blaney, Director, Computational Chemistry & Cheminformatics, Genentech Talk Title to be Announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Johannes Voigt, Associate Director, Merck A Panel of Biological Activities Meets a Panel of Statistical Methods and 1D2D3D Descriptors - in Silico Profiling of Compounds ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Jose Duca, Head, Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Novartis Talk Title to be Announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Lakshmi Narasimhan, Associate Research Fellow, Cancer Computational Chemistry, Pfizer Conformational Analysis and Design of Cyclic Peptides Using LowModeMD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Marti Head, Director, Comp Chem US, GlaxoSmithKline Talk Title to be Announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Paul Labute, President and CEO, Chemical Computing Group Talk Title to be Announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rama Kondru, Associate Director, Dept. Head of Computational Chemistry and Data Mining, Hoffmann-La Roche Medicinal Chemists as Modelers - Tips, Tricks and Way Forward ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Richard Dixon, Senior Research Scientist, Vertex Leveraging Prior Knowledge for More Efficient Modeling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Ron Elber, Professor of Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Texas Milestoning A New Paradigm for Kinetic and Free Energy Calculations ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Sandeep Kumar, Principal Scientist, Pfizer Understanding Molecular Origins of Aggregation in Biotherapeutics ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Scott Brown, Research Director, Computational Chemistry, Discovery and Early Clinical Research, Sunovion Talk Title to be Announced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Scott Rowland, Associate Scientific Fellow, Computational Chemistry, Millennium Chemical Clustering and Similarity in MOE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Vijay Pande, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University New Cloud Computing Based Methods for Rapid Sampling of Chemical and Conformational Space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Xiang Li, Principal Scientist, Boehringer Ingelheim Storing and Mining Corporate Structural Data with PSILO ====================================================================== MEETING details can be found online at: http://www.chemcomp.com/ugm-2012.htm REGISTER AT: http://www.chemcomp.com/ugm-2012-register.htm ====================================================================== > > COST: $ 300 if registered by March 30, 2012 - $ 400 thereafter. Registration fees give you access to all workshop sessions, presentations, meals and receptions. Registration fees are waived for all attendees presenting an accepted poster. > > POSTERS: Deadline is April 3, 2012. Please go to http://www.chemcomp.com/ugm-2012-register.htm to submit your poster details. > > ACCOMODATIONS: For information on accommodations, please go to: http://www.chemcomp.com/ugm-2012-hotel.htm For more information please contact: Shirley Peng Marketing Assistant Chemical Computing Group 1010 Sherbrooke St. W, Suite 910 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2R7 Tel: 514-393-1055146 | Fax: 514-874-9538 speng%a%chemcomp.com | www.chemcomp.com