19th EuroQSAR

Knowledge Enabled Ligand Design

 Vienna, Austria    August 26-30, 2012

Programme


14:00

Registration

Session Chair

Gerhard ECKER
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
17:00

Opening Ceremony

17:30

Inaugural Lecture: Myths and Fallacies about Exploring Chemical Space: SAR is the Medicinal Chemist’s Retrospective Tool in Ligand Design

Christopher A. LIPINSKI
MELIOR DISCOVERY, Waterford, United States
19:00

Walking Dinner at the City Hall

Session 1 - Pharmacophore-based Screening and Design

Session Chair

Thierry LANGER
PRESTWICK CHEMICAL, Vienna, Austria
08:45

Pharmacophore Modeling in Early Drug Discovery

Karl-Heinz BARINGHAUS
SANOFI, Frankfurt, Germany
09:30

OC01 - Improving 3D pharmacophore Perception and Virtual Screening by Increased Geometric Accuracy

Gerhard WOLBER
FREIE UNIVERSITAET BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
09:50

OC02 - Receptor-Ligand Pharmacophores: A Novel Structure-Based Screening Weapon for Ligand Profiling and Discovery of Protein-Protein Interface Inhibitors

10:10

OC03 - Desigining Better Compounds Faster: the Tale of Discovering a Novel Class of CENP-E Inhibitors Using Structure-Guided Pharmacophore Methods in Combination With a New Visualization Tool

Mehran JALAIE
PFIZER, San Diego, United States
10:30

Coffee Break

Session 2 - Molecular Docking - from Static to Dynamic Structures

Session Chair

Gabriele COSTANTINO
UNIVERSITY OF PARMA, Parma, Italy
11:15

How Valid are Popular Assumptions Applied in Computational Drug Design

Gerhard KLEBE
PHILIPPS-UNIVERSITY MARBURG, Marburg, Germany
12:00

OC04 - Discovery of Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of BRD4 Using a Structure-Based Virtual Screening Approach

Lewis VIDLER
INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH, Sutton, United Kingdom
12:20

OC05 - Consistent Handling of Flexible Interaction Sites for Efficient Structure-Based Virtual Screening

Angela HENZLER
CENTER FOR BIOINFORMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG, Hamburg, Germany
12:40

OC06 - Discovery of Ligands for ADP-Ribosyltransferases via Docking-Based Virtual Screening

David ANDERSSON
UMEA UNIVERSITY, Umea, Sweden
13:00

Lunch and Poster Session
13:30: Accelrys Workshop - "Ligand Profiling Using Pharmacophores"

Session 3 - Membrane Proteins - Structure, Dynamics and Integration of Ligand Information

Session Chair

Anna LINUSSON
UMEA UNIVERSITY, Umea, Sweden
15:00

OC07 - MD Simulations and Conformational Sampling of Monomeric and Dimeric GPCRS

Agostino BRUNO
UNIVERSITY OF PARMA, Parma, Italy
15:20

OC08 - Community Structure-Activity Resource (CSAR) Benchmark Exercise 2011: Docking And Relative Ranking of a Blinded Congeneric Series of Compounds

Heather CARLSON
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor - Michigan, United States
15:40

OC09 - Generative Topographic Maps: Universal Tool for Data Visualization, Datasets Comparison and Structure-Activity Modeling

Alexandre VARNEK
UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG, Strasbourg, France
16:00

Coffee Break

16:45

Why the Knowledge Required for Ligand Design of Transmembrane Protein Targets Goes Well Beyond the Binding Site

Harel WEINSTEIN
CORNELL UNIVERSITY, New York, United States

Session 4 - Methods that will Rock you

Session Chair

David LLOYD
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, Dublin, Ireland
08:45

Mining in Corporate Databases: What Can We Learn from our Historical Data

Jan M. KRIEGL
BOEHRINGER-INGELHEIM, Biberach, Germany
09:30

OC10 - Recore ROX U.

Marcus GASTREICH
BIOSOLVEIT, St. Augustin, Germany
09:50

OC11 - Efficient in Silico Scaffold Hopping for Lead Finding Considering Robust Chemical Reactions and Available Reagents

Andreas EVERS
SANOFI-AVENTIS, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
10:10

OC12 - The Fast and the Precious: Reaction Driven de Novo Design in the Chemical Space of Synthetically Accessible Compounds

Markus HARTENFELLER
NOVARTIS PHARMA AG, Basel, Switzerland
10:30

Coffee Break

Session 5 - From Patterns to Molecules - Translational Informatics and Machine Learning Techniques

Session Chair

Gisbert SCHNEIDER
ETH ZÜRICH, Zurich, Switzerland
11:15

QSAR: Past Achievements, Present Problems and Future Directions

David LIVINGSTONE
CHEMQUEST, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
12:00

OC13 - Designing MHC-I Stabilizing Peptides by Multi-Model Cascaded Machine-Learning

Christian KOCH
ETH ZÜRICH, Zürich, Switzerland
12:20

OC14 - Positive False Discovery Rate: A New Deal" for Shape Searching?"

Paul HAWKINS
OPENEYE SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE, Santa Fe, United States
12:40

OC15 - In Defense of Cross-Validation

Martin GÜTLEIN
ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITÄT FREIBURG, Freiburg, Germany
13:00

Lunch and Poster Session
13:30: BioSolveIT Workshop - "Visual Lead Optimisation"

Session 6 - Proteins, Biologicals, Molecular Machines - Challenges and Prospects

Session Chair

Vladimir POROIKOV
INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY, Moscow, Russia
15:00

OC16 - Structure-Based Design of Covalent Inhibitors: Reality or Wishful Thinking

VEER SHANMUGASUNDARAM
PFIZER, Groton, CT, United States
15:20

OC17 - Towards in Silico Structure-Based Admet Prediction: Mechanistic Insights from Probing Small Molecule Binding to Metabolising Enzymes

Maria MITEVA
INSERM, Paris, France
15:40

OC18 - An Integrated Computational Strategy to Probe Ligand Promiscuity in the Human Cytochrome 3A4

Maria KONTOYIANNI
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE, Edwardsville - Illinois, United States
16:00

Coffee Break

16:45

Fluorine Local Environment: From Screening to Drug Design

Anna VULPETTI
NOVARTIS, Basel, Switzerland

Session 7 - Phys Chem Properties and Molecular Representations

Session Chair

Anna TSANTILI-KAKOULIDOU
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS, Athens, Greece
08:45

New trends and Perspectives in QSAR Modelling

Roberto TODESCHINI
UNIVERSITY OF MILANO-BICOCCA, Milano, Italy
09:30

OC19 - Diverse Valid 3D-QSAR Models of Off-target Risks from Template CoMFA

Richard CRAMER
TRIPOS, Santa Fe, United States
09:50

OC20 - The Power of Matched Pairs in Drug Design

Jonas BOSTRÖM
ASTRAZENECA, Mölndal, Sweden
10:10

OC21 - A Chemogenomic Analysis of Ionization Constants

David T MANALLACK
MONASH UNIVERSITY, Parkville, Australia
10:30

Coffee Break

Session 8 - Hansch Session - Grand Challenges for QSAR

Session Chair

Tudor I. OPREA
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, Albuquerque, United States
11:00

QSAR without Borders

Alexander TROPSHA
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, Chapel Hill, United States
11:20

Data Matters. The Discovery of New Knowledge

Wendy WARR
WENDY WARR & ASSOCIATES, Cheshire, United Kingdom
11:40

Activity cliffs, Information Theory, and QSAR

Gerald M. MAGGIORA
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tucson, United States
12:00

The Impact of QSAR on Medicinal Chemistry

Hugo KUBINYI
UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG, Weisenheim am Sand, Germany
12:20

Lunch
12:45: OpenEye Workshop - "Ligand Design and Water Thermodynamics - SZMAP at Work"

14:15

Hansch Awardee - "My Struggle with Binding Data"

Renxiao WANG
SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Shanghai, China
15:15

Excursions

19:30

Buses leave for the Banquet

Session 9 - Open Innovation Stategies in Drug Discovery

Session Chair

Bryn WILLIAMS-JONES
CONNECTED DISCOVERY, London, United Kingdom
08:45

Open Innovation Applied to Agrochemical Discovery

Mark FORSTER
SYNGENTA, Bracknell, United Kingdom
09:30

OC22 - Open Innovation at Openeye: A Decade of Practice

Bob TOLBERT
OPENEYE SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE, Santa Fee, United States
09:50

OC23 - The Lilly Open Innovation Drug Discovery Program

Christos NICOLAOU
ELI LILLY AND CO, Indianapolis, United States
10:10

OC24 - Open Access Web-Services for Predicting Biological Activity

Dmitry FILIMONOV
INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY OF RAMS, Moscow, Russia
10:30

Coffee Break

Session 10 - Poster Presentations

Session Chair

Gerhard ECKER
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA, Vienna, Austria
11:15

4 poster presentations selected by the committee (5 minutes each)

Session 11 - Late Breaking News

Session Chair

Mark FORSTER
SYNGENTA, Bracknell, United Kingdom
11:40

OC25 - Using Public Data for Statistical Scoring Functions

Christian KRAMER
NOVARTIS, Basel, Switzerland
12:00

OC26 - In Silico Prediction of the Target Space Relevant to Malaria

Andreas SPITZMÜLLER
FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT MAR D'INVESTIGACIONS MÈDIQUES, Barcelona, Spain
12:20

OC27 - Utopia Documents

Steve PETTIFER
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Manchester, United Kingdom
12:40

OC28 - Open Drug Discovery Intelligence: Open Phacts and SciBite

Lee HARLAND
CONNECTED DISCOVERY, London, United Kingdom
13:00

Closing Lecture - Is it Just Me or Did the Haystack Grow? Molecular Design in a Time of Data Abundance.

Niklas BLOMBERG
ASTRAZENECA, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
13:30

Farewell Lunch
14:00: Open Phacts Workshop - "Introducing Open PHACTS"