Submit Your Poster | Accepted posters will receive a 25% discount on registration fees
Deadline May 12th, 2017 |
Chemical Computing Group is pleased to announce that the North American UGM & Conference 2017
will take place in Montreal, Canada
at Le Saint-Sulpice Hotel, right in the heart of Montreal’s beautiful Old Port district.
Our annual scientific meeting is a 4-day event consisting of 2 days of workshops (June 20-21)
and 2 days of scientific presentations (June 22-23),
as well as plenty of opportunities to socialize during our receptions and conference dinner.
Please note that space is limited so early registration is recommended.
TUESDAY, June 20 - Workshops | DAY 1 |
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08:00 | Registration Open | 09:00-12:00 |
SVL Concepts / Scripts for Moe/Batch / Test New Ideas/Hypotheses / Customize MOE / Programming Techniques / Window Toolkit / Descriptors and Fingerprints / Interactive Problem Solving | 09:00-12:00 |
Structure Preparation / Side-Chain Rotamer Exploration / Electron Density Maps / Solvent Analysis with 3D-RISM | 09:00-12:00 |
Molecular Surfaces and Maps / Ligand Interactions / Conformational Searching / Ligand Optimization / Ligand Selectivity / Protein Alignments and Superposition | 13:30-17:00 |
Scaffold Replacement / Medicinal Chemistry Transformations / Fragment Linking / R-Group Screening / Ligand Growing / Pharmacophores / Fragment Databases | 13:30-17:00 |
Course details to be Announced | 13:30-17:00 | Q&A - Open Discussions |
WEDNESDAY, June 21 - Workshops | DAY 2 |
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09:00-12:00 |
Pharmacophore Modeling / Pharmacophore Elucidation and Consensus / Flexible Alignments / Pharmacophore Searching / Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints (PLIF) | 09:00-12:00 |
Protein Engineering / Protein Properties / Developability / Hot Spot Analysis / Antibody Modeling / Humanization / Molecular Surfaces | 09:00-12:00 |
Pharmacophore Modeling / Docking / Fragment-based Design / Scaffold Replacement / R-Group Screening / Project Search / Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints | 13:30-17:00 |
Homology modeling / Loop Modeling / Loop Conformational Searching / Sequence Alignments / Structure Superposition / Multimer alignments and superpositions | 13:30-17:00 |
Protein Alignments and Superposition / Loop and Linker Modeling / Homology Modeling / Protein- Protein Docking / Protein Solubility Analysis / 2D Hot Spot Mapping / PLIF / Biologics QSAR Modeling | 13:30-17:00 |
R-Group Profiles and Analysis / MOEsaic / MMP Analysis / Descriptor Calculations / Conformational Searching / Molecular Alignments / Pharmacophore Modeling and Searching / Diversity Analysis | 18:30-20:30 | Poster session & opening reception |
THURSDAY, June 22 - Scientific Presentations | DAY 3 |
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08:00-08:30 | Morning Coffee | 08:30-08:35 | 08:35-09:05 | Jose Duca, Global Head of Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, Novartis | 09:05-09:35 | Hongmao Sun, Scientist, National Institutes of Health | 09:35-10:05 | Jibo Wang, Senior Research Advisor, Eli Lilly | 10:05-10:35 | Morning Break | 10:35-11:05 | John Sanders, Principal Scientist, Merck & Co., Inc. | 11:05-11:35 | Govindan Subramanian, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Zoetis | 11:35-12:05 | Al Ajamian, Director of Business Development, Chemical Computing Group | 12:05-14:00 | Lunch Break | 14:00-14:30 | James Nettles, Adjunct Faculty-Dept. of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine | 14:30-15:00 | Jeff Warrington, Senior Scientist, Cytokinetics | 15:00-15:30 | Ben Sellers, Scientist, Genentech | 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Break | 16:00-16:30 | Edward J. Hennessy, Associate Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca | 16:30-17:00 | Jennifer Kozak, Research Scientist, Theravance | 17:00-17:30 | Igor Mochalkin, Associate Director, Medicinal Chemistry and Lead Optimization, EMD Serono | 18:30-19:00 | Cocktail | 19:00 | Conference Dinner |
FRIDAY, June 23 - Scientific Presentations | DAY 4 |
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08:00-08:30 | Morning Coffee | 08:30-09:00 | Kristin Brown, Director, Molecular Design US, GlaxoSmithKline | 09:00-09:30 | Xinjun Hou, Head of Neuroscience Computational Chemistry, Pfizer | 09:30-10:00 | Sandra Rios, Principal Scientist, Merck | 10:00-10:30 | Morning Break | 10:30-11:00 | Kristin Andrews, Senior Scientist, Amgen | 11:00-11:30 | Kenneth McGuinness, Postdoctoral Fellow, Merck | 11:30-12:00 | Lei Jia, Scientist, Amgen | 12:00-12:30 | John Gunn, Senior Research Scientist, Chemical Computing Group | 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break | 14:00-14:30 | Essam Metwally, Senior Scientist, Chemical Computing Group | 14:30-15:00 | Arvind Sivasubramanian, Senior Scientist I Computational Biology, Adimab | 15:00-15:30 | Rafael Depetris, Principal Scientist, Kadmon Pharmaceuticals | 15:30-15:45 | 15:45-17:00 | Closing Reception |
There will be a number of hands-on MOE workshops on various application areas on June 20th and 21st.
Workshops will be held at Le Saint-Sulpice Hotel.
We are accepting abstracts for posters. If you are interested in presenting a poster during the meeting, please include your poster title and abstract on your registration form.
Poster presenters will receive a 25% discount on the early/regular registration. Poster viewing will be scheduled on Wednesday evening (June 22), during the Opening Reception.
Deadline for poster submission is May 12th, 2017.
There will be 3 main social functions during the UGM & Conference 2017. An opening cocktail with posters on Wednesday evening (June 21), a conference cocktail and dinner on the evening
of Thursday (June 22) and a closing reception on Friday afternoon (June 23).
Accommodation and travel arrangements are the responsibility of attendees. If you would like to stay at Le Saint-Sulpice Hotel, please make your hotel reservations directly with the hotel.
In order to get the special group rate of $235.00 CND, plus taxes, per night stay in a deluxe suite, please make sure you make your reservation by
email (reservations@lesaintsulpice.com) or phone (1-866-811-1345) or directly online
no later than May 19, 2017. When making your reservation, please mention the name "Chemical Computing Group."
- The rate is per night, per suite, single or double occupancy
- Complimentary high speed internet and Wi-Fi access in all suites and meeting rooms
- No charge for children under 12 years who stay with their parents
- $25.00 per additional person will be added to the account (maximum 4)
Conference fees are $300 USD before April 10th, 2017 - $400 USD thereafter.
The fees give attendees full access to all workshop sessions, scientific presentations, meals and social functions. Attendees presenting an accepted
poster will receive a 25% discount on early/regular registration.
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