eCheminfo Community of Practice Drug Discovery Meeting Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, 13-16 October 2009
Call For Contributions We invite contributed papers from members of academic, government research and commercial organizations on areas of new research and innovation involving drug discovery research informatics. The work presented should involve innovative new method development or application to drug discovery problems and involving methods from computational chemistry, computational biology, cheminformatics or bioinformatics. Studies including experimental work in medicinal chemistry, structural biology, screening, in vitro assay development, pre-clinical evaluation, lead optimisation and translational medicine are welcome. Abstracts for talks (300-500 words) should be submitted to echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com by 31 March 2009, and be accompanied by a short biography of the presenting author (300-500 words). Abstracts approved by the scientific organizing committee will be selected for scheduling on the conference program. Authors will be notified of acceptance as soon as a review of submitted materials takes place and at the latest by 15 April 2009. Abstracts for posters will continue be accepted for review through 31 August 2009. The following sessions are currently planned: Forum on Collaboration in Drug Discovery & Development (to be published in Future Medicinal Chemistry) chaired by Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect) Workshop on Drug Binding Affinities co-moderated by Scott Brown (Abbott Laboratories), Judith Lalonde (Bryn Mawr College) and Zheng Yang (GlaxoSmithKline) Structure-Based Drug Design: The Roles of Conformation, Water and Hydrogen Bonds chaired by Alan Cheng (Amgen) Macromolecular Interactions and Networks chaired by Emil Alexov (Clemson University) Structure-Based Drug Design: Advanced Scoring Methods chaired by Natasja Brooijmans (Wyeth) Data Analysis and Visualisation Applications in Chemical Biology chaired by Brian Marsden (Structural Genomics Consortium Oxford) PDB Ligands chaired by John Westbrook (Rutgers University) and developing the work group initiative of Marc Nicklaus (National Institutes of Health) http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_confprog08pdbligands Predictive Toxicology co-chaired by Vladimir Poirikov (Russian Academy of Medical Sciences) and Richard Judson (US EPA) Bursary Awards Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic investigators at the meeting and workshops. To apply for the bursary please send an email with a) your abstract and biography (300-500 words each), b) your CV of 1-2 pages, c) a short description of your interests and career motivations related to drug discovery (300-500 words) to echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com by 31 March 2009. The recipients of the bursary awards will be selected based on an evaluation of the quality and innovation of the described research and the potential positive impact of attendance at the meeting on their research and career progress. Information on the program will be updated at: Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/ Web: http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_conferences best regards Barry Hardy eCheminfo Community of Practice Douglas Connect GmbH Switzerland barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com Tel: +41 61 851 0170 _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
