eCheminfo 2009 InterAction Meeting: Latest Advances in Drug Discovery Informatics

Themes: Cheminformatics, Bioinformatics, Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Discovery Innovation, Structure-based Drug Design, Screening, Docking, Structural Biology, Predictive Toxicology, Predictive ADME, Chemogenomics, PDB Ligands

Format: Seminars, Roundtables, Presentations, Panel Q&As, Discussions, Break-out Workshops, Web-supported. Evening Poster sessions, networking, social activities.

This meeting will take place concurrently with the InnovationWell 2009 meeting.

Call for Papers:

Abstracts (300-500 words) should be submitted by March 31, 2009, and be accompanied by a short biography and photo 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 April 15, 2009.  Abstracts for posters will continue to be accepted for review through August 31, 2009.  Please visit http://www.douglasconnect.com/ for submission guidance.

A pre conference best practices workshop will take place October 12, 2009.

Bursary Awards

Bursary Awards will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic young investigators at the meeting and workshops. Applicants can be working in any area of research related to drug discovery at the postdoctoral, graduate student and senior undergraduate levels.  Application deadline 31 March 2009.

http://echeminfo.com/comty_bursarybm09

The following sessions are currently planned:

Pre-conference Workshop on Drug Binding Affinities
chaired by Scott Brown (Abbott Laboratories) and Judith Lalonde (Bryn Mawr College)

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)

Predictive Toxicology
chaired by Vladimir Poirikov (Russian Academy of Medical Sciences) and Richard Judson (US EPA)

Contact:
Program: Dr. Barry Hardy, eCheminfo Community of Practice, Douglas
Connect. Tel: +41 61 851 0170. barry.hardy -[at]- douglasconnect.com

Registration Enquiries: Nicki Douglas, Douglas Connect, Baermeggenweg
14, 4314 Zeiningen, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 851 0461. echeminfo -[at]-
douglasconnect.com

More information at:

eCheminfo Program

http://echeminfo.com/comty_conferences

InnovationWell Program

http://innovationwell.net/comty_conferences