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MGMS Meeting on "Structure-Based Drug Design"

Date: 13th - 15th December 2000
Location: St. Catherine's College, Oxford, UK
Occasion: In honour of Peter Goodford's scientific contribution to the field; the meeting is to mark his recent retirement from the Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics at Oxford University.

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Schedule (preliminary)

Wednesday 13th

18.00 - 20.00

Registration
18.00 onwards
Drinks Reception & Poster Session
 
Thursday 14th
08.30 - 09.15
Late Registration
09.15 - 09.30 Introductory Remarks by organisers
Session 1
09.30 - 10.15 Peter Goodford
(Oxford)
The Role of Water in Structure-based Drug Design
10.15 - 11.00 Hans-Joachim Boehm
(Basel)
Structure-based library design: molecular modelling merges with combinatorial chemistry
11:00 - 11.30
Coffee
Session 2
11.30 - 12.15 Dave Stammers (Oxford) Design of inhibitors of drug resistant forms of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase
12.15 - 13.00 Jenny Martin (Queensland) Macrocyclic HIV-1 protease inhibitors
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
Session 3
14.00 - 14.45 Gerhard Klebe (Marburg) From Crystal Structures to Novel Leads: New Approaches in Structure-based Drug Design
14.45 - 15.30 Yvonne Martin (Illinois) Can we really predict biological activity in ligands?
15.30 - 16.00
Tea
16.00 - 16.15 Richard Jackson (London) Q-FIT: A Hierachical Method for Docking Molecular Fragments by Sampling Low Energy Conformational Space
16.15 - 16.30 Rebecca Wade (Heidelberg) COMBINE and PIPSA: Two approaches for using the 3D structures of proteins to derive QSARs
16:30-17:15 Gabriele Cruciani (Perugia) Molecular Interaction Fields in Structure-ADME Relationships
17:15-19:00 Poster session
19:00-22:00 Banquet + after-dinner talks by Graham Richards (Oxford) and Dick Hyde (Chatham)
(Oxford) (at ca. 21:00)
 
Friday 15th
Session 4
09.00-09.45 Rod Hubbard
(York)
Combined experimental and theoretical approaches to probing protein-ligand interactions
09.45-10.30 Jon Moore
(Boston)
The SHAPES Strategy: Integration of NMR Screening Methods in Drug Discovery
10.30-11.00
Coffee
Session 5
11.00-11.45 Carol Robinson(Oxford) Mass spectrometry approaches to study protein ligand interactions
11.45-12.00 Kim Watson (Oxford) Application and implementation of GRID to a machine learning method: In search of blockers and activators of the potassium ATP sensitive channel in pancreatic beta-cells
12.00-12.15 Federico Gago (Madrid) A Zinc Finger-induced DNA Bend is a Likely Target for Antitumour Ecteinascidin ET473
12:15-13:00 Dave Stuart
(Oxford)
Viral RNA dependent polymerases: from one component engines to capsids as transcription complexes
13:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:15 Poster session
15:15-15:45
Tea
Session 6
15:45-16:30 Andrew Martin (Reading) Bioinformatics and Protein Modelling - Possible Routes to Drug Discovery
16:30-16:45 Nathalie Geneste(Aberystwyth) A New Approach to Pharmacophoric Mapping and QSAR Analysis using Inductive Logic Programming
16:45-17:00 Chris Reynolds (Essex) Sequence studies on the activation of G-protein coupled receptors
17:00-17:45 Philip Dean (Cambridge) Structure-based drug design in the post-genomic future

17:45-18:00

Closing Remarks
     


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