{"id":2760,"date":"2020-10-20T12:16:24","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/conferences\/ymf-2025-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:31:20","slug":"ymf-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/conferences\/ymf-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"YMF-2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">30th MGMS Young Modellers&#8217; Forum 2026<\/h1>\n<center><strong>Date:<\/strong> Friday, 20th November, 2026<\/center><center><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Lady Margaret Hall<\/center><center>Norham Gardens<\/center><center>University of Oxford<\/center><center>Oxford OX2 6QA<\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/center>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<center><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center>\n<p><!-- @@\n\n\n<h3>The full programme and abstracts are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/YMF2017\/YMF2017_Programme_and_Abstracts.pdf\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available<\/a> to download.<\/h3>\n\n\n<span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span>\n<!-- --><\/p>\n<table class=\" aligncenter\" style=\"width: 99.8807%; height: 147px;\" cellpadding=\"10\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 157px;\">\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; height: 147px; width: 31.9048%;\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1789\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture1.png?resize=272%2C245&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; height: 147px; width: 32.7381%;\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture2.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1790\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture2.png?resize=259%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture2.png?w=325&amp;ssl=1 325w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture2.png?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: middle; height: 147px; width: 34.1667%;\"><center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture3.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1791\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Picture3.png?resize=270%2C179&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>Event<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To encourage young molecular modellers at the beginning of their careers, the MGMS invites PhD students who wish to present their work on any aspect of computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or computational biology at the <em>2026 Young Modellers&#8217; Forum &#8211; <\/em>the 30th annual running of the event! Other members of the modelling community are strongly encouraged to attend this event as it is your opportunity to see these talented young modellers and to assist us in the evaluation of the prizes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event will take place as a 100% &#8220;in person&#8221; meeting, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lmh.ox.ac.uk\/\">Lady Margaret Hall, Norham Gardens, Oxford OX2 6QA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The format will remain much the same as before, consisting of;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 oral presentations (prizes to be awarded for the best three)<\/li>\n<li>12 posters (prizes to be awarded to the best two), to include <em>Lightning talks<\/em> &#8211; Each of the poster presenters will be given 2 minutes (and one static slide to be provided in advance to the organisers) to promote their poster and try to tempt people to visit and read it!<\/li>\n<li>Take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/conferences\/ymf-2019\/ymf-winners\/\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">past prize winners<\/a> of the YMF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Registration and Abstract Submission\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Registration is open <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/FX68GCRrJgjJSWr36\">HERE<\/a>. Places are limited so please register as soon as you can.<\/p>\n<p>Further text should be &#8220;Abstracts are welcome, providing information as to preference for oral or poster presentation or either, from young researchers undertaking their PhD studies in the UK or elsewhere, although you must be able to travel to Oxford to present at the event in person. No support is available in advance for this. Please register first for the event, and then submit your abstract to Louise Birch at youngmodellersforum@gmail.com before October 16<sup data-ogsc=\"\">th<\/sup>\u00a02026.\u00a0Please use the following abstract template &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/YMF2026_abstract_template.docx\">HERE<\/a>, and follow the instructions included.&#8221; The link at &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/YMF2026_abstract_template.docx\">HERE<\/a>&#8221; should be to download the attached Word file.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Programme<\/h3>\n<p><b>The final programme will be available to download in the weeks leading up to the event.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Sponsors and Partners<\/h3>\n<p>Organisations wishing to sponsor the event please contact smaginn(at)chemcomp(dot)com or <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Khaled Abdel-Maksoud at khaled.abdelmaksoud(at)nxera(dot)life<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Contact<\/h3>\n<p>For more information contact:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"mailto:youngmodellersforum@gmail.com\">Dr Louise Birch<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"mailto:smaginn@chemcomp.com\">Dr Steve Maginn<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"mailto:jiayun.pang@surrey.ac.uk\">Dr Jiayun Pang<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"khaled.abdelmaksoud@nxera.life\">Dr Khaled <span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Abdel-Maksoud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30th MGMS Young Modellers&#8217; Forum 2026 Date: Friday, 20th November, 2026Venue: Lady Margaret HallNorham GardensUniversity of OxfordOxford OX2 6QA \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Event To encourage young molecular modellers at the beginning of their careers, the MGMS invites PhD students who wish to present their work on any aspect of computational chemistry, cheminformatics, or computational&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/conferences\/ymf-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">YMF-2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[13,12],"class_list":["post-2760","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-conferences","tag-ymf","pmpro-has-access","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P91jzT-Iw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760\/revisions\/2769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mgms.org\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}