Aug 24-28, 2015  |  12:00am - 12:00am

Drug Discovery Design Methods & Applications Workshop with Anti-malarials Case Study

Co-organised by the UofT Centre for Collaborative Drug Research, Scientists Against Malaria and eCheminfo.

Virtual screening, structure-based drug design, cheminformatics and molecular modelling supporting
drug discovery and design. Focused case studies in Anti Malarial Drug Design.

→ Structure-based drug design, cheminformatics, bioinformatics and molecular modelling supporting drug design and discovery
→ a Hands-on 5 Day eCheminfo Workshop Week
→ Case Study Focus on Malarial Kinases, Toronto, Canada

Bursary Deadline is June 3, 2015.

Workshop presentations include:

Jürgen Bosch (Johns Hopkins), Targeting the invasion machinery of Plasmodium
Alessandro Contini (University of Milan), MM-PBSA/GBSA Free Energy of Binding Calculations on Protein Kinase Ligands
Ian Crandall (University of Toronto), Pathogenesis of Malaria
Tim Dudgeon (Informatics Matters), A new breed of web based collaborative cheminformatics
Thomas Exner (University of Tübingen / Douglas Connect/eCheminfo), Structure Preparation and Docking Experiments with SPORES/PLANTS
Barry Hardy (Douglas Connect/eCheminfo), ADME & Toxicology Profiling
Paul Hawkins (OpenEye Scientific Software), Virtual Screening with Shape: How well will we do?
Raymond Hui (Structural Genomics Consortium), Structural Biology of Malarial Kinases
Krishnan Mahadevan (University of Toronto), Modelling Metabolic Networks
Nicolas Moitessier (McGill University), Graphical interface to integrate drug design and discovery computer programs

and members of the UofT Collaborative Centre for Drug Research

Detailed Workshop information at http://www.echeminfo.com/events/drug-discovery-canada-2015 including how to register.

Special registration fee for Canadian Academic Participants:
You can mail a cheque or money order for $675 to:

University of Toronto
Department of Biochemistry
1 King's College Circle
Toronto ON M5S 1A8
Attn: Rob Reedijk

The cheque must be made out to "University of Toronto". In the memo you can put "Drug Discovery Workshop".