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Computer-Aided Drug Design (Z7)

Organizer(s): Michael K. Gilson, Catherine E. Peishoff and Jeff Blaney
April 20 - 25, 2010
Fairmont Chateau Whistler  ·  Whistler, British Columbia
Abstract Deadline: December 21, 2009
Late Abstract Deadline: January 20, 2010
Scholarship Deadline: December 21, 2009
Early Registration Deadline: February 23, 2010


Sponsored by Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, L.L.C.

Joint meeting: New Directions in Small Molecule Drug Discovery (Z8)
NOTE: Registration for meeting allows attendance at joint meeting (pending space availability).



This meeting took place in the 2010 season.

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Summary of Meeting
The purpose of this meeting is to stimulate progress in the methods of computer-aided drug design. This will be accomplished by bringing theory and practice into contact at a number of levels in order to highlight interesting and important practical problems waiting to be solved, and by deepening participants’ understanding of the science underlying these challenges.

Tuesday, April 20
3:00 - 7:30 PM Registration Macdonald Foyer
6:30 - 7:30 PM Refreshments Macdonald Foyer
7:30 - 8:30 PM Keynote Address (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
* Jeff Blaney, Genentech, Inc.
Stephen W. Fesik, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Targeting Protein-Protein Interactions Using Fragment-Based Methods and Structure-Based Design
8:30 - 8:45 PM Orientation for New Attendees and New Investigators
Keystone Symposia's Chief Scientific Officer, Dr. Andy Robertson, to lead discussion in a "What to Expect during your Attendance" for interested delegates.
Macdonald ABCD
Wednesday, April 21
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac
8:00 - 11:00 AM New Opportunities in Small Molecule Drug Discovery (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
* Anna K. Mapp, University of Michigan
Catching Transcriptional Activators in the Act
James A. Wells, University of California, San Francisco
Turning Enzymes on with Small Molecules
Saul H. Rosenberg, Abbott Laboratories
Antagonists of BCL-2 Family Proteins
Raymond C. Stevens, The Scripps Research Institute
Structure and Function of the G-Protein Coupled Receptor Family
Atwood Cheung, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Short Talk: A Chemical Proteomics Approach to Identify Tankyrase as a Novel, Druggable Cancer Target in the WNT Signaling Pathway
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
11:00 AM - On Own for Lunch and Recreation
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Poster Setup Frontenac
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Frontenac
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM SBDD-Medchem Interface (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
* Jeff Blaney, Genentech, Inc.
Unexpected Structure-Based Design Failures and Successes from Fragment Hits
Arun K. Ghosh, Purdue University
Structure-Based Design of Aspartic Acid Protease Inhibitors
Andrew W. Stamford, Schering-Plough Research Institute
Structure-Based Design of BACE Inhibitors
Fabian Buller, ETH Zurich
Short Talk: Small-Molecule Ligand Discovery by High-Throughput Sequencing
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Frontenac
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1 Frontenac
Thursday, April 22
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac
8:00 - 11:15 AM Emerging Computational Methods for SBDD Macdonald AB
Jens Meiler, Vanderbilt University
Merging Ligand- and Structure-Guided Therapeutic Development
Leslie A. Kuhn, Michigan State University
Identifying the Right Ligand by Binding Site Comparison
Woody Sherman, Schrödinger
Relative Binding Free Energy Calculations via FEP: Progress and Challenges
Stanley Watowich, University of Texas Medical Branch
Short Talk: Large-Scale Perturbation-based Free Energy of Binding Calculations to Identify Dengue Inhibitors and their Key Thermodynamic Components
* Kenneth A. Dill, University of California, San Francisco
The SEA Water Approach to Modeling Solvation
Hetunandan Kamichetty, Carnegie Mellon University
Short Talk: Incorporating Configurational Entropy into Binding Free Energy Calculations via Statistical Inference
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
11:15 AM - On Own for Lunch and Recreation
11:15 AM - 1:00 PM Poster Setup Frontenac
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing Frontenac
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Confronting Reality Macdonald AB
* Marti S. Head, GlaxoSmithKline
What Works Now and What Do We Need?
Anthony Nicholls, OpenEye Scientific Software
Validation through Blind Protein-Ligand Predictions
Heather A. Carlson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
CSAR - An NIH-Funded Community Resource for Protein-Ligand Modeling and Validation
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Frontenac
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 2 Frontenac
Friday, April 23
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac
8:00 - 9:00 AM Special Lecture (Joint)
Simon F. Campbell,
The Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry, A Personal Perspective
9:00 - 9:30 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Physics of Binding - Theory and Computation Macdonald AB
David J. Huggins, University of Cambridge
Short Talk: Energetic Analysis of Water Molecules In The Polo-box Domain of Polo-like Kinase 1
Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Electrostatic Complementarity, Affinity, and Specificity
Benoit Roux, University of Chicago
Computations of Standard Binding Free Energies
Devarajan Thirumalai, University of Maryland
Allostery Wiring Diagram in Enzymes and Molecular Motors
Vasu Chandrasekaran, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Short Talk: Cryptic Adaptive Pockets: What Can We Learn from Protein Sequence and Structure Regarding New Pocket Formation?
* Michael K. Gilson, University of California, San Diego
Configurational Entropy and Molecular Stress
12:00 PM - On Own for Lunch and Recreation
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Physics of Binding - Experiment Macdonald AB
* Stephen F. Martin, University of Texas
Correlating Structure and Energetics in Protein-Ligand Interactions: Paradigms and Paradoxes
Charalampos Kalodimos, Rutgers University
Dynamic Activation of Protein Function
Demetri T. Moustakas, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP
The Role of Surface Water and the Hydrophobic Effect in Protein-Ligand Binding
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Frontenac
Saturday, April 24
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast Frontenac
8:00 - 11:00 AM Candidate Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
* Catherine E. Peishoff, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals
* Paul D. Leeson, AstraZeneca R&D Charnwood
Overview: What Have We Learned about Attrition?
Neil Weir, UCB Pharma S.A.
Can Validated Targets for Biologicals Inform Small Molecule Discovery; Learning from both Approaches
Martin Stahl, F. Hofmann-La Roche Ltd
Small Molecule Conformational Preferences in Ligand Design
William C. Pomerantz, University of Michigan
Short Talk: Probing the Function and Mechanism of Small Molecule Artificial Transcriptional Regulators
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break Macdonald Foyer
11:00 AM - On Own for Lunch and Recreation
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available Macdonald Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 PM Small Molecules: Modeling and Properties (Joint) Macdonald ABCD
* William J. Greenlee, Schering-Plough Research Institute
Ruth M. Lightfoot-Dunn, Amgen Inc.
Causes and Remedies for Candidate Attrition
Marc K. Hellerstein, University of California, Berkeley
Systems Biology: The Full Consequences of Hitting my Target
* Gregory L. Verdine, Harvard University
Drugging Oncogenic Transcription Factors
7:30 - 8:30 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites Frontenac
8:00 - 11:00 PM Entertainment Frontenac
Sunday, April 25
Departure
*Session Chair   †Speaker invited, not yet responded.



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