UCSF/MDI Symposium

University of California San Francisco
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Molecular Design Institute
Symposium

"Drug Design and Discovery"

October 13-14, 2000

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Speakers and Program:

Johan Aqvist, Uppsala University
Paul Anderson, Dupont Pharmaceuticals
Ken Dill, University of California San Francisco
David Diller, Pharmacopeia
Robert Fletterick, University of California San Francisco 
Simon Kearsley, Merck Research Laboratories
Peter Kollman, University of California San Francisco
Irwin Kuntz, University of California San Francisco
Robert McDowell, Sunesis
Jon Mason, Bristol Myers Squibb 
David Pearlman, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Tom Scanlan, University of California San Francisco
Bruce Tidor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dennis Underwood, DuPont Pharmaceuticals 
Gennady Verkhivker, Agouron Pharmaceuticals

October 13, 2000

7:30 - 8:50 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome:  Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, Dean School of Pharmacy,  and Peter Kollman 
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote Address : Paul Anderson"Drug Discovery in the Pharmaceutical Industry"
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30-11:15 Irwin Kuntz "Design of Combinatorial Libraries"
11:15-12:00 David Pearlman"New Methods for Predicting Molecular Binding and Database Screening"
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:45 Jonathan Mason "Virtual Screening Applications in the Drug Discovery Process"
1:45 - 2:30 David Diller "Pharmaconomics: The Storage and Mining of Structural and Biological Information Regarding Pharmaceutically Relevant Molecules"
2:30 - 3:15 Johan Aqvist"Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction from MD Simulations"
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:30 Bruce Tidor "Solvation Effects on Protein Folding, Binding and Design: Exploring the Electrostatic Balance"
4:30-5:15 Dennis Underwood "Ligand Promiscuity in GPCRs"
5:15 - 6:30 Poster Session
7:00 - 8:00 Dinner

October 14, 2000

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:45 Ken Dill "Combining Traveling Salesmen with Protein Folding to Get a Fast Conformational Search Strategy
9:45 - 10:30 Gennady Verkhivker "Hierarchical Simulation Models in Predicting Molecular Recognition Mechanisms from Binding Free Energy Landscapes"
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Simon Kearsley "Beyond Chemical Database Mining"
11:45-12:30 Robert McDowell "Adaptivity and Ligand Binding: IL-2"
12:30-2:00 Lunch and Poster Session
2:00-2:45 Robert Fletterick "Activation of Nuclear Receptors"
2:45-3:30 Thomas Scanlan "Discovery and Design of Selective Thyro-Mimetics"
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:45 Peter Kollman "New Theoretical Methods in Structure Based Design"
4:45 - 5:00 Concluding Remarks

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