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Announcement
Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – Kerala in association with Schrödinger, USA is organising an International Seminar on “Computational Drug Discovery in Pharma R&D” at IIITM-K. The objective of the seminar is to impart knowledge of advanced modeling techniques in drug discovery to chemists and life scientists.

Topics:

§ Role of CADD in Pharma R & D
§ Importance of Ligand and Protein preparation in Computational Studies
§ Docking in Virtual Screening of Ligands
§ Focused Library Design of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators using Combinatorial Docking Method

§ Quantum Mechanics in Structure-Based Drug Design
§ High Resolution Computational Modeling of Protein Structure
§ Novel Methods to Predict Protein Conformational Changes During Ligand Binding

§ Pharmacophore Perception, QSAR Model Development and 3D Database Screening

§ Recent Advances in Ligand - Receptor Binding Energy Prediction

Speakers:

§ Dr. Jorg Weiser VP, Schrodinger, Germany
§ Dr. Shashidhar Rao, Senior Application Scientist, Schrödinger, USA
§ Dr. Jas Gata Aura – Senior Application Scientist, Schrödinger, UK
§ Mr. R. Raghu - Application Scientist, Schrödinger, India

About IIITMK:

IIITMK is a premier institute under Government of Kerala and one of its missions is to use IT to support higher education and research in various scientific and technology domains. Computational Chemistry Portal established by IIITMK helps students and teachers to do high – level computations using web – enabled technologies. Visit www.compchem.in for details.

About Schrodinger:

Schrödinger is widely recognized as a scientific leader in developing state-of-the-art chemical simulation software for use in pharmaceutical and biotechnology research. The company’s products range from general molecular modeling programs to a full-featured suite of drug design software including both ligand and structure based methods. For details please visit www.schrodinger.com.

Registration: Last Date of Registration: 27th July, 2007

You may register online at www.compchem.in/seminar/register.php
Registration fee: Rs. 250 for Teachers and Students; Rs. 1000 for working professionals

Contact Persons:

Convener:
Prof. M. S. Gopinathan
IIITM-K
Technopark; Trivandrum, Kerala –695 581
E-mail: gopinathan@iiitmk.ac.in;
Phone: 0471-2527567; Mobile: 09895270289

Co-convener:

Dr. T. K. Manojkumar, IIITMK; E-mail: manoj@iiitmk.ac.in
Mobile: 09249776231

Venue: IIITM-K Seminar Hall
Nila Building, Technopark
Trivandrum, Kerala

Date: July 30, 2007 Time: 09.00 AM – 5.00 PM

Reactions on the Symposium from various prominent persons associated with it…

From Raveendran, Calicut University

Dear Prof. Gopinathan,
Thank you for inviting me for the program. I really enjoyed the
Symposium. Congratulations to the Organizing Team.

Best regards
Ravi

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From Prof. M. K. Mishra, IIT Bombay

Dear C2P Team,

Congratulations on a job done very well in trying circumstances. It was a
great symposium and your arrangements were just marvelous. My only regret
is that I couldn’t spend more time with such a wonderful bunch of people.

Many thanks and very best wishes - MKM
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From Prof. Amalendu Chandra, IIT Kanpur

Thank you so much for your e-mail. It was indeed a pleasure to come
to Trinvandrum and participate in the Meeting. I must thank you for
making all the nice arrangements and also for your excellent hospitality.

Please also convey my thanks and regards to Prof. Gopinathan.

I shall look forward to the next Meeting in Trinvandrum.

With best regards,
Amalendu Chandra
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Prof Ramasesha,IISc Bangalore

I too enjoyed my visit to Trivandrum and would like to thank you all
for making the visit very pleasant under trying circumstances.