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