May 25th, 2011
2011 Schrödinger Regional User Meeting, Princeton, NJ

Schrödinger will be hosting the New Jersey User Meeting on Wednesday, May 25 at the Princeton Marriott at Forrestal.

As in past years, the Regional User Meetings offer a great opportunity to see current research from your colleagues and to learn about the latest developments from Schrödinger. The meeting will be one full day with research talks and an introduction to Suite 2011.

Agenda

    8:30 - 9:00  Breakfast and Registration
    9:00 - 9:40  Ligand Conformational Considerations in Structure-based Design

                           Yajun Zheng, Senior Research Fellow, Vitae Pharmaceuticals

  9:40 - 10:20  Modeling AHR for Agonists & Other Anti-Target Ventures                         
                           
Ashutosh Jogalekar, Stephan Reiling, and Roy Vaz,
                            Head, US, Structure, Design and Informatics,
Sanofi-Aventis

10:20 - 10:30  Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:10  Evaluation of Approaches to Calculate Hydrogen Bond Energy Surfaces

                            Steven Spronk, Research Investigator, BMS

11:10 - 12:00  Schrödinger Suite 2011: New features, Products, and Enhancements
                            Woody Sherman, Vice President of Applications Science, Schrödinger

  12:00 - 1:00  Lunch

    1:00 - 1:40  Loop Sampling on BACE - Matching Simulations to Observations
                            Johannes Voigt, Head, Chemistry Modeling & Informatics, Rahway, Merck

    1:40 - 2:20  What's New in PyMOL v1.4 - The Start of Leveraging Schrödinger
                            Resources to Improve PyMOL
                            Jason Vertrees, PyMOL Product Manager, Schrödinger

    2:20 - 3:00  The Role of the Solvent in Protein-Ligand Binding: Applications to
                            Druggability and Ligand Design
                            Robert Abel, Director of Structure-Based Technologies, Schrödinger

    3:00 - 4:00  Happy Hour

Registration

This meeting is free of charge, but we ask you to register at your earliest convenience to reserve your space. To register, please fill out this short online form.