June 2nd, 2011
2011 Schrödinger Regional User Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Schrödinger will be hosting the San Francisco User Meeting on Thursday, June 2 at the Embassy Suites in South San Francisco.

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 
Data Mining Using Consensus Fingerprint Searches
                           Jim Arnold, Principal, Serious Solutions

  9:40 - 10:20  Leveraging Thermodynamics to Assess Selectivity and Druggability
                            Alan Cheng, Principal Scientist, Amgen

10:20 - 10:30  Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:10 
Designing HCV Protease Inhibitors with Docking, Dynamics, and Homology
                          Modeling
                            John Nicholas, Principal Scientist, Computational Chemistry &
                            Computational Biology, Intermune

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  A WaterMap Study of the Nucleotide Binding Site and Inhibitor SAR Analysis
                            Mario Cardozo, Principal Scientist, Amgen

    1:40 - 2:20  Predicting Allosteric Effects of Binding, Mutation, and Post-translational
                          Modification Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
                            Chris McClendon, PhD Candidate, University of California, San Francisco
    2:20 - 3:00  Screening 1014 Cores per Second, and Other Core Technologies
                             Peter Shenkin, Vice President, 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 submit this short online form.