We are pleased to announce that the next CCG European UGM and Conference will take place May 21-24 in Lyon, France. This is a 4-day event, consisting of workshops, scientific presentations, and a poster session as well as social activities including receptions and a conference dinner. 2024 marks Chemical Computing Group's 30th anniversary. Join us to celebrate such a special occasion!

If you are interested in presenting at the meeting, please contact Steve Maginn at .

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Dilyana Dimova, Senior Data Scientist, Sanofi
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Tom Dixon, Senior Computational Structural Biologist, Etcembly Ltd.
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Léa El Khoury, Group Leader, Computational Chemistry, Qubit Pharmaceuticals
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Paul Finn, Chief Scientific Officer, Oxford Drug Design
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Nicolas Foloppe, Principal Scientist, Vernalis
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Anna Karawajczyk, Director of Computational Chemistry, Selvita S.A.
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Daphne Truan, Associate Director, Protein Design and Informatics, GlaxoSmithKline
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Speaker to be announced, AstraZeneca
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Speaker to be announced, Evotec

TUESDAY, May 21 - Workshops
DAY 1
11:30
Registration Opens (Check-in/Badge pick-up)
12:30-13:30
Buffet Lunch
13:30-16:30
Peptide Modeling, Conformational Searching and Docking
Peptide Complex Preparation / Protein-Peptide Interaction Analysis / Surfaces and Maps / Peptide Sequence Optimization / Non-Natural Amino Acids / Conformational Searching / Peptide-Protein Docking / Protein-Peptide Interaction Fingerprints
13:30-16:30
Cheminformatics: Manage, Analyze, Model and Mine Molecular Data
MOE databases / Molecular Descriptors / Sorting and Coloring Plots / Clustering | Diverse Subset Selection / QSAR Modeling / Binary QSAR / Substructure Searching / Molecular Fingerprints / Similarity Searching
WEDNESDAY, May 22 - Workshops & Poster Session
DAY 2
08:30-09:00
Welcome Refreshments
09:00-12:00
Advanced Structure-Based Design
Protein-Ligand Interaction Analysis / Pharmacophore Modeling / Docking / Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints (PLIF) / Fragment-based Design / Scaffold Replacement
09:00-12:00
Antibody Modeling and Protein Engineering
Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis / Molecular Surfaces / Protein Patch Analysis / Protein Properties / Protein Engineering / Antibody Homology Modeling / Antibody Database / Developability Analysis
12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-16:30
Small Molecule Virtual Screening
Virtual Screening Compound Libraries / Molecular Descriptors / QSAR/QSPR Modeling / Molecular Fingerprints / Pharmacophore Modeling / Filtering Compound Libraries / Pharmacophore-guided Docking / Template-based Docking / De novo Hit Expansion
13:30-16:30
Biologics: Protein Alignments, Modeling and Docking
Protein Alignments and Superposition / Loop and Linker Modeling / Homology Modeling / Protein-Protein Docking / Epitope Analysis / Protein Properties / Protein Solubility Prediction / Protein Patches (2D and 3D) / Biologics QSAR/QSPR Modeling
18:30-20:30
Opening Reception & Poster Session
20:30-22:00
Optional Walking Tour of Lyon
THURSDAY, May 23 - Scientific Presentations
DAY 3
08:30-17:30
Scientific Presentations
18:30-22:00
Reception and Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, May 24 - Scientific Presentations
DAY 4
08:30-15:30
Scientific Presentations
15:30-17:00
Closing Reception
There will be a poster session to be held on the evening of Wednesday May 22nd as part of the Opening Reception. Presenters of accepted posters will receive a 25% discount from the registration fees.

We look forward very much to seeing you in Lyon this coming May!