We are excited to announce that the next CCG European UGM and Conference will be held from May 20-23 in Oxford, United Kingdom. This 4-day event will feature workshops, scientific presentations, a poster session, and social activities, including receptions and a conference dinner.

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

Experimental & Computational methods for the determination of Free-Ligand Conformations. Applications in Drug Design
Rodrigo Carbajo, Senior Principal Scientist, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Presentation Title to Be Announced
Stephen Harper, Director, Research - Protein Engineering, Immunocore
Presentation Title to Be Announced
Jon Heal, Executive Vice President of ProsaRx, RxCelerate Ltd.
Presentation Title to Be Announced
Harikrishna Sekar Jayanthan, Senior Scientist, Evotec
Peptide Modeling 2.0 - Challenges and Chances
Florian Koelling, Senior Principal Scientist, Bayer Pharma AG
Presentation Title to Be Announced
Juan Carlos Mobarec, Head, Computational Structural Biology, AstraZeneca
Presentation Title to Be Announced
Henrik Möbitz, Director (CADD, Global Discovery Chemistry), Novartis
Predicting the Conformational Behavior of mAbs via Accelerated MD Simulations: Insights on Light Chain Isotype and N-glycosylation Role
Simona Saporiti, Specialist in Structural Biology, Merck Serono S.p.A.

TUESDAY, May 20 - Workshops
Day 1
11:30
Registration Opens (Check-in/Badge pick-up)
13:30-16:30
Peptide Modeling, Conformational Searching and Docking 
Structure preparation / Non-natural amino acids / Protein Design / Conformational searching / Distance restraints / Peptide-Protein docking / Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints (PLIFs)
13:30-16:30
Cheminformatics: Manage, Analyze, Model and Mine Molecular Data 
MOE databases / Molecular descriptors / Database filters / Sorting and coloring / Plots / Clustering / Diverse subset selection / QSAR modeling / Binary QSAR / Substructure searching / Molecular fingerprints / Similarity searching
WEDNESDAY, May 21 - Workshops & Poster Session
Day 2
08:30-09:00
Welcome Refreshments
09:00-12:00
Antibody Modeling and Protein Engineering 
Protein Engineering / Protein Properties / Protein Contacts / Developability / Molecular surfaces / Hot spot analysis / Antibody modeling
09:00-12:00
Advanced Structure-Based Drug Design 
Pharmacophore Modeling / Docking / Fragment-Based Design / Scaffold Replacement / R-Group Screening / Project Search / Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints (PLIF)
12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-16:30
Biologics: Protein Alignments, Modeling and Docking 
Alignments and superposition / Loop and linker modeling / Protein-Protein docking / Protein-Ligand Interaction Fingerprints (PLIFs) / Epitope analysis / Homology modeling / Solubility analysis / QSAR modeling / 2D hot spot mapping
13:30-16:30
Small Molecule Virtual Screening 
Virtual screening compound libraries / Descriptors / Molecular Fingerprints / QSPR modeling / Database filtering / Pharmacophore modeling / Pharmacophore-guided docking / Template-based docking / Compound design
18:30-20:30
Opening Reception & Poster Session
21:00
Group Activity (Pub Visit or Walking Tour)
THURSDAY, May 22 - Scientific Presentations
Day 3
08:30-09:00
Welcome Refreshments
09:00-12:00
Scientific Presentations
12:00-13:30
Lunch Break
13:30-17:00
Scientific Presentations
18:30-22:00
Drinks Reception and Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, May 23 - Scientific Presentations
Day 4
08:30-09:00
Welcome Refreshments
09:00-12:30
Scientific Presentations
12:30-14:00
Lunch Break
14:00-15:30
Scientific Presentations
15:30-15:40
Closing Remarks
15:40-17:00
Closing Reception

There will be a poster session on Wednesday, May 21. Prospective presenters are invited to submit their poster abstracts as part of the registration process. Submission deadline: Tuesday, April 8.

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