University of Warwick and Cresset Drug Design Roadshow

Cresset are excited to announce that they will be hosting the inagural University of Warwick and Cresset Drug Design Roadshow on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 7th September 2023.

This two-day interactive event will emcompass several areas within the field of computational chemistry, and will provide a flexible learning platform for attendees to experience Cresset software.

Wednesday 6th June will host a series of lecture style sessions, followed by hands-on software workshops on Thursday 7th June. Attendees are encouraged to attend both days of the event to experience the full benefit of the event.

PLEASE FIND REGISTRATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

Who should attend?

Registrations are welcome from all those working in life sciences research, particularly encouraged from University of Warwick and surrounding local Universities, including industry and academic spin-outs. Academics, Postgraduates students, Undergraduate students, research scientists and technical staff are all encouraged to join to enhance their knowledge, or begin their educational journey within computational chemistry.

Agenda

Wednesday 6th June

Time (BST)	Session Title	Presenter
09:00	Registration
09:30	Welcome	Prof. Phillip Stansfeld University of Warwick
09:50	Introduction to Computational approaches within the Life Sciences	Dr. Rob Scoffin, Chief Executive Officer Cresset
10:25	Case study session, Cresset CADD	Dr. Nathan Kidley, Principal Application Scientist Cresset
11:00	Poster Session and Networking Break
12:00	External perspective on CADD	tbc Bicycle Therapeutics
12:35	Case study session, Cresset Discovery	Dr. Scott Midgley, Application Scientist Cresset
13:05	Lunch and Networking Break
14:00	External perspective on Artificial Intelligence	tbc Isomorphic Labs
14:35	Artificial Intelligence, Cresset	Dr. Venkat Ramaswamy, Senior Computational Chemistry Developer Cresset
15:05	Poster Session and Networking Break
15:45	External perspective on Free Energy Perturbation	Prof. Philip Biggin University of Oxford
16:20	Free Energy Perturbation, Cresset	Dr. Sofia Bariami, Associate Product Manager Cresset
16:50	Poster Prizes
17:15	Networking Drinks Reception

Abstracts

Abstracts to be confirmed.

Posters

Poster and networking sessions will be held on Wednesday 6th June to give the opportunity for attendees to showcase their research. Prizes will be given to selected, outstanding posters based on the decision of the reviewing commitee.

If you will be presenting a poster, please include your poster abstract during registration (maximum 300 words). Alternatively, please email this to katie.nicoll@cresset-group.com by Wednesday 30th August.

Workshops

Thursday 7th June

Hands-on software workshops will run in two parallel sessions. Attendees will be provided with a 90-day free license to Flare™ and Spark™ ahead of the workshops.

Please note that there are limited spaces for these workshops and spaces will be allocated based on computational chemistry experience and on a first-come-first-served basis.

Time	Track 1:	Track 2:
09:00	Crash-course Introduction to Softwares
09:45	Introduction to Spark and ligand-based methods in Flare (Qualitative SAR, Quantative SAR)	Introduction to Spark and ligand-based methods in Flare (Qualitative SAR)
11:15	Networking Break
11:45	Introduction to docking and electrostatic complementarity in Flare, with Python API taster	Introduction to docking and electrostatic complementarity in Flare
13:15	Lunch break
14:15	Advanced structure-based methods in Flare: introduction to 3DRISM, GIST and FEP	Advanced structure-based methods in Flare: introduction to 3DRISM and molecular dynamics
15:45	Closing Remarks

PLEASE FIND REGISTRATION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE.

Location

University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL

Registration

Please complete the following registration form to confirm your attendace. Registration is £8.00 per person, which will contribute towards free food and drink throughout the event.