CUP is OpenEye's annual scientific meeting held at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe where we bring together top Scientists, Customers, Users, and Programmers in the industry to discuss the challenges in drug discovery. The event will feature reports from OpenEye scientists, two keynote speakers and four half-day sessions.
Keynote Speakers:
Frank K. Brown Industry Perspective
Jeff Blaney - Sr. Director, Discovery Chemistry, Genentech
The Levinthal Lecture
Ken Dill - Laufer Family Endowed Professor, Stony Brook University
Sessions:
Tuesday AM:
OpenEye: Scientific and Platform Advances
Welcome and Introduction - Geoff Skillman, Vice President of R&D, BU Head
Cadence Cloud & Elasticity - Jharrod LaFon, Vice President of R&D
Orion Molecule Search - Kalli Burley, Application Scientist
Extreme Scale Search - Matt Geballe, Group Director, Scientific R&D
Service Infrastructure in Orion - Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific R&D and Jesper Sørensen, Head of Scientific Development
OMEGA is the Alpha & Bayes - Riddish Pandharkar, Scientific Developer
Tuesday PM:
OpenEye: Scientific and Platform Advances
Bind-Ability - Neha Vithani, Scientific Developer
Multi-Configurational CryoEM Refinement - David Wych, Scientific Developer
Optimization of Affinity - Chris Neale, Senior Manager, Scientific R&D
Design of Experiments for Discovery Chemistry - Greg Bakken, Group Director, Scientific R&D
Frank K. Brown Industry Perspective Keynote: Jeff Blaney - Sr. Director, Discovery Chemistry, Genentech
Wednesday AM:
Computational DEL Analysis
William Mallender - Vice President of Biochemistry, Tango Therapeutics
David Mobley - Professor, UCI Department of Chemistry
Hongyao Zhu - Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer Inc.
Michael Hack - Senior Principal Scientist, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
James Wellnitz - Tropsha and Popov Groups, Dept. of Chemical Biology and Med. Chem., UNC
Wednesday PM:
Cryptic Pockets and Allostery in Drug Discovery
Ivet Bahar - Louis and Beatrice Laufer Endowed Chair, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University
Yunhui Ge - Scientist, Alkermes
Lillian Chong - Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
David LeBard - Head of Enhanced Sampling, OpenEye, Cadence Molecular Sciences
The Levinthal Lecture: Ken Dill - Laufer Family Endowed Professor, Stony Brook University
Thursday AM:
Modern Techniques in Structural Biology
Marc Gilles - Assistant Professor, Princeton University Department of Mathematics
Claudio Catalano - Senior Scientist, Nanoimaging Services
Rishwanth Raga - PhD Candidate, Zhong Lab, Princeton University
Michael Wall - Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thursday PM:
Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Where and When AI Works in Drug Discovery
Evan Feinberg - Founder and CEO, Genesis Therapeutics
Bowen Jing - PhD Candidate, Berger Group, CSAIL, MIT
Simon Handley - Sr. AI/ML Solutions Architect, AWS Healthcare and Life Sciences
Jenna Fromer - PhD Candidate, Coley Group, MIT
Pat Walters - Chief Data Officer, Relay Therapeutics
Registration for CUP is now open. Reserve your spot today!
Hotel Reservations:
Discounted Hotel Rates at La Fonda are available until February 10th and can be booked here or by calling 1 (800) 523 5002.
Penny J. Gilmer Memorial Grant:
To encourage scientists starting out in the computational chemistry field, OpenEye awards several travel grants to CUP. These grants are available to graduate students and post-docs of underrepresented genders in computational chemistry who intend to present their research at CUP. Apply here.