miniCUP Cambridge 2025 will be held on May 6th, 2025
Registration is now open!
miniCUP Cambridge is a one-day, in-person gathering featuring scientific innovation and updates to the Orion® molecular design platform and our applications and toolkits. Please enjoy robust discussion, networking, and the opportunity to try out Orion at a reception following the event.
Agenda:
The program begins at 9:00, includes lunch, and is followed by a reception at 17:00.
9:00 – Registration & Coffee/Pastries
9:30 - Opening Remarks - Geoff Skillman, VP, Research and Development
10:00 - Extreme-Scale Search…when Billions aren’t Enough - Matt Geballe, Group Director, Scientific Research and Development
10:30 – Break
11:00 - OMEGA: State of the Art Conformer Generation with Bayesian Sampling – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development
11:30 - Where’s my Jetpack? CryoEM Refinement in Orion – David LeBard, Head of Science
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 –Drug Discovery Computation Infrastructure Made Easy – Jeff Grandy, VP, Sales
13:30 – Orion Interactive Search for Chemists – Lukas Eberlein, Application Scientist
13:45 - Molecular Modeling for the Next Quarter-Century – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development
14:15 – Break
14:35 - Building a Better Discovery Funnel: 3D QSAR and RBFE – Mireille Krier, Senior Application Scientist Manager
15:05 – CCDC GOLD and Orion Integration - Covalent and Non-Covalent Docking - Kepa Burusco-Goni, Senior Cheminformatics Data Scientist and Gunther Stahl, Application Science Director
15:35 – Break
15:55 - What Can Gambling Teach Us About Drug Discovery – Greg Bakken, Group Director, Research and Development
16:25 - Dude, Can I Bind Here: Asking the Right Questions for Cryptic Pocket Detection – David LeBard, Head of Science
17:00 – Reception
Location:
Wellcome Genome Campus
Hinxton CB10 1RQ
United Kingdom
Parking:
The conference center offers parking spaces, and has a campus minibus shuttle from Whittlesford Parkway train station.