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title: miniCUP Cambridge 2025
description: Hear from OpenEye, industry speakers and learn of updates to our Orion® molecular design platform, applications, and toolkits at miniCUP Cambridge 2025.
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# [miniCUP Cambridge 2025](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/minicup-cambridge-2025)

 Written by [OpenEye Scientific](https://www.eyesopen.com/events/author/openeye-scientific) | Mar 27, 2025 2:20:14 PM

#### 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 – Click. Compute. Cure? – 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, Group Director, Application Science  
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. 

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