miniCUP San Diego 2025 will be held on October 9th, 2025
OpenEye's miniCUP series brings our latest scientific advancements to you. Our upcoming miniCUP San Diego is a single-day in-person gathering that will provide the opportunity to hear presentations from OpenEye and industry speakers, as well as to learn about the recent updates to the Orion® molecular design platform and our applications and toolkits. Come for the science, and stay for robust discussion at a cocktail reception following the event.
Location:
Campus Point
10300 Campus Point Drive
Salon A&B (Directly above Green Acre dining area)
San Diego, CA 92121
Directions:
Proceed to the end of campus point drive to either of the parking lots on the Northeast side of the building, highlighted in the image. The Salon A/B meeting room is located on the second floor directly above the Green Acre dining facility. The entrance to Green Acre is located on the middle of the Northeast face of the building. Upon entering there is an open space with stairs leading to the meeting room.
Event Agenda:
9:00 Registration & Coffee/Tea/Pastries
Foundations:
9:30 Opening remarks – Louis Culot, CVP, Molecular Sciences Group & Geoff Skillman, VP, Research and Development
10:00 Molecular shape and color: Unifying principles for success in drug discovery – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist
Coffee/Tea break
Target Exploration:
11:00 Pocket ligandability: identifying actionable cryptic pockets across the druggable proteome – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director
11:30 Identification & exploration of novel sites for covalent docking – David LeBard, Scientific Software Director
Networking Lunch
Hit Identification:
1:00 Don’t miss your next blockbuster: ROCS X for trillion-scale 3D virtual screening of accessible and novel chemical space – Matt Geballe, Group Director, Scientific Research and Development
1:30 OMEGA: State of the art conformer generation with Bayesian sampling – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development
Platform Advances:
2:00 Empower your chemists with interactive Molecule Search – Kalistyn Lemke, Application Scientist
2:15 Click. Compute. Cure? Enabling modern computational design – Jharrod LaFon, VP Research and Development
Coffee/Tea break
Lead Discovery & Optimization:
3:15 ML-Enabled integration of affinity prediction and lead discovery: 3D-QSAR – Paul Hawkins, Product Evangelist
3:45 Free energy prediction for drug discovery: Ideas at breakfast, discoveries by lunch – Chris Neale, Manager Affinity Group
Closing & Reception:
4:15 Closing Remarks
Reception: Cocktails and refreshments
Registration for miniCUP San Diego is now open. Reserve your spot today!
