miniCUP San Francisco 2025 will be held on October 7th, 2025
OpenEye's miniCUP series brings our latest scientific advancements to you. Our upcoming miniCUP San Francisco 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:
Genentech Building 5
Room 1Q
22 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Directions:
Enter the Genentech campus from DNA Way and proceed to the B5A visitor parking lot on Forbes Blvd. Enter Building 5 at entrance B5-1Q. Visitors will be required to show a valid physical ID. Electronic version of ID will not be accepted at check in.
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 Francisco is now open. Reserve your spot today!
