Subject: 1998 Tripos User Meeting

From: Heather Hunter <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 15:30:08 -0500

I would like to take this opportunity to present this year's agenda
for the 1998 Tripos User Meeting.

				            AGENDA
		             1998 North American Tripos User Group Meeting
			Somerset Marriott Hotel  Somerset, New Jersey
				     May 18 & 19, 1998

Monday, May 18

7:30 - 8:30		Continental Breakfast 
7:30 - 1:00		Registration
7:30 - 3:30		Poster Set Up 
			
8:30 - 8:45  		Welcome 
 			Dr. Bill Harte, Bristol-Myers Squibb

8:45 - 9:30  		Tripos Strategic Focus  
			Dr. John McAlister, Tripos Inc.

9:30 - 10:15 		Tripos Integrated Drug Discovery System 
			Scott Hutton, Tripos Inc.

10:15 - 10:30  		Break

10:30 - 11:15  		Opening Speaker
  			New Approaches To The Prediction of Protein Structure And Function
>From Sequence
			Dr. Jeff Skolnick,  Scripps

11:15 - 12:00   	Receptor-Relevant Chemistry Subspaces And Other Recent
Advances
			Dr. Bob Pearlman, University of Texas

12:00 - 1:00   		Lunch

1:00 - 1:45    		The Connectivity Between Biopolymer, Disco & Unity
			Dr. Anna Toy Palmer,  Cytomed Inc

1:45 - 2:30		The Use of Protein Surfaces As Design Templates
			Dr. Brad Jameson, Allegheny University

2:30 - 3:15		The Docking, Design and Analysis of Combinatorial Libraries
			Dr. Yax Sun,  Bristol-Myers Squibb

3:15 - 3:30		Break
	
3:30 - 4:15    		Molcann-Z Indices in the Service of QSAR
			Dr. Lowell Hall,  Eastern Nazarene College

4:15 - 5:00    		Variable Selection in QSAR
			Dr. Chris Waller,  OSI Pharmaceuticals 

5:00 - 6:00    		User Group Closed Session

6:00 - 6:30    		Cocktails & Poster Session

6:30           		Dinner - A Carnival in Venice

Tuesday, May 19th

7:30 - 8:30    		Breakfast -   A Special Thank You From SYBYL 
			John Begemann, Kevin Koboldt, Tripos Inc.

8:30 - 9:15 		Conformational Studies on Protonated Polyamines
			Dr. Phil Bowen,  University of Georgia	

9:15 - 10:00		Application And Development Of Semi-Empirical Methodology
For Chemical Research
			Dr. Andy Holder,  Semichem

10:00 - 10:15		Break

10:15 - 11:00		QSAR of Some P450, Lyase Inhibitors & Reconciliation With
A Receptor Model
			Dr. Roy Vaz,  Hoechst Marion Roussel

11:00 - 11: 45  	3-D QSAR Models of Benzodiazepine Site Partial Agonists
of the GABAA Receptor
			Dr. Dave Demeter, R. W. Johnson

11:45 - 1:00  		Lunch

1:00 - 1:30		Response to User Group Closed Session
			Scott Hutton,  Tripos Inc.   		

1:30 - 2:30		Breakout Sessions

    			Web Technologies
			Chair - Dr. Stanley Krystek, Bristol-Myers Squibb
			Tripos Host - Bill Langton

				Or

			Virtual Screening Via Database Docking 
			Chair - Dr. Debbie Loughney, R.W. Johnson 
			Tripos Host - Dr. Trevor Heritage

2:30 - 3:15    		Scientific Session
				
3:15 - 3:45		Closing Remarks, Open Issues
			Dr. Bill Harte,   Bristol-Myers Squibb

Information regarding registration is available on our Web site 
www.tripos.com 
or please do not hesitate to contact me directly.   We look forward to
see you there!

Heather

Heather Hunter
Product Marketing Specialist
Tripos Inc.  
1699 South Hanley Road, St. Louis. MO 63144
(314) 647-1099  Phone    (314) 647-9241 Fax     
[email-masked]