Subject: Announcement: Beilstein Workshop Bozen 2002 - Molecular Informatics

From: Harald Lanig <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:46:36 +0100

Dear list members,

I am posting the following announcement on behalf of Martin Hicks,
Beilstein-Institut, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

---------- International Workshop - Molecular Informatics ----------

Apologies for any cross-postings

We would like to inform you about our forthcoming workshop:

Molecular Informatics: Confronting Complexity
May 13th-16th, 2002, Bozen, Italy.

This workshop will address the new challenges that now face scientists
in
the post-genome era - in particular, the integration of two, until
recently,
disparate sciences, i.e. cheminformatics and bioinformatics. It is now
essential to bridge the gap between chemists, dealing with the
intricacies
of drug discovery, and biologists, working with complex cell
physiological
systems, in order to make any real and significant advances in the areas
of
molecular structure-function relationships and drug-target specificity.

Speakers have been asked to bear in mind the interdisciplinary nature of
the
workshop, and where applicable, to address some of the fundamental
issues in
molecular informatics that are seldom discussed and still require to be
effectively solved.

The following themes will be covered: knowledge discovery and data
mining,
rational drug design, prediction of small molecule bioavailability
(ADMETox)
properties, protein structure and function determination, new methods of
drug-target modeling, cellular metabolism, and the use of
high-throughput
methods (biochips) for acquiring gene expression and protein binding
information.

The workshop will take place in the historic Hotel Schloss Korb. The
setting
and the limited number of participants (ca. 50-60), provide a very
convivial
atmosphere for the ready exchange of thoughts and ideas.

We have an excellent line-up of speakers including:
Karl-Heinz Baringhaus, Aventis
Hans-Joachim Böhm, Hoffmann-LaRoche
Timothy Clark, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
Athel Cornish-Bowden, CNRS-BIP
Luc De Raedt, University of Freiburg
Chris Dobson, University of Cambridge
Richard Goldstein, University of Michigan
Jörg Hoheisel, German Cancer Research Center
Kevin Holme, Lion Bioscience
Harren Jhoti, Astex Technology
Peter Johnson, University of Leeds
William Jorgensen, Yale University
Carsten Kettner, Beilstein-Institut
Christopher Lipinski, Pfizer Global Research and Development
Gerald Maggiora, Pharmacia
Friedhelm Pfeiffer, MPI of Biochemistry
Graham Richards, University of Oxford
Brian Shoichet, Northwestern University
Jeffrey Skolnick, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Shoshana Wodak, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Please visit our web-site www.beilstein-institut.de for more information
about the workshop, the scientific program and the registration form.
We hope very much that you would be interested in attending. Places at
the
workshop are limited and will be allocated on a first-come basis.

Further information will be sent in circulars well before the workshop.
If
you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

Best regards,
Martin Hicks
Carsten Kettner
Wolfgang Koerner

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Dr. Martin G. Hicks
Head of Funding Division, Symposia
Beilstein-Institut
Varrentrappstr. 40-42
60486 Frankfurt
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)69 7917 426; Fax: +49 (0)69 7917 473
[email-masked]
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