The V Symposium of Medicinal Chemistry Young Researchers, organized by the Spanish Society of Therapeutic Chemistry (SEQT), took place on the 22nd of June at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) headquarters in Madrid. As in former editions, this symposium allowed young researchers to show and discuss the work carried out in their laboratories. Salvatore Scaffidi […]

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From the 19th to the 21st of June the ISQBP President’s meeting 2018 was held in Barcelona.  The conference, which takes place every two years, is organized by the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology and has been acting as a meeting point for the scientists working on molecular simulations of biomolecular systems. Xavier Barril gave a […]

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Yvonne Westermaier, a former post-doc of our group, presented in the 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition a work carried out in Xavier Barril’s Lab (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10822-017-0040-7). The talk was entitled “Binding mode prediction and MD/MMPBSA-based free energy ranking for agonists of REV-ERBα/NCoR”.

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From the 7th to the 18th of May took place the “Computational Based Drug Design, a course for PhD students from all latin America” took place in the University of Buenos Aires. It was a two-weeks course about computational tools for drug discovery organised by the group of Dr. Marcelo Martí and Dr. Adrian Turjanski, with who […]

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On the 4th of May Ubiquitin Symposium&Friends took place in the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna Biocenter. It was a great opportunity to discuss the state-of-the-art in the world of ubiquitin protein. Míriam presented a poster entitled “A Multidisciplinary Approach to Identify Small-Molecules Targeting the Fbw7 E3 Ligase”.

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By the end of May, Maciej Majewski, Serena Pittichio and Moira Rachman are going to participate in the 11th International Conference on Chemical Structures, which covers all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling. Moira is going to present an oral communication entitled “Automated Fragment Evolution (FrEvolAted) Applied to Fragments Bound to NUDT2” and Maciej is […]

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From the 16th to the 23rd of March Xavier Barril and Salvatore Scaffidi attended the 10th Summer School on Medicines in Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The program covered the whole drug discovery and development process, from target validation to the market. Xavier gave a talk entitled “From scientist to entrepreneur: what does it take?” […]

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