Today, 11th of February we celebrate the day of women and girls in science. In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, and further achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared the 11 February as the International […]
Read More →From the 10-13 of June in Krakow, is held the Joint Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry Frontiers. There, Salvatore and Míriam had the opportunity to show their work related to E3 Ligases. Salvatore presented a Poster entitled ” Drugging the FBW7 E3 Ligase with a Fragment-Based Approach” and Míriam gave a talk under the topic of […]
Read More →From the 15-17th of May was held in Barcelona the 2nd Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. This conference is organized by MDPI, the publisher of the open-access journal Molecules and Xavi was invited as a Keynote Speaker. He did a talk entitled “Targeting Novel Allosteric Sites With Confidence: Methods and Applications”.
Read More →Welcome to Andrea Scarpino, a PhD student from the FRAGNET ITN (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network) who will be visiting us for a month. Welcome!
Read More →Moira did a placement in the group of Helena Danielson in Uppsala University. She was involved in a project entitled: Fragment to lead optimization for SMYD3 transferase. She also went to Beatica, a specialist drug discovery company well known for its SPR biosensor-based small molecule drug discovery, where she gave a seminar about her Fragment […]
Read More →From the 4th of february to the 1st of march, Maciej did a placement in Heptares. There he was applying WaterFlap and WaterMap to predict SAR in G-Protein Coupled Receptors.
Read More →From the 28 to the 29th of January, together with Javier Luque’s group and Carles Curutchet’s group, we went on a group retreat. We stayed at Alberg Centre Esplai in Prat del Llobregat for two days and discussed the latest advances in topics like Machine Learning, Cryo-EM or Enhanced sampling Molecular Dynamics. We also did […]
Read More →Each year Science magazine puts up a contest that challenges scientists to explain their research through interpretative dance. This year was the 11th edition of the “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest, and Moira decided to participate, together with Salvatore and Serena. The video entitled ” A Tale of Three Fragments” covers the topic of Fragment-based drug […]
Read More →For the last 3 years our group has participated in outreach activities to celebrate Science Week. This past 15th of November different members of the group went to Claret School in Valls and prepared some activities to 14 to 16-years-old students. We focused on the process of drug discovery and highlighted the importance of various […]
Read More →Between November 11 – 13 2018 14th edition of the German Conference on Chemoinformatics was held in Mainz. There, Morena Pappalardo gave a talk entiteled Computational Approaches to Identify Potential Inhibitors of Ebolavirus Protein VP24.
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