Final Agenda

Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Time	Description
08:00	Breakfast/Registration
09:00	Plenary Session
09:00	Welcome and Accelrys Company Vision Max Carnecchia, Accelrys, US
09:15	Unlocking the Science – New Product Innovations from Accelrys Frank Brown, Accelrys, US In this session, Dr. Frank Brown will share the company vision and integrated roadmap and discuss how our merged company can help meet the challenges facing today’s scientific enterprise. Customers will learn about the plans for existing products and how our portfolio integration plans creates leverage across existing investments of Accelrys and Symyx products and supports the evolving needs of today’s electronic laboratory environment.
09:45	Accelrys Technology Vision Matt Hahn, Accelrys, US A customer favorite at every User Group Meeting, this highly interactive session led by Matt Hahn, CTO, will provide attendees with an overview of Accelrys' near and long-term technology vision. This session will include interactive product demonstrations that will provide customers with a preview of upcoming technologies currently planned or in development.
10:30	Experiences in Collaborative Development and Deployment of a Registration System for Biologics Joseph Cesarone - Abbott, US
11:00	The Challenge of Laboratory Informatics René de Ruiter - Shell, Netherlands Julian Willmott- Accelrys, UK
11:30	Coffee Break & Partner Spotlight			Partner Exhibition & Accelrys Product Gallery
	Pipeline Pilot Track	Discovery Studio Track	Materials Studio Track Catalysis & Energy Applications
12:00	Visualising Multi-Dimensional Data Using Interactive Heatmaps To Identify New Drug Repositioning Opportunities - Nick Brown, AstraZeneca, UK	Computational Biology Applied to Early Development of Antibody Therapeutics: Key Aspects of Advancing Antibody Fragments from Research to Clinic - Leonardo Borras, EsbaTech, Switzerland	Catalyst Design & Development - Sam French, Johnson Matthey, UK
12:30	Project Dashboard Integration with Pipeline Pilot Ian Stott, Unilever, UK	Discovery Studio: A Powerful Tool in Vaccine Design - Annalisa Nuccitelli, Novartis Vaccines, Italy	Prediction of Catalyst Properties using QSAR - Jeroen de Pater, Arkema, The Netherlands
13:00	Lunch
14:30	Yet Another Registration System? Creating an Integrated System in a Changing World - Luca Sartori, IEO - European Institute of Oncology, Italy	The Drug Discovery Portal’s Approach to Exploiting the Biological Activity of Natural Products - Rachel Clark, Strathclyde University, UK	Advances in Computational Studies of Energy Material s - Prof Richard Catlow, FRS, University College London, UK
15:00	Intervet Chemicals Directory (ICD) - A Framework Combining Accelrys Pipeline Pilot & Symyx Isentris - Frank Oellien, Intervet, Germany	Efficient In-Silico Screening through Integration of Discovery Studio and Pipeline pilot with Database and a High Computing System Itai Bloch, Dynamix Pharmaceuticals, Israel	From Lattice Vibrations to Thermodynamics - Mark Johnson, ILL, France
15:30	Implementation of Symyx ELN at Alere San Diego Mariusz Banaszczyk, Alere, US	Massive Target Profiling by Parallel Protein-ligand Based Pharmacophore Searches - Didier Rognan, Université Louis Pasteur, France	Materials Studio 5.5: New Developments for Catalysis, Energy, and Functional Materials Applications - Stephen Todd, Accelrys, UK
16:00	Coffee Break & Partner Spotlight
16:30	Accelrys Product Review Session John McCarthy, Accelrys, US This interactive session led by John McCarthy, VP of Product Management, continues the morning roadmap session with a discussion of the architectural and technology vision. We will preview some of the early integration work between several products in the portfolio and our product managers will join John to demonstrate some key upcoming releases. This session illustrates the integrated portfolio in action and highlights the many R&D organizations can leverage these solutions to streamline costs and increase their innovation productivity.
18:00	Welcome Reception in Partner Gallery
19:30	Social Event

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Time

Description

08:00

Breakfast

Partner Exhibition & Accelrys Product Gallery

Pipeline Pilot Track

Discovery Studio Track

Materials Studio Track
Advanced Materials

09:00

Novel Applications for Next Generation Sequencing Made Possible with Pipeline Pilot -
Richard Carter, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, UK

Fragmentology -
Roderick Hubbard, University of York and Vernalis, UK

Computer-aided Materials Design in Adhesive Technologies -
Thomas Kostka, Henkel, Germany

09:30

A Flexible Platform for Processing High-Content Screening Data - Mark Roberts, Tessella, UK &
Ed Ainscow, AstraZeneca, UK

Recent Advances in GOLD and its Implementation within Modelling Workflows via Discovery Studio and Pipeline Pilo t -

John Liebeschuetz, CCDC, UK

PVT Simulations for Polyamides -
Betty Coussens, DSM, The Netherlands

10:00

Pipeline Pilot implementation of an exhaustive hit expansion strategy combining bioisosteric transformations, similarity searches, and generalized substructure searches -
Serge P. Parel, BioFocus, Switzerland

Designing Biologically Relevant Isosteres using FieldStere in Discovery Studio -
Tim Cheeseright, Cresset BMD Ltd, UK

Simulation of Laser Damage & Transient Absorption In Vitreous Silica -
Jim Dickinson, Corning, US

10:30

Multi-Dimensional Hierarchical Scaffold Analysis -
Andrea Beccari, Dompé, Italy

Ligand Based Modeling Studies – Novel and Diverse Ceramide Glucosyltransferase Inhibitors Identified from the ACD Search - Anna Tempczyk-Russell, Accelrys, US

Aliphatic Materials: Crystal Structure Resolution, Polymorphism & Energy Storage Applications -
Evelyn Moreno, University of Barcelona, Spain

11:00

Coffee Break & Partner Spotlight

11:30

Pharmacophore based virtual screening of non-enumerated combinatorial compound libraries
Pierre Ducrot, Discngine, France

Announcing the Release of Discovery Studio 3.0: an Improved Molecular Modeling Environment to Do More -
Adrian Stevens, Accelrys, UK

Predictive API Chemical Weakness Assessment Using in silico Approach Combined with Chemical Degradation Based Knowledge -
Philippe Lienard, Sanofi-Aventis, France

12:00

Exploring Data without Forms - Breaking Moulds for SAR Delivery - Brad Sherborne, Schering-Plough, UK

DS Discussion Session

Workflow Automation with the Materials Studio Collection - Gerhard Engel, Accelrys, UK

12:30

Fun with chemical building blocks: building new heteroaromatic ring systems with Pipeline Pilot

Will Pitt, UCB, UK

Modeling of Crystal Growth Inhibitors -
Manish Parmar, Syngenta, UK

13:00

Lunch

14:30

Workshop 1	Workshop 2	Workshop 3	Workshop 4	Workshop 5	Workshop 6
IT Best Practices - Part 1	Biology Hands On	Best Practices in Protocol Development (beginner)	Discovery Studio: Structure-Based Molecular Modeling - Part 1	Automating Workflows in Materials Science - Part 1	Enabling a Paperless Lab with an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)