Programme

Wednesday 12th November 2008


9:00 -10:50 Arrival/Registration/Coffee in Albury Foyer

11:00 -11:15  Welcome and introduction in Albury Suite Tadeusz Skarzynski, GSK

11:15-12:35 Lecture Session 1: Structure Guided Drug Discovery - Lessons and Successes Chair: Neera Borkakoti, Medivir AB
11:15-11:45         TBA   Richard Pauptit, AstraZeneca  
11:45-12:10   Human DcpS inhibitors for potential treatment of familial spino-muscular atrophy Bart Staker, deCODE chemistry and biostructures  
12:10-12:35   Structural studies on DNA gyrase – a flexible molecular machine Ben Bax, GSK  

12:35–14:00 Buffet LUNCH in Roding and Hadham suites (exhibition area), next door to the Albury Suite and in the Amy restaurant.

14:00-16:00 Lecture Session 2: Structure Guided Drug Discovery - Lessons and Successes   Chair: Margareta Ek, Astra Zeneca
14:00-14:25   Fragment screening on human chymase   David Banner, F. Hoffmann-La Roche  
14:25-14:50   Structure based discovery and optimisation of EphB4 kinase inhibitors   Jon Read, AstraZeneca  
14:50-15:15   Crystal structure of the metalloprotease BMP-1   Aengus Mac Sweeney Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research  
15:15-15:35     Application of isothermal titration calorimetry to fragment-based drug discovery   Joe Coyle, Astex Therapeutics  
15:35-16:00   An integrated approach utilising SBDD and biophysics to accelerate lead discovery David Brown, Pfizer

16:00-16:30 Tea in the exhibition area and Albury Foyer

16:30-18:00   Exhibitor presentations in Albury Suite Chair: Giorgia Vicentini, deCODE chemistry and biostructures  
16:30-16:40   Facilities for structural biology at Diamond Light Source   Michael Engel, Diamond Light Source  
16:40-16:50   The Microcapillary Protein Crystallization System (MPCS)   Cory Gerdts, Emerald Biosystems
16:50-17:00   MarmyX Data Collection System Peter Collins, MAR research  
17:00-17:10   New Approaches to crystallisation and structure determination using the Topaz System Eve Marquis, Fluidigm
17:10- 17:20     Rigaku introduces the award winning new Desktop Minstrel UV and New of the first CrystalMation system to be installed in Europe   Craig Sterling, Rigaku  
17:20-17:30   Ultrasensitive calorimetry – an overview Chris Smith, MicroCal
17:30-17:40    PX Scanner: X-ray data collection from protein crystals in-situ  Steve Wood, Oxford Diffraction 
17:40-17:50    A new method of automated crystallisation of membrane proteins  Jan Kubicek, Qiagen 
17:50-18:00     Automatic ligand conformer placement and refinement dictionary generation using AFITT Greg Warren, OpenEye  

19:00 Exhibitors wine reception in the exhibition area (sponsored by Rigaku)  
20:00 “Working” dinner in Albury Suite – details to follow…  

Thursday 13th November 2008


6:30 - 8.30 Breakfast in Amy restaurant  

9:00-10:30 Lecture Session 3: Rescue Strategies   Chair: Alec Tucker, Pfizer  
9:00-9:50   Implementing salvage methods for problematic targets     Scott Lesley, GNF    
9:50-10:15   Production of protein kinases for crystallography     Paul Carter, GSK    
10:15-10:40   Protein crystallisation and automation usage for supporting drug discovery at GSK   Onkar Singh, GSK  

10:40-11:10 Coffee in the exhibition area and Albury Foyer    

11:10-12:25 Lecture Session 3: Rescue Strategies Chair: Dominic Tisi,
ASTEX Therapeutics
 
11:10-11:35   Tackling difficult-to-express proteins for structural studies: A case study of using library methods   Chris Meier, UCB Pharma  
11:35-12:00   The ESPRIT construct screening platform for rapid definition of soluble expression constructs   Franck Tarendeau, EMBL  
12:00-12:25   Target immobilization provides new opportunities in NMR-based fragment discovery and characterization   Gregg Siegal, ZoBio  

12:25-14:00 Buffet lunch in the exhibition area and in the Amy restaurant.  

14:00-16:00 Lecture Session 4: Looking into the Future Chair: David Banner,
F. Hoffmann-La Roche
14:00-14:30   Future directions of data acquisition and data management   Sean McSweeney, ESRF  
14.30-15:00   Current and future prospects for improving the X-ray crystallographic components of the drug discovery pipeline.   Gerard Bricogne, Global Phasing
15:00-15:30   SGC’s chemical biology   Frank van Delft, SGC
15:30-16:00   Evolving conformational thermostabilisation of GPCRs in a detergent resistant form for crystallography   Nathan Robertson, Heptares Therapeutics  

16:00-16:30 Tea in the exhibition area and Albury Foyer    

16:30-18:00 Lecture Session 5: Looking into the Future Chair: David Brown, Pfizer  
16.30-17:00   Preparing for climate change   Rob Cooke, GSK
17:00-18:00   Summary of the main themes of the meeting and outcomes of the “working” diner Mike Hann, GSK

18:00 Closing remarks   Tadeusz Skarzynski, GSK

19:30 Pre-dinner Drinks in the exhibition area and Albury Foyer

20:00 Conference Dinner in Albury Suite.
Entertainment sponsored by Bruker
Drinks sponsored by deCODE chemistry and biostructures

Friday 14th November 2008


6:30-8:30 Breakfast in Amy restaurant  
8:30-12:00 Final interactions with exhibitors and other delegates