miniCUP Basel is a single-day in-person gathering that will provide the opportunity to hear presentations from OpenEye and industry speakers, as well as learn about the latest scientific innovations and recent updates to the Orion® molecular design platform and our applications and toolkits. Plus stay for robust discussion at a cocktail reception following the event.

Location:

Radisson Blu Hotel, Basel
Steinentorstrasse 25, 4051 
Basel, Switzerland

Parking:

Parking at the Radisson:  CHF 30.00 per night upon availability, there is also the Elizabethan parking just a few steps away from the hotel.

Preliminary Agenda:
The program begins at 9:00, includes lunch, and is followed by a reception at 17:00.

9:00 – Registration & Coffee/Pastries
9:30 - Opening Remarks - Geoff Skillman, VP, Research and Development
10:00 - Extreme-Scale Search…when Billions aren’t Enough - Matt Geballe, Group Director, Scientific R&D
10:30 – Break
11:00 - OMEGA: State of the Art Conformer Generation with Bayesian Sampling – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development
11:30 - Where’s my Jetpack? CryoEM Refinement in Orion – David LeBard, Head of Science
12:00 – Lunch
13:00 –Drug Discovery Computation Infrastructure Made Easy – Jeff Grandy, VP, Sales
13:30 – Orion Interactive Search for Chemists – Katarina Stanciakova, Application Scientist
13:45 - Molecular Modeling for the Next Quarter-Century – Caitlin Bannan, Manager, Scientific Research and Development
14:15 – Break
14:35 - Building a Better Discovery Funnel: 3D QSAR and RBFE – Mireille Krier, Senior Application Scientist Manager
15:05 – To be Announced
15:35 – Break
15:55 - What Can Gambling Teach Us About Drug Discovery – Greg Bakken, Group Director, Research and Development
16:25 - Dude, Can I Bind Here: Asking the Right Questions for Cryptic Pocket Detection – David LeBard, Head of Science
17:00 – Reception