EU-OPENSCREEN AUTUMN TRAINING SCHOOL 2024

We are pleased to present the fourth edition of our annual AUTUMN TRAINING SCHOOL!

Join us on November 25–27 for a packed schedule of talks, all given by prestigious speakers on a diversity of topics related to chemical biology and early drug discovery. Our Autumn Training School is free of charge and fully virtual, so that scientists from around the world may join the discussions.

Our target group? Everyone with an interest in chemical biology and/or early drug discovery! Students and early-career scientists are especially welcome, to learn about the fundamentals of research in these fields and network with our distinguished guest speakers during the training Q&A sessions.

Participation fee: free of charge

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Schedule

Monday - November 25, 2024

Welcome and Introduction

9:30 - 10:00

EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC Screening and Medicinal Chemistry Services

Phil Gribbon

Director General EU-OPENSCREEN ERIC

1st Session

10:00 - 10:45

Data analysis/data reproducibility – Principles of open data and open-source tools

Arrate Munoz Barrutia (AI4Life)

Associated Professor, Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

10:45Break (15')

2nd Session

11:00 - 11:45

NPs and drug discovery making a link to the EUREMAP bioprospecting pipelines approaches

Olga Genilloud

Scientific Director of Fundación MEDINA, Spain

11:45Lunch Break (60')

3rd Session

12:45 - 13:30

Marine bioprospecting (EUREMAP) 

Jeanette Hammer Andersen

Professor in marine bioprospecting and head of the natural products platform Marbio, The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), Norway

4th Session

13:30 - 14:15

Antibiotic drug discovery in the frame of ENABLE project

Frederik Deroose

Chief knowledge Officer, AGILeBiotics, Netherlands

5th Session

14:15 - 15:00

High-content screening

Brinton Seashore-Ludlow

Group leader Biology team, Chemical Biology Consortium Sweden (CBCS)

 

Tuesday - November 26, 2024

1st Session

09:30 - 10:15

Gut microbiome - drug interactions

Sarela García Santamaria

Group Leader (Human Microbiota – Xenobiotics Interactions Lab), ITQB-Nova, Oeiras, Portugal

2nd Session

10:15 - 11:00

Advanced disease models for screening (IMPULSE)

Miguel Mano

Group Leader, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (CNC-UC), Portugal & King’s College London, United Kingdom

11:00Break (15')

3rd Session

11:15 - 12:00

Polypharmacology: From off-targets to multitarget drugs

Inés Ardao

Biotechnologist, Innopharma Pharmacogenomics Platform, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain

Geert Daudey

Biochemist, Innopharma Pharmacogenomics Platform, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain

12:00Lunch Break (60')

4th Session

13:00 - 13:45

Is it possible to do chemical biology as a platform?

Haim Barr

Head Of Unit at Wohl Institute of Drug Discovery, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

5th Session

13:45 - 14:30

Chemoproteomics (Histone deacetylases)

Guillaume Medard

Head of Proteomics Core Facility, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

6th Session

14:30 - 15:15

Developing a Target Product Profile for a drug discovery project

Sheraz Gul

Head of Innovation Area Drug Screening & Compound Repurposing, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology, Germany

 

Wednesday - November 27, 2024

1st Session

09:30 - 10:15

The European Chemical Biology Database (ECBD)

Ctibor Škuta

Head of the cheminformatics & software development unit, CZ-OPENSCREEN

2nd Session

10:15 - 11:00

Chemoproteomic characterisation of small molecule degraders

Stephanie Wilhelm

Chair of Proteomics and Bioanalytics, TU Munich (TUM), Germany

11:00Break (15')

3rd Session

11:15 - 12:00

BioImage.IO: Model Zoo in Action: No-Code AI Tools for Bioimage Processing

Carlos Javier Garcia Lopez de Haro (AI4Life)

Senior Scientist, Bioimage Analysis Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, France

12:00Lunch Break (60')

4th Session

13:00 - 13:45

Assay development and optimization

Pepo Brea

Head of HTS Unit BioFarma Research Group, University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), Spain

5th Session

13:45 - 14:30

Omics-based Biomarkers Detection from webtools

Francisco García

Group Leader, Computational Biomedicine Lab,Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF), Spain