The Second Kazan Summer School in Chemoinformatics (KSSCI-2015) has been held in Kazan, Russia, from 6th to 9th July 2015.
This School was organized in the framework of the project 14-43-00024 funded by Russian Scientific Foundation.
Chemoinformatics is a new and highly demanded multidisciplinary domain of modern chemistry in the intersection of chemistry, biology, mathematics and informatics. The main objectives of this domain are storing and management of chemical information and its use to create compounds, reactions and materials possessing desired features. Chemoinformatics is widely used to create new drugs for medicinal and veterinary purposes, as well as innovative materials, catalysts, reagents for chemical industry. Despite the large potential demand for specialists in Chemoinformatics, educational programs of this discipline in Russia are not yet quite developed. In 2012 in Kazan Federal University (KFU) the Master program of Chemoinformaitcs has been opened, which is now the third active educational program of Chemoinformatics in the world. Similar programs are opened in Moscow State University (MSU) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT).
This School is the second Summer School on Chemoinformatics in Kazan, the first one took place in 2012 and united about 90 participants from 7 countries. 12 lectures, 4 tutorials and 10 oral reports were presented in the School. The site of latter School is accesible here
KSSCI-2015 aimed to create the conditions for training specialists of Chemoinformatics in Russia, as well as to create educational and scientific environment for scientists, pharmaceutical and chemical industry representatives, IT specialists and software developers.
Important dates
1.10.2014 – 1.04.2015 – registration
1.11.2014 – 1.04.2015 – abstract submission
Registration fee – till 01.05.2015
6.07.2015 - 09.07.2015 – Conference days
The main topics of the School were:
Program:
Program of the event includes:
- Lectures of world-leaders in chemoinformatics
- Plenary presentations on cutting-edge approaches
- Oral reports about personal achievements of participants
- Poster session
- Tutorials (on data sources, QSAR, Structure-based drug design)
Speakers:
- Johann Gasteiger (University of Erlangen, Germany)
- Igor Tetko (Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany)
- Alex Tropsha (University of North Carolina, USA)
- Alexandre Varnek (University of Strasbourg, France)
- Joao Aires de Sousa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)
- Thierry Langer (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Valery Tkachenko (Royal Society of Chemistry, UK)
- Vladimir Poroikov (Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Russia)
- Vladimir Tsirelson (Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology, Russia)
- Igor Baskin (Moscow State University, Russia)
- Dragos Horvath (CNRS, France)
- Gilles Marcou (University of Strasbourg, France)
- Pavel Polishchuk (Bogatsky Physico-Chemical Institute, Ukraine)
- Igor Antipin (Kazan Federal University, Russia)
- Hanoch Senderowitz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
- Artem Oganov (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
- Vitaly Solov'ev (Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russia)
- Timur Madzhidov (Kazan Federal University, Russia)
- Benoit Creton (IFP Energies nouvelles, France)
- Marcus Gastreich (BioSolveIT, Germany)
- Veli-Pekka Hyttinen (ACS International, Finland)
Venue:
The event has been held in A.M. Butlerov Institute of Chemistry, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia.
Language:
English was official language of the event.
Contact Information:
Any questions about the School-seminar can be addressed to Scientific Secretary
Dr. Timur I. Madzhidov (Kazan Federal University, Russia)
E-mail: timur.madzhidov@kpfu.ru
Tel: (843) 233-73-71