Hi everyone,
My blogpost this time around is a list of conferences popular with OPIGlets. You are highly likely to see at least one of us attending or presenting at these meetings! I’ve tried to make it as exhaustive as possible (with thanks to Fergus Imrie!), listing conferences in upcoming chronological order.
(Most descriptions are slightly modified snippets taken from the official websites.)
AI@Oxford
Link: https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/innovation-news/events/aioxford-conference/
Last Held: Oxford, UK (2018)
Next Held: Oxford, UK (17th-18th September 2019)
Description: This annual conference covers three core disciplines of artificial intelligence: Technology and Applications of AI, AI in Healthcare, and AI in Society.
UKQSAR Spring/Autumn Meetings
Link: http://ukqsar.org/index.php/2019/07/26/ukqsar-autumn-meeting-26th-september-2019-sygnature-nottingham/
Last Held: Cambridge, UK (April 2019)
Next Held: Nottingham, UK (26th September 2019)
Description: Held in Spring and Autumn each year, the UKQSAR meetings bring industry representatives and academics together to discuss ML, MD, and QM contributions to quantitative structure activity relationship studies.
The European Cooperation for Statistics and Network Data Science (COSTNET)
Link: https://costnet.webhosting.rug.nl/
Last Held: Warsaw, Poland (September 2018)
Next Held: Bilbao, Portugal (9th-11th October 2019)
Description: A conference popular with our network scientists. It aims to critically assess commonalities and opportunities for cross-fertilization of statistical network models in various applications, with a focus on scalability in the face of Big Data.
European Laboratory Research & Innovation Group (ELRIG) Drug Discovery Conference
Link: https://elrig.org/portfolio/2019-drug-discovery/
Last Held: London, UK (October 2018)
Next Held: Liverpool, UK (5th-6th November 2019)
Description: ELRIG’s flagship conference Drug Discovery 2019 is well attended by academics and industry alike, and includes sessions focussing on the underlying science behind better drug discovery. This year’s conference will be centred around ‘A Look Back to the Future’ and will include plenary introductions assessing how we got to where we are now and setting the challenges for discovering the drugs of the future. These will be followed by cutting edge talks and examples of new directions in drug discovery. Charlotte will be speaking at this conference.
MGMS Young Modellers Forum
Link: https://www.mgms.org/WordPress/conferences/
Last Held: London, UK (November 2018)
Next Held: London, UK (29th November 2019)
Description: The Young Modellers’ Forum (YMF) is a popular and free one-day conference which provides the opportunity for research students to present their work — either as a talk or a poster — to audiences with an interest in the field. The MGMS also sponsors events organised by other societies, providing the organisers with several student bursaries, enabling students to attend the conference.
Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics Conference
Link: https://www.antibodysociety.org/upcoming-meetings/
Last Held: San Diego, USA (December 2018)
Next Held: San Diego, USA (9th-13th December 2019)
Description: The annual meeting of the Antibody Society. Academic and industry scientists from around the world convene to share best practices and scientific results to accelerate antibody research, discovery efforts and clinical programs. With 900+ attendees, 135+ speaker presentations and 75+ exhibitors and 135+ scientific posters focused on antibody science and technology, Antibody Engineering & Therapeutics is the global meeting place for antibody science, technology and networking.
Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
Link: https://www.biophysics.org/2020meeting#/
Last Held: Baltimore MD (March 2019)
Next Held: San Diego CA (15th-19th February 2020)
Description: The Biophysical Society Annual Meeting has a long-held reputation for bringing together leading scientists from the all over the world who work at the interface of the life, physical, and computational sciences. This five-day meeting provides attendees with opportunities to share their latest unpublished findings and learn the newest emerging techniques and applications.
American Chemical Society Conference (ACS)
Link: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/news-room/national-meeting-news-releases-spring-2019.html
Last Held: Orlando FL, USA (March 2019)
Next Held: Philadelphia PA, USA (22nd-26th March 2020)
Description: Popular with our cheminformaticians, the American Chemical Society conference features a comprehensive range of chemistry-themed posters and presentations. This year’s theme was ‘Chemistry for New Frontiers’, and next year’s will be ‘Macromolecular Chemistry: the Second Century’.
Higher Order Structure in Protein Therapeutics Conference (CASSS HOS)
Link: https://www.casss.org/page/HOS1901
Last Held: San Francisco CA, USA (April 2019)
Next Held: Gaithersburg MD, USA (20th-22nd April 2020)
Description: A primarily industrial conference hosted by CASSS that focusses on the application of structure-based informatics in protein therapeutic engineering, design, and development.
The Essential Protein Engineering Summit (PEGS)
Link: https://www.pegsummit.com/
Last Held: Boston MA, USA (April 2019)
Next Held: Boston MA, USA (3rd-8th May 2020)
Description: The annual PEGS meeting. Last year, 2700 world-renowned experts, visionaries, and influencers from top pharma, biotech, academic, and government institutions gathered at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. The conference program is split into protein engineering, oncology, immunotherapy, expression, analytical, immunogenicity & bioassays, bioconjugates, therapies & technologies and short courses/training seminars. A 2020 immunotherapeutics workshop hosted by OPIGlets will be announced shortly! Charlotte will also be presenting at the European meeting in Lisbon this November.
Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB)/European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)
Link: ISMB – https://www.iscb.org/ismb2020| ECCB – https://eccb2020.info/
Last Held: Joint in Basel, Switzerland (July 2019)
Next Held: ISMB – Montreal, Canada (12-16th July 2020) | ECCB – Barcelona, Spain (5th-9th September 2020)
Description: This meeting touches on nearly every sector of systems and computational biology. Last year, eleven OPIGlets with diverse backgrounds across protein folding, immunoinformatics, network analysis and cheminformatics attended and presented at the joint ISMB/ECCB conference in Basel*. Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) split the extensive programme into more manageable, subject-specific chunks.
*ISMB and ECCB biennially hold a joint conference, last year in Basel. In even years, the two conferences are held in different venues.
RSC-BMCS AI in Chemistry
Link: http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/38130/2nd-rsc-bmcs-rsc-cicag-artificial-intelligence-in-chemistry
Last Held: Cambridge, UK (September 2019)
Next Held: To be announced (Exp. September 2020)
Description: This annual conference (since 2018) is hosted by the Biological & Medicinal Chemistry Sector (BMCS) and Chemical Information & Computer Applications Group (CICAG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry. The meeting, held over two days, combines aspects of artificial intelligence and deep machine learning methods to applications in chemistry.
Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire (AIRR) Community Meeting
Link: https://www.antibodysociety.org/airr-community-meetings/
Last Held: Genoa, Italy (May 2019)
Next Held: To be announced (Exp. Late 2020)
Description: Our immunoinformatics work increasingly uses large immunoglobulin sequencing (Ig-seq) datasets. This conference brings together the scientists creating this Ig-seq data, the informaticians studying it, and the industrialists trying to incorporate it into their therapeutic design pipelines.
Proteins (a Gordon Research Conference)
Link: https://www.grc.org/proteins-conference/2019/?fbclid=IwAR1iMGvCYzr7E8h0lGOiiF_nAzFsv7kfo4n6SfOG4yY5UnSpdcd8tTjkUT8
Last Held: Nolderness NH, USA (June 2019)
Next Held: To be announced (Exp. 2021)
Description: This biennial conference brings together experimental, theoretical and computational biochemists, biophysicists, chemists, chemical biologists, biologists and bioengineers who study the diverse aspects of protein science including protein function, dynamics, regulation, folding, and evolution. This year’s theme was ‘Molecular Form and Function of Proteins, in Nature and by Design’.
Computer-Aided Design (a Gordon Research Conference)
Link: https://www.grc.org/computer-aided-drug-design-conference/2019/?fbclid=IwAR0rwZ4AU-uCqWHBri6KGbqow3XZVuKN9pf8n0IMz-5pkeR99NbJIghjSmQ
Last Held: West Dover VT, USA (July 2019)
Next Held: To be announced (Exp. 2021)
Description: This biennial conference focuses on recent advances at the intersection of Big Data, Small Molecules, and Macromolecular Protein Structures. The program is designed to communicate success stories, share and learn from various challenges that the field faces, and emphasize recent highlights and creative approaches. The conference brings together world-class scientists and researchers. In the spirit of the GRC, every talk in the program has an element of unpublished work. This year’s theme was ‘Integrating Big Data and Macromolecular Protein Structures into Small Molecule Design’.
Cambridge Networks Day
Link: https://www.cnn.group.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-networks-day
Last Held: Cambridge, UK (August 2019)
Next Held: Cambridge, UK (Exp. 2021)
Description: The CNDay brings together researchers with an interest in complex networks from a wide variety of fields, from biology to physics, computer science, sociology and business.
Sheffield Conference in Cheminformatics
Link: https://cisrg.shef.ac.uk/shef2019/
Last Held: Sheffield, UK (June 2019)
Next Held: Sheffield, UK (Exp. 2022)
Description: This triennial conference held in Sheffield, England features presentations on all things Cheminformatics for academia and industry.
