Events
Summer Course Glycosciences in Wageningen, the Netherlands
Wageningen, the Netherlands | 14th June - 18th June 2020
The next PhD4GlycoDrug Training Event will be the Summer Course Glycosciences, held in Wageningen in the Netherlands from June 14-18, 2020. For more information please visit https://www.vlaggraduateschool.nl/en/courses/course/Glycosciences20.htm.
PhD4GlycoDrug meeting in Basel, Switzerland
Basel, Switzerland| 30th March - 2nd April 2020 Cancelled
The sixth PhD4GlycoDrug Training Event will start with workshop on Determination of pharmacokinetic properties of drugs on March 30 and 31. This event will be followed by the General Consortium meeting on April 1. The last part of the network training event will be devoted to workshop Turning ideas into innovation – The role of intellectual property rights in life sciences.
Event program
14:00 - 14.15 | Welcome and introduction
14.15 - 15.00 | Absorption
15.00 - 15.45 | Distribution/Excretion
15.45 - 16.15 | Coffee break
16.15 - 17.15 | Metabolism
17.15 - 18.00 | ADME - Tutorial
18.00 - 20.00 | Dinner
09:00 - 10:30 | Cytochromes
10:30 - 10:45 | Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:00 | Transporters
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 14.15 | Metabolism vs. Transporter, with tutorial
14:15 - 15.00 | In vitro/in vivo correlation
15:00 - 16.00 | Special ADME aspects for glycodrugs
16:00 - 18.00 | Excursion: Pharmacy-Museum, Basel
19:00 - 21.00 | Dinner
09:30 - 10:30 | General Consortium meeting
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 | Scientific presentations of ESRs, part 1
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 | Scientific presentations of ESRs, part 2
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 | Open discussion
19:00 | Consortium dinner
09:00 - 09:30 | Start-up 1: Polyneuron
09:30 - 10:00 | Start-up 2: Gotham
10:00 - 11:00 | How are the Start-ups financed?
11:00 - 12:00 | Patents
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 | Patents
15:00 | Concluding remarks and closing of workshop
PhD4GlycoDrug meeting in Lund, Sweden
Lund, Sweden| 22nd - 25th October 2019
The fifth PhD4GlycoDrug Training Event will start with Poster presentation and elevator pitch training and a visit to MAXIV synchrotron and the European Spallation Source. The major part of the meeting in addition to General Consortium meeting will be Biotech entrepreneurship and life-science start-ups workshop.
Event program
09:00 - 17.00 | Poster presentation and elevator pitch training, Department of Chemistry, Lund University
18.00 - 20.00 | Dinner
20.00 | Late evening workshop on scientific communication
09:00 - 14:00 | Elevator pitch and presentation techniques training
14:00 - 16:00 | Site visit at MAXIV synchrotron and the European Spallation Source
18:00 - 21.00 | Poster pitches by ESRs and dinner
09:30 - 10:30 | General Consortium meeting
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 | Presentations of entrepreneurship case studies and of fundraising strategies: An overview
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch
13:00 - 13:45 | Fund raising strategies
13:45 - 14:30 | A GlycoDrug from bench to bedside: A case study
14:30 - 14:45 | Coffee Break
14:45 - 18:00 | Four groups of three students each prepare start-up pitches under supervision of invited lecturers and supervisors
19:00 | Consortium dinner
09:00 - 09:45 | Tech Transfer offices; Overviewing strategies and principles: Selected case studies
09:45 - 10:30 | Presentation of a case
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 | Four groups of three students each prepare start-up pitches under supervision of lecturers and supervisors
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch
13:00 - 15:00 | The Dragon’s den: Four start-up pitches and feedback from lecturers and supervisors
15:00 | Concluding remarks and closing of workshop
PhD4GlycoDrug meeting in Ljubljana
Ljubljana, Slovenia | 15th - 18th April 2019
The fourth PhD4GlycoDrug Training Event will start with Computer-aided Drug Design workshop that will be held at the University of Ljubljana on 15th and 16th April 2019. The event will be followed by the PhD4GlycoDrug Consortium Meeting on 17th April 2019. The Communication and Dissemination in Science training event will be held at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, on 18th April 2019. This event will be led by Dr. David Peralta, the Editor-in-Chief of ChemMedChem.
Event program
09:00 - 09.15 | Welcome, Marko Anderluh, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovenia
09:15 - 09.45 | Molecular Databases and Preparation of Compound Libraries for Virtual Screening, Peter Ertl, Novartis, Switzerland
09:55 - 10.25 | Advanced 3D-Pharmacophores in Drug Discovery Research, Sharon Bryant, Inte:Ligand GmbH, Austria
10:25 - 10.55 | Coffee Break
10:55 - 11.25 | 6D-QSAR Pseudoatomistic Receptor Modeling - Beyond the Classical QSAR in the Drug Discovery Pipeline, Nikola Minovski, National Chemistry Institute, Slovenia
11:35 - 12.05 | New in silico Tools for Drug Discovery, Janez Konc, National Chemistry Institute, Slovenia
12:05 - 13.45 | Lunch
13:45 - 15.15 | Training session 1 | Part A: Structure-based and Ligand-based pharmacophore modeling with LigandScout
15:15 - 15.45 | Coffee Break
15:45 - 17.15 | Training session 1 | Part B: Analysis of virtual screening results and prioritization of virtual hits
09:00 - 10:30 | Training session 2 | Part C: Fragment-based screening and docking with LigandScout
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 12.30 | Training session 2 | Part D: Case study: Galectins – preparation of compound libraries, ligand-based pharmacophore modeling
12:30 - 13.45 | Lunch
13:45 - 14.30 | Structure- and Fragment-Based Drug Design, Björn Walse, SARomics Biostructures AB, Sweden
14:45 - 15.45 | Thermodynamics and Kinetics: Fundamental Principles in Drug Discovery, Beat Ernst, University of Basel, Switzerland
09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome, Marko Anderluh, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy, Slovenia
09:05 - 09:30 | Coordinator's report - Presentation of the Network and the progress covering the following aspects: Management
09:30 - 10:40 | Consortium discussion - Report and discussion on secondments
10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 13:00 | Fellows' individual scientific presentations (order: ESR1-ESR6)
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 | Fellows' individual scientific presentations (order: ESR7-ESR12)
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 | Open discussion and closing
ESRs attending the Training event on Communication and dissemination of results in Science, led by Dr. David Peralta, the Editor-in-Chief of ChemMedChem
PhD4GlycoDrug meeting in Utrecht
Utrecht, The Netherlands | 07th - 09th November 2018
The third PhD4GlycoDrug Training Event Course on Multivalency and Course on Research Data Management will be held at the University of Utrecht on 7th and 8th November 2018. The event will be followed by the Mid Term Review Meeting of the PhD4GlycoDrug consortium on 8th and 9th November 2018.
Event program
ESRs attending the Course on Multivalency at the Utrecht University.
09:00 - 10:00 | (ESRs only) Course on Multivalency
10:15 - 12:45 | (ESRs only) Course on Research Data Management
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch
14:00 - 14:05 | Evaluation Meeting PhD4Glycodrug: Introduction
Short introduction by the Project Officer and the Project Coordinator (~5 minutes) on the purpose of the meeting.
14:05 - 14:35 | Tour de table
All scientists-in-charge should briefly present their research team and describe their role within the network. Introduction of the Partner Organisations
14:35 - 14:55 | Project officer presentation
Presentation on the monitoring of project implementation, reporting and purpose of the mid-term check
14:55 - 16:00 | Coordinator's report
Presentation of the Network and the progress
16:00 - 16:20 | Break
16:20 - 18:00 | ESR1-6 presentations (15 minutes each)
09:00 - 10:40 | ESR7-12 presentations
10:40 -12:40 | Restricted session of the Project Officer (with ESRs)
10:40 -12:40 | PI’s and partners, project discussion time
12:40 - 13:00 | Feedback and open discussion
Structural Glycoscience Summer School
Grenoble, France | 2nd - 4th July 2018
The 2018 edition of the Structural Glycoscience Summer School will be held from 2nd to 4th of July at IBS on EPN campus and at CERMAV on UGA campus. The Summer School is co-organized by the Glyco@Alps CDP project from Idex UGA and the EEC network PhD4GlycoDrug. For more information please visit https://glycoalps.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/glyco-alps/news/structural-glycoscience-summer-school-738593.htm.
PhD4GlycoDrug meeting in Gargnano
Gargnano, Italy | 15th - 16th June 2018
The first PhD4GlycoDrug Network Training Event will be held in Gargnano, Italy, between 10th and 16th June 2018. PhD4GlycoDrug ESRs will attend the “A. Corbella” International Summer School on Organic Synthesis – ISOS 2018 (http://corbellasummerschool.unimi.it/home/isos-2018/). This summer school will be followed by the PhD4GlycoDrug Consortium meeting, where all members of the consortium and all ESRs will meet for the first time.
Event program
ESRs attending the ``A. Corbella`` International Summer School on Organic Synthesis – ISOS 2018
09:00 - 11:00 | (ESRs only) Workshop on glycochemistry
Luigi Lay: Strategies for the synthesis of oligosaccharides
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30 | (ESRs only) Workshop on glycochemistry
Cinzia Colombo: Stereoselective 1,2-cis glycosylation reactions
12:30 - 13:00 | Fellow board meeting
Election of the ESR Supervisory Board member and ESR Dissemination and Communication Board
13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch
14:30 - 14:40 | Welcome
14:40 - 16:00 | Supervisory Board (SB) meeting
Recruitment and Training Board report, financial report, report on co-tutelles, report on the communication with EU project officer, report on deliverables to come
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 | ESR1-6 presentations (15 minutes each)
18:00 - 19:00 | PI meeting
Research, coordination and training issues
09:00 - 10:30 | ESR7-12 presentations (15 minutes each)
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 -12:30 | Supervisory Board (SB) meeting
Project management and 2nd part of the PI meeting, Dissemination and Communication Board meeting – dissemination strategy
12:30 - 13:00 | Recap & Closing words
Kick-off meeting
Ljubljana, Slovenia | 17th - 18th October 2017
Event program
09:00 | Welcome to the Network Partners of PhD4GlycoDrug
09:10 | Presentation of PhD4GlycoDrug
“Scientific and administrative aspects of the EJD Start-up guide for participants”
definition of ASAP deliverables
communication to EU10:30 | Coffee Break
11:00 | Management of PhD4GlycoDrug
formation of management bodies
13:00 | Lunch
14:30 | Scientific Presentations by Partners
16:00 | Coffee Break
09:00 | Scientific Presentations by Partners
09:45 | Management of PhD4GlycoDrug
recruitment and selection
10:30 | Coffee Break
10:45 | Management of PhD4GlycoDrug
12:00 | Closing remarks
