Day 1: Monday, 27 May

09:00 − 09:15 Bert L. de Groot Opening remarks

Session 1 Chair: Matteo Aldeghi
09:15 − 09:45 John D. Chodera Adaptive Free Energy Calculations and Free-Energy Guided Design
09:45 − 10:15 Antonia Mey Reproducible Free Energy Workflows with BioSimSpace
10:15 − 10:35 Niels Hansen Probing Different Aspects of Stability for the Pin1-WW Domain

10:35 − 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 − 11:30 Herman van Vlijmen Prediction of Activity Cliffs Using FEP+ and Gromacs FEP
11:30 − 12:00 Peter V. Coveney Performance of Alchemical Relative Free Energy Calculations With and Without Replica-Exchange
12:00 − 12:20 Willem Jespers QligFEP: An Automated Workflow for Small Molecule Free Energy Calculations in Q

12:20 − 14:00 Posters/Lunch

Session 2 Chair: John D. Chodera
14:00 − 14:30 Clara Christ From Seven Million to Four - Identifying Novel Covalent Binders for KRASG12C
14:30 − 15:00 Philip W. Fowler Predicting Antimicrobial Resistance: The Role of Computational Modelling in Translating Genetics into Clinical Microbiology
15:00 − 15:20 Vytautas Gapsys Large Scale pmx/Gromacs Based Non-Equilibrium Free Energy Calculations

15:20 − 15:50 Coffee Break

15:50 − 16:20 David L. Mobley Improving the Accuracy of Binding Free Energy Calculations via Enhanced Binding Mode Sampling and Better Force Fields
16:20 − 16:40 Christina Schindler Free Energy Calculations in Active Drug Discovery Projects: Use Cases and Challenges
16:40 − 17:25 William L. Jorgensen FEP for Drug Design Including Computation of Absolute Free Energies of Binding

17:25 − 18:30 Discussion
													


Day 2: Tuesday, 28 May


Session 3 Chair: Vytautas Gapsys
09:00 − 09:30 Chris Oostenbrink Applications and Advances in the One-Step Perturbation Approach
09:30 − 10:00 Daniel Seeliger Fragment Binding Pose Predictions Using Unbiased Simulations and Markov-State-Models
10:00 − 10:20 Zoe Cournia Using Free Energy Perturbation Calculations to Predict Relative Binding Affinities in Drug Design

10:20 − 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 − 11:20 Jonathan W. Essex The Role of Water in Mediating Biomolecular Binding: From Water Locations to Their Impact on Binding Affinity
11:20 − 11:50 Thomas Steinbrecher In Silico Lead Optimization via Rapid Exploration of Synthetically Tractable Chemical Space with Combined Free Energy and Machine Learning Approaches
11:50 − 12:10 Andrea Rizzi The SAMPL6 SAMPLing Challenge: Assessing the Reliability and Efficiency of Binding Free Energy Calculations

12:10 − 13:40 Posters/Lunch

Session 4 Chair: Bert L. de Groot
13:40 − 14:10 Philip C. Biggin ABFE, Water and Chemists: A Useful Combination?
14:10 − 14:40 Zara Sands Free Energy Perturbation Calculations: Going Beyond SAR Analysis?
14:40 − 15:00 Gregory A. Ross Enhancing Relative Protein-Ligand Binding Free Energy Calculations With Grand Canonical Monte Carlo Simulations of Water Molecules

15:00 − 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 − 16:00 Albert Pan Using Long-Timescale Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Benchmark Enhanced Sampling Methods
16:00 − 16:20 Philip Kim Integrated Design of Novel Biologics
16:20 − 16:50 Gerhard König Free Energy Calculation Using a Reference State: Replica-Exchange Enveloping Distribution Sampling (RE-EDS)

16:50 − 17:00 Bert L. de Groot Closing remarks