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