Important note: For every approved student/participant the organization will cover all costs.
This course will provide a unique opportunity for scientists using diverse research approaches and methods for agrochemical and drug design to come together and to network. The course is designed to enhance discussions between researchers and consequently induce exchange of ideas and methods employed in their everyday lab work – benefiting participants own research as well as contributing to the progress of the field.
The course will cover aspects of: – Computationally Based Approaches to Agrochemical and Drug Discovery; – Application and limitations of structural data in structure-guided ligand and drug design; – docking algorithms and scoring functions; – Selecting appropriate targets for agrochemical design; – Virtual high throughput screening; – Protein structure function analysis; – Fragment based drug design.
Selection of students/participants:
80 positions will be offered for graduate students and pos-doctoral fellows in Computational Biology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology, Biology or Biomedical Sciences. Half of these positions (40) are reserved for applicants coming from outside of Brazil. The other half will be distributed among applicants from São Paulo state (20 positions) and students from other Brazilian states (20 positions).