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BAGIM is an active community of Boston area scientists bringing together people from diverse fields of modeling and informatics to impact life and health sciences. BAGIM strives to create a forum for great scientific discussions covering a wide range of topics including data management, visualization, computational chemistry, drug discovery, protein structure, molecular modeling, structure-based drug design, data mining, software tools, and the sharing of goals and experiences. Our community is made up of participants from academia, government, and industry whose goal is to engage in the discussion of science involving a synthesis of theory and technology. Discussions sponsored by BAGIM are targeted to the needs and interests of informatics scientists, computational chemists, medicinal chemists, and statisticians. BAGIM also provides opportunities for networking within these disciplines as well as an arena for the dissemination of information of specific interest to the membership.

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

BAGIM (Virtual) Event: Clayton Springer

Join us on July 28th at 6:00 pm for a seminar by Clayton Springer entitled “Self Driving Chemical Space Exploration.” Clayton Springer is in the Computer-Aided Drug Design group at Novartis.

He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in Math from Penn State, where he was introduced to applying computers to chemistry in Kennie Merz’s group. From there, he earned his PhD with Martin Head-Gordon at UC Berkeley in the Chemistry department. He did his postdocs at Sandia National Labs with Diana Roe and at UCSF with Fred Cohen.

At Novartis, he provides medicinal chemistry-based support of projects and technology development. His disclosed project work includes: Selective Estrogen Degraders (SERD); BCL-2; hERG inhibition; Matrix Metalloproteinase; Protein Kinase D; and Aldosterone Synthase.

On the technology side, he has been involved in Molecule Matched Pairs (MMP) and machine learning on ADMET -- specifically hERG, Human Serum Albumin (HSA), and Volume of Distribution. He was part of the team that developed Novartis’ internal med-chem productivity tool called Focus.

His recent activities in library design led him to the topic for today’s talk on “Self driving chemical space exploration.”

You must register in advance for this Zoom meeting via Meetup. All registered members will receive the link in advance.

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