We are happy to announce our latest speaker John Irwin, UCSF Pharmaceutical Chemistry, http://irwinlab.compbio.ucsf.edu
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Date: January 11, 2023
Time: noon ET / 9 am PT
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Title: Chemical screening library growth: is bigger better?
Abstract: To be confirmed
About the speaker:
John Irwin is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California San Francisco. John works on methods to discover new reagents for biological targets using target- and ligand-based methods. He applies these methods to various projects and participates in numerous collaborations.
John develops the ZINC database of commercially available compounds for virtual screening, the DUDE database for benchmarking virtual screening methods, the DOCK Blaster family of products for web-based virtual screening, and the SEA method of comparing proteins by the ligands they bind.
Short bio: John received his Ph.D. for work with Jack Dunitz in chemical crystallography in 1991 at ETH Zurich. He worked at a startup molecular modeling company before joining Gerard Bricogne's group at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge UK, developing software for new macromolecular crystallographic structure solution and refinement methods (BUSTER and SHARP). He spent a year and a half as a staff scientist at EMBL-EBI also in Cambridge working on the PDB cleanup project before moving to Northwestern University Medical School in 2000. He has been working on DOCK, ZINC, and SEA since 2000.
