Pre-Congress Didactic Introductory Workshops
Location: St Hilda’s College, Oxford
Date: Thursday, 24th September
Target audience: Young doctors and scientists
10.00-17.30: Realities and practicalities of drug discovery and development (click here for further workshop details)
Meeting Room: Rosalind Hill Room, Cristina Barrett Building Building
Organisers:
>Professor Glenn King, University of Queensland, Australia
>Professor Alan Harvey, University of Strathclyde, UK
Topics and speakers
Morning –
1. Introduction to toxins and drug discovery – Alan Harvey
2. Finding a meaningful target: pros and cons of molecular and functional assays – Frank Sams-Dodds
3. Finding a backable development opportunity: how to get something that is worth moving towards an approved medicine – Mike Wyllie
4. Protecting your Intellectual Property: no IP? no deal! – James Houston
Afternoon –
Presentations by participants and suggestions on improving projects’ chances of advancing into drug development – moderator: Glenn King
(click here for further workshop details)
10.00-17.30: Omics – an introduction (click here for further workshop details)
Meeting Room: South JCR, South Building
Organisers:
>Professor Juan Calvete, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain
>Professor Bruno Lomonte, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Topics and speakers
1. Constructing comprehensive venom proteome reference maps for integrative venomics – Juan J Calvete
2. Snake venomics based on MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrometry – Bruno Lomonte
3. Top-down venomics – An introduction to proteoform-resolved venom profiling – Daniel Petras
4. Integrating ‘omics’ and testing venom-related hypotheses – Nicholas Casewell
(click here for further workshop details)
10.00-17.30: Basics of clinical envenoming and poisoning (click here for further workshop details)
Meeting Room: Vernon Harcourt Room, South Building
Organisers:
>Professor David Warrell, University of Oxford, UK
>Professor Julian White, University of Adelaide, Australia
Aims:
Didactic course for younger doctors and scientists to provide a basic introduction to clinical aspects of envenoming and poisoning, accessible to both non-clinical and clinical scientists.
Topics and speakers:
Faculty
>Professor Fábio Bucaretchi (FB) Campinas, Brazil
>Dr Rick C Dart (RCD) Colorado, USA
>Professor Dr Dietrich Mebs (DM) Frankfurt, Germany
>Professor Sanjib Kumar Sharma (SKS) Dharan, Nepal
>Professor David A Warrell (DAW) Oxford, UK
>Professor Julian White (JW) Adelaide, Australia
>Dr David J Williams (DJW) Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
(click here for further workshop details)
