Mireia and Fran participated in the X Festa de la Ciència organized by the Universitat de Barcelona with a hands-on session entitled “Tècniques computacionals per entendre el funcionament de molècules.” They showed several movies that illustrated the function of biomolecular systems, and an exercise about docking of ligands in proteins. It attracted the interest of…
Read MoreOn May 8th, ate the Torribera Campus, we held our periodic meeting with our colleagues who are part of the Computational Biology and Drug Design (CBDD) group. During the first part of the meeting, we conducted a technical session focused on the enhanced technique of Metadynamics. This consisted of an initial theoretical talk by Rhys…
Read MoreAitor and Salomé participated in the 4th Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium. Aitor contributed a short talk about the binding mode of the fusion peptide inhibitors VF57, and Salomé presented a poster reporting the molecular basis of the selective transport of cholesterol and related analogs in NPC1L1.
Read MoreCongratulations to our members William Zamora and Antonio Viayna on the recent acceptance of their article titled “From Canonical to Unique: Extension of a Lipophilicity Scale of Amino Acids to Non-Standard Residues” in the Exploration of Drug Science (EDS). This article also involved collaboration with Paulina Matamoros and David Blázquez-Ruano from the University of Costa…
Read MoreCongratulations to our members Javier Vázquez and Javier Luque on the recent acceptance of their article titled “On the relevance of query definition in the performance of 3D ligand-based virtual screening” in the Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design (JCAMD). This article also involved collaboration with Ricardo García, Paula Llinares, and Enric Herrero, through the partnership…
Read MoreNext Friday, April 5th, our recent visitor, Federico Croci, a doctoral student from the Università degli Studi di Perugia, will defend his doctoral thesis entitled “Antimalarials, antivirals and PROTACs: travelling through different aspects of drug discovery and design.” In this defense, he will present some of the results and research he conducted during his stay…
Read MoreOn April 2nd, the IV edition of the National CyTA Junior Congress took place at the Torribera Food Campus, as part of the XII CyTA CESIA Congress jointly organized by the University of Barcelona (UB) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). It served as a meeting point for all professionals related to the science,…
Read MoreOver the past 2 months, we’ve had the privilege of hosting Prof. William Zamora, a full professor at the University of Costa Rica (UCR). He’s a frequent collaborator with the CBCG group on diverse projects, primarily focused on physicochemical descriptors, such as lipophilicity and the development of solvation methods tools. These past two months have…
Read MoreLast week, the CBCG Group had the pleasure of welcoming Professor Anderson Lima from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). During his visit, we were fortunate to have him deliver a seminar titled “Unraveling deacylation in class C beta-lactamases to combat antibiotic resistance” His visit was a significant contribution , allowing us to exchange knowledge…
Read MoreOn February 2nd, the CBCG Group organized a group activity around the surroundings of the Torribera Campus. First, we walked from the campus to the Sant Jeroni de la Murtra monastery (which has the honor of having been visited by the Catholic Monarchs in the 15th century!). Then we headed to the Cal Dimoni Restaurant…
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