Dear list subscribers, we are very delighted to announce this year’s “34th Molecular Modelling Workshop (MMWS)” (http://mmws2020.mgms-ds.de) that takes place on Monday 17th to Wednesday 19th February 2020 at the Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany. The MMWS has a long history of giving young scientists (especially graduate students) the opportunity to present their work and dive into discussions with each other and the "older experts" of the field to gain valuable feedback from academic as well as industrial colleagues. Oral and poster contributions are welcome from all areas of molecular modelling – from the life sciences, computational biology and chemistry, cheminformatics, to materials sciences. Starting with the scientific program on Monday after lunch should allow to avoid travelling on weekend keeping the expenses at a minimum. Once again the location changed - back to the roots we are now back again in the Organic Chemistry building at Henkestrasse 42. A hearty workshop dinner and a traditional joint evening in Erlangen’s Steinbach-Bräu brewery complement the scientific program. The workshop is organised by the German Section of the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society (MGMS-DS e.V.). ####### Pre-conference Schrödinger workshop ####### For the third time at our Molecular Modeling Workshop, Schrödinger is offering a pre-conference workshop entiteled "Structure-based Drug Design using the Schrödinger Suite". If you are interested in participating at the software session, please checkmark the corresponding field upon filling the registration form. Please note that this event is taking place at the CCC in Naegelsbachstrasse 25. ####### Plenary Speakers ####### We are very happy to announce that five outstanding researchers accepted our invitation to present a plenary lecture at the Modeling workshop: Petra Imhof, Berlin “Recognition and specificity in protein-DNA interactions - insight from molecular simulations” Pavel Jungwirth, Prague "Electrons in Liquid Ammonia and in Water: From Blue Electrolytes to Bronze Colored Metallic Solutions" Barbara Kirchner, Bonn "Insights into ionic and molecular liquids and their interfaces from computational chemistry" Charles Laughton, Nottingham "Enhancing conformational sampling with machine learning" Birgit Strodel, Jülich "Modelling peptide aggregation influenced by in vivo conditions" ####### Poster and Lecture Awards ####### As in the past years, there will be two poster awards of EUR 100 each and three lecture awards for the best contributed oral presentations: 1st winner: Travel bursary to attend the Young Modeller's Forum in London, UK, plus a speaker slot option at YMF (travel expenses are reimbursed up to EUR 500) 2nd winner: EUR 200 travel expenses reimbursement 3rd winner: EUR 100 travel expenses reimbursement Only undergraduate and graduate research students qualify for the poster and lecture awards. ####### Registration and poster/talk submission ####### Submit talks and/or poster titles via the registration form accessible on the workshop website https://mmws2020.mgms-ds.de/index.php?m=register The deadline for all submissions is January 24th, 2020. ####### General information ####### Website http://mmws2020.mgms-ds.de will provide all necessary information about the meeting. We are looking forward to meeting you in Erlangen! - Christof Jäger, Scientific Committee Workshop Organisation 2020 - Harald Lanig, Chairman of the MGMS-DS e.V. (http://www.mgms-ds.de) -- -------------------------------------------------------- PD Dr. Harald Lanig Universitaet Erlangen/Nuernberg Zentralinstitut fuer Scientific Computing (ZISC) Forschungsdatenmanagement SFB 814 und SFB 1411 Martensstrasse 5a 91058 Erlangen +49 9131-85 20781 harald.lanig@fau.de --------------------------------------------------------