The Program of the Symposium

Dear colleagues, the final program of the XXXI Symposium on Bioinformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery will be finally composed by 8 October 2025.

Three types of reports will be presented at the Symposium:

Plenary/Keynote lectures - 20 minutes per talk + 10 minutes for questions, answers, and discussions.

Oral presentations - 15 minutes per talk + 5 minutes for questions, answers, and discussions.

Young Scientists flash presentations - 5 minutes per talk + 5 minutes for questions, answers, and discussions.

To provide the extended feasibilities of communication between the Symposium participants, E-Poster Session will be held on October 1-22, 2025.

The posters are available only for the registered participants of the Symposium, after authorization.

Discussions between the participants will be arranged in private mode, by correspondence. The corresponding author’s email address can be found in the "Address for Correspondence" field.

The Organizing Committee asks the corresponding authors to answer on the questions of other Symposium’s participants as soon as possible.

Participants of the Young Scientists Contest may be also asked by the Members of the International Scientific Committee. Based on the responses, twelve young scientists will be selected for the Flash Presentations by October 8, 2025, and the best young scientists will be awarded by October 22, 2025.

The best posters will be awarded by the special Diplomas.

All reports will be presented in English.

Scheduled time - Moscow (UTC+3).

Monday October 20, 2025

Chairmans: Vladimir Poroikov and Roman Efremov
08:30 Opening of the Symposium
Plenary lectures
09:00

AI-ASSISTANT, AI-ANALYST AND AI-RESEARCHER: THREE LEVELS OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN CHEMISTRY

Valentine Ananikov

Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Oral presentations
10:00

TRANSCRIPTOMIC PROFILING OF T CELLS IN 4T1 TNBC TUMORS

Md. Iftehimul

Institute of Biotechnology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, Bangladesh

10:20

TRANSCRIPTOMICS-BASED DRUG REPURPOSING OF SP600125 TO TARGET PRONEURAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION IN GLIOBLASTOMA

Kirill Odarenko

Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia

10:40

DO-NO-HARM MOLECULAR GENERATION 12-MODEL BENCHMARK AND KRAS G12D CASE STUDY

Daria Ryabchenko

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

Keynote lectures
11:00

ON OUR UNDERSTANDING OF AGING, PERSONALIZED MEDICINE AND GERIATRIC CARE

G. Narahari Sastry

Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Kandi, Telangana, India

11:30

FRAGMENT-BASED NMR SCREENING FOR INHIBITORS OF BACTERIAL ENZYMES

Vladimir Polshakov

Chemical Department, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Oral presentations
12:00

HARNESSING BIOINFORMATICS FOR HPV THERAPEUTICS ENHANCED DRUG REPURPOSING, PROTEIN HOMOLOGY, AND COMPREHENSIVE DATA MINING FOR TARGETED TREATMENT DEVELOPMENT

Arli Aditya Parikesit

Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Indonesia International Institute for Life Sciences, Jakarta, Indonesia

12:20

SEARCH FOR MONKEYPOX VIRUS 2-O-METHYLTRANSFERASE INHIBITORS BY MOLECULAR MODELING

Ekaterina Mandrygina

Research Computing Center, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

12:40

CHRONOBIOTICSDB AS THE FORERUNNER DATABASE OF AI-POWERED PERSONILISED CHRONOPHARMACOLOGY

Ilya Solovev

Pitirim Sorokin Syktyvkar State University, Syktyvkar, Russia

lunch break 13:00-15:00
Chairmans: Jose Medina-Franco and Vladimir Palyulin
Keynote lectures
15:00

COMBINING COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AND EPR SPECTROSCOPY FOR PROTEIN–LIGAND BINDING SITE ANALYSIS

Olesya Krumkacheva

International Tomography Center SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

15:30

NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTATIONAL MODELS OF THE BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER

Christian Jorgensen

University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Oral presentations
16:00

DEVELOPMENT OF A VIRTUAL SCREENING PIPELINE FOR THE DISCOVERY OF NOVEL SARS-COV-2 MPRO INHIBITORS

Daniel Malikin

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

16:20

ROLE OF INTERACTION FINGERPRINTS IN MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR SARS-COV-2 MPRO INHIBITORS

Anastasiia Fomina

Chumakov FSC R&D IBP RAS (Institute of Poliomyelitis), Moscow, Russia

16:40

IN SILICO SCREENING OF PROBIOTIC-DERIVED METABOLITES AS LUXS QUORUM SENSING INHIBITORS IN OTITIS MEDIA PATHOGENS

Samir Zergat

University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

17:00

AN INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL STRATEGY FOR PROFILING TERPENOID FOR DUAL-TARGET LEADS AGAINST KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE PENICILLIN-BINDING PROTEIN 3 AND BETA-LACTAMASE

Gideon Gyebi

Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa

17:20

CONSENSUS METHODOLOGY FOR DIRECTED SEARCH OF COMPOUNDS WITH ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST S. AUREUS

Arina Golubeva

Volgograd State Medical University, Volgograd, Russia

17:40

A CHEMINFORMATICS APPROACHES FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF INHIBITORS AGAINST MACROLIDE 2'-PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE TYPE I

Carlos Alberto Lobato-Tapia

Universidad Politécnica Metropolitana de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico

Keynote lectures
18:00

MACHINE LEARNING METHODOLOGIES AND THE FUTURE OF DRUG DISCOVERY

Rachelle Bienstock

RJB Computational Modeling LLC, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

18:30

COMBINING MACHINE LEARNING AND STRUCTURE-BASED APPROACHES FOR THE EFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL BIOACTIVE SCAFFOLDS

Alan Talevi

National University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata; Argentinean National Council of Scientific and Technical Research, La Plata; Boolzi SA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tuesday October 21, 2025

Chairmans: Kunal Roy and Dmitry Shulga
Keynote lectures
09:00

A NOVEL DRUG DESIGN APPROACH: QUANTITATIVE STRUCTURE-INTERACTION ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP (QSIAR) IN ANTI-TUBERCULAR AGENTS

Anil Saxena

Global Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Kashipur, Uttarakhand, India

09:30

MULTI-AGENT DRUG DISCOVERY ORCHESTRA

Andrei Dmitrenko

D ONE AG, Zurich, Switzerland; ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

Oral presentations
10:00

TOXAI ASSISTANT - AN IN SILICO ALTERNATIVE TO RATS TESTING FOR ACUTE TOXICITY

Oleg Tinkov

Ligand Pro, Moscow, Russia

10:20

REVOLUTIONIZING DRUG SAFETY ASSESSMENT VIA QSAR AND Q-RASAR BASED TOXICITY PREDICTION TO PROTECT HUMAN HEALTH

Shubha Das

Drug Discovery and Development Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

10:40

ADVERSE REACTIONS OF WORLD-WIDE APPROVED DRUGS

Polina Savosina

Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

11:00

CONSENSUS QSAR APPROACHES FOR PREDICTING PLACENTAL BARRIER PERMEABILITY IN REPRODUCTIVE TOXICOLOGY

Pabitra Samanta

Drug Discovery and Development Laboratory, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

11:20

FULLY-CONNECTED CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS BASED ON MULTIPLE DOCKING A NEW MACHINE LEARNING METHOD FOR SEARCHING BIOLOGICAL ACTIVE COMPOUNDS

Pavel Vassiliev

Volgograd State Medical University, Volgograd, Russia

11:40

DEEP LEARNING CONVOLUTIONAL CORRELATION NEURAL NETWORK BASED ON MULTIPLE DOCKING FOR IDENTIFYING PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUNDS

Maksim Perfilev

Volgograd State Medical University, Volgograd, Russia

Keynote lectures
12:00

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONING OF TRPV CHANNELS: INSIGHTS FROM MOLECULAR MODELING

Yuri Trofimov

Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences; Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Moscow, Russia

12:30

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS AND PHARMACOPHORE MODELING OF THE INACTIVE MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR FOR ANTAGONIST DISCOVERY

Carlos Lagos

Universidad San Sebastián, Centro Basal Ciencia & Vida, Santiago, Chile

lunch break 13:00-16:00
Chairmans: Athina Geronikaki and Alexey Lagunin
Young Scientists flash presentations
16:00

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Keynote lectures
18:00

ULTRA-LARGE LIBRARIES AND CHEMICAL SPACES OF VIRTUAL SCREENING SAMPLES WITH PROPOSED SYNTHETIC ROUTES

Marc C. Nicklaus

Actyon Discovery, Inc., San Diego/Catonsville, United States

18:30

COMPUTER-AIDED ANTIMICROBIAL DISCOVERY: STRUCTURE–ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS OF RECOMBINANT HOST DEFENSE PEPTIDES AGAINST DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIA

William J. Zamora

University of Costa Rica, San Pedro, San José, Costa Rica; National Advanced Computing Collaboratory (CNCA), National High Technology Center (CeNAT), Costa Rica

Wednesday October 22, 2025

Chairmans: Rajesh Goel and Dmitry Osolodkin
Keynote lectures
09:00

AN IMPROVED Q-RASAR MODELING FRAMEWORK FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICITY ENDPOINTS

Kunal Roy

Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

09:30

PROTEIN ENGINEERING METHODS FOR CHALLENGING MEMBRANE-BOUND DRUG TARGETS

Ivan Gushchin

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Dolgoprudny, Russia

Oral presentations
10:00

THE NATURE OF ENTROPY-ENTHALPY COMPENSATION, EXOTIC ARRHENIUS PARAMETER AND KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECT IN THE DENATURATION KINETICS OF PROTEINS

Alexey Baklanov

Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia

10:20

COMPUTER MODELING OF SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMICAL SYSTEMS PROPERTIES AND REACTIVITY AND ITS POTENTIAL IMPACT IN COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DISCOVERY

Alexander Novikov

Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

10:40

HOW FLAVONOID PARAMETERIZATION DETERMINES DRUG-INDECED MEMBRANE BIOPHYSICAL OUTCOMES

Anna Malykhina

Laboratory of Membrane and Ion Channel Modeling, Institute of Cytology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

Keynote lectures
11:00

A LONG, HARD ROAD TO PHYSICALLY CORRECT CALCULATION OF PROTEIN–PROTEIN BINDING FREE ENERGIES

Anton Chugunov

Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences; Research Institute for Systems Biology and Medicine, Moscow, Russia

11:30

STATE-OF-THE-ART COVALENT VIRTUAL SCREENING WITH ALPHAFOLD3

Nir London

The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Oral presentations
12:00

TOOL FOR DIVERSITY VISUALIZATION ON THE LEVEL OF MOLECULAR SCAFFOLDS, TDV CHEMICAL DATA AT GLANCE

Pavel Pogodin

Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

12:20

STUDYING THE ALLOSTERIC COMMUNICATION IN BIOMOLECULES USING INFORMATION THEORY

Ruslan Mallaev

M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

12:40

IN SILICO REVERSE FRAGMENT BASED DRUG DISCOVERY APPROACH (R-FBDD) CORE IDEAS, CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Dmitry Shulga

Department of Chemistry at Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

lunch break 13:00-16:00
Chairmans: Alexander Kel and Olga Tarasova
Oral presentations
16:00

A NOVEL STRATEGY TO OVERCOME PARPI RESISTANCE TARGETING UBE2N WITH NON-COVALENT INHIBITORS

Shafi Ullah Khan

Université de Caen Normandie, INSERM U1086 ANTICIPE (Interdisciplinary Research Unit for Cancers Prevention and Treatment), BioTICLA laboratory (Precision medicine for ovarian cancers), Caen, France

16:20

STEROIDAL PREGNANES AS NOVEL 11-HSD1 INHIBITORS INSIGHTS FROM MACHINE LEARNINGBASED QSAR AND MOLECULAR MODELING

Oludare Ogunyemi

Structural and Computational Biology Group, Nutritional and Industrial Biochemistry Research Unit, Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

16:40

IRACEMA, A DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS ISOLATED AND CHARACTERIZED BY BRAZILIAN RESEARCHERS

Thais Lourenco

University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Keynote lectures
17:00

A COMPUTATIONAL PIPELINE FOR ACCELERATING THE DESIGN OF GLYCOMIMETICS

Robert J. Woods

Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

17:30

IN SILICO SMALL MOLECULE DRUG DISCOVERY FROM THE PHARMA COMPANY POINT OF VIEW

Germes Chilov

JSC "Valenta Pharm", Shchelkovo, Moscow Region, Russia

Plenary lectures
18:00

ON THE USE OF MACHINE LEARNING MODELS FOR NEW APPROACH METHODOLOGIES

Tudor I. Oprea

Expert Systems Inc., San Diego, California, USA

19:00 Сlosure of the XXXI Symposium on Bioinformatics and Computer-Aided Drug Discovery

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