1st MMCS – Emerging Drug Discovery Approaches against Infectious Diseases

Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. The city combines modern and historic architecture in a unique way.

You can visit the official website of Barcelona Turisme for further information.

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Accommodation

We want your stay in Barcelona during the conference to be as good as possible. With that in mind, we have agreed a 10% discount with several hotels to make your accommodation choice a bit easier.

We are delighted to announce that the following three hotels, located a step away from the conference venue, will offer a discounted price for all attendees to the 1st Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium:

• Hotel Madanis: The Hotel Madanis offers 30 exclusive rooms where care has been taken to the last detail.
• Hotel Madanis Liceo: Modern design care, excellent connections with all Barcelona, and services designed for your comfort.
• Apartamentos Madanis: Tourist apartments for 1-5 people, fully equipped, offering guests the possibility to enjoy their visit to Barcelona with all the comforts.

Please add the discount code ‘molecules’ while making your reservation.

Atiram Hotels will also offer 10% discount on room booking:

• Oriente Atiram, Alba Hotel and Meson Castilla Atiram: Located in Las Ramblas, have a fantastic central location, next to Plaza Catalunya and the famous Boqueria market, 25 minutes away (by metro) from the conference venue.
• Arenas Atiram: The Arenas Atiram Hotel offers a highly personalized service together with very friendly, elegant facilities, only a few meters away from the conference venue.
• Tres Torres Atiram: Located in the center of one of the best residential neighborhoods of Barcelona, next to the distinguished commercial and leisure districts Diagonal Avenue, 2 km away from the conference venue.

Please add the discount code ‘MMCS17’ while making your reservation.

To ensure availability, we encourage you to book your accommodation as soon as possible.

Getting to Barcelona

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Once in Barcelona:

Public Transport (Bus & Metro): www.tmb.cat
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Public taxis can apply four types of fares in Barcelona. These fares must be visible inside the taxi, and are usually printed on a sticker over the window. Finally, the amount payable must be indicated on the taximeter.

Visa Requirements

Citizens of the EU and the EFTA

Citizens of EU and EFTA countries must present valid personal identification, an ID card or a passport. No visa is required.
Regardless of their citizenship, family members of EU and EFTA citizens must present a valid passport and they must have a specific residence permit from a Schengen country (no visa required). Otherwise a visa must be obtained.

For more information, see http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Portal/en/ServiciosAlCiudadano/InformacionParaExtranjeros/Paginas/Inicio.aspx.

EU Countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom.

EFTA Countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland.

Schengen Countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

Citizens of the USA and Canada

A valid passport is required. No visa is required for stays of up to 90 days.

Third-Country Nationals

A valid passport is required and in some cases a visa must be obtained prior to entering Spain. For more information, check http://www.exteriores.gob.es/Portal/en/ServiciosAlCiudadano/InformacionParaExtranjeros/Paginas/RequisitosDeEntrada.aspx.

Travel Insurance

Subscription to an insurance plan to protect you from the high costs of illness or accident during your stay in Spain is a prerequisite for obtaining your visa. You should obtain adequate travel, health and accident insurance before you depart from your country. The organizers are not responsible for personal injuries, or loss of, or damage to, private property belonging to the congress participants.

Letter of Invitation

A letter of invitation can be requested during the registration process using the "comments" field. The letter will be sent to you by email once the registration fees has been received. Letters of invitation do not include responsibility of, and, do not imply any financial support from the conference organizers.

The sponsor, Molecules, offers two awards to our participants at the Symposium:

1. Best Poster Award (1): 500€.
2. Best Oral Presentation Award (1): 500€

The nominations will be assessed by the Organizing Committee.

Early Registration (until 15 June 2017)

• Academic and Student: 50 EUR
• Non-academic: 100 EUR

Late Registration (from 15 June 2017 to 18 August 2017)

• Academic and Student: 80 EUR
• Non-academic: 130 EUR

The registration fee must be paid latest one month after registration and includes attendance of all conference sessions, morning/afternoon coffee breaks and lunch.

To register later than 18 August 2017 or for onsite registration, please contact the Conference Secretariat.

Cancellation Policy

Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid. The number of participants is limited, once the number of paid registrations reaches the maximum number of participants, unpaid registrations will be cancelled.

Cancellation of paid registration is possible under the terms listed below:

> 2 months before the conference	Full refund but 10 EUR are retained for administration
> 1 month before the conference	Refund 50% of the applying fees
> 2 weeks before the conference	Refund 25% of the applying fees
< 2 weeks before the conference	No refund

 

Welcome Message by the conference Chair Prof. Diego Muñoz-Torrero.

Our MDPI colleagues getting ready to welcome the attendees.

Busy time at the registration desk!

Dr. Kelly Chibali and  Dr. Maria Laura Bolognesi's opening talks.

Round of questions and answers.

Time for discussion during the coffee break.

Poster Session.

Afternoon Session.

Closing Remarks and Awards Ceremony

Best Poster Awardee Francesc Rabanal.

Our MDPI Barcelona Conference Team.

We hope to see you all in the next edition!

 

You can now download the conference program and the abstract book of the 1st Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium (MMCS), Barcelona (last update August, 25).

Program Structure – 1st MMCS – 8 September 2017, Barcelona
	Time	Sessions
Morning	8:00 – 8:45	Check-in
	8:45 – 9:00	Introduction
	9:00 – 9:45	Chair: Diego Muñoz-Torrero Kelly Chibale, Cell-based medicinal chemistry optimization of high-throughput screening hits towards orally active antimalarial and antituberculosis agents
	9:45 – 10:30	Maria Laura Bolognesi, Sustainable multi-target drugs for neglected tropical diseases caused by trypanosomatids: dream or reality?
	10:30 – 11:00	Coffee break
	11:00 – 11:45	Chair: Kelly Chibale Benoît Laleu, Current pipeline of antimalarial therapies
	11:45 – 12:00	Rodolfo Lavilla, Multicomponent reactions with heterocycles: a source of novel scaffolds for antiparasitic and antiviral agents
	12:00 – 12:15	Lakindu Samaranayake, Structure guided design of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae topoisomerase I inhibitors
	12:15 – 12:30	Caterina Pont, Design of potential antimalarial agents based on a homology model of Plasmodium falciparum glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase
	12:30 – 14:00	Lunch & Poster Session
Afternoon	14:00 – 14:45	Chair: Kelly Chibale John M. Kelly, Highly sensitive bioluminescence imaging models for Chagas disease drug discovery
	14:45 – 15:00	Fernando Albericio, Structure–activity relationship of Arg10–teixobactin: A recently discovered antimicrobial peptide
	15:00 – 15:15	Andrea Trabocchi, Diversity-oriented synthesis and chemical genetics of peptidomimetics to address lead discovery of anti-infective agents
	15:15 – 15:30	Alicia Boto, The search of new antimicrobial agents, by site-selective peptide modification
	15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
	16:00 – 16:45	Chair: Diego Muñoz-Torrero Jean-Marie Pagès, Antibiotic translocation and membrane barrier: New insights to combat bacterial resistance
	16:45 – 17:00	Florenci González Adelantado, Design and synthesis of cysteine protease inhibitors
	17:00 – 17:15	Ramon Eritja, Lipid–oligonucleotide conjugates forming G-quadruplex (lipoquads) as potent inhibitors of HIV entry
	17:15 – 17:30	Nataliya Sanina, Nitrosyl [2Fe-2S] ferredoxin mimetics as new nitric oxide donating antibacterial agents
	17:30 – 17:45	Hazem Sawalha, Cultivated and natural plant flora with antibacterial action collected from Palestine
	17:45 – 18:00	Closing remarks & Awards ceremony