1st US–Macedonian Workshop on Modeling in Chemistry and Biochemistry

14 Oct 2025, 09:00 → 15 Oct 2025, 15:00 Europe/Skopje

Lacture room 124 (Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics)

Igor Kuzmanovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje)

We do not pollute – We compute

Tuesday, 14 October ¶

09:00 → 09:30 Opening ceremony¶

09:30 → 10:15 Tentative title: Four pillars of mathematical chemistry & QSAR in the service of the seven pillars of life: A novel perspective.¶

Speaker: Prof. Subash Basak (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA)

10:15 → 10:45 Cocktail

10:45 → 11:15 Title - To be announced¶

Invited lecture - 1

Speaker: Dr Marjan Vračko (National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

11:15 → 11:45 Tentative title: Digital Chemistry as an Interplay of Chemistry, Mathematics and Informatics¶

Speaker: Prof. Denis Sabirov (Institute of Petrochemistry and Catalysis of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

11:45 → 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 → 13:45 Title - To be announced¶

Speaker: Prof. Guang Hu (School of Life Sciences, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University)

13:45 → 14:15 From Morphology to Chirality: Molecules to Tissues¶

Speaker: Dr Claudiu Lungu (University Babes Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

14:15 → 15:00 Applying Machine Learning Techniques to Evaluate DNA-Reactive Properties of Generic Drug Impurities¶

Speaker: Dr Suman Chakrqvarti (Vice President of MultiCase inc., Ohio, USA)

Wednesday, 15 October ¶

09:00 → 09:45 Atomic charges and molecular electrostatic potential in drug design: refined empirical approaches¶

Speaker: Prof. Vladimir Palyulin (M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)

09:45 → 10:30 Higher Dimensional Structures for Better Understanding of the Chemical Space and Its Evolution¶

Speaker: Dr Guillermo Restrepo (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:30 A Quantum Chemical Computational Study of Catalytic Activity Invoking CDFT Based Descriptors¶

Speaker: Dr Tanmoy Chakraorty

11:30 → 12:00 Title - To be announced¶

Speaker: Prof. Ljupčo Pejov (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Mediation of Electron Transfer by Quadrupolar Interaction in Mixed-Valence Systems with Special Reference to the Biochemical Processes¶

Speaker: Dr Suman Mallick (Sharda University, India)

14:00 → 14:30 Title - To be announced¶

Speaker: Prof. Igor Kuzmanovski (Institute of Chemistry)