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 ¶

1 Opening ceremony¶

2 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 Cocktail

3 Title - To be announced¶

Invited lecture - 1

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

4 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 Lunch break

5 Title - To be announced¶

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

6 From Morphology to Chirality: Molecules to Tissues¶

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

7 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 ¶

8 Atomic charges and molecular electrostatic potential in drug design: refined empirical approaches¶

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

9 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 Coffee Break

10 A Quantum Chemical Computational Study of Catalytic Activity Invoking CDFT Based Descriptors¶

Speaker: Dr Tanmoy Chakraorty

11 Title - To be announced¶

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

12:00 Lunch break

12 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)

13 Title - To be announced¶

Speaker: Prof. Igor Kuzmanovski (Institute of Chemistry)