First US–Macedonian Workshop on Modeling in Chemistry and Biochemistry

Oct 14, 2025, 9:00 AM → Oct 15, 2025, 3:00 PM Europe/Skopje

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

Igor Kuzmanovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje) , Subhash Basak (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the US–Macedonian Workshop on Modeling in Chemistry and Biochemistry, it is our great pleasure to invite you to participate at this event. The Workshop will be held at the Institute of Chemistry (Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje) from 14th to 15th of October 2025. Workshop will take a form of WEBINAR. The goal of the Workshop is to introduce the community of chemist and biochemists as well as the students from Macedonia to the existing and exciting trends in the field of modeling of experimental data obtained in chemical and biochemical laboratories.

All lectures will be streamed via internet in order to enlarge the audience. 

Participants which are not from Macedonia should be registered as an online participants. 

This Workshop is an opportunity for students and young researchers to become familiar with the classical techniques as well as machine learning techniques, which are used for solving problems in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry.

Fourteen lecturers are invited to present their findings and ideas in the framework of this Workshop. 

The students interested in modeling will present their work during the dedicated poster session.

In order to have better sense of community, part of the lecturers will present their findings at the Institute of Chemistry in Skopje (Lecture room 124), while the presentations for the remaining lectures will be streamed from the home countries/offices of the lecturers.

Important dates:

• September 1, 2025 - Deadline for Early bird Workshop registration fees payment;
• September 30, 2025 - Deadline for Workshop registration fees payment;

If you have additional questions do not hesitate to contact us.

Please share this information with your colleagues!

Yours sincerely,

Igor Kuzmanovski and Subhash Basak

(Chairpersons of the Workshop) 

Represented countries:

China	Croatia	Germany
India	Macedonia	Romania
Russia	Slovenia	USA

Organized by:

Organizing Committee:

Chairpersons:

• Prof. Dr. Igor Kuzmanovski (Macedonia, UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje),
• Prof. Dr. Subhash Basak (USA, University of Minnesota Duluth).

Members of the committee:

• Prof. Dr. Metodija Najdoski (UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje);
• Prof. Dr. Ljupco Pejov (UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje);
• Prof. Dr. Miha Bukleski (UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje);
• Sofija Popovska, MSc., teaching assistant (UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje);
• Amin Idrizovski, student (UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje);
• Vladimir Grujovski, student (UKIM, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, Skopje).

Tuesday, October 14

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. Subhash Basak (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)

10:15 AM 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 AM Lunch break

5 Machine Learning and Structural Dynamics-Based Approach to Reveal Molecular Mechanism of PTEN Missense Mutations Shared by Cancer and Autism Spectrum Disorder

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

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 (VP of MultiCase inc., Ohio, USA)

Wednesday, October 15

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 AM Coffee Break

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

Speaker: Dr Tanmoy Chakraorty

11 Modelling the dynamics of molecular clusters with atom-centered density matrix propagation techniques, coupled with time series analysis and two-dimensional correlation approaches

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

12:00 PM 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 Laplacian Matrix Descriptors Based on Atomic Properties

Speaker: Prof. Igor Kuzmanovski (Institute of Chemistry)