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the
Zwanziger Lab (Chemistry) 
Jan
Rainey
(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)
the
Rainey Lab
(Wiki)
Ulrike
Werner-Zwanziger (NMR-3)
Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR-3)
List
of Canadian NMR Facilities (NMR-3)
A recent and exciting development at Dalhousie University is the award of a new multi-investigator materials research program entitled DREAMS (Dalhousie Research in Energy, Advanced Materials and Sustainability). This program is funded by an NSERC-sponsored Collaborative Research and Training Experience grant.
The purpose of DREAMS is to train a cohort of researchers (Masters and PhD students, undergraduate summer research students and postdoctoral fellows) at Dalhousie University who will address important aspects of energy production/storage and sustainability. DREAMS student researchers play a pivotal role in renewable energy production and storage as well as the sustainable production of environmentally acceptable or re-usable materials. The DREAMS cohort tackles some of the world's most important energy and sustainability problems through advanced materials research.
Both Canadian and international students in Chemistry, Physics or Mechanical Engineering are eligible for the DREAMS program. Students will be supervised by Dalhousie DREAMS team members Heather Andreas (Chemistry), Jeff Dahn (Physics/Chemistry), Rich Dunlap (Physics), Dominic Groulx (Mechanical Engineering), Ian Hill (Physics), Harm Rotermund (Physics), Mary Anne White (Chemistry/Physics) and Joe Zwanziger (Chemistry/Physics).
DREAMS trainees will carry out collaborative interdisciplinary research in Dalhousie's world-leading laboratories with innovative new courses and direct experience working with industrial partners. The DREAMS program is designed to facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive participants in the worldwide economic community.
What differentiates DREAMS from other programs is its mix of traditional and non-traditional training. Students will complete new and novel graduate courses, such as
•
Advances
in Solar, Thermoelectric and Energy Harvesting Materials
• Advances
in Battery, Fuel Cell and Supercapacitor Materials
• Sustainable
Materials Issues
One of the most exciting aspects of the DREAMS program is the opportunity to work in industry. For example, each of our PhD students will spend two internships (work terms) of two to four months, in an external industrial or government lab. Working alongside industry researchers will provide valuable research experience and connections for future employment. External work term partners include labs both in Halifax, and around the world (for example Axion Power International and 3M in the USA, and Toshiba in Japan). Students' travel and accommodation expenses are covered by the DREAMS program.
DREAMS facilitates interdisciplinary and collaborative research. For example, PhD students will carry out research in two Dalhousie labs, and they will be jointly supervised by two or more members of the DREAMS team. This approach will greatly enhance their research skill set and their interdisciplinary experience.
Other novel approaches of the DREAMS program include training in non-traditional subjects such as IP issues, marketing aspects of materials, and how to be interviewed by the media, plus workshops on the transition to employment, such as résumé writing and interview skills.
The DREAMS program offers Dalhousie students an innovative mix of traditional and experiential learning that will help them to become some of the world's top young materials researchers. Much more information, including application material, can be found at http://irm.dal.ca/DREAMS
Josef
W. Zwanziger, Dalhousie University
http://jwz.chem.dal.ca/
The 23rd Annual MOOT NMR Symposium will take place at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 16 and 17th, 2010.
The MOOT NMR Symposium provides an informal environment for students, post-docs
and faculty to present lectures and posters, discuss existing collaborations,
and to establish new ones. It has traditionally been a regional gathering
of NMR spectroscopists from Ontario and Quebec but has been expanding to include
NMR Spectroscopists from the Maritimes. As a result, MOOT XXIII will be hosted
for the first time outside of its traditional region; on the East coast in
beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia! We welcome you to check out and bookmark our
website for the most up-to-date information:
http://structbio.biochem.dal.ca/jrainey/NMRMOOT/index.html
Notices:
(1) Registration and submission of titles for oral/poster presentations are
open as of June 30, 2010. The deadline for both is September 15, 2010.
Visit the registration menu item on our website where registration information
can be provided via Word document or fillable PDF.
(2) Be sure and register for the banquet, to be held Saturday evening at the
Halifax Citadel National Historic Site on Citadel Hill - overlooking the downtown
core of Halifax and the harbour.
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/ns/halifax/index.aspx
(3) A big thank you to all of our confirmed sponsors, including Bruker BioSpin
Canada, Agilent Technologies (formally Varian), Sigma-Aldrich Canada, New
Era Enterprises, National Ultra-High Field NMR Facility for Solids (Canada),
and Suraj Manrao. If you wish to sponsor this meeting, please contact Joe
Zwanziger at jzwanzig "at" dal.ca.
Reminders:
(1) Accommodations - a block of rooms has been reserved at Atlantica (http://www.atlanticahotelhalifax.com)
at a rate of $129 per night, including parking, and is based on 1-4 person
occupancy. See the website for additional details and reservation deadlines.
(2) Travel - a 10% discount has been arranged with WestJet for your flight
to MOOT XXIII. Again, additional details are on the website.
If you have any questions, comments or feedback about this year's MOOT and/or
website, please let us know by email at mootnmr "at" gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you in October!
Your MOOT XXIII Organizing Committee:
Mike Lumsden
Joe Zwanziger
Jan Rainey
Ulli Werner-Zwanziger
Opportunities for studying polymorphs and cement-based materials via Ca-43 solid-state NMR
June 11, 2010, University of Ottawa
Calcium is an important component in diverse materials and biochemicals. However, NMR spectroscopy of the only spin-active calcium isotope, Ca-43, is notoriously challenging due to its low natural abundance (0.14 %), low resonance frequency, and quadrupolar nature. Recently, researchers from the University of Ottawa, the NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences (SIMS-NRC), and Dalhousie University have independently reported advances in studies of inorganic polymorphs and cement-based materials using Ca-43 solid-state NMR spectroscopy.
"In spite of the great complexity of the calcium silicate chemistry involved in the hydration of Portland cement, we have shown that Ca-43 solid-state NMR provides useful new insights into cement chemistry", says Igor Moudrakovski (SIMS-NRC) of his collaboration with the Institute for Research in Construction (SIMS-IRC). Josef Zwanziger (Dalhousie) and his academic and industrial partners have similarly applied Ca-43 NMR in their project on the development, optimization and commercialization of high performance cement based composite materials.
Zwanziger explains, "we are trying to understand the nature of the composite-cement interface, and the mechanisms of toughening and strengthening in concrete composites. Calcium NMR is one of the many tools which is shedding light on the nature of the interface." At the University of Ottawa, David Bryce and his research group have demonstrated the utility of calcium NMR in understanding polymorphism in solids. This work has implications for understanding biomaterials as well as inorganic materials.
Because Ca-43 NMR in solid state requires a very strong magnetic field for sensitivity reasons, all these experiments were carried out at the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids, a national user facility managed by the University of Ottawa and housed on NRC's Ottawa campus, which houses Canada's only 21.1 T (900 MHz) NMR spectrometer.
The latest calcium NMR research has been published in PCCP and J. Am. Chem. Soc., and a perspective on the state of the field is now available in Dalton Transactions (Bryce, 2010).
David L. Bryce "Calcium Binding Environments Probed by 43Ca NMR Spectroscopy," Dalton Transactions (2010) online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c0dt00416b
Igor
Moudrakovski, Rouhollah Alizadeh, James J. Beaudoin, "Natural abundance
high field 43Ca solid state NMR in cement science," Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics 12 (2010) 6961-6969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c000353k
David L. Bryce, Elijah B. Bultz, and Dominic Aebi, "Calcium-43 Chemical Shift Tensors as Probes of Calcium Binding Environments. Insight into the Structure of the Vaterite CaCO3 Polymorph by 43Ca Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Journal of the American Chemical Society 130 (2008) 9282–9292. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja8017253
We are excited to announce that the 23rd Annual MOOT NMR Symposium will take
place at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 16 and
17th, 2010.
The MOOT NMR Symposium provides an informal environment for students, post-docs
and faculty to present lectures and posters, discuss existing collaborations,
and to establish new ones. It has traditionally been a regional gathering
of NMR spectroscopists from Ontario and Quebec but has been expanding to include
NMR Spectroscopists from the Maritimes. As a result, MOOT XXIII will be hosted
for the first time outside of its traditional region; on the East coast in
beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia!
We are currently working on getting the www.mootnmr.org
domain name redirected, but for now we welcome you to check out and bookmark
our website for the most up-to-date information:
http://structbio.biochem.dal.ca/jrainey/NMRMOOT/index.html
Preliminary Details:
(1) Registration along with abstract submission for posters and talks is scheduled
to begin around June 1, 2010.
(2) Accomodations - a block of rooms has been reserved at Atlantica (http://www.atlanticahotelhalifax.com)
at a rate of $129 per night, including parking, and is based on 1-4 person
occupancy. See the website for additional details and reservation deadlines.
(3) Travel - a 10% discount has been arranged with WestJet for your flight
to MOOT XXIII. Again, additional details are on the website.
(4) Banquet - to be held Saturday evening at the Halifax Citadel National
Historic Site (http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/lhn-nhs/ns/halifax/index.aspx)
on Citadel Hill - overlooking the downtown core of Halifax and the harbour.
If you have any questions, comments or feedback about this year's MOOT and/or
website, please let us know by email at mootnmr "at" gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you in October!
Your MOOT XXIII Organizing Committee:
Mike Lumsden
Joe Zwanziger
Jan Rainey
Ulli Werner-Zwanziger
the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Research Resource (NMR-3)
(Dalhousie University, Halifax) invites you to take part in the 4th Annual
Fall NMR Workshop on Saturday, November 14, 2009 in the Chemistry Building.
The workshop will consist of seminars from NMR-3 staff emphasizing practical
aspects of NMR, contributed oral and poster presentations from NMR-3 users,
Facility tours with detailed introduction to research methods. A detailed
agenda will be distributed later, but the event is planned to begin at 9:00
AM with registration and conclude by 5:00 PM. Lunch and coffee-breaks will
be provided, and there is no registration fee.
The registration deadline is Friday, November 6. To
register
Canadian Solid-State NMR research is front and center at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine. Two key lectures in the “NMR of Materials” session are to be given by Rod Wasylishen (University of Alberta) and Joe Zwanziger (Dalhousie University). To register by May 24:
Magnetic
Resonance Gordon Research Conference
June 14-19, 2009, Biddeford, ME
Registration deadline May 24, 2009
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=magres
A
new Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Facility at the National Research Council
Institute for Marine Biosciences (NRC-IMB) (Halifax, N.S.) is now officially
open. The opening ceremony on February 19 was officiated by Dr. Martha
Crago, Vice-President, Research, Dalhousie University; the Honourable
Gerald Keddy, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International
Trade; and Dr. Roman Szumski, Vice-President, Life Sciences, NRC.
Read
the news release by NRC Canada
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/newsroom/news/2009/health-ns09-nr_e.html
This facility has been established in partnership between NRC Canada, Dalhousie University, and the Federal Government to support health-care research in the Atlantic region. It houses a new 700 MHz Bruker Avance III NMR spectrometer equipped with the world's first 1.7 mm (40 uL) cryoprobe for fields > 600 MHz.
Find more about the Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance Facility at NRC-IMB in the Winter 2009 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin.
Web:
NRC-IMB
http://imb-ibm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/