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Dynamic
Nuclear Polarization (DNP) effect is based on the transfer of
the large electron spin polarization to nuclear spins, thus DNP
has a potential of significantly boosting NMR sensitivity, both
in solids and in the liquid state. There has been recently a surge
of interest in DNP mostly driven by advances in instrumentation.
It was very timely, that Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
had decided to put together a special DNP-themed issue, which
is now available online. This issue, guest-edited by leading experts
in DNP, Robert Griffin and Thomas Prisner, represents
a comprehensive overview of the modern state-of-the-art DNP instrumentation
and research.
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David Cory, formerly a professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been appointed Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing at the University of Waterloo (official announcement). Cory’s research at IQC is expected to contribute toward the world’s first generation of practical quantum devices (IQC).
At the MIT David Cory was leading development of innovative nuclear magnetic resonance methods for quantum information processing and advanced engineering (MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory).
About CERC: "The Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) Program supports Canadian universities in their efforts to build on Canada's growing reputation as a global leader in research and innovation. The program awards each of the some 20 chairholders and their research teams up to $10 million over seven years to establish ambitious research programs in Canada."
Radio-Canada: interview with David Bryce (May 22/10)
Les Chercheurs
Dans le cadre de notre série sur les Chercheurs, nous recevons cette semaine David Bryce, professeur agrégé au Département de chimie et chercheur au Centre de recherche et d'innovation en catalyse de l'Université d'Ottawa (Radio-Canada).
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the Spring 2010 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin is now available for download. You are welcome to share it with your colleagues and students. Thanks for reading!
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Fred
Perras (Bryce
Group, University of Ottawa) has been awarded the CSC prize
for his poster entitled "Exploring the Validity of Common Assumptions
Made in the Characterization of J Coupling Tensor Anisotropies" which
was presented at the Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute Day on May 28,
2010.
Rob Attrell (Bryce
Group, University of Ottawa) has been awarded the 2010 Hypercube
Scholar prize for his honours thesis entitled "A Solid-State
Halogen NMR and Computational Study of Quadrupolar and Chemical Shift Tensors
in Anilinium Halide Salts Exhibiting Halogen Bonding".
About the prize: Hypercube Inc. provides an award to the student
whose prospective graduate studies program entails significant molecular
modelling. The award consists of a framed certificate and a copy of the
HyperChem software package.
Share your students success with the Canadian NMR community (E-mail).
World Wide Magnetic Resonance Conference 2010 (May 17/10)
Dear Colleague,
The WWMR2010 Conference (joint EUROMAR 2010 and 17th ISMAR Conference) in Florence (Italy, July 4th-9th) is approaching fast. Registered attendees are growing daily! Please visit http://www.cerm.unifi.it/wwmr2010/ to see the list of the invited speakers, the titles of their talks, and all the details about the activities going on around the Conference.
Abstract submission ends May 31st and a number of poster abstracts will be selected for upgrade to short oral presentations. If you wish to be considered for an upgrade, register at http://www.cerm.unifi.it/wwmr2010/ and tick the option box on the "Abstract submission" form. If you are 41 years old or younger you are eligible to apply for the ISMAR Award or if you are 40 years old or younger, you may apply for the Wiley Prize. You may find additional information on these awards on the web-site.
We
strongly suggest booking accommodations as soon as possible.
Florence is a popular tourist destination and there are a number of events
going on at the same time as the WWMR2010 Conference.
Newtours SpA has reserved a number of accommodations at special WWMR2010 conference rates located throughout the centre of Florence and within walking distance from the Conference venue. For more information please register at their web page at http://meeting.newtours.it/meeting_nwt/main.jsp
We look forward to seeing you in Florence.
Arrivederci!
Roberta
Pierattelli
WWMR2010 Advertising Committee
Agilent Completes Acquisition of Varian (May 15/10)
Agilent Technologies has finalized its acquisition of Varian. Following the announcement Varian, Inc. (VARI) was delisted from NASDAQ and ceased to exist as an independent company. Varian's MR business will be housed within Agilent's Life Sciences Group (LSG).
For
more details on this merger see Stan's NMR Blog, who has been following
this story since July 2009.
http://www.ebyte.it/stan/blog.html
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has announced results of the 2010 NSERC competition in the Discovery Grants Program (DG), Research Tools and Instruments Grants (RTI) and Scholarship programs. Among grant recipients
Michèle Auger (Université Laval) has her NSERC Discovery Grant renewed for five years, "Biophysical studies of membrane-peptide interactions and silk proteins"
Vladimir Michaelis (University of Manitoba, graduate student of Scott Kroeker) has been awarded an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
Myrna Simpson's (University of Toronto Scarborough) NSERC Discovery Grant was renewed. Myrna has also been awarded an NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement.
Darren Brouwer (Redeemer University College) has been awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant for five years, "New Methods for Structure Determination of Materials by Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy".
David
Bryce's (University of Ottawa) NSERC Discovery Grant has been renewed
at $61000 per year for 5 years.
The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR
Facility for Solids has received NSERC RTI funding for a cryogen-free
cooler for the 900 MHz NMR spectrometer. Once installed, the sample cooler
will provides powerful, stable and reliable cryogen-free cooling down to
-80oC to samples in existing MAS and static NMR probes. This successful
application to NSERC was a collaborative effort of three of the Facility
users, David Bryce (University of Ottawa), Roderick Wasylishen
(University of Alberta), and John Ripmeester (Carleton University).
Share
your success with the Canadian NMR community (E-mail).
Solid-State NMR Workshop at CSC 2010 (May 1/10)
The
National Ultrahigh-Field
NMR Facility for Solids
and Bruker Canada are
pleased to present the
5th Annual Solid-State
NMR Workshop at the 93rd
Canadian Chemistry Conference
and Exhibition in Toronto
(CSC
2010). The workshop
will take place on Saturday
afternoon, May 29, 2010
in the Metro Toronto
Convention Centre MTCC.
This annual Canadian solid-state
NMR event focuses on the
latest developments in
solid-state NMR spectroscopy
with emphasis on practical
aspects and applications
in materials and life
sciences. The workshop
will be of interest not
only to NMR spectroscopists,
but also to students and
other researchers interested
in using modern NMR techniques
in their research practice.
Download
the Workshop Program and
Abstracts (PDF)
Workshop program
Session
1 (MTCC, room 203B)
Chair John Ripmeester
(NRC Canada)
13:00-13:30
Scott Kroeker (University
of Manitoba) "Further
Adventures with 73Ge NMR
of Solids: Halides and Oxides"
13:30-14:00 Andre
Sutrisno (University
of Western Ontario) "Natural
Abundance Solid-State 73Ge
and 67Zn Wideline NMR Studies
at Ultrahigh Magnetic Field"
14:00-14:30 Leigh
Spencer (McMaster University)
"Materials for Lithium
Ion Batteries: A Solid-State
NMR Analysis"
14:30-15:00 Fabien Aussenac (Bruker France) "Solid-State NMR Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at 263 GHz"
15:00-15:15
Coffee Break
Session 2 (MTCC,
room 203B)
Chair Roderick
Wasylishen (University
of Alberta)
15:15-15:45 Alex Bain (McMaster University) "Probing Spectra of Big Quadrupoles"
15:45-16:15 Cory Widdifield (University of Ottawa) "Solid-State 127I NMR Spectroscopy and GIPAW DFT Calculations of Inorganic Iodide Systems: Structure, Symmetry, and 'Beyond Second-Order" Quadrupole-Induced Shifts"
16:15-16:45
Peter Pallister (Carleton
University) "33S Ultrahigh-Field
Solid-State NMR and First
Principles Calculations
in Various Sulfate Systems"
16:45-17:15 Faciliy
Users Meeting David
Bryce & Victor Terskikh
"National Facility
user survey results and
overview of application
procedures"
17:15
Reception sponsored
by Bruker
Canada
NMR
papers in Nature
(April 30/10)
M.J. Plevin, D.L. Bryce, and J. Boisbouvier, "Direct Detection of CH/pi Interactions in Proteins," Nature Chemistry (2010) online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.650
J. Chan, A.R. Lewis, M. Gilbert, M.-F. Karwaski, A.J. Bennet, "A direct NMR method for the measurement of competitive kinetic isotope effects," Nature Chemical Biology (2010) online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchembio.352
T.D. Ladd, F. Jelezko, R. Laflamme, Y. Nakamura, C. Monroe and J.L. O’Brien, "Quantum computers," Nature 464 (2010) 45-53. (Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature08812
Attenuator
app for iPhone/iPod touch
(April 29/10)
Tim
Burrow (University
of Toronto) wrote a utility
application for the iPhone/iPod
touch that calculates attenuation
values:
http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/attenuator/id367216554
Attenuator is a utility for anyone working with radio frequency sources and needs to know power and voltage after attenuation.
You can specify an input voltage (Vpp or Vrms) and dB of attenuation to get the output voltage, power and attenuation. The impedance can be specified, typically 50 Ohm for most systems.
This
free application is available
in English, French, Chinese
and Japanese and is sponsored
by Open
Technologies.
For more information visit:
http://www.attenuator.ca/
The
Solid-State NMR Symposium
of the 52nd Rocky Mountain
Conference on Analytical
Chemistry will take place
August 1-5, 2010
at the Snowmass Conference
Center in Snowmass, Colorado.
Abstracts are now being
accepted for both oral and
poster presentations. Deadline
to submit an abstract to
be considered for oral presentation
is May 1, 2010. Deadline
to submit a poster presentation
abstract is June 15,
2010. To submit an abstract
online, please go to
http://www.rockychem.com/abstract.htm
This year’s Vaughan
lecturer is Ago Samoson
(Tallin, Estonia). Other
confirmed invited speakers
are
Michele Auger (Laval, Canada),
Brad Chmelka (UC Santa Barbara),
Paul Ellis (Pacific Northwest),
Phil Grandinetti (Ohio State),
Gina Hoatson (William &
Mary), Christopher Jaroniec
(Ohio State), David Doty
(Doty Scientific), P.K.
Madhu (Tata Institute, India),
Dominique Massiot (Orleans,
France), Eric Munson (Kansas),
Niels Nielsen (Aarhus, Denmark),
Hartmut Oschikinat (Berlin,
Germany), Guido Pintacuda
(Lyon, France), Linda Reven
(McGill, Canada), Asher
Schmidt (Haifa, Israel),
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Iowa
State), Hans Spiess (Mainz,
Germany), Chad Rienstra
(Urbana-Champaign), Pei
Tang (Pittsburg), Piotr
Tekely (Paris, France),
Robert Tycko (NIH)
Funds are available
to offset the travel cost
for students and postdoctoral
fellows. For more information
about conference registration,
hotel and travel arrangements,
please see
http://www.rockychem.com/
Rocky Mountain Conference
SSNMR Organizing Committee
Dear
colleagues,
we would like to draw your
attention to the following
new initiative of the journal
of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ysnmr).
The Editors and Publisher of Solid State NMR would like to stimulate research in this field by initiating the Solid-State NMR Best Paper Award. The prize will consist of a free subscription to the journal and a certificate. All authors of articles published in the journal are eligible to the Award. Starting in 2010, an international respected committee of scientists from the Editorial Advisory board will select the winner from the papers published in each calendar year, the primary selection criteria being the degree of scientific innovation and quality.
Yours sincerely,
Hellmut
Eckert
Editor-in-Chief
Government of Canada has announced today (external link) an investment of $165.5 million to fund 187 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs in 44 Canadian universities. This includes renewal of two Chairs involved in magnetic resonance research.
Gary Shaw (University of Western Ontario) Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Structural Neurobiology
Vladimir Ladizhansky (University of Guelph) Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Biophysics
Our sincere congratulations to Gary and Vladimir with this well-deserved recognition!
Tuesday, May 13, 2010: This one-day, on-site Symposium aims to bring together research groups interested in using physical/chemical tools to study biological systems. This will be a great opportunity to interact with other biophysical/biochemical labs in Eastern Canada. This year's program is very exciting, with talks from researchers at Montreal, Ottawa, Sherbrooke, and Kingston, and a plenary lecture from Prof. Mike Summers (HHMI).
A recent paper that appeared in Chimia, accompanied by a post-face written by Richard Ernst, attracted much interest and generated some passionate responses. Since the journal is not widely accessible, I asked the Editor to provide pdf files that you can upload and forward if you wish. Our paper can be found at:
http://www.chimie.ens.fr/Resonance/bibliometrics_1.pdf
The post-face can be uploaded from
http://www.chimie.ens.fr/Resonance/bibliometrics_2.pdf
Sincerely,
Geoffrey
Bodenhausen
http://www.chimie.ens.fr/Resonance/geoffrey_bodenhausen.html
Ronald J. Gillespie, Professor Emeritus at McMaster, is a world-renowned chemist who has made many significant contributions to our understanding of the molecular structure and geometry. He was also one of the first to use NMR spectroscopy in chemical research. Read an interview with this fascinating Canadian personality in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Chemical Education.
Liberato Cardellini "Modeling Chemistry for Effective Chemical Education: An Interview with Ronald J. Gillespie," J. Chem. Educ. (2010) ASAP. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ed800166f
Related story
Alex Bain (McMaster)
"It
started with a chance remark from one of
our senior colleagues, that it
was 1958 when McMaster received its first
NMR spectrometer, a Varian DP60. That seemed
to be a good reason for a celebration, so
on Friday May 2, we are having a one-day
symposium. Two
of the pioneers, Ron Gillespie (who ordered
the instrument) and Russell Bell will be
there. However, we will miss two other central
figures: Don Eaton and Brian Sayer, who
have both passed away. The symposium also
will be the day before a memorial in Winnipeg
for Ted Schaefer, who was a great father
figure for many of us.
The 50th anniversary event has led to lots
of discussion and a number of themes. One
is the progress of the field since that
time..."
Read the full Guest Editorial by Alex Bain in the Spring 2008 issue of the Canadian NMR Research News Bulletin
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P.T.
Eles,
C.A.
Michal,
"Two-photon
excitation
in
nuclear
magnetic
and
quadrupole
resonance,"
Progress
in
Nuclear
Magnetic
Resonance
Spectroscopy
56
(2010)
232-246.
(Invited
Review)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2009.12.002
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Materials Chemistry of Energy Conversion (Feb 17/10)
The Chemistry of Materials Special Issue on the Materials Chemistry of Energy Conversion (volume 22, issue 3, 2010) highlights new directions in materials chemistry relevant to energy conversion. There are several NMR articles in this issue, including the one from Gillian Goward's group (McMaster) and colleagues from Estonia on Li dynamics.
L.J.M. Davis, I. Heinmaa and G.R. Goward, "Study of Lithium Dynamics in Monoclinic Li3Fe2(PO4)3 using 6Li VT and 2D Exchange MAS NMR Spectroscopy," Chem. Mater. 22 (2010) 769–775. (special issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cm901402u
The world-first 1 GHz NMR spectrometer is now online at the European Centre for High Field NMR (CRMN) in Lyon (France). Read the news feature about this milestone in magnetic resonance in the most recent issue of Nature.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/463605a
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the Winter 2010 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin is now available for download. You are welcome to share it with your colleagues and students. Thanks for reading!
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NMR
Crystallography |
Contributed
by David Bryce
A new book on the subject of NMR crystallography has been published by Wiley
as part of their "Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance Handbooks"
series. While it will undoubtedly serve as a valuable reference for novices
and experts alike, at 520 pages it is somewhat larger than a typical 'handbook'.
Edited by our own Rod Wasylishen, along with the UK's Robin Harris
and Melinda Duer, there are several Canadian contributors. We defer
a full review until a later date; here, we provide a brief overview of the
contents and highlight some Canadian contributions.
The volume is divided into six sections covering key areas including introductions
to fundamental NMR interactions, crystal structure determination using NMR,
properties of the crystalline state, and applications to crystalline solids.
Rod Wasylishen (Alberta) presents the basics of dipolar and indirect
coupling, and Darren Brouwer (Redeemer) discusses the topic of interplay
between NMR and single-crystal X-ray diffraction, both areas in which these
researchers have had a great impact. Following my own contribution on "Tensor
Interplay", Lindsay Cahill and Gillian Goward (McMaster)
examine intermolecular interactions and structural motifs within the framework
of NMR crystallography. Rotational and translation dynamics, which can complicate
the interpretation of NMR spectra, particularly in the context of obtaining
crystallographic information, are discussed in a subsequent chapter by the
National Research Council's Chris Ratcliffe. The final Canadian contribution
comes from Kenneth Jeffrey and Glenn Penner (Guelph), who tackle
the subject of structural phase transitions.
The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids in Ottawa has a copy
of this wonderful volume on-hand, courtesy of Rod Wasylishen, for you to peruse
during your next visit!
Canadian contributions
R.E. Wasylishen "Dipolar & Indirect Coupling: Basics," Chapter 10, NMR Crystallography EMR Handbook, Eds. R.K. Harris, R.E. Wasylishen, M.J. Duer, Wiley (2009) pp. 127-136. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1023
D.H. Brouwer "Interplay between NMR & Single-crystal X-ray Diffraction," Chapter 18, NMR Crystallography EMR Handbook, Eds. R.K. Harris, R.E. Wasylishen, M.J. Duer, Wiley (2009) pp. 263-274. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1041
D.L. Bryce "Tensor Interplay," Chapter 20, NMR Crystallography EMR Handbook, Eds. R.K. Harris, R.E. Wasylishen, M.J. Duer, Wiley (2009) pp. 289-301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1039
L.S. Cahill, G.R. Goward "Intermolecular Interactions & Structural Motifs," Chapter 21, NMR Crystallography EMR Handbook, Eds. R.K. Harris, R.E. Wasylishen, M.J. Duer, Wiley (2009) pp. 305-319. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1074
C.I. Ratcliffe "Rotational & Translational Dynamics," Chapter 24, NMR Crystallography EMR Handbook, Eds. R.K. Harris, R.E. Wasylishen, M.J. Duer, Wiley (2009) pp. 355-373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1040
K.R. Jeffrey, G.H. Penner "Structural Phase Transitions," Chapter 26, NMR Crystallography EMR Handbook, Eds. R.K. Harris, R.E. Wasylishen, M.J. Duer, Wiley (2009) pp. 387-413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1051
The Call for Papers will close on April 5, 2010.
Submit your abstract via the Pacifichem 2010 website. Details are available at http://pacifichem.abstractcentral.com/
NMR
Symposia at Pacifichem 2010
NMR
Spectroscopy of Polymers - Innovative NMR Strategies for Complex Macromolecular
Systems (Symposium
#12) Peter Macdonald, University of Toronto
Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics - Recent
Advances in NMR (Symposium
#43) Mitsuhiko Ikura, Ontario
Cancer Institute
Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules
(Symposium
#58) Michèle Auger, Université Laval
Solid-State NMR Methods and Applications in Inorganic Materials (Symposium
#228) Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba
To view the full list of symposium visit http://www.pacifichem.org/symposia/
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Biochimica
et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes Volume 1798, Issue 2, Pages 65-302 (February 2010) Special
issue: "Membrane Protein Dynamics by NMR: Correlation of
Structure and Function" |
T. Reddy, X. Li, L. Fliegel, B.D. Sykes, J.K. Rainey, "Correlating structure, dynamics, and function in transmembrane segment VII of the Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 1," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 1798 (2010) 94-104. (special issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.06.025
M. Ouellet, N. Voyer, M. Auger, "Membrane interactions and dynamics of a 21-mer cytotoxic peptide: A solid-state NMR study," Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes 1798 (2010) 235-243. (special issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.07.029
Dear NMR colleagues,
Gillian Goward and myself are organizing a symposium entitled "Solid-State NMR: Methods and Applications" at the 93rd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Toronto. The symposium is scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, May 30 and all day Monday, May 31.
I would like to encourage you and your students to consider submitting abstracts for 20-minute talks and/or posters through the following link:
http://www.csc2010.ca/program/submit_abstract.html
The deadline for abstract submissions is February 15.
Confirmed speakers: Alex Bain (McMaster), Andreas Brinkmann (NRC-SIMS), Arno Kentgens (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Gang Wu (Queen's), Gillian Goward (McMaster), John Ripmeester (NRC-SIMS), Josef Zwanziger (Dalhousie), Kristopher Ooms (The King's University College, Edmonton), Marek Pruski (Iowa), Megan Spence (Pittsburgh), Peter MacDonald (Toronto), Robert Schurko (Windsor), Roderick Wasylishen (Alberta), Scott Kroeker (Manitoba), Simon Sharpe (Sick Kids), Timothy Cross (National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee), Vladimir Ladizhansky (Guelph)
Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you in Toronto!
Dave Bryce (web)
The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids Annual Workshop will take place on Saturday May 29.
You are invited to participate in a symposium on "Solid-State NMR Methods and Applications in Inorganic Materials" (#228) at Pacifichem 2010, to be held in Hawaii from December 15-20, 2010. This four-session symposium is organized by Scott Kroeker, Jerry C.C. Chan, Sophia Hayes and Kiyonori Takegoshi.
Invited speakers include C. Bonhomme (FR), H. Eckert (GR), L. Emsley (FR), A. Goto (JP), G.R. Goward (CA), Y. Ishii (US), H.-M. Kao (TW), S.K. Lee (SK), S.-B. Liu (TW), H. Maekawa (JP), M. Murakami (JP), J.A. Reimer (US), J.A. Ripmeester (CA), K. Schmidt-Rohr (US), R.E. Wasylishen (CA).
You may also be interested in two other solid-state NMR symposia on offer at Pacifichem 2010: "NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers: Innovative NMR Strategies for Complex Macromolecular Systems" and "Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules".
Abstract submission deadline is April 5, 2010.
For further information, see www.pacifichem2010.org or contact Scott Kroeker (Scott_Kroeker "at" UManitoba.ca).
The Call for Papers opened January 1, 2010 and will close April 5, 2010.
Submit your abstract via the Pacifichem 2010 website. Details are available at http://pacifichem.abstractcentral.com/
Conference Topics
1.
Analytical
2.
Inorganic
3.
Macromolecular
4.
Organic
5.
Physical, Theoretical and Computational
6.
Agrochemistry
7.
Biological Chemistry
8.
Environmental Chemistry
9.
Materials and Nanotechnology
10.
Alternate Energy Technology
11.
Chemistry Outreach to the Community
12.
Health and Technology
13.
Security
To view the full list of symposium visit http://www.pacifichem.org/symposia/
Student Poster Competition
PACIFICHEM 2010 will once again conduct a Student Poster Competition. Participation in the Student Poster Competition is indicated by submitting an abstract to one of the symposia within the technical program and marking the option to participate in the Student Poster Competition. An abstract must be accepted first into the technical program as a poster presentation by the symposium organizers before it can be considered for the Student Poster Competition.
We encourage you to forward this notice to your colleagues nationally and internationally, to submit your abstracts, and to join us in Hawaii this December.
To learn more about the conference visit the website at www.pacifichem.org
Howard
Alper,
Congress Chair, University of Ottawa
Steven Holdcroft, Scientific Program Chair, Simon Fraser University/National
Research Council
Cathleen Crudden, Communications Committee, Queen’s University
Roland Andersson, Finance Committee, Chemical Institute of Canada
NMR
Symposia at Pacifichem 2010
NMR
Spectroscopy of Polymers - Innovative NMR Strategies for Complex Macromolecular
Systems (Symposium
#12) Peter Macdonald, University of Toronto
Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics - Recent
Advances in NMR (Symposium
#43) Mitsuhiko Ikura, Ontario
Cancer Institute
Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules
(Symposium
#58) Michèle Auger, Université Laval
Solid-State NMR Methods and Applications in Inorganic Materials (Symposium
#228) Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba
We are delighted to announce a 2.5 day symposium on biological solid-state NMR at Pacifichem 2010 in Hawaii, 15-20 December 2010.
Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules (Symposium #58) in the Topic area of Biological Chemistry
Organized
by: Akira Naito, Michèle Auger, Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Frances
Separovic
The following topics will be discussed in this symposium:
(i)
technical developments in resolution and sensitivity enhancements of solid-state
NMR
(ii) high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules by solid-state
NMR
(iii) advances in structural biology of membrane proteins and peptides
(iv) dynamics and biomolecular function by solid-state NMR
(v) characterization of supramolecular complexes and fibril-forming proteins
Invited Speakers: Michèle Auger (CA), Jerry Chan (TW), Timothy
Cross (US), Gary Drobny (US), Toshimichi Fujiwara (JP), John Gehman (AU),
Mei Hong (US), Yoshitaka Ishii (US), Yongae Kim (KOR), Vladimir Ladizhansky
(CA), Gary Lorigan (US), Ann McDermott (US), Francesca Marassi (US), Isabelle
Marcotte (CA), Nobuaki Matsumori (JP), Konstantin Momot (AU), Akira Naito
(JP), Kaoru Nomura (JP), Eric Oldfield (US), Stanley Opella (US), Tatyana
Polenova (US), William Price (AU), Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (US), Takeshi Sato
(JP), Jacob Schaefer (US), Frances Separovic (AU), Simon Sharpe (CA), Steven
Smith (US), Suzana Straus (CA), Kiyonori Takegoshi (JP), Satoru Tuzi (JP),
Gianluigi Veglia (US), David Weliky (US), Katherine Wildman (US), Kurt Zilm
(US)
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Frances
Separovic (web)
University of Melbourne, Australia
Abstract submission is open from January 1 - April 5, 2010. All abstracts
must be submitted online through the Pacifichem
Abstract System.
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Crystalline beta-Barium Borate is an important nonlinear optical material often used in frequency mixing. Interestingly enough, even though beta-Barium Borate has been known for years, there still exists a controversy about its true crystallographic space group. That is existed until now! In this cover article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C a research team from the University of Western Ontario has solved this problem using ultrahigh-field solid-state NMR spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations. |
Andre
Sutrisno, Cheng Lu, Robert Lipson, Yining Huang, "Combined 135/137Ba
Solid-state NMR at an Ultrahigh Magnetic Field and Computational Study of
beta-Barium Borate," Journal
of Physical Chemistry C 113 (2009) 21196–21201. (Cover
Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp9044786
This is a seventh cover article featuring results obtained using resources
of the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids. See our cover gallery
and the complete list of research publications enabled by the Facility here
(complete list).
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A
research team from the University of Calgary and the NRC
Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences (Ottawa) has published
a cover article in Nature Chemistry |
"Materials
built from metal centres and organic ligands have traditionally attracted
attention for their channels' host–guest properties. Now, controlling
the occupancy of the channels by guest molecules has resulted in a framework
that conducts protons under anhydrous conditions and acts as a gas-tight membrane,
offering a promising approach to fuel-cell electrolytes."
Solid-state NMR spectroscopy was instrumental in this research.
The paper is also accompanied by the Nature's commentary:
Hiroshi Kitagawa, "Metal–organic frameworks: Transported into fuel cells," Nature Chemistry 1 (2009) 689-690. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.454
R.M.
Gregory, A.D. Bain, "The effects of finite rectangular pulses in NMR:
Phase and intensity distortions for a spin-1/2," Concepts in Magnetic
Resonance Part A 34A (2009) 305-314. for an outstanding PhD thesis in the field of magnetic resonance.
For the Raymond Andrew Prize 2010 the AMPERE Prize Committee is seeking your help in searching for qualified candidates who completed their dissertation during the period of 2008/2009.
The
prize will be presented during the joint EUROMAR/ISMAR
conference in
Florence (Italy) from 4th to 9th July 2010.
You are kindly invited to submit nominations by e-mail to
andrewprice "at" nmr.phys.chem.ethz.ch
Suggestions must be received by 15th February 2010 and should include the following documents:
•
Nomination letter
• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications and presentations at conferences
• PhD thesis in PDF
The thesis should be written in English. In exceptional cases, the thesis may also be submitted in triplicate as a hardcopy to the AMPERE Secretariat.
Submissions that arrive too late will automatically be transferred to the next year. The prize committee will reconsider excellent contributions for two years in a row.
For
a list of past Andrew Prize winners and topics of their theses see:
http://www.ampere.ethz.ch/andrew_prize.htm
The Russell Varian prize honors the memory of the pioneer behind the first commercial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers and co-founder of Varian Associates. The prize is awarded to a researcher based on a single innovative contribution (a single paper, patent, lecture, or piece of hardware) that has proven of high and broad impact on state-of-the-art NMR technology. The prize aims to award the initial contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR. It is sponsored by Varian Inc. and carries a monetary award of 15,000 Euro. The award ceremony will take place at the XXIVth ICMRBS meeting in Cairns, Australia, August 22-27, 2010. The deadline for nominations is February 15, 2010.
For
nomination guidelines see (external
link @ Varian.com)
The 93rd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC2010) is
being held in Toronto, May 29-June 2, 2010. The conference theme “Diversity
in Chemistry” emphasizes the wide range of science to be presented and
the diversity of people that make up our field. The conference is presented
by the Canadian Society for Chemistry and hosted by the Department of Chemistry
of the University of Toronto. You
can view the wide range of symposia representing the “Diversity in Chemistry”
theme on the CSC2010 website
http://www.csc2010.ca/program/symposia.html
The
CSC 2010 conference will feature the "Solid-State NMR: Methods and
Applications" symposium being organized by David
Bryce (University of Ottawa) and Gillian
Goward (McMaster University).
The
Call for Papers opened today December 1, 2009 and will close February 15,
2010.
Details are available at
http://www.csc2010.ca/program/submit_abstract.html
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the Fall 2009 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin is now available for download. You are welcome to share it with your colleagues and students. Thanks for reading!
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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
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2008-2009
Annual Report (Nov 2/09) |
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Nuclear
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Liquid Crystals |
World Scientific: "This edited volume provides an extensive overview of how nuclear magnetic resonance can be an indispensable tool to investigate molecular ordering, phase structure, and dynamics in complex anisotropic phases formed by liquid crystalline materials. The chapters, written by prominent scientists in their field of expertise, provide a state-of-the-art scene of developments in liquid crystal research. The fantastic assortment of shape anisotropy in organic molecules leads to the discoveries of interesting new soft materials made at a rapid rate which not only inject impetus to address the fundamental physical and chemical phenomena, but also the potential applications in memory, sensor and display devices. The review volume also covers topics ranging from solute studies of molecules in nematics and biologically ordered fluids to theoretical approaches in treating elastic and viscous properties of liquid crystals. This volume is aimed at graduate students, novices and experts alike, and provides an excellent reference material for readers interested in the liquid crystal research. It is, indeed, a reference book for every science library to have."
The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, December 15-20,
2010, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
http://www.pacifichem.org/
NMR
Spectroscopy of Polymers (Symposium
#12) Peter Macdonald, University of Toronto
Biomolecular
Structure and Dynamics - Recent Advances in NMR (Symposium
#43) Mitsuhiko Ikura, Ontario
Cancer Institute
Advances in Solid-State NMR of Biological Molecules (Symposium
#58) Michèle Auger, Université Laval
Solid-State NMR Methods and Applications in Inorganic Materials (Symposium
#228) Scott Kroeker, University of Manitoba
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Clare
Grey and Robert Tycko have published an article in the September
issue of Physics Today (cover credit) introducing solid-state
NMR spectroscopy to a broader audience, and reviewing recent NMR applications
in biochemistry and materials sciences. This article is an easy read
about a complicated topic with many colour figures and diagrams, which
your students may find useful in their studies. Clare P. Grey and Robert Tycko, "Solid-state NMR in biological and materials physics," Physics Today 62 (2009) 44-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3226855 |
).
This
2009 special issue of Canadian Journal of Chemistry is dedicated to
Professor Tom Ziegler (University of Calgary, web
),
a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry, one of
the pioneers of density functional theory (DFT). Prof. Ziegler has made many
important contributions to the development of DFT calculations of NMR parameters.
We encourage you to read two wonderful tributes to Prof. Ziegler written by
Arvi Rauk, Heiko Jacobsen and Tom Woo, and to browse through many excellent
research papers by world-leading experts in computational chemistry.
This special CJC issue is devided in two parts:
Part 1 of 2, volume 87, number 7, July 2009
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp-ps/inDetail.jsp?jcode=cjc&lang=eng&vol=87&is=7
Part
2 of 2, volume
87, number 10, October 2009
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/rp-ps/inDetail.jsp?jcode=cjc&lang=eng&vol=87&is=10
Web:
The
Ziegler Research Group Home Page
ACS Publications celebrates National Chemistry Week 2009, October 19-24,
by providing one-week free access to the ACS
Symposium Series Online including Advances in Chemistry books.
Don't miss this opportunity to browse and download many attention-worthy review
articles free of charge.
Among most recent NMR titles are "Modern
NMR Spectroscopy in Education" (Eds. D. Rovnyak and R. Stockland,
2007), and "Solid-State
NMR Spectroscopy of Inorganic Materials" (Ed. J.J. Fitzgerald, 1999).
The Laukien Prize was established in 1999 to honor the memory of Professor
Gunther Laukien, a co-founder of Bruker BioSpin. The Laukien Prize carries
a monetary award of $20,000 funded by Bruker BioSpin and is intended to recognize
cutting-edge experimental NMR research with a high probability of enabling
beneficial new applications. The Prize recipient will also deliver the opening
Plenary lecture at the ENC conference.
Nominations for the Laukien Prize are now being accepted. The award will be
announced at the next ENC.
The nominated work should be published within the last three years. In some
special cases, the award may be for cumulative achievements over a longer
period. Nominations should be submitted by October 30.
For
more information and for the list of past Laukien Prize recipients
http://enc-conference.org/
51st
ENC
April
18-23, 2010, Hilton Hotel, Daytona Beach, FL
Talk abstracts deadline January 12, 2010
Poster abstracts deadline March
12, 2010
http://www.enc-conference.org/
Dear All,
Registration for MOOT XXII in Ottawa is still open and will be so until Wednesday,
October 14. This is the deadline for having final numbers for caterers,
banquet etc.
No more oral presenation will be accepted since the program is filled up with
very interesting talks. Poster presentations will be accepted all the way
to the end and the program will updated as they come.
The Suraj Manrao Traval Award will contribute three 50$ awards for
the best three posters from graduate students. Great many thanks to Suraj!
Check the website www.mootnmr.org
for all information regarding maps how the get around and updates of the program.
If people are interested in gathering someplace for dinner and drinks on Friday
night please let me know and we can arrange something.
I am looking forward to see you all in Ottawa in less than a couple of weeks,
Yves
mootnmr "at" gmail.com
Free
tickets for the Physica
Phantastica Exhibit and the Q2C
Film Festival as well as paid cultural event tickets can be ordered here.
To view the full schedule and plan your trip, visit the Festival’s website
at http://www.q2cfestival.com/
Several Manitoba media outlets run a feature story today about high-resolution liquid-state NMR in urine to identify metabolite profiles associated with acute rejection in children after renal transplantation. Dr. Tom Blydt-Hansen at the Manitoba Institute of Child Health has teamed up with Ray Somorjai from NRC-IBD in Winnipeg to show that urine metabolites (simple sugars, amino acids and waste products) detected non-invasively could help in identifying rejection risks at early stages and to reduce morbidity.
Read
the full story in Winnipeg
Free Press
T. Blydt-Hansen, R. Somorjai "Urine metabolite profiles associated with acute rejection in pediatric renal transplants," Pediatric Transplantation 13 Supplement 1:49, April 2009
The
second U.S.-Canada Winter School on Biomolecular Solid State NMR will be held
in Stowe, Vermont, January 24-29, 2010. This is a pedagogical meeting, aimed
primarily at graduate students and postdocs, with the goals of training them
in fundamental conceptual and experimental aspects of biomolecular solid state
NMR, promoting frank discussions of current trends and bottlenecks, and generally
catalyzing future progress. The meeting is also open to more senior scientists
who are interested in entering the field of biomolecular solid state NMR.
Applications consist of the following three items, all of which should be
sent as PDF attachments by E-mail to
robertty "at" mail.nih.gov
1.
CV and publication list
2. Brief description of current research, not longer than one page
3. One-page letter of recommendation from current research supervisor. (In
the case of a more senior scientist, a brief explanation of your motivations
can substitute for a letter of recommendation.)
THE DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS IS OCTOBER 16. Applications received after this date may not be considered. For the first Winter School, we received about twice as many applications as we could accept, so this deadline should be taken seriously.
The
first Winter School in 2008 was a big success, and is described at
http://web.mit.edu/fbml/winterschool2008/Winterschool2008.html
The second Winter School will have the same location and a similar format. At the first Winter School, we were able to provide free meals and lodging to most students and postdocs, so their expenses were limited to travel and a modest registration fee. There were approximately 75 attendees from about 25 research groups. We expect the size and finances of the second Winter School to be similar.
Best
wishes to all,
Rob Tycko and Bob Griffin, organizers of the 2nd Winter School
the Summer 2009 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news
bulletin is now available for download.
We would like to thank all who contributed their news stories. To make this news bulletin useful and informative for the Canadian NMR Community, we continue to rely on your support and contributions. We also encourage you to print out hard copies of this bulletin and to share them with your colleagues and students.
The Fall 2009 issue is due in early November. Meanwhile you are welcome to submit any NMR-related news and announcements to our news-pages for immediate posting.
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This high-profile special issue of PCCP guest-edited by Paul Hodgkinson (Durham, UK) and Stephen Wimperis (Glasgow, UK) will be presented to the participants of the upcoming 6th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR in September 2009 (conference web-site). Among many excellent reviews and research papers highlighting recent trends and progress in the field of solid-state NMR spectroscopy there are four by Canadian researchers, including the front cover article by Gang Wu's group from Queen's. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 11, issue 32, 2009 |
Pedro M. Aguiar, Michael J. Katz, Daniel B. Leznoff and Scott Kroeker, "Natural abundance 13C and 15N solid-state NMR analysis of paramagnetic transition-metal cyanide coordination polymers," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6925-6934. (Invited Article, Themed Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b907747b
Jianfeng
Zhu, Amanda J. Geris and Gang Wu, "Solid-state 17O NMR as a sensitive
probe of keto and gem-diol forms of alpha-keto acid derivatives," Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6972-6980.
(Cover Article, Themed
Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906438a
Rebecca P. Chapman and David L. Bryce, "Application of Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance and Gauge-Including Projector-Augmented Wave Calculations to the Study of Solid Group 13 Chlorides," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6987-6998. (Invited Article, Themed Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906627f
Luke
A. O'Dell and Robert W. Schurko,
"Static solid-state 14N NMR and computational studies of nitrogen
EFG tensors in some crystalline amino acids," Physical Chemistry Chemical
Physics 11 (2009) 7069-7077. (Invited Article, Themed
Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906114b
If you use Gaussian to help interpret your solid-state NMR Sam Adiga, Dom
Aebi and David Bryce (University of Ottawa) have written a computer program
called “EFGShield” which parses and summarizes Gaussian output files
containing shielding and EFG data. The program provides results which are
directly comparable to data extracted through simulations of experimental
spectra using programs such as WSOLIDS (e.g., quadrupolar coupling constants,
Euler angles, etc.).
S. Adiga, D. Aebi, and D.L. Bryce, "EFGShield: A Program for Parsing
and
Summarizing the Results of Electric Field Gradient and Nuclear Magnetic Shielding
Tensor Calculations," Can. J. Chem. 85 (2007) 496-505 (link).
Updated Version 2.3 includes:
1. Built-in quadrupole moments have been updated to reflect Pyykkö's
most recent recommendations
2. The program can now handle files containing up to 900 atoms.
3. Several equivalent sets of Euler angles are outputted rather than
just one representative set.
4. Minor bug fix for Euler angles in highsymmetry environments.
If you are interested, you can download the program here
http://www.catalysis.uottawa.ca/EFGShield-download.php
Please contact me if you have any questions or comments.
Dave Bryce
http://www.science.uottawa.ca/~dbryc159/
Version 3.1 of the SpinWorks NMR freeware processing and simulation package is now available for download at:
ftp://davinci.chem.umanitoba.ca/pub/marat/SpinWorks
The file is SpinWorks_310.zip
In addition to the usual bug fixes new features include the ability to read and display processed 2D and 3D data from NMRPipe, and a band-fitting (deconvolution) feature. The LP routines have been re-written for .NET so the code is now .NET clean, with the LP.dll Win 32 file no longer needed.
The program should run on all Windows systems from Win 2000 and up, and has been run successfully on Macs with "parallels". Being .NET clean it should also run on Linux under "mono" with all path separator issues ("\" vs "/") being resolved. I haven't been doing any Linux testing myself, so any feedback that I can get would be greatly appreciated!
Kirk
Marat
http://www.umanitoba.ca/chemistry/nmr/spinworks/index.html
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Quadrupolar
halogens find widespread use i.e. in pharmaceutical formulations.
Solid-state NMR provides a direct mean to probe local halogen |
Rebecca
P. Chapman, Cory M. Widdifield and David
L. Bryce,
"Solid-State NMR of Quadrupolar Halogen Nuclei," Progress
in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy 55 (2009) 215–237.
(Invited Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2009.05.001
See other publications enabled by the 900 NMR Facility here
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Unique instrumentation available at the 900 NMR Facility allows our users to deal with systems and nuclei inaccessible before with NMR at lower fields. One example is 73Ge NMR in solids which was previously limited only to highly symmetric environments. In this cover article just published by Chemical Communications a research team from the University of Manitoba and NRC-SIMS is reporting natural abundance 73Ge NMR spectra in much more challenging amorphous and crystalline germanium oxides. Work continues on even more complex glasses and crystalline phases to address long-standing fundamental questions in glass science, such as the ‘‘germanate anomaly’’. |
Vladimir K. Michaelis, Pedro M. Aguiar, Victor V. Terskikh and Scott Kroeker, "Germanium-73 NMR of Amorphous and Crystalline GeO2," Chemical Communications (2009) 4660-4662. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906642j
See other publications by users of the 900 NMR Facility here
A special issue of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics on modern aspects of Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) has been finalized and is now available online (external link). This PCCP issue brings together a broad range of manuscripts dealing with novel EPR applications, new methodologies and advances in data analysis. It will be displayed at the upcoming 7th European Federation of EPR Groups conference in Antwerp, Belgium in early September 2009. http://www.efepr2009.ua.ac.be/
Canadian contribution in this issue is by our colleagues from the NRC Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences collaborating with fellow EPR spectoscopists from Russia, Germany, and France.
E.G. Bagryanskaya, D.N. Polovyanenko, M.V. Fedin, L.Kulik, A. Schnegg, A. Savitsky, K. Möbius, A.W. Coleman, G.S. Ananchenko and J.A. Ripmeester, "Multifrequency EPR study of the mobility of nitroxides in solid-state calixarene nanocapsules," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6700–6707. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906827a
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Robert
Schurko (University of Windsor) has just been promoted to the rank
of Full Professor. Join us in congratulating Rob with this recognition of his research and teaching success! |
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Cory Widdifield, Rebecca Chapman, and David Bryce from the University of Ottawa have just published a long-awaited review in Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy on solid-state NMR of quadrupolar halogen nuclei. This review will be of interest not only to material scientists and NMR spectroscopists, but also to students and those just learning about solid-state NMR of half-integer quadrupolar nuclei. |
VIVA III, the 3rd annual West Coast NMR minisymposium will take place at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Mountain Campus) on Friday and Saturday, July 24-25, 2009. The aim of this one and a half day symposium is to bring together NMR users, researchers and managers from western Canada and the north-west of the USA to share information on topics of general NMR interest and to foster the development of an NMR community. Talks or poster presentations by graduate students are especially encouraged.
The program will consist of 20 minute talks, a poster session/social gathering and a banquet on Friday. A meeting of NMR facility managers is scheduled for Saturday morning.
Further symposium details
are available at http://www.sfu.ca/~vivanmr
Albert Overhauser, now a professor emeritus at Purdue University, has
been awarded the 2009 Russell Varian Prize. The prize recognizes the initial
contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance
in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The award ceremony will take place
in July during the EUROMAR 2009
Symposium in Göteborg, Sweden.
In 1953, Professor Overhauser delivered a talk to the American Physical Society
on Polarization of Nuclei in Metals. The lecture was subsequently published
in Physical Review (Volume
92, pp. 411-415) and since then cited over 500 times. His findings led
to the discovery of the Nuclear Overhauser Effect (NOE) and the development
of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) technique.
Albert W. Overhauser, "Polarization of Nuclei in Metals," Phys. Rev. 92 (1953) 411-415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.92.411
Press
release by Purdue University (Purdue)
About
Albert Overhauser (Purdue)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has announced today major investment in Canadian Research Infrastructure. More than $665 million was awarded to 133 projects at 41 Canadian research institutions through the CFI’s Leading Edge Fund and New Initiatives Fund. Among infrastructure projects receiving Government's support is the Canada's first 950 MHz NMR spectrometer at the University of Toronto (Lewis Kay, Biochemistry) to enable studies of the structure and dynamics of complex biological molecules, as well as the technological development of biological NMR.
Project title: "High Field NMR Studies of Protein Molecules in Health and Disease" (CFI contribution $4,595,843)
This very significant hardware acquisition will ensure Canada's leading role
in biological NMR research.
Congratulations are due to Lewis Kay and his team at the UofT !
A complete list of awarded projects (CFI
web-site)
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If
you are planning on visiting Edmonton, don't miss a rare opportunity
to glimpse inside of a cut-open NMR magnet at the University of Alberta.
A well thought out and professionally arranged magnet display has been
recently opened to public in the Chemistry Department building. Not
only you have a chance to see what's inside of an NMR magnet, you will
also learn a great deal about NMR from a slide presentation that runs
continuously on the overhead monitor for your enjoyment. If traveling
to Edmonton is not in your plans, you can still see this presentation
online, courtesy
of Albin Otter, an NMR Facility Service Officer at the University
of Alberta, who coordinated efforts in putting this wonderful educational
display together (photo credit). |
Bruker BioSpin has announced the launch of a breakthrough one Gigahertz Ultrahigh-field NMR spectrometer incorporating the world’s first 23.5 Tesla standard-bore (54 mm) superconducting NMR magnet. The first AVANCE 1000 system will be delivered to the Ultra-High Field European NMR Center in Lyon, France in July 2009, where it will be used for research in biomolecular liquid and solid-state chemistry.
Read
the press release by Bruker BioSpin (external
link )
More
information about the 1 GHz NMR spectrometer
(external
link )
The Globe and Mail published an article "Looking for life after lithium" about recent advances by Canadian researchers and entrepreneurs in creating a new generation of batteries. Gillian Goward (McMaster) was prominently featured in this article for her work towards better understanding the chemistry behind extending the recharging life of lithium ion batteries.
Read
the full article in The Globe and Mail (Canada), April 22, 2009 Wednesday
(external
link )
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The Government of Canada has announced funding of $750,000 for a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer for the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada laboratory at the University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown. The new spectrometer will be used primarily in plant materials, healthy foods and nutraceuticals research. The announcement was made in Charlottetown on May 22, 2009 by Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture Pierre Lemieux (photo, left) on behalf of Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. |
Read
the new release by the Government of Canada (external
link )
Our congratulations to Chris
Kirby (photo, right), a Physical Chemist and NMR Specialist with Agriculture
and Agri-Food Canada, and to his colleagues !
Photo
credit: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
The 55th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) will be held at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) on August 9-12, 2009. The conference will feature a special NMR Symposium in honour of Professor Rod Wasylishen.
The conference will also have a fantastic social program including the Magical Dinner with Canada's Magic Champion Eric Leclerc and a very popular Sunset Dinner Cruise of the Thousand Islands.
The abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is now open and will last until June 1, 2009.
ICASS offers a special discount for early registration which is available until June 1, 2009.
Please
check the ICASS conference website for details: http://www.icass.ca/2009/
Or
contact the NMR Symposium organizer, Gang Wu, for more information
http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wu/
Two NMR symposia and a workshop will be highlights of the 92nd Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition meeting in Hamilton.
Gillian Goward and Alex Bain, of McMaster University, have organized a symposium
on Materials and Magnetic Resonance, mainly focused on Solid-State
NMR.
PT7 - Materials and Magnetic Resonance
Sunday May 31 - Monday June 1, AM
http://abstracts.csc2009.ca/vs010074.htm
Giuseppe Melacini, also at McMaster, has put together an excellent program
in Biomolecular NMR.
BM2 - Biomolecular NMR
Monday June 1, PM - Tuesday June 2
http://abstracts.csc2009.ca/vs002010.htm
Please note that this year two NMR symposia have been scheduled back-to-back.
Plan your trip accordingly and don't miss this rare opportunity to attend
both NMR symposia at CSC!
The
CSC 2009 conference program is now available online
http://abstracts.csc2009.ca/
The
National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids and Bruker
Canada are pleased to present the 4th Annual Solid-State NMR Workshop
prior to CSC 2009 in Hamilton. The workshop will take place on Saturday afternoon,
May 30, 2009.
http://nmr900.ca/events_e.html
Dear Colleague,
The organizing committee and I would like to invite you to attend the 51st Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry which will be held July 19 - July 23, 2009. The conference site is the Snowmass Conference Center in Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado.
The NMR Symposium will focus on the recent development of solid-state NMR techniques and applications. The symposium consists of oral and poster sessions as well as an evening dinner for NMR symposium attendees and vendors. We are pleased to announce that this year's Vaughan Lecturer is Professor Kurt Zilm from Yale University. Other invited speakers include:
Marc
Baldus (Utrecht)
Tim Cross (NHML, Tallahassee)
Mark Conradi (WU, St. Louis)
Gary Drobny (UW, Seattle)
Melinda Duer (Cambridge)
Matthias Ernst (ETH, Zurich)
Cynthia Jameson (UI, Chicago)
Alexej Jerschow (NYU)
Arno Kentgens (Nijmegen)
Vladimir Ladizhansky (Guelph)
Klaus Mueller (Stuttgart)
Jeff Reimer (UC, Berkeley)
Jake Schaefer (WU, St. Louis)
Hans Thomann (ExxonMobil)
Jeremy Titman (Nottingham)
Yue Wu (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Gang Wu (Queen's, Kingston)
In addition to invited and promoted talks there will be two poster sessions
providing a more relaxed environment for the dissemination of the latest results.
An evening symposium dinner will provide an additional opportunity for attendees
to meet and further discuss their scientific work while also allowing representatives
from the NMR vendors to discuss NMR problems as well as to promote their latest
technological advancements and products.
The
deadline for submitting poster abstracts is June 15, 2009. For details
of online abstract submission visit
http://www.rockychem.com/abstract.htm
June
25th
is the deadline for early online registration at
http://www.rockychem.com/registration.htm
Finally, you may want to reserve your room at the Silvertree Hotel before the June 25 deadline to obtain the negotiated conference discount:
The
Silvertree Hotel
100 Elbert Lane
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
(800)
525-9402 or (970) 923-3520
Online reservations (Enter Group Code RMCAC09)
https://reservations.synxis.com/LBE/Rez.aspx?hotel=11119&lang=1
We
look forward to seeing you this July in Colorado.
Philip J. Grandinetti, Chair (NMR Symposium)
This year Bruker BioSpin will host an all day event consisting of Solid-State NMR Workshop and a Seminar. This event will take place on the Sunday prior to the Rocky Mountain Conference. If you are planning to be in Colorado on July 19, we hope you will join us.
Register
now for the Solid State NMR workshop and seminar (to
register).
Agenda
9:00 Breakfast & Registration
9:30 Welcome, Dr. Jochem Struppe
9:40 Solid State NMR on dynamic molecular assemblies, Prof. Marc Baldus,
Utrecht University
10:15 Very High Temperature NMR - Applications and Hardware, Dr. Sebastian
Wegner
10:35 Advances in High-Resolution 1H Solid State NMR at High Field
and Very-Fast MAS, Prof. Luis Mafra, University of Aveiro
11:00 Break
11:15 Solid State NMR Probes, latest Developments, Dr. Stefan Steuernagel
11:35 Li-Argyrodites: Insights into a New Exciting Ion Conductor, Dr.
Barbara Koch
11:55 Interactions of membrane proteins and lipids with water studied
with solid-state NMR, Prof. Mei Hong
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Progress Report on 263 GHz Solids DNP Spectrometer, Dr. Shane
Pawsey
1:45- 4:00 Workshop on Mathematical Methods for Data Analysis
1:45 Mathematical Methods: Floquet Theory, Prof. Matthias Ernst, ETH
Zurich
2:15 Dynamics of large nuclear spin systems from low-order correlations
in Liouville space, Dr. Mark Butler, ENS Lyon
2:55 Biosolids NMR experimental setup strategies, Dr. Jochem Struppe
You are invited to the 20th Solid-State NMR Varian Workshop prior to the 51st Rocky Mountain Conference in Snowmass.
Learn the newest Solid-State NMR applications and techniques, and how Varian's Solid-State technology can provide ultimate performance in a wide range of research and routine applications for your laboratory.
When:
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Registration starts at 7:30 a.m.
Where:
The Silver Tree Hotel
100 Elbert Lane
Snowmass Village, CO 81615
Limited space. Registration required. Breakfast and Lunch will be provided.
Registration is free of charge, but required prior to the event (to
register).
Workshop Agenda
7:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast Buffet
8:30 a.m. Sessions
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Sessions
12:00 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Hands-on Solids Workshop Sessions: Solids MAS probe technology,
Solids MAS spinning technology, VnmrJ™ for Solids
Tom Benzel, Varian Inc.
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).
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
Jianfeng Zhu, Nick Trefiak, Tom Woo, Yining Huang, "A 47/49Ti Solid-State NMR Study of Layered Titanium Phosphates at Ultrahigh Magnetic Field," Journal of Physical Chemistry C 113 (2009) 10029–10037. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp901235w
Kudos to them and to all our users who continue to impress the international NMR community with the high level of solid-state NMR research in Canada.
See other research publications enabled by the 900 NMR Facility here.
Our sincere congratulations to all the winners of the 2009 NSERC competitions in the Discovery Grants Program (DG), Research Tools and Instruments Grants (RTI), the Major Resources Support Program (MRS) and Scholarship programs.
A
team of six researchers from l'Université
Laval, including Michèle Auger, Freddy Kleitz, Jean-François
Morin, Thierry Ollevier, Jean-François Paquin and Anna Ritcey, have
received $132,922 in NSERC RTI funding for a triple resonance 4 mm CP/MAS
19F/1H/X probehead and accessories for solid-state NMR spectrometer.
David Bryce (University of Ottawa) received NSERC RTI funding for laboratory equipment (glovebox).
Becky Chapman (University of Ottawa) has been awarded a NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship. She joins Cory Widdifield as the second member of Dave Bryce's group to receive this prestigious scholarship.
The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids has received NSERC MRS funding for the next five years.
Share your success with the Canadian NMR community (E-mail).
Michael Hunger has edited a special "Solid State NMR in Catalysis" issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (vol. 35, issue 2). Among authors are many renown personae in the field including Yining Huang (University of Western Ontario), who is reporting their recent research in studying formation of molecular sieves.
Z. Yan, B. Chen, Y. Huang, "A solid-state NMR study of the formation of molecular sieve SAPO-34," Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance 35 (2009) 49-60. (invited publication, special issue "Solid State NMR in Catalysis") http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssnmr.2008.12.006
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The
latest issue of Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy is
dedicated to various aspects of NMR in molecular biology. The first
Chapter in this six-chapter volume is written by a team from the University
of Calgary reviewing modern solution and solid-state NMR experiments
to characterize antimicrobial peptides and mechanisms of their action. Evan F. Haney and Hans J. Vogel, "NMR of Antimicrobial Peptides," Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 65 (2009) 1-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0066-4103(08)00201-9 |
Dear Researchers,
The registration deadline for the 5th Annual McGill Biophysical Chemistry Symposium has been extended from April 17th to April 24th. This symposium will take place on Tuesday May 5th with Prof. Taekjip Ha from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as the plenary speaker. Researchers from McGill, Concordia, Laval, U Montreal, U Ottawa, U Sherbrooke, and the National Research Council in Ottawa will present talks. The all-day event will feature a poster session for students as well as a complimentary lunch and refreshments. (PDF poster, 350 kB)
Registration is FREE OF CHARGE but please do register soon, as space is limited. Please email your name, your contact information, and your poster abstract to "biophys.chem at mcgill.ca". All inquiries can also be sent to this address. Hope to see you all there.
Best Regards,
Tony Mittermaier
Anthony
Mittermaier
(Chemistry, Chemical Biology)
http://www.chemistry.mcgill.ca/
A
research team from the Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences (NRC
Canada) and their colleagues from Oak Ridge, Stony-Brook, and Argonne, are
reporting synthesis and characterization of a new structure of gas hydrate,
previously known only hypothetically. Static and magic angle spinning 129Xe
NMR was instrumental in this research, and had provided strong confirmation
of the structural analysis.
L. Yang, C.A. Tulk, D.D. Klug, I.L. Moudrakovski, C.I. Ratcliffe, J.A. Ripmeester, B.C. Chakoumakos, L. Ehm, C.D. Martin, and J.B. Parise, "Synthesis and characterization of a new structure of gas hydrate," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (2009) 6060-6064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0809342106
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David Bryce (University of Ottawa) has been promoted with tenure to the rank of Associate Professor. Join us in congratulating Dave with this well deserved promotion! |
FREDERICTON,
New Brunswick, March 19, 2009 — The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister
of State (Science and Technology), today offered his congratulations to the
Canada Research Chair at the University of New Brunswick, whose position was
recently renewed.
Bruce Balcom is the renewed Canada Research Chair in Materials Science Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Dr. Balcom's research involves the application of new methods of MRI to a broad array of problems in materials science. This research will help develop and improve a new materials research capability in Canada and facilitate the introduction and development of new processes and products.
“Dr. Balcom, one of Canada's leading scientists and engineers, will generate the knowledge we need to solve tough problems,” said Minister of State Goodyear. “That is why we are pleased to announce the renewal of Dr. Balcom's Canada Research Chair in Materials Science MRI here at the University of New Brunswick.”
As Director of the University of New Brunswick's MRI (UNB MRI) Centre, Dr. Balcom and his team have invented a family of new MRI methods. The successful application of the centre's new MRI techniques, with allied hardware and software innovations, has opened new vistas in material science research. Detecting how water and oil move through rock and concrete is one of the many practical applications of Dr. Balcom's work, which is already being used by the oil and gas industry.
The UNB MRI Centre is the only material science MRI laboratory in Canada and the only university-based laboratory of its type in North America. The birthplace of the Single-Point Ramped Imaging with T1 Enhancement (SPRITE) technique, it is considered the leading laboratory worldwide in many aspects of material science MRI.
On
February 23, 2009, the Government of Canada announced an investment of $120.4
million to fund 134 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs in 37 Canadian universities.
The research chairs will conduct research in variety of fields of direct interest
to Canadians. This investment also includes $6.6 million for the Canada Foundation
for Innovation to support research infrastructure.
Read
the full press release by the Government of Canada
http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?m=/index&nid=437979
Photo
from
http://www.unb.ca/fredericton/science/physics/mri/
Lewis Kay and colleagues from the University of Toronto have published an article in Biophysical Journal reviewing recently developed NMR relaxation dispersion technique and its applications to protein folding research.
P.
Neudecker, P. Lundström, L.E. Kay, "Relaxation Dispersion NMR
Spectroscopy as a Tool for Detailed Studies of Protein Folding," Biophysical
Journal 96 (2009) 2045-2054. (review)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2008.12.3907
A research team from the Ontario Cancer Institute and the University of Toronto has developed a real-time, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)–based assay to monitor the intrinsic GTPase activity of the small guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) Rheb. This method can now be used to gain further understanding of the mechanisms of action of other GTPases and their GAP partners.
C.B. Marshall, J. Ho, C. Buerger, M.J. Plevin, Guang-Yao Li, Z. Li, M. Ikura, and V. Stambolic, "Characterization of the Intrinsic and TSC2-GAP–Regulated GTPase Activity of Rheb by Real-Time NMR," Science Signaling 2 (#55) (2009) ra3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2000029
Abstract: http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sigtrans;2/55/ra3
Editor's
summary:
http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/sigtrans;2/55/ra3
Science Signaling is a weekly AAAS journal as well as an online resource and information management tool that enables experts and novices in cell signaling to find, organize, and utilize information relevant to processes of cellular regulation. As of September 2008, Science Signaling is adding original research articles to the weekly journal. Science Signaling publishes research that represents a major advance in cell signaling, including key research papers in the rapidly expanding areas of signaling networks, systems biology, synthetic biology, computation and modeling of regulatory pathways, and drug discovery.
More
about Science Signaling:
http://stke.sciencemag.org/about/
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/
Government of Canada has announced today an investment of $120.4 million to fund 134 new or renewed Canada Research Chairs in 37 Canadian universities. This includes renewal of two Tier 1 Chairs involved in magnetic resonance research.
Raymond Laflamme (University of Waterloo) Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Quantum Information
Bruce Balcom (University of New Brunswick) Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Materials Science and MRI. Bruce has also been awarded a complementary CFI funding under the Leaders Opportunity Fund.
Our sincere congratulations to Raymond, Bruce and their colleagues with this well-deserved recognition.
http://www.chairs.gc.ca/web/media/releases/2009/february_e.asp
Read a feature report by CBC on quantum computing research at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/02/09/f-quantum-computing.htm
Recent JACS Communication by Gang Wu and Irene Kwan (Wu's group, Queen's University) is highlighted as News of the week in Chemical & Engineering News as an important contribution to our understanding of self-assembly of nucleotide monomers. In their research Gang and Irene have used a variety of liquid-state NMR techniques and computations to characterize guanosine 5'-monophosphate (5'-GMP) solutions in the presence of sodium cations. The authors have observed spontaneous formation of well-defined right-handed helical 5'-GMP structures, the finding which may have potential implications for prebiotic chemistry theories.
Read
the news story in C&EN (picture credit)
Issue February 16, 2009, p.10, News of the week:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i07/8707notw7.html
G. Wu and I. Kwan, "The helical structure of disodium guanosine 5’-monophosphate self-assembly in neutral solution," Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (2009) 3180–3182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja809258y
Our
colleagues at the NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute in Saskatoon are
celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Institute. It has also been 60 years
since the National Research Council Canada first established the NRC Prairie
Regional Laboratory, which in 1983 was officially transformed into NRC-PBI.
NRC-PBI is recognized
worldwide for its research in agricultural biotechnology that utilizes plants
to produce bioproducts, healthy foods and supplements for the benefit of environmental
and human health. PBI is a major research centre for plant biosciences in
Canada, with expertise in genomics, metabolic pathways, gene expression, genetic
transformation, structural biology and natural product chemistry. Read
the press release by NRC Canada
NMR spectroscopy plays a prominent role in many fundamental and applied research projects undertaken by PBI researchers and their collaborators. PBI currently houses two recently upgraded NMR instruments: a 500 MHz Bruker Avance system for multinuclear high-resolution studies equipped with a CryoProbe, and a 360 MHz Avance wide-bore system for work in solids, including magic-angle spinning (MAS) and microimaging.
NMR
personalities at PBI:
Sue Abrams has been recently appointed to the position of PBI's Research Director. Sue uses NMR spectroscopy in plant metabolic pathway studies.
Michèle Loewen employs high-resolution NMR along with a wide range of other techniques to learn about molecular mechanisms of membrane protein actions.
Shelley Forgeron has recently joined NRC-PBI as an NMR Facility Manager.
" .. August 2008 saw the retirement of our longtime NMR manager Mike
Fuerth, who had been in charge of NMR spectrometers and other various
instruments since 1972. Mike stayed on to overlap with our new NMR manager,
Matt Revington, and help him get settled in..."
Read the full Guest Editorial by Robert Schurko in the Winter 2009 Issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin.
The
Chemical Biophysics Symposium is a student organized conference now
in its eight year of providing an informal venue for discussions of topics
bridging the physical and biological sciences. Past Symposia have been marked
by a strong multi-disciplinary turnout including biologists, chemists, physicists,
mathematicians, and other more exotic species; lively (but good-natured!)
debates during panel discussions and question periods; a lavish Saturday evening
banquet; and stellar lineups of prominent invited speakers. We hope to continue
this tradition this coming Spring (University
of Toronto, April 24-26, 2009), and we encourage all interested faculty,
postdocs, and students to attend.
Terry
Allen (University of Alberta)
Harold Craighead, (Cornell University)
Roy Duncan (Dalhousie University)
Michael Ellison (University of Alberta)
Gerhard Hummer (National Institute of Health)
Lewis Kay (University of Toronto)
Igor Medintz (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
The registration/ abstract submission is now open. Abstract submission deadline is March 24, 2009.
Please visit our website at http://www.chembiophys.ca
Those attending the 50th ENC Conference in Asilomar, remember to register and attend two traditional pre-ENC NMR meetings:
Varian
Users' Meeting before the 50th ENC
March 27-28, 2009, Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, Palo Alto, CA
http://www.varianinc.com/
Bruker
Pre-ENC NMR Workshops and Breakfast Symposium
March 28-29, 2009, Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, CA
http://www.bruker-biospin.com/enc2009.html
This
year ENC celebrates its Golden Anniversary, and the organizing committee is
planning a number of special events, including a gala banquet at the Monterey
Aquarium and other anniversary-related activities, to make this meeting memorable
and enjoyable by all participants.
50th
ENC
March 29 - April 3, 2009, Asilomar, Pacific Grove, California
http://www.enc-conference.org/
Call for nominations:
Nominations for the 2010 Vaughan Lecturer are solicited from the solid-state
NMR community. Submissions should describe the nominee's scientific accomplishments
and contributions in the field of solid-state NMR. Nominations must be submitted
as single Word or Acrobat PDF files, with a 500 word maximum, plus a maximum
of 5 references to publications or patents. No secondary letters are needed,
but nominations should be co-signed by multiple members of the solid-state
NMR community. Nominations must be emailed before March 31, 2009 to
vaughanaward "at" ssnmr.org
The 2010 Vaughan lecturer selection committee is comprised of the five most recent Vaughan lecturers: Jeff Reimer (Berkeley, Chair), Robin K. Harris, Lucio Frydman, Malcolm H. Levitt, Robert Tycko, Clare Grey.
Nominations for the Vaughan Lecturer are solicited from the solid-state NMR community by the Selection Committee, and the awardee is chosen from these nominations by the Selection Committee. The winner is notified prior to the meeting and announced to the community during the last session of the RMC SSNMR symposium.
51st
Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry
July 19-23, 2009, the Snowmass Conference Center and Silvertree Hotel in Snowmass,
Colorado
http://www.rockychem.com/
In today's paper in Nature a research team from Switzerland reports novel approach of performing NMR and MRI experiments via travelling radio-frequency waves sent and received by an antenna instead of traditional RF coils.
Nature editorial: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/457971a
D.O. Brunner, N. De Zanche, J. Fröhlich, J. Paska & K.P. Pruessmann, "Travelling-wave nuclear magnetic resonance," Nature 457 (2009) 994-998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature07752
Last week our colleagues from the University of Ottawa took delivery of a Bruker AVANCE III 400 NMR spectrometer for solids (photos), to complement the Bruker AVANCE III 200 NMR spectrometer installed there in September 2008. This major hardware acquisition has been made possible thanks to the CFI Leaders Opportunity Fund award to Prof. David Bryce (Chemistry). Dave is excited to explore new opportunities afford by a double-resonance double-rotation (DOR) probe for the 400 MHz instrument!
In total there are now seven NMR instruments at the uOttawa campus (8, including the Bruker AVANCE II 900 at the National NMR Facility for Solids), to keep Glenn and Cheryl very busy for a long time to come.
web
(NMR Facility): http://www.science.uottawa.ca/nmr/
Scott Kroeker is among several other researchers from the University of Manitoba to share more than $2.3 million in funding from the Manitoba Government. The funding is provided through the Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund to support research projects related to health, environment and advanced technologies.
Read the press release by the University of Manitoba: http://myuminfo.umanitoba.ca/
web:
Scott
Kroeker (Department of Chemistry)
Lakeland College (Lloydminster, Alberta) has purchased an NMR spectrometer among other modern laboratory equipment for its university studies program. The NMR spectrometer will be used to advance learning and training opportunities for first and second-year students taking organic chemistry.
Read the press release by Lakeland College: http://www.lakelandcollege.ca/news/news01090901.aspx
The Russell Varian prize honors the memory of the pioneer behind the first commercial Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectrometers and co-founder of Varian Associates. The prize is awarded to a researcher based on a single innovative contribution (a single paper, patent, lecture, or piece of hardware) that has proven of high and broad impact on state-of-the-art NMR technology. The prize aims to award the initial contribution that laid the ground for the specific technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR. It is sponsored by Varian Inc. and carries a monetary award of 15,000 Euro. The award ceremony will take place at EUROMAR 2009 in Göteborg, Sweden, July 5-9, 2009. The deadline for nominations is February 15, 2009.
For nomination guidelines see: http://www.euromar2009.com/prize.html
The Raymond Andrew Prize is awarded by the AMPERE Bureau in memory of Professor Dr. Raymond Andrew and to honour his pioneering work in the field of magnetic resonance. The prize is awarded to young scientists for an outstanding PhD thesis in magnetic resonance.
For
2009 the AMPERE Prize Committee is seeking your help in searching for qualified
candidates who completed their dissertation during the period of
2007/2008. The prize will be presented during the EUROMAR
2009 in Göteborg (Sweden) from 5th to 9th of July 2009. You
are kindly invited to submit nominations by e-mail to
andrewprice
"at" nmr.phys.chem.ethz.ch
Suggestions
must be received by 15th February 2009 and should include
the following documents:
•
Nomination letter
• Curriculum vitae
• List of publications and presentations at conferences
• PhD thesis in PDF
The thesis should be written in English. In exceptional cases, the thesis may also be submitted in triplicate as a hardcopy to the AMPERE Secretariat. Submissions that arrive too late will automatically be transferred to the next year. The prize committee will reconsider excellent contributions for two years in a row.
For
a list of past Andrew Prize winners see:
http://www.ampere.ethz.ch/andrew_prize.htm
For nomination guidelines see: http://www.euromar2009.com/prize.htm
From early 2005 to March, 2008 there were published more than 3000 research papers employing solid-state NMR. To review all these publications in one place would be a formidable and unmanageable task. Cecil Dybowski and Shi Bai from the University of Delaware decided to highlight only some of these papers in their recent review in Analytical Chemistry. Admittedly limited in their choices, the authors discuss six main areas of development of solid-state NMR in the last three years, including
- Methodology and Technical Developments
- Materials and Nanotechnology
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry
- Catalysis and Surfaces
- Quadrupolar Nuclei
- Biomolecules
This review gives the reader a glimpse into the vast field of modern solid-state NMR spectroscopy. It also lists some of the most recent solid-state NMR reviews for each topic you may have missed.
C. Dybowski and S. Bai, "Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Analytical Chemistry 80 (2008) 4295–4300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac800573y
