NMR papers in Nature

M.J. Plevin, D.L. Bryce, and J. Boisbouvier, "Direct Detection of CH/pi Interactions in Proteins," Nature Chemistry (2010) in press. 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

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/

MOOT XXIII Preliminary Announcement

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 http://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

New Canadian NMR jobs

NMR Laboratory Supervisor, Department of Chemistry, the University of Alberta http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/competition.aspx?id=A104910984

Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of British Columbia
http://www.biochem.ubc.ca/department/career.html

For more details and other job postings go to NMR jobs

NMR paper in Science

T.L. Religa, R. Sprangers, L.E. Kay, "Dynamic Regulation of Archaeal Proteasome Gate Opening As Studied by TROSY NMR," Science 328 (2010) 98-102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1184991

Solid-State NMR Best Paper Award

Dear colleagues,

we would like to draw your attention to the following new initiative of the journal of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonanc (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
Inst. fuer Physikalische Chemie
Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster
Corrensstrasse 28-30, D-48149 Muenster
Germany