Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance: new entries

J.W. Zwanziger, "Computing Electric Field Gradient Tensors", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1208

D.L. Bryce and R.E. Wasylishen, "Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids: Influence of Different Interactions on Spectra", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1197

G. Wu, "Alkali Metal NMR of Biological Molecules", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1210

T.T. Nakashima and R.E. Wasylishen, "Sensitivity and Resolution Enhancement of Half-integer Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solid-state NMR", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1200

L.A. O'Dell and C.I. Ratcliffe, "Quadrupolar NMR to Investigate Dynamics in Solid Materials", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1209

R.W. Schurko, "Acquisition of Wideline Solid-State NMR Spectra of Quadrupolar Nuclei", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1199

O.B. Lapina and V.V. Terskikh, "Quadrupolar Metal NMR of Oxide Materials Including Catalysts", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1224

F. Blanc, L. Spencer and G.R. Goward, "Quadrupolar NMR of Ionic Conductors, Batteries, and Other Energy-related Materials", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1215

S. Kroeker, "Nuclear Waste Glasses: Insights from Solid-State NMR", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1223

A. O'Sullivan, D. Avizonis, J.B. German and C.M. Slupsky, "Software Tools for NMR Metabolomics", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1232

N. De Zanche, "Birdcage Volume Coil Design", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1288

D.I. Hoult, "Receiver Design for MR", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1137

Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry

A selection of NMR papers by Canadian researchers from the Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (EIBC), a new 10,000+ page reference tool in the area of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438

Please let us know if we have missed/overlooked your chapter!

S.M. Gagné, "Troponin C," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0505

K.L. Yap and M. Ikura, "Calmodulin," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0504

T. Moldoveanu, Q. Liu, D.R. Green and K. Gehring, "BAK," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0662

K.D. Krewulak, W. Köster and H.J. Vogel, "Siderophore-Binding Periplasmatic Protein FhuD and Related Periplasmic Binding Proteins Involved in Bacterial Iron Uptake," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0670

D.B. Leznoff, G. Mund, "Paramagnetic Organometallic Complexes," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0166

G.S. McGrady, J.W. Steed, "Hypervalent Compounds," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0089

S.I. Gorelsky, "Abinitio and Semiempirical Methods," Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Wiley (2011).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0377

Special issue of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volume 213, Issue 2, Pages 213-574 (December 2011)

Magnetic Moments, Groundbreaking papers from the pages of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance - and recollections from the scientists behind them.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10907807/213/2

To celebrate the 2011 International Year of Chemistry JMR has assembled a collection of reprints of some of the most significant papers published in the journal since its inception over 40 years ago. These reprints are accompanied by video/audio commentaries by their authors giving a rare "behind the scene" glimpse into magnetic resonance research.

These videos are also available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D790E241B661706

Cover article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Gang Wu, Zhehong Gan, Irene C. M. Kwan, James C. Fettinger, and Jeffery T. Davis, "High Resolution 39K NMR Spectroscopy of Bio-organic Solids," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133 (2011) 19570–19573. (cover article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja2052446

CSC 2012 Call for Papers Open

The 95th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC2012) will be held in Calgary, Alberta, May 25-30, 2012. This is Canada's largest annual conference devoted to the science and practice of chemistry. This year's conference theme is Energizing Chemistry.

The Call for Papers opened today December 1, 2011 and will close February 15, 2012. Submit your abstract through Hermes Conference Centre via the CSC2012 website. Details are available at http://www.csc2012.ca/2_program/submit_abstract.html

The conference plenary lecturer is Prof. Paul Alivisatos, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley. You can view the wide range of symposia representing the "Energizing Chemistry" theme on the CSC2012 website at http://www.csc2012.ca

[VT: for NMR folks, Division of Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, "Solid-State NMR" Symposium, Organizer: R. Wasylishen, University of Alberta]

We encourage you to forward this notice to your network of colleagues nationally and internationally, to submit your abstracts and to join us in Calgary next May.

Warren Piers, Conference Chair Treasurer
Thomas Baumgartner, Scientific Program Chair

Recognition: Lewis Kay

Special issue of the Journal of Biomolecular NMR on the occasion of Prof. Lewis E. Kay’s 50th birthday, volume 51, numbers 1-2, September 2011.

Kevin H. Gardner, Anthony Mittermaier and Frans A.A. Mulder, "A tribute to Lewis E. Kay on his 50th birthday" Journal of Biomolecular NMR 51 (2011) 3-4. (Editorial) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10858-011-9561-x

A fitting collection of 18 research publications by colleagues, friends and former students of Lewis Kay to celebrate his many pioneering contributions to the field of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy.

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

Fellow MR-enthusiasts,

the Fall 2011 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" bulletin is now available for download. In this issue Kalle Gehring (McGill) introduces a new CREATE training program in Bionanomachines. There are also many interesting recent research and hardware developments and awards, and as usual plentiful of MR publications! You are welcome to forward this bulletin to your students and co-workers.

CREATE program in Bionanomachines

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Bionanotechnology

The new NSERC-sponsored CREATE Training Program in Bionanomachines (CTPB) offers summer research stipends to undergraduates and 2-year stipends to graduate students in 22 laboratories in Montreal, Québec City, Calgary and Saskatoon. Bionanomachines is a young and developing field at the intersection of structural biology, supramolecular chemistry and biophysics that seeks to understand how biological machines function at the molecular level, and to harness their power for applications in health, chemistry and physics. For more information visit http://bionano.ca/en or contact the CTPB Coordinator at (bionano.med "at" mcgill.ca).

Review in Nature Methods

J.R. Bothe, E.N. Nikolova, C.D. Eichhorn, J. Chugh, A.L. Hansen and H.M. Al-Hashimi, "Characterizing RNA dynamics at atomic resolution using solution-state NMR spectroscopy," Nature Methods 8 (2011) 919–931. (Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1735

New NMR book

NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers: Innovative Strategies for Complex Macromolecules
ACS Symposium Series, Volume 1077
Editors: H.N. Cheng, T. Asakura, A.D. English
Publisher: ACS, October 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0841226678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2011-1077

This ACS Symposium Series book includes papers presented at the Symposium "NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers - Innovative NMR Strategies for Complex Macromolecular Systems" which was part of Pacifichem 2010, the 2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies in Honolulu, Hawaii, December 15-20, 2010. Among over 30 contributions on the state-of-the-art NMR spectroscopy in polymers and related systems there are two chapters by Canadian NMR research groups.

P.M. Macdonald, "Diffusion NMR of Polymers in Bicelles," Chapter 14, NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers: Innovative Strategies for Complex Macromolecules, Eds. H.N. Cheng, T. Asakura, A.D. English, ACS (2011) pp. 221-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2011-1077.ch014

H. Thérien-Aubin, Y.J. Wang, and X.X. Zhu, "NMR Imaging and Its Application in the Study of Pharmaceutical Tablets," Chapter 27, NMR Spectroscopy of Polymers: Innovative Strategies for Complex Macromolecules, Eds. H.N. Cheng, T. Asakura, A.D. English, ACS (2011) pp. 441-457.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bk-2011-1077.ch027

Agilent Users' Meeting prior to MOOT 2011

On Friday, October 21st, 2011, Agilent Technologies will be holding a pre-MOOT Agilent users' meeting at the University of Toronto to celebrate the opening of the CSICOMP NMR Facility and to honour the career of Professor William Reynolds.

You are cordially invited to attend this event which will take place at 13:00-19:00, Sidney Smith Room SS2135, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto. Please reserve your seat as places are limited by following this link.

MetaboHunter

D. Tulpan, S. Léger, L. Belliveau, A. Culf, M. Cuperlovic-Culf, "MetaboHunter: an automatic approach for identification of metabolites from 1H-NMR spectra of complex mixtures," BMC Bioinformatics 12 (2011) accepted. (open access)
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/400/abstract

Background One-dimensional 1H-NMR spectroscopy is widely used for high-throughput characterization of metabolites in complex biological mixtures. However, the accurate identification of individual compounds is still a challenging task, particularly in spectral regions with higher peak densities. The need for automatic tools to facilitate and further improve the accuracy of such tasks, while using increasingly larger reference spectral libraries becomes a priority of current metabolomics research.

Results We introduce a web server application, called MetaboHunter, which can be used for automatic assignment of 1H-NMR spectra of metabolites. MetaboHunter provides methods for automatic metabolite identification based on spectra or peak lists with three different search methods and with possibility for peak drift in a user defined spectral range. The assignment is performed using as reference libraries manually curated data from two major publicly available databases of NMR metabolite standard measurements (HMDB and MMCD). Tests using a variety of synthetic and experimental spectra of single and multi metabolite mixtures show that MetaboHunter is able to identify, in average, more than 80% of detectable metabolites from spectra of synthetic mixtures and more than 50% from spectra corresponding to experimental mixtures. This work also suggests that better scoring functions improve by more than 30% the performance of MetaboHunter's metabolite identification methods.

Conclusions MetaboHunter is a freely accessible, easy to use and user friendly 1H-NMR-based web server application that provides efficient data input and pre-processing, flexible parameter settings, fast and automatic metabolite fingerprinting and results visualization via intuitive plotting and compound peak hit maps. Compared to other published and freely accessible metabolomics tools, MetaboHunter implements three efficient methods to search for metabolites in manually curated data from two reference libraries.

Availability http://www.nrcbioinformatics.ca/metabohunter/

Valerie Booth - Canada Research Chair in magnetic resonance renewed

Government of Canada has announced an investment of $203.9 million to fund 253 newly awarded or renewed Canada Research Chairs at 56 Canadian universities. This includes renewal of one Chair involved in magnetic resonance research.

Valerie Booth (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Canada Research Chair Tier 2 in Membrane Proteins. Valerie has been also awarded a complementary CFI funding under the Leaders Opportunity Fund. Congratulations!

Recognition: Brian Sykes

Brian Sykes, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, has won the 2010 University of Alberta Cup. The University Cup is among the highest honors that the University of Alberta confers on its faculty members. It is awarded in recognition of faculty members who have clearly excelled in both teaching and research. Prof. Sykes was presented with the University Cup at the 2011 Celebrate! ceremony, the university’s annual celebration of teaching, learning and research, held on September 16, 2011 (read the news story).

NMR Winter School at Saclay

Experiments and Modelling in Structural NMR

November 28 -December 2, 2011
INSTN-CEA Saclay, France (20 km South of Paris)

http://www-instn.cea.fr/-2011-Events-.html#NMR

The aim of the school is to provide basic understanding on the coupling of theoretical Modelling and Simulation methods to the Experiments in structural NMR, for biology and material science. This school will therefore cover liquid, oriented media and solid state NMR approaches.

The School is composed of Seminars in the morning and Practical Training in the afternoon involving both the theoretical and experimental aspects.

The school will cover several topics in the field of structural NMR. In the first part, following an introduction on general principles, the basic knowledge in isotropic and anisotropic media is given. The second part deals with the structural studies of biological systems and materials while the third gives an overview of a some advanced concepts including Hyper-polarization, Fast NMR and Diffusion process.

This school is a unique, covering most recent aspects of Structural NMR , in biology and material science, both experimental and computational.

Registration deadline: October 30, 2011

Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance: new entries

G. Wu "Oxygen 17 NMR Studies of Organic and Biological Molecules", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1212

D.I. Hoult "Magnetic Resonance with Conducting and High- Dielectric Samples", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1182

2012 CNC-IUPAC Travel Awards

The Canadian National Committee for IUPAC (CNC-IUPAC) established a program of Travel Awards for young Canadian scientists. Deadline for receipt of applications for 2012 awards is 14 October 2011. For more information visit http://www.cnc-iupac.ca/application_e.html

NMR paper in Nature

G. Bouvignies, P. Vallurupalli, D.F. Hansen, B.E. Correia, O. Lange, A. Bah, R.M. Vernon, F.W. Dahlquist, D. Baker & L.E. Kay, "Solution structure of a minor and transiently formed state of a T4 lysozyme mutant," Nature 477 (2011) 111–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10349

picoSpin Benchtop NMR Spectrometer - Demonstration

Cole-Parmer Canada will be hosting a live demonstration of the picoSpin, the world's first commercial miniature FT-NMR spectrometer. Two demonstrations are scheduled, one in Montreal on October 4th, 2011 and one in Toronto on October 5th. There is no cost to attend the event, and complimentary snacks and beverages will be served. Please contact Roberto Santana at 514-355-6100 ext. 250 or (rsantana "at" coleparmer.ca) for more information and to reserve your spot.

If there will be enough interest, an additional demonstration is possible around the same time in Ottawa, please enquire.

About the event:
http://www.coleparmer.ca/promotions/promotion_picospinDEMO2011.asp

About picoSpin:
http://www.coleparmer.ca/catalog/literature/3338.2A4_PicoSpin_Brochure.pdf

Roberto Santana
Gérant du Marketing / Marketing Manager
Cole-Parmer Canada Inc
210-5101 rue Buchan, Montréal, QC, Canada, H4P 2R9
Tél: 800-363-5900 / 514-355-6100 x 250
Téléc./Fax: 514-355-7119
rsantana "at" coleparmer.ca
http://www.coleparmer.ca

MOOT XXIV - third announcement

Dear Colleagues,

A reminder that online registration is now open for the MOOT XXIV NMR Symposium which will be taking place October 22nd-23rd (2011) in Toronto, Ontario, hosted at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. Details are available on the conference website, http://www.mootnmr.org

The abstract submission deadline for this year's MOOT is 23 September, and abstracts for both oral and poster presentations can be submitted online during the registration process.

Agilent Technologies will be holding a day long symposium and mixer the day before this year's MOOT (Oct. 21). More information regarding the agenda and location for this symposium will be posted soon at http://www.spinsights.net/

We have arranged conference pricing for accomodation downtown at the Delta Chelsea hotel near the Hospital for Sick Children, as well as discounted airfares through Porter Airlines (serving Toronto Island airport). Please see the "Travel" section of http://www.mootnmr.org for more details!

If you have any questions or comments, please send a message to (mootnmr "at" gmail.com), or contact Simon Sharpe (ssharpe "at" sickkids.ca).

We look forward to seeing you in October!

Sharpe lab - Molecular Structure and Function Programme, Hospital for Sick Children / Dept. of Biochemistry, U. Toronto

Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Special Issue Dedicated to Professor R.E. Wasylishen

Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Volume 89, Number 7 (2011) (part 1 of 2)
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/toc/cjc/89/7

Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Volume 89, Number 9 (2011) (part 2 of 2)
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/toc/cjc/89/9

David Bryce, Gang Wu, Yining Huang, "Tribute: Professor Roderick E. Wasylishen," Canadian Journal of Chemistry 89 (2011) xi-xvi. (Special Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/v11-067

"Anarchy in the proteome" - interview with Julie Forman-Kay

Julie Forman-Kay (Toronto) speaks about her research in disordered proteins in a podcast interview to the Chemistry World. Available for download at

Chemistry World Podcast, August 2011, "6.05-13.00 Julie Forman-Kay reveals that disordered, unfolded proteins are much more functional and much more common than previously thought"

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/podcast/CWpodcast.asp

Part of this interview is also featured in the printed August 2011 issue of the Chemistry World (subscription required): M. Gross "Anarchy in the proteome", Chemistry World, August 2011, Volume 8, No 8, p.42-45.
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2011/August/index.asp

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

Fellow MR-enthusiasts,

the Summer 2011 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" bulletin is now available for download. In this issue Corey Morcombe writes about Magnetic Resonance developments at Agilent, a new CREATE program in Bionanomachines is announced, and our colleagues from Calgary pay respect to the late Deane McIntyre.

You are welcome to forward this bulletin to your students and co-workers.

CREATE program in Bionanomachines

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has announced a new Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) grant in Bionanomachines led by Kalle Gehring at McGill University.

The CREATE Program in Bionanomachines (CTPB) is focused on the principles, design, and applications of bionanomachines, which are defined as nanometer scale devices such as enzymes or biomaterials that are derived from living organisms and composed of DNA, RNA, protein, sugars, and/or lipids. Existing bionanomachines touch us every day as improved stain-removing enzymes in laundry detergents to diagnostic tools and therapies for medicine and health.

The CTPB links world-class laboratories from across Canada in the fields of structural biology, biotechnology, supramolecular chemistry, nanotechnology, biophysics and protein engineering. Summer and graduate studentships can be held at Concordia University, the Université Laval, McGill University, the University of Calgary, the Université de Montréal, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Applications for next year are due in December 2011.

A full list of mentors and program details can be found on the CTPB web site: http://www.bionanomachines.ca (available September, 2011) or by e-mail (bionanomachines.med "at" mcgill.ca)

Stable Isotopes for Structural Biomolecular NMR

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL) made available a series of application notes on the use of stable isotopes in Biomolecular NMR. These application notes were written by some of the world's leading researches in the field, including several Canadian scientists.

Lewis Kay (University of Toronto) "Alanine Probes of Supra-Molecular Structure and Dynamics", page 9.

Leonid S. Brown and Vladimir Ladizhansky (University of Guelph) "Pichia pastoris as a Eukaryotic Protein Isotope-Labeling System", pages 14-15.

Ying Fan, Lichi Shi, Vladimir Ladizhansky and Leonid S. Brown (University of Guelph) "Uniform Isotope Labeling of Eukaryotic Proteins in Methylotrophic Yeast for High-Resolution NMR Studies - Extension to Membrane Proteins", Application Note 26, pages 71-74.

Recent research by Gang Wu's group (Queen's University) is cited as an example of advanced 17O NMR spectroscopy in large protein-ligand complexes in solution and in the solid state, "17O NMR reagents", page 34.

These application notes are available for download as a PDF file (5.1MB) "Stable Isotopes for Structural Biomolecular NMR Catalog" at:
http://www.isotope.com/cil/literature/research_literature/index.cfm

Recognition: Myrna Simpson

Myrna Simpson (University of Toronto) has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor (Environmental Chemistry) starting July 1, 2011.

Myrna received a BSc (Chemistry & Mathematical Sciences) and a PhD (Environmental Soil Chemistry) from the University of Alberta. Myrna joined the University of Toronto in 2002 after a 2.5 year postdoctoral fellowship with Prof. Patrick Hatcher in the Department of Chemistry at the Ohio State University.

Myrna's research in environmental and analytical chemistry involves the development and application of molecular-level analytical tools to improve the fundamental understanding of soil environmental processes. In particular her group is using advanced mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods to characterize, monitor and predict the fate of soil organic matter components in various environments. In 2010 she was awarded the SETAC/Royal Society of Chemistry Award in Environmental Science for "outstanding contributions that have advanced the understanding or development of environmental systems, technologies, methodologies or other relevant research in the environmental sciences".

In addition to teaching and research, Myrna acts as the Associate Director of the Environmental NMR Centre of the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, the University of Toronto.

For more information visit: http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~msimpson

Review in Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

J.L. Kitevski-LeBlanca and R.S. Prosser, "Current Applications of 19F NMR to Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics," Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2011) accepted. (Invited Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2011.06.003

Cover article in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Cory M. Widdifield, Alex D. Bain, and David L. Bryce, "Definitive Solid-State 185/187Re NMR Spectral Evidence for and Analysis of the Origin of High-Order Quadrupole-Induced Effects for I = 5/2," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 13 (2011) 12413-12420. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c1cp20572b

This is the tenth 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).

NMR investigations of metabolomics

Special issue of Journal of Biomolecular NMR guest edited by Brian D. Sykes, volume 49, numbers 3-4, April 2011.

B.D. Sykes, Journal of Biomolecular NMR 49 (2011) 163-164. (Editorial) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10858-011-9479-3

Recognition: William Buyers

William Buyers (NRC Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Chalk River Laboratories) has been appointed an officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions to condensed matter physics, particularly in the field of magnetism. Dr. Buyers is a well-known scientist in the field of condensed matter physics, whose research interests include quantum magnetism, superconductivity, excitations, novel materials, and nanoscale magnetic layers. http://www.cins.ca/people/buyers/

William J.L. Buyers and Zahra Yamani, "Quantum Magnetism and Superconductivity," Physics In Canada 5 (2006) 257-264. (A review of neutron scattering research at Chalk River Laboratories on quantum spin systems) http://arxiv.org/ftp/cond-mat/papers/0702/0702024.pdf

CSC 2011 awards: Jasmine Viger-Gravel

Jasmine Viger-Gravel (Bryce lab, University of Ottawa) has won second prize in the Physical, Theoretical, and Computational Division graduate poster competition at the 94th Canadian Chemistry Conference held in Montreal in June 2011, for her poster entitled "Solid-State NMR Analysis of Halogen Bonding Involving Thiocyanates and Selenocyanates" (abstract). Congratulations Jasmine!

Cover article in Chemistry - A European Journal

H.N. Hunter, N. Hadei, V. Blagojevic, P. Patschinski, G.T. Achonduh, S. Avola, D.K. Bohme, M.G. Organ, "Identification of a Higher-Order Organozincate Intermediate Involved in Negishi Cross-Coupling Reactions by Mass Spectrometry and NMR Spectroscopy," Chemistry - A European Journal 17 (2011) 7845–7851. (Cover article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201190141

MOOT XXIV - second announcement

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that online registration is now open for the MOOT XXIV NMR Symposium which will be taking place October 22nd-23rd (2011) in Toronto, Ontario, hosted at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. Details are available on the conference website, http://www.mootnmr.org

Abstracts for both oral and poster presentations can be submitted online during the registration process.

The MOOT NMR Symposium has traditionally been a meeting bringing together NMR spectroscopists from across Ontario, Quebec, and more recently the Maritimes and the nearby United States. This trainee-oriented meeting aims to give blossoming researchers the opportunity to present their research to the close-knit Canadian NMR community. Talks and posters will be held at the Hospital for Sick Children, located in the Discovery District of downtown Toronto, and the banquet will be held at historic Hart House on the University of Toronto campus.

In addition, Agilent Technologies will be holding a day long symposium and mixer the day before this year's MOOT (Oct. 21). More information regarding the agenda and location for this symposium will be posted soon and available on http://www.spinsights.net

If you have any questions or comments, please send a message to (mootnmr "at" gmail.com), or contact Simon Sharpe (ssharpe "at" sickkids.ca).

We look forward to seeing you in October!

Sharpe lab - Molecular Structure and Function Programme, Hospital for Sick Children / Dept. of Biochemistry, U. Toronto

Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance: new entries

D.L. Bryce, C.M. Widdifield, R.P. Chapman and R.J. Attrell, "Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine Solid-State NMR", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1214

A.D. Bain "Radiofrequency Pulses: Response of Nuclear Spins", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0443.pub2

G.J. Schrobilgen and M. Gerken, "Noble Gas Elements", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance (2011). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0346.pub2

Review in Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Gang Wu and Jianfeng Zhu "NMR studies of alkali metal ions in organic and biological solids," Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2011) accepted. (Invited Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2011.06.002

Recognition: Rod Wasylishen

Prof. Roderick Wasylishen (University of Alberta) has been awarded the 2011 EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in Magnetic Resonance. The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) awards honor analytical chemists who have distinguished career achievements and advanced their fields by superior work in developing theory, techniques or instrumentation.

The 2011 EAS award will be presented at the 50th Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exposition, November 14-17, 2011, Somerset, New Jersey. The award session has been organized by Cecil Dybowski (Delaware) and will include talks by John Ripmeester (NRC Canada), Marek Pruski (Ames Laboratory), Karl Mueller (PNL), Robert Schurko (Windsor), Gang Wu (Queen’s), David Bryce (Ottawa), and Roderick Wasylishen (Alberta).

For more information: http://www.eas.org/

NMR Winter School at CEA Saclay, France

Experiments and Modelling in Structural NMR

November 28 - December 2, 2011
INSTN - CEA Saclay, France (20 km South of Paris)
Registration deadline: October 30, 2011

The aim of the school is to provide basic understanding on the coupling of theoretical Modelling and Simulation methods to the Experiments in structural NMR, for biology and material science. This school will therefore cover liquid, oriented media and solid state NMR approaches.

The School is composed of Seminars in the morning and Practical Training (experimental and computational sessions) in the afternoon involving both the theoretical and experimental aspects.

The school covers several topics in the field of structural NMR. In the first part, following an introduction on general principles, the basic knowledge in isotropic and anisotropic media is given. The second part deals with the structural studies of biological systems and materials while the third gives an overview of a some advanced concepts including Hyper-polarization, Fast NMR and Diffusion process.

For more information and to download the School Flyer:
http://www-instn.cea.fr/-2011-Events-.html#NMR

New EPR book

Multifrequency Electron Paramagnetic Resonance: Theory and Applications

edited by Sushil K. Misra (Concordia University)
Hardcover: 1056 pages
Publisher: Wiley-VCH; June, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3527407798
http://www.amazon.com/dp/3527407790
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/3527407790

Wiley: "Filling the gap for a systematic, authoritative, and up-to-date review of this cutting-edge technique, this book covers both low and high frequency EPR, emphasizing the importance of adopting the multifrequency approach to study paramagnetic systems in full detail by using the EPR method. In so doing, it discusses not only the underlying theory and applications, but also all recent advances -- with a final section devoted to future perspectives."

Web: Sushil K. Misra, Department of Physics, Concordia University
http://physics.concordia.ca/facultyandresearch/bios/misra.php

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

The Spring 2011 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!
http://nmr900.ca/nmr_bulletin.html

MOOT XXIV - first announcement

We are pleased to announce that the MOOT XXIV NMR Symposium will take place October 22nd-23rd (2011) in Toronto, Ontario, hosted at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto. The MOOT NMR Symposium has traditionally been a meeting bringing together NMR spectroscopists from across Ontario, Quebec, and more recently the Maritimes and the nearby United States. This trainee-oriented meeting aims to give blossoming researchers the opportunity to present their research to the close-knit Canadian NMR community. Talks and posters will be held at the Hospital for Sick Children, located in the Discovery District of downtown Toronto, and the banquet will be held at historic Hart House on the University of Toronto campus.

In addition, Agilent Technologies will be holding a day long symposium and mixer the day before this year's MOOT (Oct. 21). More information regarding the agenda and location for this symposium will be posted soon and available on http://www.spinsights.net

We are working to update the conference website. Detailed information will be available shortly at http://www.mootnmr.org , with registration and abstract submission for posters and talks opening in early June 2011.

A block of rooms has been reserved at the Delta Chelsea, conveniently located within a 5 minute walk of the conference venue, at a rate of $129/night (double occupancy) - booking details will be posted to the conference website later in May.

Porter Airlines offers a 20% discount on all fare classes for attendees travelling to Toronto for the MOOT NMR Symposium. Porter provides free in-flight snacks and beverages, including beer and wine. Please book online at http://www.flyporter.com Porter. Flying refined.

If you have comments, inquiries, or would like to be added to the MOOT email list, please send a message to mootnmr "at" gmail.com

We look forward to seeing you in October!

Sharpe lab - Molecular Structure and Function Programme, Hospital for Sick Children / Dept. of Biochemistry, U. Toronto

Borate 7

The Seventh International Conference on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts will be held in Halifax from August 21-25, 2011. This is the first time this triennial meeting will be held in Canada, with previous locations including Japan, Italy, Bulgaria, UK and USA. The meeting will have a strong solid-state NMR component, as members of the organizing committee include Joe Zwanziger (conference chair), Randy Youngman, Sabyasachi Sen and Scott Kroeker. Invited speakers include Hellmut Eckert and Sung Keun Lee.

For more information and to register: http://www.regonline.com/borate7

5th Annual VIVA NMR Symposium

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce that the 5th VIVA (VIctoria VAncouver) NMR Symposium is to take place at St. John's College, UBC, Friday, July 29th, 2011.

The scope of this one 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 working in any aspects of NMR are especially encouraged. Deadline for registration is July 15th, 2011.

Further details and registration info are available at http://www.chem.ubc.ca/viva/index.html

We look forward to seeing you all again.

Sincerely

Zhicheng (Paul) Xia
Department of Chemistry
University of British Columbia

Review in Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Luke A. O’Dell "Direct Detection of Nitrogen-14 in Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2011) accepted. (Invited Review) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnmrs.2011.04.001

PCCP lists 25 most cited Canadian research articles

Physical Chemisty Chemical Physics has announced that the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) is now one of its co-owner societies. To celebrate this new partnership, PCCP has created a collection of 25 top cited articles from authors based in Canada to showcase some of the great Canadian research published in PCCP. Five articles on this list are from Canadian solid-state NMR research groups, including four papers enabled by the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids. http://nmr900.ca/nmr_news.html#pccp

6th Solid-State NMR Workshop at CSC 2011

The National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids and Bruker Canada are pleased to present the 6th Annual Solid-State NMR Workshop at the 94th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Montreal ( http://www.csc2011.ca/ ). The workshop will take place on Sunday afternoon, June 5, 2011, in the Palais des congrès de Montréal.

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.

Confirmed workshop speakers: Alexandre Arnold (UQAM), Robert Attrell (Ottawa), Steven Hartman (Brock), Yining Huang (Western), Karen Johnston (Windsor), Luke O'Dell (NRC), Patrick Walsh (Toronto). Registration for the NMR Workshop is free but space is limited.

To register http://nmr900.ca/events_e.html

Note that the NMR Workshop registration is separate from the CSC 2011 conference registration.

Special Issue of Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Solid-State NMR of Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion Dear Friends and Colleagues, Profs. Eckert and Klinowski have asked us to edit a special issue of Solid State NMR, with a focus in the area of NMR as applied to Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion. To this end, we would like to invite you to submit a manuscript for this special issue. Topics should include recent results on the development and use of solid-state NMR strategies for the characterization of energy materials, for example materials for use in lithium ion and rechargeable batteries in general, supercapacitors, polymer-electrolyte-membrane fuel cells, and solid-oxide fuel cells. We would like to include the wide variety of NMR methods that have been used in this field, their strengths, and avenues for further development. In an NMR-focused journal, it would also be appropriate to include some of the "how to" details or "tips and tricks" relevant to the successful implementation of the various NMR methods. Please take these guidelines as suggestions only, and feel free to submit any original manuscript on a topic you feel would be appropriate to this community. The deadline for receipt of manuscripts will be June 1, 2011, and we anticipate publication around October/November 2011. Of course, all the manuscripts will be subject to strict peer-review procedures. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions regarding potential topics, or any other concerns. We would appreciate hearing from you if you plan to submit a manuscript. Submission will be handled through the Elsevier web site. Author instructions and submission details can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622947/authorinstructions With thanks and best regards Clare P. Grey & Gillian R. Goward

Solid-State DNP-NMR Spectrometer at Guelph

Bruker has announced that the first commercial 395 GHz solid-state DNP-NMR spectrometer (600 MHz) will be installed at the University of Guelph (read the full press-release).

Agilent to develop 1-GHz NMR spectrometer

Agilent is well-prepared for the upcoming 52nd ENC Conference. Among other NMR products Agilent has announced that it is developing a 1 GHz NMR system and DNP NMR. The latter project is in collaboration with Bridge12. Read the full press release from Agilent (external link).

Science: Special Issue on Superconductivity

Science magazine celebrates the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity by Heike Kammerlingh Onnes in April 1911. Science, 8 April 2011, volume 332, issue 6026 http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6026.toc#SpecialIssue

ICSG 2011: International Conference on Structural Genomics

Dear Colleague, We hope that you are planning to join us in Toronto, Canada for the International Conference on Structural Genomics 2011 which will be held on May 10-14, 2011. We have an excellent scientific program prepared which includes both oral and poster presentations (scientific program). Participants will also enjoy the fabulous view of the city of Toronto during the banquet to be held at the revolving 360 Restaurant at the top of the CN tower. An optional post-conference tour to Niagara Falls will also be available. We invite you to register on line by April 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST. A limited number of late poster abstracts will be accepted until April 12, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST In addition to the main ICSG meeting, there will be a whole day of concurrent satellite workshops (May 10, 2011) that are free for ICSG 2011 registrants, including: Small Molecule Screening Workshop - This hands-on workshop will allow participants to screen a protein of their choice for binding of selected compounds, using thermal shift assays. iSee: Interactive 3D Documents for the Dissemination of Structural Biology - This hands-on workshop will familiarize participants with the iSEE 3D graphical software which allows interactive viewing of 3 dimensional molecular structures and is currently used by journals such as Nature Structural & Molecular Biology and PLoS Biology and PLoS ONE Eukaryotic Gene Expression Systems Workshop - This workshop will provide participants with a detailed understanding of the state-of-the-art for production of eukaryotic proteins destined for biochemical, biophysical, and structural analyses.. Workshop on NMR Methods for Structural Biology - This workshop will survey technologies for structure/function investigations of proteins, developed in (or in collaboration with) structural genomics projects, that are ready for widespread use by the wider biological community. Phenix Crystallography Software Workshop - This workshop will introduce the PHENIX software for macromolecular structure determination and the core algorithms that it uses. It will provide hands-on tutorials for crystallographers of all levels. The workshop registration deadline is Monday April 11, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST Please visit http://www.icsg2011.org/ for ICSG 2011 meeting and workshop registration details and to submit your poster abstract. We hope to see you there! Best regards, Cheryl Arrowsmith - ICSG 2011 Organizer Ted Baker, Stephen Burley, Dino Moras, Joel Sussman, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Tom Terwilliger - ISGO Executive Committe

Recognition: André Simpson

André Simpson (Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto at Scarborough) has been awarded the 2011 CSC W.A.E. McBryde Medal for his research in the development of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy with the specific objective to address environmental problems at a molecular level. From the citation: "Andre Simpson obtained his PhD from the University of Birmingham, U.K. then moved to the U.S. completing two postdoctoral fellowships, first at Mississippi State and then at Ohio State University. Simpson is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. He is best known for his research developing nuclear magnetic resonance-based methods to study the structure and interactions in complex environmental mixtures. His research has helped understand how and why different carbon pools respond to climate change and unravel the complexities of contaminant fate and toxicity in the environment. Simpson has published more than 60 refereed articles since his first journal publication in 2000 and contributed to 12 book chapters. In 2004, he co-founded the Environmental NMR Centre at the University of Toronto, a first of its kind in Canada. In 2008 he was ranked in the “Ten to Watch for in 2008” by the Toronto Star. Later in the same year he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry/Society for Environmental and Toxicology and Chemistry – Environmental Science Award, a global award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field." Read the announcement at http://www.chemistry.ca/index.php?ci_id=1953&la_id=1

NMR upgrades at the University of Toronto

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto has ordered $5.5M of new NMR spectrometers from Agilent Technologies to equip its new 4,000-square-foot NMR laboratory. Dr. Timothy Burrow, Manager of the NMR Facility, informed that the new spectrometers will be a 500 MHz spectrometer, with 7600AS sample changer and XSens 13C sensitive cryogenically cooled probe, a 600 MHz dual liquids and solids spectrometer and a 700 MHz spectrometer with a H/F,CN Cold Probe, 7600AS sample changer and solids, biosolids and semi-solids probes.

"These new NMR systems will provide a vital boost to our new Centre for Spectroscopic Investigation of Complex Organic Molecules and Polymers (CSICOMP), increasing the range and scope of research in key areas," said Professor Robert H. Morris, Chair of the Chemistry Department.

The new facility is scheduled to open later this year, the International Year of Chemistry. More than 45 scientists as well as 300 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will be able to use the facility for inorganic, organic, materials and bio-organic research, including broader investigations into the fate of fluorinated compounds in the environment. The new facility is supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation. (See related story in "Canadain NMR Research" News Bulletin, #3.3, Summer 2009, page 3, download)

"We are excited that the University of Toronto's new facility has chosen Agilent as its primary NMR equipment provider," said Kevin Meldrum, director, research products marketing for Agilent. "Agilent is dedicated to helping scientists meet all of their spectroscopy research needs and this agreement further illustrates that commitment."

Read the press release by Agilent Technologies
http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2011/22mar-ca11021.html

61st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE2011)

Call for Papers CSChE2011 Now Open!

The 61st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference (CSChE2011) will be held in London, Ontario, October 23-26, 2011. The call for papers is now OPEN and will close May 31, 2011.

Submit your abstract through Hermes Conference Centre via the CSChE2011 website. Details are available at www.csche2011.ca/Program/submit_abstract.html

You can view the wide range of themes and symposia representing the conference on the CSChE2011 website at www.csche2011.ca

The conference highlights three main symposia themes: Innovation, Industry and Internationalization which are important issues facing chemical engineers living in Canada and globally.

We encourage you to forward this notice to your colleagues nationally and internationally, to submit your abstracts, and to join us in London in October.

Jesse Zhu, Conference Chair
Amarjeet Bassi, Technical Program Chair

International Conference on MR Microscopy (ICMRM) Beijing 2011

The ICMRM conference will be held in Beijing August 14-18 at the China University of Petroleum (CUP). The venue is the CUP conference centre and adjacent conference hotel. The conference hotel is large enough that all attendees may be housed on site at very reasonable cost. The main lecture hall, exhibitor venue, coffee break area, poster display, and extra rooms are mere meters away in the attached Conference Centre which is a modern two story building, with an on-site restaurant. Prof. Lizhi Xiao, the conference chair, has been able to block book the entire conference centre and hotel for the duration of our meeting.

Prof Xiao and his local organizing committee have arranged the wednesday conference excursion to visit city centre Beijing including the Forbidden City with the conference dinner to be held in the Great Hall of the People in Tienanmen Square. More details are provided concerning the program, venue and excursion on the conference web site which is found at http://icmrm11.cup.edu.cn/

The second circular for the conference is available for download at http://nmr900.ca/nmr_news.html#ICMRM11

Deadline for Abstract Submission April 30, 2011

The objectives of the ICMRM are to communicate recent developments in high-resolution, spatially resolved magnetic resonance methods and applications. Meeting strength stems from the eclectic background of participants and a diverse venue that has traditionally focused on non-clinical applications in science and engineering areas. The 1st ICMRM was held in 1991 in Heidelberg and was originally known as the "Heidelberg Conference". It is the biannual conference of the Division of Spatially Resolved Magnetic Resonance of the Ampere Society.

Bruce J. Balcom, Professor
Director MRI Research Centre
Canada Research Chair in MRI of Materials
Director, Institute for Materials Visualization and Analysis
Department of Physics
The University of New Brunswick
P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, E3B 5A3
New Brunswick, Canada

52nd ENC program

Program details of the 52nd ENC including the program overview and abstracts is now available online (52nd ENC program).

52nd ENC Events

Agilent Users' Meeting before the 52nd ENC
April 8-9, 2011, Santa Clara, California
http://www.chem.agilent.com/en-US/Events/en-US/Pages/enc11usermeeting.aspx

Bruker Pre-ENC NMR Workshops and Breakfast Symposium
April 9-10, 2011, Monterey, California
http://www.bruker-biospin.com/enc11.html

52nd ENC
April 10-15, 2011, Asilomar, California
http://www.enc-conference.org/

Cover article in Chemistry - A European Journal

B.J. Greer, V.K. Michaelis, M.J. Katz, D.B. Leznoff, G. Schreckenbach, S. Kroeker, "Characterising Lone-Pair Activity of Lead(II) by 207Pb Solid-State NMR: Coordination Polymers of [N(CN)2]- and [Au(CN)2]- with Terpyridine Ancillary Ligands," Chemistry - A European Journal 17 (2011) 3609-3618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201002913

Nature News: Breaking the protein rules

One of the textbook concepts in molecular biology is that proteins fold up spontaneously to form the most energetically stable three-dimensional structures. These folded proteins are presumed structurally rigid, which is important for their unique functionality, e.g. as enzymes. There are indications, however, mostly coming from NMR studies, that many important proteins exist in disordered form. A news feature in the latest issue of Nature discusses implications of this potentially far-reaching finding. Among cited examples of intrinsically disordered proteins is the NMR study on Sic1 protein by Julie Forman-Kay and her group at the University of Toronto/SickKids.

T. Chouard "Structural biology: Breaking the protein rules," Nature 471 (2011) 151-153. http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110309/full/471151a.html

NANUC 2011 NMR BootCamp

NANUC 2011 NMR BootCamp (Biomolecular NMR Training Course)
August 15-20, 2011, University Of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
http://www.nanuc.ca/nmrbootcamp/2011_NMR_BootCamp/Welcome.html

ACCN: 17O NMR Discovery

ACCN the Canadian Chemical News, March, 2011
Latest News: New NMR Technique Solves Oxygen Puzzle (online)
(print, ACCN, Volume 63, Number 3, p. 9)

SMARTER 2 Workshop

Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the Second SMARTER Crystallography Workshop (Structure elucidation by coMbining mAgnetic Resonance, compuTation modEling and diffRactions), which will be held on 23-27 May 2011 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together specialists from the different areas of materials science, such as materials chemists and processing engineers, diffraction and spectroscopy scientists, and computational structuralists, that may contribute to the development of a common language for a SMARTER approach to structure solving, using Geometrical, Diffraction Modeling and NMR Crystallographies.

Confirmed Invited Speakers: Lynne McCusker (ETH Zurich), Jürgen Senker (Bayreuth University), Lyndon Emsley (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), Mike O'Keeffe (Arizona State University), Steven Brown (Warwick University), Christian Baerlocher (ETH Zurich), Richard Catlow (Royal Institution, London), Darren Brouwer (Redeemer University College).

The deadline for abstract submission is March 15, 2011.

Registration fees (All lunches and dinners from the programme are included): Full Registration, 450 EUR, Student Registration, 350 EUR

Read more about SMARTER 2 Workshop at http://smarter.web.ua.pt/

SMARTER Organizing Committee

NMR Manager at the University of Victoria

Senior Scientific Assistant, Department of Chemistry

Posting 25311, PEA
Academic/Teaching/Lab/SG13
$59,961.00 - $67,488.00 per annum plus performance range

The Department of Chemistry is seeking an energetic and enthusiastic Senior Scientific Assistant (SSA) to manage and operate the Department’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility. The SSA will ensure effective and efficient operation of this essential infrastructure for research and teaching. The Senior Scientific Assistant will also play a key role in the design and development of a new NMR laboratory. At this time the facility is equipped with four NMR instruments including Bruker 500MHz, 360MHz, and 300MHz systems for multinuclear and variable temperature work.

The SSA will be responsible for: monitoring the condition of instruments; conducting routine servicing, repair and maintenance of instruments and computers; troubleshooting more complex problems as required; consulting with faculty, staff and students to determine and recommend best NMR techniques and analytical methods to solve research problems, including both routine and specialized non-routine measurements;This could require the implementation and optimization of new experiments, as they appear in the NMR literature.” providing personal one-on-one training, instruction and scientific recommendations to all users of the facility (some of this training could be provided through assisting with the NMR spectroscopy component of a graduate level course); providing oversight and consultation with these users as their projects progress; overseeing installations of and non-routine repairs and modifications to the NMR equipment; procuring all supporting equipment, computers, parts, and services required for the efficient and effective operation of the facility as a state-of-the art research and educational service; planning and designing, within budget constraints, a new NMR laboratory; recommending services and equipment for this space; advising on purchases of new and replacement instrumentation, and assisting in grant preparation to secure funds for such purchases; assisting occasional users of the facility by acquiring data and consulting with them to determine if any non-routine procedures are required; updating and developing policies and procedures related to NMR services such as service charges, booking systems, safety procedures, and standard operating procedures; maintaining statistics for the time allotment for all facility users on all of the NMR equipment to facilitate the most time-efficient, productive and fair use of equipment; keeping up on advances in the field by attending relevant seminars, training courses and symposia; other duties of similar scope and complexity.

The successful candidate will have an MSc or PhD in chemistry or a closely related discipline; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A strong background in NMR is essential. Managerial experience and excellent communication skills are essential. Teaching experience is an asset.

The successful candidate will be a highly creative, flexible individual with the ability to improve and adapt methods and procedures in response to changing user demands; and will be an individual with vision who will continually work towards improving services for our instructors, students and researchers.

This posting is open until 4:30 pm, March 11, 2011

Please log in here if you are interested in this position. Please note that we cannot accept paper applications.

https://uhire.uvic.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/uhire.woa/wa/vacancy?id=17311

Find out more about Chemistry

http://www.chemistry.uvic.ca/

Position #: 998474
NOC code: 4122

Recognition: David Bryce

David Bryce has been awarded the 2011 Young Researcher of the Year Award presented by the University of Ottawa. The Young Researcher of the Year Awards are presented annually to two University of Ottawa faculty members who have made exceptional contributions to research and training students. Each award is accompanied by a $10,000 research grant.

From the citation: "David Bryce is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. He received the award in the pure and applied science category for his contributions in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. He has already established himself as a leader on the international scene within his field. His research focuses on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, specifically, solid-state NMR and quantum mechanical calculations of NMR parameters."

Read the announcement at
http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/news-details_2239.html

The Human Serum Metabolome

N. Psychogios, D.D. Hau, J. Peng, A.C. Guo, R. Mandal, S. Bouatra, I. Sinelnikov, R. Krishnamurthy, R. Eisner, B. Gautam, N. Young, J. Xia, C. Knox, E. Dong, P. Huang, Z. Hollander, T.L. Pedersen, S.R. Smith, F. Bamforth, R. Greiner, B. McManus, J.W. Newman, T. Goodfriend, D.S. Wishart, "The Human Serum Metabolome," PLoS ONE 6 (2011) e16957. (open access article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016957

Abstract: Continuing improvements in analytical technology along with an increased interest in performing comprehensive, quantitative metabolic profiling, is leading to increased interest pressures within the metabolomics community to develop centralized metabolite reference resources for certain clinically important biofluids, such as cerebrospinal fluid, urine and blood. As part of an ongoing effort to systematically characterize the human metabolome through the Human Metabolome Project, we have undertaken the task of characterizing the human serum metabolome. In doing so, we have combined targeted and non-targeted NMR, GC-MS and LC-MS methods with computer-aided literature mining to identify and quantify a comprehensive, if not absolutely complete, set of metabolites commonly detected and quantified (with today’s technology) in the human serum metabolome. Our use of multiple metabolomics platforms and technologies allowed us to substantially enhance the level of metabolome coverage while critically assessing the relative strengths and weaknesses of these platforms or technologies. Tables containing the complete set of 4229 confirmed and highly probable human serum compounds, their concentrations, related literature references and links to their known disease associations are freely available at http://www.serummetabolome.ca/

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

The Winter 2011 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!
http://nmr900.ca/nmr_bulletin.html

NMR paper in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

L.A. Freiburger, O.M. Baettig, T. Sprules, A.M. Berghuis, K. Auclair, A.K. Mittermaier, "Competing allosteric mechanisms modulate substrate binding in a dimeric enzyme," Nature Structural & Molecular Biology (2011) online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.1978

ICSG 2011: Workshop on NMR Methods for Structural Biology

In conjunction with the International Conference on Structural Genomics 2011, Toronto, Canada

We are pleased to announce the Workshop on NMR Methods for Structural Biology at the International Conference on Structural Genomics 2011 in Toronto. This workshop is organized by Gaetano Montelione (Rutgers), Thomas Szyperski (State University of New York) and John Markley (University of Wisconsin) and will take place on Tuesday May 10, 2011 at the University of Toronto.

This workshop will survey technologies for structure/function investigations of proteins, developed in (or in collaboration with) structural genomics projects, that are ready for widespread use by the wider biological community. Topics will include: protein production and labeling by cell-based and cell-free approaches; automated assignment and secondary structure determination; reduced dimensionality approaches to NMR data collection; NMR structure validation; and, tools for data deposition, visualization, and querying from the BMRB and PDB.

Registration for the workshop is free to registered ICSG 2011 participants. Please visit http://www.icsg2011.org for ICSG 2011 meeting and workshop registration details.

NMR on Twitter

New SSNMR papers by Luke O'Dell http://twitter.com/solidstateNMR

uOttawa NMR by Glenn Facey http://twitter.com/uOttawaNMR

NMR Wiki http://twitter.com/nmrwiki

nmr900 http://twitter.com/nmr900

Bruker http://twitter.com/bruker

Agilent http://twitter.com/agilent

SMARTER 2 Workshop

Dear colleagues,

We cordially invite you to the 2nd SMARTER Workshop, which will be held on May 23-27, 2011 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together specialists from the different areas of materials science, combining several approaches such as Computational Modelling, Diffraction Techniques and NMR Crystallographies.

Read more about SMARTER 2 Workshop at http://smarter.web.ua.pt/

SMARTER Organizing Committee

Recognition: Mitsu Ikura

On January 17th 2011, Dr. Mitsu Ikura received the 2010 Canadian Cancer Society "Robert L. Noble Prize" for his outstanding contributions to cancer research in Canada.

From the citation (http://www.cancer.ca): "Dr. Ikura is an internationally recognized authority in the field of structural biology and has laid the groundwork for our understanding of signalling proteins such as cadherins and catenins and molecular signalling processes involved in human diseases such as cancer. His studies also provide excellent platforms for developing new drugs designed to interfere with the functioning of cancer cells.

Dr Ikura is a senior scientist at the Ontario Cancer Institute and a professor at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD in macromolecular biophysics from Hokkaido University, Japan and pursued postdoctoral studies on multi-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of a calmodulin-kinase peptide complex at the National Institutes of Health.

Dr Ikura has a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in cancer structural biology and has been recognized by many awards and prizes including the William E. Rawls Prize, the International Research Scholar Award Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the Premier’s Research Excellence Award.

He has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers and has been invited to speak at more than 200 international scientific conferences."

About "Robert L Noble" Prize: The Robert L. Noble Prize is given for outstanding achievements in cancer research. It honours Dr Noble, an esteemed Canadian investigator whose research in the 1950s led to the discovery of vincristine, a widely-used anti-cancer drug. At the time, vincristine was one of the most effective treatments available for Hodgkin’s disease.

Web: the Ikura Laboratory http://nmr.uhnres.utoronto.ca/ikura/index.html

NMR events at CSC 2011

Dear colleagues,

The 94th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CSC 2011) "Chemistry and Health" will be held in Montréal, Québec from June 5-9, 2011, as a joint effort of the Canadian Society for Chemistry and the four Montréal Universities, with the Université de Montréal Chemistry Department as the host. The CSC is the largest annual national event for chemical professionals attracting close to 2500 participants each year.

Canada is very dynamic in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and to pursue the tradition, a solid-state NMR workshop as well as two 1.5-day NMR symposia are scheduled to cover a wide range of applications and developments in the fields of solution and solid-state NMR.

Profs Anthony Mittermaier (McGill University) and Pierre Lavigne (Université de Sherbrooke) are organizing the "Solution NMR: Biomolecular structure, dynamics, and function" symposium which includes, amongst a list of over 15 speakers, Charalampos Kalodimos (Rutgers U.). Brian Sykes (U. of Alberta), Gary Shaw (U. Western Ontario) and Lawrence McIntosh (UBC).

Profs Michel Lafleur (Université de Montréal) and Isabelle Marcotte (Université du Québec à Montréal) are co-organizers of the symposium entitled "Solid-state NMR: From materials to biomolecules". So far, Profs Marc Baldus (U. of Utrecht), Vladimir Ladizhansky (U. of Guelph), Bruce Balcom (U. New Brunswick), Valerie Booth (Memorial U.) and Dr. Ansgar Siemer (Columbia U.) have confirmed their presence as guest speakers.

We invite you to participate in the CSC2011 conference which plenary lecturer will be Nobel Laureate Prof. Roger Tsien (U. of California, San Diego). More detail on the symposia, abstract submission and registration can be found on the conference website at http://www.csc2011.ca

The deadline for abstract submission is February 15, 2011.

Submit your abstract through Hermes Conference Centre via the CSC2011 website. Details are available at http://www.csc2011.ca/Program/submit_abstract.html

NMR Symposia Organizers

Review in Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy

William P. Power "High-Resolution Magic Angle Spinning—Enabling Applications of NMR Spectroscopy to Semi-Solid Phases," Annual Reports on NMR Spectroscopy 72 (2011) 111-156.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385857-3.00003-7

2011 International Year of Chemistry

January 2011 marks the beginning of the International Year of Chemistry. The Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) is leading the Canadian activities which will be devoted to the celebration of chemical sciences and will aim to reach over 500,000 Canadians.

We encourage all CIC members to get involved throughout the year. CIC has been active in planning events for 2011, some of which include:

- Global Water Experiment, connecting countries around the world to solve current water issues;
- YouTube Video Contest, giving high school students a chance to use their creativity in chemistry to win a $2,500 scholarship funding;
- Science Rendezvous, a one day national event aiming to bring science to the public;
- Public Lecture Series, bringing Joe Schwarcz and Pierre Beaumier to speak on interesting topics in chemistry across Canada; and
- Canadian Chemistry Milestones, celebrating significant contributions by Canadians. See the latest press release.

Local sections across the nation are organizing events in their communities. You can see what's happening in an area near you by following the Chemical Institute of Canada - International Year of Chemistry website for more information and to see how you can get involved

http://www.iyc2011.ca

Best wishes for the New Year,

CIC IYC Organizing Committee

EUROMAR 2011

This year's EUROMAR congress will be held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany from August 21st to 25th. A list of invited speakers is already available at

http://euromar2011.org/?page=invited_speakers

Registration will open January 5th. You are all cordially invited to attend this meeting, which continues the longstanding tradition of AMPERE congresses.

Call for Nominations for the Raymond Andrew Prize 2011 for an outstanding PhD thesis in the field of magnetic resonance.

the AMPERE Prize Committee is seeking your help in searching for qualified candidates who completed their dissertation during the period of 2009/2010. The prize will be presented during the EUROMAR Congress. 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 2011 and should include the nomination letter, Curriculum vitae, the list of publications and presentations at conferences, and the 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

Sincerely yours,
Gunnar Jeschke
General Secretary, Groupement AMPERE

C&EN News of the Week: Elevating Oxygen

Two recent NMR papers by Gang Wu (Queen's) and coworkers are highlighted by Chemical & Engineering News in their first issue of 2011.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i01/8901notw4.html

Both papers deal with 17O NMR in large protein complexes, in solution and in solid state. New research approaches proposed by Gang Wu and his team have a potential to significantly advance the field of protein NMR spectroscopy.

Jianfeng Zhu and Gang Wu, "Quadrupole Central Transition 17O NMR Spectroscopy of Biological Macromolecules in Aqueous Solution," Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (2011) ASAP. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja1079207

Jianfeng Zhu, Eric Ye, Victor Terskikh, and Gang Wu, "Solid-State 17O NMR Spectroscopy of Large Protein-Ligand Complexes," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49 (2010) 8399-8402. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201002041

Part of this research was made possible using resources of the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids (www.nmr900.ca). See the complete list of research publications enabled by the Facility here (complete list).