Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Workshops and seminars at the 54th Rocky Mountain Conference

The Solid-State NMR Symposium at the 54th Rocky Mountain Conference on Analytical Chemistry will take place July 15-19, 2012 at the Copper Conference Center in Copper Mountain, Colorado. http://www.rockychem.com/

Consider attending one of the traditional workshops and seminars ssociated with this conference (registration required).

Bruker Solid State NMR workshop and seminar
July 15, 2012, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
http://www.bruker-biospin.com/rmc2012_nmr.html

Bruker EPR Meeting
July 15, 2012, starts at 6:30 pm
http://www.bruker-biospin.com/rmc2012_epr.html

Agilent Technologies User Meeting
July 15, 2012
http://www.agilent.com

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Call for nominations: 2014 Vaughan Lecturer

Nominations for the 2014 Vaughan Lecturer (SSNMR Symposium at the Rocky Mountain Conference for Analytical Chemistry) are being solicited from the solid-state NMR community. The deadline for the nominations is July 1, 2012.

http://www.rockychem.com/honors/vaughan-lecturer-nominations.html

The nominations should include the following:
1. Name of nominee, the nominees affiliation, address, phone, fax and e-mail.
2. Name of nominator, address, phone, fax and e-mail.
3. A brief (no more than 300 words) description of the work(s) serving as the basis for the nomination.

The nomination letters should be sent to [reimer "at" berkeley.edu]

The Vaughan Lecturer selection committee is comprised of the Chair and the six most recent Vaughan Lecturers: Jeff Reimer (Chair), Lucio Frydman, Clare P. Grey, Robin K. Harris, Malcolm H. Levitt, Ago Samoson, Kurt Zilm.

Nominations for the Vaughan Lecturer are solicited from the solid-state NMR community, 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 RMCAC SSNMR symposium. 2012 Vaughan Lecturer is Mark Conradi.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Dynamics Center for TopSpin

contributed by Robin Stein (Bruker Canada)

Bruker Biospin has recently released a new version of its Dynamics Center software in two parts for fitting relaxation and diffusion NMR parameters. General Dynamics Center is intended for analysing T1, T2, T1rho, DOSY, REDOR, and CP buildup experiments, while Protein Dynamics Center can be used to fit heteronuclear NOE, T1, T2, T1rho, exchange, and NOE/T1/T2 data. 

The program is very straightforward to use for 2D and 3D datasets, with automated peak picking, selection of the fitting function (although it is possible to fit data to any function desired), and generation of a report as an Excel-readable or text file. DOSY data can even be fit using an inverse Laplace transform.

The program currently exists in Linux and Windows formats. General Dynamics Center is free and only requires an existing TopSpin processing license, either full or a three-year student license, while Protein Dynamics Center requires a separate license. A Macintosh version is under development, as is the implementation of new methods.

To download the program and tutorials, go to http://www.bruker-biospin.com log in (anyone can create an account), and from there, click on Service & Support / NMR / Software Downloads / Dynamics Center.

For more information about the program, contact Martine Monette (martine.monette "at" bruker.ca) or Robin Stein (robin.stein "at" bruker.ca), and for more information about the Protein Dynamics Center license, contact Joseph Weiss (joseph.weiss "at" bruker.ca), or request a three-month demo license from any of us.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance: new entries

I.L. Moudrakovski and J.A. Ripmeester, "Gas Hydrates Studied by MRI", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2012).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1289

K.W. Feindel, "MRI Studies of Liquids in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1268

I.V. Mastikhin and B.J. Balcom,
"Centric SPRITE MRI of Biomaterials with Short T2*", Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, Wiley (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm1265

Sunday, June 10, 2012

25th MOOT NMR Minisymposium, First Announcement

We are pleased to announce that the 25th MOOT NMR Minisymposium will be held at Université Laval in Quebec City on October 20-21, 2012.

The talks and poster session will be held in Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon at Université Laval and the banquet will be held in historical old Quebec City. The location of the banquet will be announced later.

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 July 2012.

If you have comments, inquiries, or would like to be added to the MOOT mailing list, please send a message to [mootnmr "at" gmail.com]. We are looking forward to seeing you in Quebec City in October.

Michèle Auger
Stéphane Gagné

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Cover article in Nature Chemistry

V.N. Vukotic, K.J. Harris, K. Zhu, R.W. Schurko and S.J. Loeb, "Metal–organic frameworks with dynamic interlocked components," Nature Chemistry 4 (2012) 456–460. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1354