Monday, October 29, 2012

Russell Varian Prize 2013 - Call for nominations

The Russell Varian Lecture and Prize

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 is designed to recognize the initial contribution that laid the foundations for a specific technology of great importance in state-of-the-art NMR. It is sponsored by Agilent Technologies and currently carries a monetary award of 15,000 Euro. The award ceremony will take place at the 
EUROMAR 2013 meeting in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, 30th June to 5th July, 2013, with the winner delivering the Russell Varian Lecture.

Rules for the Russell Varian Prize

• Only single pieces of work are considered (a paper, a lecture, a patent, etc).
 
• In the case of multiple authorship, the prize is awarded to the author with the largest creative and innovative share of the contribution. In the exceptional case of truly equal shares in the contribution, the Prize may be split between two authors.
• No individual may receive the prize more than once.
• Prizewinners become members of the Advisory Board for the Russell Varian Prize that evaluates future nominations and makes recommendations to the Prize Committee.

Call for Nominations

Nominations must be forwarded by email to the Secretary of the Prize Committee, Gareth Morris, at [g.a.morris "at" manchester.ac.uk]. The deadline for nominations is February 12, 2013. Nominations should be laid out in the format of a publishable laudatio proposal that in the case of multiple authorship must include an explanation of why the nominee is the most innovative author behind the paper. Attention is further drawn to the fact that the Russell Varian prize rewards the earliest seed paper of an important technology, rather than later more comprehensive and highly cited papers.

Prize Committee

Georgios Papavassiliou (EUROMAR 2013 representative), Jean Jeener (Chairman), Ēriks Kupče (Agilent representative), Gareth A. Morris (Secretary), Alex Pines, and Ole W. Sørensen


Advisory Board for the Russell Varian Prize

Erwin Hahn, Nicolaas Bloembergen, John S. Waugh, Alfred G. Redfield, Martin Karplus, Ray Freeman, Weston Anderson

For earlier laudatios see
 http://www.chem.agilent.com/

The 2012 Russell Varian Prize winners are Weston Anderson and Raymond Freeman. See highlights by the SPINSIGHTS team http://www.spinsights.net/nmr-blog/

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

2013 Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance

The 55th Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance will take place July 28 - August 1, 2013 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Denver, Colorado. 

The conference will feature oral presentations and posters of the 36th International EPR Symposium. 

Topics include:
- Biological Macromolecules
- EPR for Spin Devices
- Frontier in Spin Labeling
- In vivo
- Materials
- Methods
- Radical Radicals

Participants are expected to convene from throughout the world. Information on the Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance, including call for abstracts, registration and hotel reservations, can be accessed at http://www.rockychem.com

Monday, October 22, 2012

CSC 2013 symposium - "Halogen Bonding and other Non-Covalent Interactions"

David Bryce (Ottawa) and Mark Taylor (Toronto) are organizing a symposium on "Halogen Bonding and other Non-Covalent Interactions" to be held as part of the Canadian Chemistry Conference in Quebec City, May 26-30, 2013. International experts including Prof. Pierangelo Metrangolo (Milan, Italy), Prof. Giuseppe Resnati (Milan, Italy), Prof. P. Shing Ho (Colorado State, USA), and Prof. Duncan Bruce (York, UK) have already agreed to give oral presentations at the meeting. Although this is not an NMR-focussed symposium, there are opportunities for NMR researchers studying non-covalent interactions such as hydrogen bonding to make a contribution to this symposium. We encourage you and your students to consider attending!

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Cover article in Chemistry - A European Journal

Margaret A. Hanson, Andre Sutrisno, Victor V. Terskikh, Kim M. Baines, Yining Huang, "Solid-State 73Ge NMR Spectroscopy of Simple Organogermanes,"Chemistry - A European Journal 18 (2012) 13770–13779. (Cover Article)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201201944

Germanium-73 is an extremely challenging nucleus to examine by solid-state NMR spectroscopy, due to its unfavorable NMR properties. Through the use of an ultrahigh (21.1 T) magnetic field, a systematic study of a series of organogermanes was carried out.

This cover article features results obtained using the 21.1 T solid-state NMR spectrometer at the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids (Ottawa, ON). If you are interested in using this spectrometer in your research please contact the Facility manager http://nmr900.ca

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

NMR paper in Nature Scientific Reports

C.E. Norris, S.A. Quideau, S.M. Landhäusser, G.M. Bernard and R.E. Wasylishen, "Tracking Stable Isotope Enrichment in Tree Seedlings with Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Nature Scientific Reports 2 (2012) 719.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00719

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Two Magnetic Resonance Christmas Meetings in London, UK


Dear Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend two magnetic resonance meetings in London, UK, December 11 and 12, 2012. The meetings are organized by the UK Institute of Physics BRSG: the Magnetic Resonance Group, and by the UK Royal Society of Chemistry NMR Discussion Group (NMRDG). Both meetings will appeal to anyone interested in general or solid-state NMR. Please follow the links below for more information and to register,

With kind regards,

Stephen J. Byard - UK NMR DG Secretary

Computational Methods for Magnetic Resonance, BRSG: Magnetic Resonance Group Meeting, Institute of Physics UK
December 11, 2012, Institute of Physics, London, UK
https://www.eventsforce.net/iop/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=101696&eventID=253&eventID=253


2012 Christmas Meeting: Small Molecules and Solids, NMR Discussion Group (NMRDG), Royal Society of Chemistry UK 

December 12, 2012, Institute of Child Health, London, UK
http://www.nmrdg.org.uk

Thursday, October 11, 2012

25th MOOT NMR Minisymposium: call for past MOOT photos


Dear colleagues,

We would like to collect photos from the past 24 MOOT NMR minisymposiums. 

If you have some photos from the earlier MOOT, we would be grateful if you could email them to us at [mootnmr "at" gmail.com]. Please indicate in the email or in the name of the photos the corresponding MOOT edition.

In addition to display some of these during the banquet, we will compile them under the permanent MOOT Google account for future usage.

Sincerely,

Michèle and Stéphane

the 25th MOOT NMR Minisymposium will be held at Université Laval in Quebec City on October 20-21, 2012.

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Michèle Auger et Stéphane Gagné
25th MOOT NMR Minisymposium
October 20-21, 2012
Université Laval
Québec City
http://www.mootnmr.org

Monday, October 8, 2012

Encyclopedia of NMR


Editors-in-Chief: Robin K. Harris and Roderick E. Wasylishen
Hardcover: 6240 pages
Publisher: Wiley; October 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0470058213
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470058218
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0470058218

Wiley: Encyclopedia of NMR - Encompassing all relevant areas for NMR science and technology and applications in physics, chemistry and biology.

This new 10 volume set captures every aspect of the interdisciplinary nature of magnetic resonance and provides the most complete and up-to-date source in the field. It includes many articles from the print editions of 
Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and recent EMR Books, as well as new and updated articles published online in the Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance. 

Covering key developments such as:
• New techniques
• Protein structures
• Dynamics of molecular processes
• Characterization of materials, polymers and nano-materials
• NMR crystallography
• Solid biological samples such as membranes

Features
• Easy to access information - Covering all the techniques and applications in general NMR areas in an A-Z format
• Use as a learning tool - Revisit basics as well as get up-to-date with the latest methods and thinking
• Use in day-to-day work in the lab - Discover information on new techniques and applications, take advantage of useful hints and tips
• Short biographies of contributing authors - Showing the link between the career and the expertise of the contributing scientists
• Perspectives and personal recollections - A look back at major adventures, evolution and developments that have shaped the field, alongside leading researchers who share their personal involvements with NMR and MRI

Encyclopedia of NMR includes:
• Many original and updated articles from the print edition of Encyclopedia of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1996)
• Articles from EMR Books - special handbooks covering hot topic areas
• Additional NMR-focused articles published online in the Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance - the updating online resource

Currently available online for libraries and institutions as the Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance, the online edition will be relaunched in January 2013 as eMagRes with a range of new features which will make the site more user-friendly and more attractive to both the medical MRI community and to the molecular chemistry, physics and biology communities.

This reference work first published online in 2007, and since that date has been updated four times a year with approximately 10% new or updated content each year across a wide range of topics. As part of the relaunch the content structure will be revised to aid quick navigation for both the medical MRI community and the molecular chemistry, physics and biology communities to articles of interest.

Find out more about the online edition here: http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/ref/emr

Monday, October 1, 2012

5th Annual GRASP Symposium - registration is open

Monday November 19, 2012, 8:00am - 6:30pm
McGill New Residence Hall
3625 Avenue du Parc
Montréal, QC, H2X 3P8
514-398-3471

Dear Colleagues,

Drs. Kalle Gehring and Albert Berghuis would like to invite you to take part in the fifth scientific symposium of GRASP.

Outstanding international speakers - Gregory Petsko, Wolfgang Peti, Frank Sicheri, Anne-Claude Gingras, Paul de Koninck, Brian Sykes - poster sessions, exhibitors and short talks will be presented at this auspicious event, demonstrating the affluence of structural biology research in Quebec.

Registration is free, thanks to our very generous sponsors, but you need to register if you want your abstract to be selected for an oral presentation and/or your abstract title to be printed in the booklet. Registration is now open. 

For information about this symposium and to register visit
http://grasp.mcgill.ca/english/conferences/conferences.html

Sincerely,

The organizing committee:

Kalle Gehring, GRASP Director
Albert Berghuis, GRASP Co-Director
Annick Guyot, GRASP Coordinator