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.

http://ca.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470058218.html 

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

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

Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) Version 3.0

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is a freely available electronic database containing detailed information about small molecule metabolites found in the human body. It is intended to be used for applications in metabolomics, clinical chemistry, biomarker discovery and general education.

HMDB is supported by David Wishart, Departments of Computing Science & Biological Sciences, University of Alberta. HMDB is also supported by the Metabolomics Innovation Centre, a Genome Canada-funded core facility serving the scientific community and industry with world-class expertise and cutting-edge technologies in metabolomics. Funding is provided by Genome Alberta and Genome Canada, a not-for-profit organization that is leading Canada's national genomics strategy with $600 million in funding from the federal government.

Just announced version 3.0 of the HMDB has been significantly expanded and enhanced over the 2009 release (version 2.0). In particular, the number of annotated metabolite entries has grown from 6500 to more than 37,166. This enormous expansion is a result of the inclusion of both “Confirmed” metabolites (those with measured concentrations or experimental confirmation of their existence) and “Expected” metabolites (those for which biochemical pathways are known or human intake/exposure is frequent but the compound has yet to be detected in the body). The latest release also has greatly increased the number of metabolites with biofluid or tissue concentration data, the number of compounds with reference spectra and the number of data fields per entry. In addition to this expansion in data quantity, new database visualization tools and new data content has been added or enhanced. These include better spectral viewing tools, more powerful chemical substructure searches, an improved chemical taxonomy and better, more interactive pathway maps. Among other database functions, NMR Search allows users to submit peak lists from 1H or 13C NMR spectra (both pure and mixtures) and to have these peak lists compared to the NMR libraries contained in the HMDB. This allows the identification of metabolites from mixtures via NMR spectroscopy.

For more information visit http://www.hmdb.ca/

Cover article in Chemistry - A European Journal

A. Sutrisno, V.V. Terskikh, Q. Shi, Z. Song, J. Dong, S.Y. Ding, W. Wang, B.R. Provost, T.D. Daff, T.K. Woo, and Y. Huang, "Characterization of Zn-containing MOFs by Solid-state 67Zn NMR and Computational Modeling," Chemistry - A European Journal 18 (2012) 12251–12259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/chem.201201563

Solid-state magic-angle spinning 67Zn NMR spectra of Zn-containing metal–organic frameworks were obtained at an ultrahigh magnetic field of 21.1 T. In combination with molecular modeling, 67Zn NMR data can provide information on the dynamics and distribution of guest species.

MOFs: NMR reveals inner secrets, read the highlights of this project on SpectroscopyNow.com written by David Bradley 

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

3rd U.S.-Canada Winter School on Biomolecular Solid-State NMR

January 6-11, 2013, Stowe, Vermont, U.S.

Organizers: Mei Hong (Iowa State), Chad Rienstra (UIUC), and Bob Griffin (MIT)

Dear colleagues, We invite you to encourage your students, postdocs, and associates to attend the 3rd Winter School on Biomolecular Solid-State NMR, to be held on Jan 6-11, 2013, in Stowe, Vermont. Similar to the two previous, very successful, Winter Schools
http://web.mit.edu/fbml/winterschool2008/Winterschool2008.html

This pedagogical meeting, unique in North America, is aimed at students and postdocs in the field of biological solid-state NMR, as well as more senior scientists in related fields who are interested in entering this vibrant field. Our goals are to foster the scientific development of the next generation of North American biological solid-state NMR spectroscopists and to encourage information sharing and collaborations among research groups.

Topics in the 3rd Winter School include:
- Basics of solid-state NMR: orientation dependence, density operators, average Hamiltonian theory, dipolar and CSA recoupling
- Multidimensional correlation techniques: resonance assignment and structure determination
- Theory of polarization transfer and dipolar decoupling
- Pushing the sensitivity envelope: dynamic nuclear polarization
- Solid-state NMR techniques for measuring distances, torsion angles, dynamics and orientations of diamagnetic and paramagnetic systems, for both spin-1/2 and quadrupolar nuclei
- Beating the 800-pound gorilla: NMR of membrane-bound proteins
- Devil in the details: methods for protein expression, isotopic labeling, and preparation of MAS and oriented-membrane samples
- Numerical simulations and structure calculation methods
- NMR probe design

Lectures and problem-solving sessions will be held in the mornings, late afternoons, and evenings, with time for recreation in the early afternoon.

Speakers: The following people have accepted to give lectures
Tim Cross (Florida State)
Matthias Ernst (ETH)
Phil Grandinetti (Ohio State)
Bob Griffin (MIT)
Mei Hong (Iowa State)
Yoshitaka Ishii (U Illinois Chicago)
Chris Jaroniec (Ohio State)
Ann McDermott (Columbia)
Stanley Opella (UCSD)
Chad Rienstra (UIUC)
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Iowa State)
Robert Tycko (NIH)

Venue and transportation: The meeting will be held at the Inn at the Mountain in Stowe http://www.stowe.com/plan/groups/stowe-mountain-resort-the-inn-at-the-mountain/
Stowe is easily accessible from airports in Burlington, VT, Manchester, NH, and Boston, MA.

Cost: Room and board will be free for attendees. The registration fee is $325 for academic attendees and $600 for industrial attendees. We anticipate space for about 75-80 people.

Application: Interested students and postdocs should send the following application material as PDF attachments to [mhong "at" iastate.edu]
1. CV and publication list (for the purpose of room assignment, please indicate your gender in the CV)
2. A one-page description of the current research
3. A one-page letter of recommendation from the current research advisor. (In the case of a senior scientist, a brief explanation of your motivations can substitute for a letter of recommendation.)

The deadline for the application is Friday, Oct 26. Given the space limitation and the previous strong interest in this meeting, applications received after the above date may not be accommodated.

Please distribute this announcement to members of your research group as well as to other colleagues who may be interested in attending or sending their group members.

We look forward to welcoming you in Stowe next January,

Mei, Chad, and Bob
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Mei Hong, Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, Gilman
1605 Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Tel: 515-294-3521, Fax: 515-294-0105
Web site: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~hongweb/

25th MOOT NMR Minisymposium: abstract submission

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

The instructions for abstract submission (oral and poster presentations) are now available on the MOOT web site. Please submit your abstract before October 1st deadline. http://nmr.ulaval.ca/moot/abstract.html

The talks and poster session will be held in Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon at Université Laval. The banquet will be held at the Morrin Centre in historical old Quebec City. This is the site of the city's first prison, built over 200 years ago, as well as the site of the Morrin College from 1862-1902. http://nmr.ulaval.ca/moot/location.html

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

Cover article in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

G. Jansen, P. Määttänen, A.Y. Denisov, L. Scarffe, B. Schade, H. Balghi, K. Dejgaard, L.Y. Chen, W.J. Muller, K. Gehring and D.Y. Thomas, "An interaction map of ER chaperones and foldases," Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 11 (2012) 710-723. (Cover article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/mcp.M111.016550

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

Summer 2012 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" news bulletin is now available for download. In this issue: the opening of the Bruker Spectroscopy Facility at SFU, NSERC 2012 competition results, a special feature on NMR Software, and much more! You are welcome to share this bulletin with your colleagues and students. 

http://nmr900.ca/nmr_bulletin.html

Cover article in Angewandte Chemie

Michal Leskes, Nicholas E. Drewett, Laurence J. Hardwick, Peter G. Bruce, Gillian R. Goward, and Clare P. Grey, "Direct Detection of Discharge Products in Lithium–Oxygen Batteries by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 51 (2012) 8560–8563. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.201202183

This is a cover article #11 featuring results obtained using resources of the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids, and the third article in Angewandte Chemie. See the complete list of research publications enabled by the Facility http://nmr900.ca/publications_e.html

New book: NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solid Materials

edited by Roderick E. Wasylishen, Sharon E. Ashbrook, Stephen Wimperis 

Hardcover: 550 pages
Publisher: Wiley; August 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0470973981
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470973986
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0470973986

Wiley: Many important materials do not contain spin-1/2 nuclei traditionally investigated by NMR spectroscopy and secondly, dissolving solid materials in a solvent may be impossible or may destroy the integrity of the material. All these obstacles can be overcome by NMR experiments at high-magnetic field strengths and investigating the properties of quadrupolar nuclei.

This Handbook gives an up-to-date account of NMR of quadrupoloar nuclei in the solid state. Each chapter of the Handbook has been prepared by an expert who has made significant contributions to our understanding and appreciation of the importance of NMR studies of quadrupolar nuclei in solids.

The text is divided into three Parts:

A) Basic Principles of Quadrupolar NMR
B) Advanced Solid-State NMR Techniques to Investigate Quadrupolar Nuclei
C) Applications Involving NMR Studies of Quadrupolar Nuclei in Solids.

The first section provides the reader with the background necessary to appreciate the challenges in acquiring and interpreting NMR spectra of quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The second section presents cutting-edge techniques and methodology for employing these spectroscopic techniques to investigate quadrupolar nuclei in solids. The final section explores applications of solid-state NMR studies of solids ranging from investigations of biological samples to porous materials, catalysts, geological samples and high-temperature superconductors.

All these articles will be published on EMR: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470034590