MOOT XXVI NMR Symposium, Kingston, ON, October 25-27, 2013

MOOT XXVI NMR Symposium registration deadline was extended to September 30, 2013. Please make sure we have your abstract information by then.

In the coming weeks, we will send around a program and will notify those who were selected to give an oral presentation.

If you have any stellar undergraduate students, please put their names forward for an undergraduate travel award to MOOT XXVI in Kingston.

For more information visit http://www.mootnmr.org

Your MOOT XXVI Organizing Committee,

Seth Chitayat and Gang Wu
http://www.mootnmr.org

NMR paper in Nature Methods

S. Wang, R.A. Munro, L. Shi, I. Kawamura, T. Okitsu, A. Wada, S.-Y. Kim, K.-H. Jung, L.S. Brown and V. Ladizhansky, "Solid-state NMR spectroscopy structure determination of a lipid-embedded heptahelical membrane protein,"Nature Methods (2013) online. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2635

"Research May Lead to New Drugs for Heart Disease, Other Ailments" September 09, 2013 - News Release, University of Guelph  http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2013/09/research_may_le.html

Cover article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Peng He, Jun Xu, Victor V. Terskikh, Andre Sutrisno, Heng-Yong Nie, and Yining Huang, "Identification of Non-equivalent Framework Oxygen Species in Metal-organic Frameworks by 17O Solid-state NMR," Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117 (2013) 16953–16960. (Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jp403512m

17O solid-state NMR spectra provide signatures of various oxygen species in metal-organic frameworks. We successfully prepared several prototypical 17O -enriched metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). Due to the diversity of MOF-based materials, different types of MOFs require different isotopic enrichment methods to effectively incorporate 17O from 17O-enriched H2O. Several synthetic strategies for 17O-enrichment were discussed. Using these 17O-enriched MOFs, we were able to acquire 17O solid-state NMR spectra at a magnetic field of 21.1 T. They provide distinct spectral signatures of various key oxygen species commonly existing in representative MOFs.

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

"Canadian NMR Research" News Bulletin

Colleagues and fellow MR-enthusiasts,

the Summer 2013 issue of the "Canadian NMR Research" bulletin has arrived, our traditional mix of news and research updates. Thank you all who contributed and shared their news with the community. You are welcome to forward this bulletin to your colleagues and students. http://nmr900.ca/nmr_bulletin.html

NMR paper in Science

J.-F. Trempe, V. Sauvé, K. Grenier, M. Seirafi, M.Y. Tang, M. Ménade, S. Al-Abdul-Wahid, J. Krett, K. Wong, G. Kozlov, B. Nagar, E.A. Fon, K. Gehring, "Structure of Parkin Reveals Mechanisms for Ubiquitin Ligase Activation," Science 340 (2013) 1451-1455.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1237908

NSERC 2013 Competition Results

Discovery Grants [NSERC]

Richard Epand (McMaster) Membrane Interactions and Diacylglycerol Kinases Michael Gerken (Lethbridge) Sulfur in Inorganic Fluorine Chemistry and the Development of a New Class of Weakly Coordinating Anions Michel Lafleur (Montréal) Characterizing, Understanding and Exploiting lipid-lipid interactions Isabelle Marcotte (Québec à Montréal) Nuclear magnetic resonance study of membrane interactions: from intact microorganisms to model membranes Igor Mastikhin (New Brunswick) Magnetic Resonance Imaging of two-phase systems Lawrence McIntosh (UBC) Glycosidases and Glycosyl Transferases Scott Prosser (Toronto) Protein Functional Dynamics and Energy Landscapes Giles Santyr (Western) Novel Approaches for Hyperpolarized Xenon-129 Magnetic Resonance Imagin Abdelhamid Sayari (Ottawa) Nanostructured Materials for Separation and Catalysis Simon Sharpe (Toronto) Structure, assembly, and biological activity of amyloid peptides and proteins George Shimizu (Calgary) Synthesis and properties of metal organic frameworks Roderick Wasylishen (Alberta) Magnetic Resonance Studies of Molecular Structure and Dynamics Anand Yethiraj (Memorial) Tunable hydrodynamics and restricted motions: probing dynamics and the mechanisms of self-organization in soft matter Tom Ziegler (Calgary) The development of new density functional based methods and their application to catalysis Josef Zwanziger (Dalhousie) Structure/Property Relationships in Inorganic Glasses

Discovery Accelerator Supplement $120,000 over three years

Scott Prosser (Toronto) Protein Functional Dynamics and Energy Landscapes

Research Tools and Instruments (RTI)

Kim Baines (Western) Replacement Probe for Inova 600 MHz NMR Spectrometer Steve Bourgault, Isabelle Marcotte and Borhane Annabi (Québec à Montréal) A protein purification platform for biochemistry and structural biology research Richard Epand (McMaster) Isothermal titration calorimeter Scott Prosser (Toronto) Essential Equipment for Membrane Protein Preparation and Purification

Cover article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society

Algirdas Velyvis and Lewis E. Kay, "Measurement of Active Site Ionization Equilibria in the 670 kDa Proteasome Core Particle Using Methyl-TROSY NMR," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135 (2013) 9259–9262. (cover article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja403091c

MOOT XXVI NMR Symposium - registration open

MOOT XXVI NMR Symposium, Kingston, ON, October 25-27, 2013

MOOT XXVI NMR Symposium registration is now open. For more information and most recent updates visit http://www.mootnmr.org

Registration deadline is September 15, 2013.

Your MOOT XXVI Organizing Committee,

Seth Chitayat and Gang Wu
http://www.mootnmr.org

Agilent NMR Workshop Montreal 2013

Agilent invites you to join us for an informative session on the changing practices in NMR research. During this seminar, experts in magnetic resonance from Agilent will discuss updates to experimental practices, software, and data analysis. This complimentary seminar will surely provide valuable best practices to ensure you are generating meaningful results from your NMR research.

Workshop Details
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2013
Where: Agilent Technologies Canada Inc.
2250 Alfred Nobel Blvd.
Saint Laurent, QC H4S 2C9 CANADA
Time: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Reserve today! Space is limited!
http://www.chem.agilent.com/en-US/promotions/Pages/NMR_Montreal.aspx

7th Annual VIVA NMR Symposium

Friday, June 21, 2013
University of Victoria, Bob Wright Centre A104

VIVA is a one-day NMR symposium that aims to bring together NMR users, researchers and facility managers from Western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest to share information on topics of general NMR interest and to foster the development of a regional NMR community.

VIVA is an informal gathering, and we particularly encourage graduate students working with NMR to prepare talks or posters for presentation.

The program will consist of talks in the morning, followed by a BBQ lunch and poster presentations in the afternoon. Tours of our new NMR lab will be offered during the breaks.

The registration deadline is June 14, 2013

For more information visit
http://web.uvic.ca/~viva7/index.html

Christopher Barr
NMR Facility Manager
Chemistry Department
University of Victoria
Victoria BC V8W 3V6
Phone: 250-721-7199