About

Gateway NMR Conference is a one- two-day meeting held each year in the eastern part of the Midwestern United States, which includes the states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Indiana, W. Virginia, and Tennessee. The Gateway NMR Conference brings together NMR practitioners to share their “latest and greatest” research, get to know each other, share news and know-how, initiate potential collaborations, and more. NMR Researchers from academia, national laboratories, and industry are encouraged to attend. The meeting also provides an opportunity to interact with vendors to learn about their products and services.

 

History of 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer

The strong support by the Gateway NMR community, together with the US-NMR community at large, were essential in the lead-up to the NSF proposal for the acquisition of the 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer. An RI-1 mid-scale research infrastructure pre-proposal was submitted to the NSF in early 2019, which was invited for a full proposal in the Spring of 2109 with R. Brüschweiler as PI and Mark Foster, Philip Grandinetti, Chris Jaroniec, and  Blanton Tolbert as co-PI’s. The award was made in the Fall of the same year. At that time, the 1.2 GHz (28 Tesla) NMR magnet technology, using a low-temperature superconducting magnet with a high-temperature superconducting insert, was still under development at Bruker. Less than a year later, the first 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer was installed by Bruker in Europe (CERM, Florence, Italy). The 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer at Ohio State was the 9th instrument installed world-wide and the first in North America. Three more 1.1 GHz ultrahigh-field NMR spectrometers have been installed in the U.S., at St. Jude Children’s Hospital (Memphis), U. Wisconsin (Madison), and U. Georgia (Athens)).

 

History of Gateway NMR Conference

  • The 1st Gateway NMR Conferences was held at the University of Louisville, KY, on November 12, 2016, with Donghan Lee (chair), Mike Sabo, David Ban, Rieko Ishima, and Rafael Brüschweiler serving on the scientific organizing committee, which drew over 60 NMR scientists.
  • The 2nd Gateway NMR Conference was held at Ohio State in Columbus, OH, with Rafael Brüschweiler (chair), Rieko Ishima, Justin Wu, and David Ban serving on the scientific organizing committee.
  • The 3rd Gateway NMR Conference was held November 2 – 3, 2018, at the University of Pittsburgh with Rieko Ishima (chair), Rafael Brüschweiler, and David Weliky as the organizing committee, and with Drs. Andrew Hinck, and Damodaran Krishnan Achary serving on the scientific organizing committee.
  • The 4th Gateway NMR was held September 21-22, 2019, at the University of Michigan with Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (co-chair), David Weliky (co-chair), Charles Hoogstraten, John McCracken, Sarah Keane, and Aaron Frank serving on the organizing committee.
  • The 5th Gateway NMR Conference was held September 19-20, 2020 (virtually) from Vanderbilt University with Markus Voehler (co-chair), Donald Stec (co-chair), Michael Stone, Walter Chazin, and Chuck Sanders serving on the organizing committee.
  • The 6th Gateway NMR Conference was held September 16-17, 2021 (virtually) from Miami University with Gary Lorigan (co-chair), Rick Page (co-chair), Anne Carroll, Michael Kennedy, Rob McCarrick, and Dave Tierney serving on the organizing committee.
  • The 7th Gateway NMR Conference was held October 20-21, 2022, (virtually) was hosted by Andrew Lane (co-chair) and Teresa W-M. Fan (co-chair) at the University of Kentucky.
  • The 8th Gateway NMR Conference was held at the University of Notre Dame, October 20-21, 2023 (in person) chaired by Jeffrey Peng and Evgenii Kovrigin.