9th Gateway NMR Conference and Inauguration Symposium Conference
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
Location: Performance Hall, Ohio Union
8:00 – 8:30 Registration, coffee, tea and light pastry
8:30 – 9:00 Welcome (Rafael Brüschweiler, Dean David Horn, NSF Program Director Krisztina Varga, Alain Belguise (Bruker))
Session 1 (Session chair: Rafael Brüschweiler)
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 – 9:25 | Bob Griffin (MIT) | Aducanumab binding to amyloid-β1-42 fibrils |
| 9:25 – 9:50 | Peter Wright (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla) | Structure, dynamics, and interactions of proteins containing both disordered and structured domains |
| 9:50 – 10:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:15 – 10:35 | Tatyana Polenova (U. Delaware) | MAS NMR, with and without DNP and integrative structural biology of viral protein assemblies |
| 10:35 – 10:55 | Kwaku Dayie (U. Maryland) | Advances in isotope labeling for RNA NMR |
| 10:55 – 11:15 | Jeff Peng (U. Notre Dame) | Studies of machine elements by NMR |
| 11:15 – 11:35 | Claudia Avalos (New York U.) | Correlating defect formation and photoluminescent properties in lanthanide doped cesium lead chloride using solid-state NMR |
| 11:35 – 11:55 | Pat Loria (Yale U.) | Allostery and substrate specificity in protein tyrosine phosphatases |
| 11:55 – 12:05 | Radoslav Pavlovic (Northwestern U.)* | NMR studies of synthetically designed biomaterials with neuronal and chondrogenic bioactivity |
| 12:05 – 12:15 | Lexi McCarthy-Carney (OSU)* | Inverse Methods for Solid State NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei |
12:15 – 1:30 Lunch at Ohio Union
Session 2 (Session chair: Chris Jaroniec)
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:30 – 1:50 | Alexandar Hansen and Trent Franks (OSU) | The 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer at OSU: capabilities, early results, and the user program |
| 1:50 – 2:10 | Dan Raftery (U. Washington) | Modeling blood metabolite homeostasis to reduce unexplained variance and reveal metabolic network relationships |
| 2:10 – 2:30 | Ann McDermott (Columbia U.) | Signaling in biological systems–Insights from NMR |
| 2:30 – 2:40 | Serge Smirnov (W. Washington U.)* | Structure/dynamics and functional roles of sizable IDRs in dematin/villin cytoskeleton modulators |
| 2:40 – 3:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:10 – 3:30 | Mei Hong (MIT) | Structures and mechanisms of virus ion channels from 19Fenhanced solid-state NMR |
| 3:30 – 3:50 | Hashim Al-Hashimi (Columbia U.) | Bringing the structures of nucleic acids to life using NMR |
| 3:50 – 4:10 | David Rovnyak (Bucknell U.) | NMR of small molecules: methods to metabolomics |
| 4:10 – 4:20 | Libin Ye (U. of South Florida)* | Conformational dynamics of an Intermediate GPCR-G protein complex |
4:30 – 4:45 Walk from Ohio Union to CBEC
4:45 – 4:50 Poster setup in basement of CBEC (outside of NMR suite)
4:50 – 6:30 Poster session and NMR tours in CBEC. Official opening of National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center
6:30 – 8:00 Dinner in CBEC Lobby
Friday, May 16, 2025
Location: Performance Hall, Ohio Union
8:15 – 8:45 Coffee, tea and light pastry
Session 3 (Session chair: Mark Foster)
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 – 9:05 | Ad Bax (NIH) | Insights into the structures of metastable protein folding intermediates and Abeta oligomers from pressure-jump NMR |
| 9:05 – 9:25 | Lauren Marbella (Columbia U.) | Linking structure to function at electrochemical interfaces: Li-ion batteries and beyond |
| 9:25 – 9:45 | Art Edison (U. Georgia) | Small molecule analysis using 13C NMR at 1.1 GHz |
| 9:45 – 10:05 | Haribabu Arthanari (Harvard Medical School) | The promised land of high-field NMR: potential, challenges, and opportunities |
| 10:05 – 10:15 | Marvin Bayro (U. of Puerto Rico)* | Probing the bio-inorganic interface in polymers that regulate carbon mineralization |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Dorothee Kern (Scripps Research) | The protein dance – from NMR experiments to AI predictions |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Tuo Wang (Michigan State U.) | Solid-State NMR Analysis of Carbohydrate Structure Reveals the Dynamic Remodeling Mechanism for Fungal Survival |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Art Palmer (Columbia U.) | Conformational dynamics govern protein function: Insights from NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | Rob Tycko (NIH) | Time-resolved biomolecular solid state NMR |
| 12:05 – 12:15 | Irina Bezsonova (U. of Connecticut Health)* | Activation dynamics of ubiquitin-specific protease 7 |
| 12:15 – 12:25 | Rodrigo Cabrera Allpas (OSU)* | COLMAR1d2d: Combining 1D with 2D NMR for the automated high-throughput identification and quantification of metabolites in complex mixtures |
12:30 – 1:45 Lunch at Ohio Union
Session 4 (Session chair: Philip Grandinetti)
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1:45 – 2:05 | Razvan Teodorescu (Bruker Inc.) | Pushing the boundaries of magnet technologies: The breakthrough behind ultra-High field NMR |
| 2:05 – 2:25 | Yi Zhang (Case Western Reserve U.) | NMR studies of structural mechanisms in chromatin biology |
| 2:25 – 2:45 | Chad Rienstra (U. Wisconsin) | Solid-state NMR at 1.1 GHz in NMRFAM |
| 2:45 – 3:05 | Lewis Kay (U. Toronto) | Solution NMR provides the missing link to understand function in large complexes |
| 3:05 – 3:15 | Andrea Poole (U. of Louisville)* | Functional site-distant mutations of hGMPK alter dynamics and kinetics |
| 3:15 – 3:25 | David Weliky (Michigan State U.)* | REDOR NMR determination of quantitative populations of the very broad distribution of structures of the membrane-bound HIV fusion peptide – an evolutionary solution for chronic infection |
3:25 – 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 4:15 Walk from Union to CBEC
4:15 – 6:15 Poster session and NMR tours in CBEC
6:15 – 6:20 Removal of posters
6:45 – 8:30 Dinner in Ballroom of Blackwell Hotel (see map under Venue)
Farewell
Legend: * Upgraded poster talk