Invited Speakers

• David Bryce, University of Ottawa, Canada

Talk: "Solid-State NMR and NQR Investigations of Element-Based Electrophilic Non-Covalent Interactions"

• Carlos A Castañeda, Syracuse University

Talk: "Protein Droplets and ALS: UBQLN2 phase separation is modulated by oligomerization, ALS-linked mutations, and ubiquitin binding"

• Aaron Frank, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Talk: "Conditional Prediction of RNA Secondary Structure Using NMR Chemical Shifts"

• Ujjayini Ghosh, National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Talk: "Solid-State NMR and CryoEM of Abeta filaments from Alzheimer’s Disease"

• Emmanuel Hatzakis, Ohio State University

Talk: "Improving food quality and agricultural sustainability through NMR-based approaches"

• Katherine Henzler-Wildman, University of Wisconsin

Talk: "Controlling the transport activity of the small multi drug resistance transporter EmrE"

• Charles Hoogstraten, Michigan State University

Talk: "NMR as a Probe of Dynamics-Function Relationships in Catalytic RNA"

• Rui Huang, University of Toronto, Canada

Talk: "Unraveling the cooperativity of molecular machines by methyl-TROSY NMR"

• Yining Huang, The University of Western Ontario, Canada

Talk: "Solid-state NMR Characterization of MOFs: from framework atoms to guest species in the pores"

• Magda Ivanova, University of Michigan

Talk: "Biomolecular studies of tissue-derived assemblies of α-synuclein"

• Christopher Jaroniec, Ohio State University

Talk: "Molecular Mechanisms of Prion and Amyloid Propagation Explored by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy"

• Voula Kanelis, University of Toronto, Canada

Talk: "The effect of regulatory interactions and disease mutations in the NBDs of SUR proteins, the regulatory subunits of KATP channels"

• Vladimir Ladizhansky, University of Guelph, Canada

Talk: "Atomistic view of an unfolding pathway in a seven-helical membrane protein"

• Justin Lorieau, University of Illinois, Chicago

Talk: "Hybrid NMR: A Union of Solution and Solid-State NMR"

• Isabelle Marcotte, Université du Québec à Montréal

Talk: "In-vivo 2H solid-state NMR study of the interaction of antimicrobial agents with bacteria"

• John McCracken, Michigan State University

Talk: "Phenylalanine Hydroxylase: Probing a catalytic cycle with EPR Spectroscopy"

• Giuseppe Melacini, McMaster University, Canada

Talk: "Understanding allostery and binding through the covariance and projection analyses of NMR chemical shifts"

• Stephen Meredith, University of Chicago

Talk: "NanoDroplet Oligomers (NanDOs) of Aβ40"

• Emma Morrison, Medical College of Wisconsin

Talk: "Histone H3 tail conformation senses nucleosome assembly state"

• Ishwar Radhakrishnan, Northwestern University

Talk: "Structure, Dynamics, and Ligand-Independent Mechanisms of Transcriptional Activation by Nuclear Receptors"

• Charles Sanders, Vanderbilt University

Talk: "Amyloid Precursor Protein Structure in Novel Cholesterol- and Sphingomyelin-Rich Bicelles"

• Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh

Talk: "Cu(II) as an ESR probe of protein structure and dynamics"

• Robert Schurko, University of Windsor, Canada

Talk: "New Pulse Sequences for Ultra-Wideline NMR Spectroscopy"

• Simon Sharpe, University of Toronto, Canada

Talk: "Combining solution and solid-state NMR to understand phase separation and macroscopic assembly of elastic proteins"

• Ronald Soong, University of Toronto, Canada

Talk: "Application of in vivo NMR spectroscopy on aquatic organisms: Towards real time monitoring of metabolic flux"

• Michael Stone, Vanderbilt University

Talk: "NMR Spectroscopy of Secondary DNA Damage Arising from N7-dG Alkylation"

• Thomas Szyperski, University of Buffalo

Talk: "NMR meets XFELs"

• Blanton Tolbert, Case Western Reserve University

Talk: "NMR studies of RNAs and RNPs that contribute to viral pathogenesis"

• Gang Wu, Queens University, Canada

Talk: "Recent advances in 17O NMR of biological molecules in solution and solid state"

• Yan Xu, University of Pittsburgh

Talk: "19F-NMR Investigation of Conformation-Dependent Drug Binding to the Bacterial Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel NaChBac"

• Joshua J. Ziarek, Indiana University

Talk: "Measuring G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) dynamics from ligand binding to signal transduction"

Invited Speakers from Vendors:

• Shengrong Li, Avanti Polar Lipids

Talk: "NMR Spectroscopy as Analytical Tool for Lipid Isomers"

• Kevin Millis, Cambridge Isotope Laboratory

Talk: "Manufacturing Overview of Stable Isotopes for Scientific Research"

• Martine Monette, Bruker NMR

Talk: "New tools for Solid-State NMR automation"

• Yusuke Nishiyama, JEOL RESONANCE & RIKEN, Japan

Talk: "Electron and NMR crystallography"

• Ralph Weber, Bruker NMR

Talk: "The Ubiquitous Role of Unpaired Electrons"