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2024 Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Meeting
Date: Saturday, October 26th, 2024.
Location: Dongwon Seminar Hall, UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry
* Invited talk: 30 min (25 min for talk + 5 min for questions)
* Contributed talk: 15 min (13 min for talk + 2 min for questions)
Conference Program
9:00 – 9:50 AM: Conference check-in & Breakfast
9:50 – 10:00 AM: Meeting opening
Session 1 (10:00 – 12:00 PM): Oral Session (Chair: Louis Bouchard)
10:00 – 10:30 AM: Hongwen Jiang (UCLA) – Manipulation of a spin qubit in Ge by spin-orbital interaction
10:30 – 10:45 AM: Yuhang Ren (USC) – NV-detected ESR of two electron spins
10:45 – 11:15 AM: Kelly Luo (USC) – van der Waals Ferromagnets and Antiferromagnets Interacting with Electron Spins
11:15 – 11:30 AM: Kyle Li (USC) – Gold exfoliation and pickup of van der Waal Materials
11:30 – 12:00 PM: Claudia Ojeda-Aristiza (CSU Long Beach) – The competition of topology and magnetism in quantum materials probed through photoemission experiments
12:00 – 1:15 PM: Lunch
Session 2 (1:15 – 2:15 PM): Oral Session (Chair: Susumu Takahashi)
1:15 – 1:30 PM: Irina Ritsch (Scripps) – Transthyretin aggregation in Fluid Flow
1:30 – 1:45 PM: Melanie Cocco (UCI) – Cold Denaturation of a Polymerase Enzyme at Room Temperature
1:45 – 2:00 PM: Alex Plonski (UCSD) – Characterizing the structure and dynamics of the molecular chaperone HSPB1
2:00 – 2:15 PM: Brad Price (UCSB) – Studies of Protein Functional Dynamics via Rapid-Scan EPR at High Field
2:15 – 2:30 PM: Coffee Break
Session 3 (2:30 – 3:45 PM): Poster Session
Session 4 (3:45 – 5:00 PM): Oral Session (Chair: Louis Bouchard)
3:45 – 4:15 PM: Raphaële Clément (UCSB) – Advancing magnetic and magnetic resonance tools for real-time monitoring of redox processes
4:15 – 4:30 PM: Leo W. Gordon (UCSB) – Spatially-Resolved NMR Methods for Investigating Partitioning Behavior
4:30 – 4:45 PM: Antonin Sojka (UCSB) – Frequency-agile pulsed electron spin resonance powered by a free-electron laser
4:45 – 5:00 PM: Andy LiWang (UC Merced) – Temperature compensation by the cyanobacterial circadian clock
5:00 – 5:15 PM: Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks
5:15 PM: Dinner
Poster Presentations (Poster size: 4 ft x 4 ft or smaller.)
1. Yuan Yang, UCLA, HEXIM1 homodimer binding to two sites on 7SK RNA releases autoinhibition for P-TEFb inactivation
2. Yifan Song, USC, Spin squeezing generation using an interaction spin system
3. Dhanya Sathiavals Reselammal, USC, Probing the DNAJB1 interaction with Huntingtin and Alpha-Synuclein fibrils
4. Tyler Pennebaker, UCSB, Chemical Stability and Interfacial Transport between Chloride and Sulfide Solid-Electrolytes
5. Sarah Ko, UCSD, Metastable layered lithium-rich niobium and tantalum oxides via nearly instantaneous cation exchange
6. Leah Webb, USC, Implementing Shaped Pulses in High Field Magnetic Resonance
7. Sam Marchant, UCSD, Characterization of a Serine Dependent Intein for Protein Segmental Labeling
8. Amit Bhattacharya, UCSB, Unravelling Ion Transport Pathways in LMTO Nanorod-Based Polymer-Ceramic Electrolytes
9. Thalia Georgiou, UCLA, NMR Studies of the CISS effect
10. Johanna Schubert, UCSB, Quasioptical Sample Holder with a Fabry-Perot Cavity to Increase SNR in High-Field EPR Studies
11. Athira Chilambittaserry Chandradasan, UC Merced, Understanding temperature compensation of clock proteins through 19F NMR
12. Christopher Williams, UCR, NMR Assisted Crystallography of TOHO-1 Betalactamase
13. Stefan Lucero, CSULB, Towards fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures of graphene and magnetic alloys of the Dirac semimetal PtTe2
14. Paula Magat, UCR, Structure and Mechanism of the B6-dependent Enzyme Aspartate Aminotransferase
15. Kyle Shi, USC, Optical and Magnetic Characterization of Rare-Earth Ion-Based Qubits
16. Casey Bernd, UCSB, Pulsed EPR Frequency-Agile Phase Cycler
17. Julia Chang, UCLA, Synthesis of a Novel Fjord-edge GNR with Site-Specific Nitrogen Substitution
18. Alexander Thome, UCR, Go Big or Go Home: Redefining the Limit for Protein Assignments at 1.1 GHz
19. Brendan Mahoney, UCLA, Investigation of Pilus Assembly Licensing Mechanism Using Solution NMR Studies
20. Gem Nakamura, USC, Development of high-field ODMR spectrometer
21. Antonin Sojka, UCSB, Frequency-agile pulsed electron spin resonance powered by a free-electron laser
22. Artur Pambukhchyan, USC, NV and SiV color center charge state dynamics
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