Schedule
Location: 1114 Natural Sciences I, UC Irvine
9:30 – 9:50 AM: Conference Check-in & Light Breakfast 9:50 – 10:00 AM: Meeting opening
9:50 – 10:00 AM: Conference Opening
Session 1 (10:00 AM – 12:00 PM): Oral Session (Chair: Susumu Takahashi)
10:00 – 10:15 AM: Kelly Luo (USC) Spin-orbit torque in van der Waals magnetic heterostructures: from microscopic domain imaging to ultrasensitive Sagnac Kerr interferometry
10:15 – 10:30 AM: Bethany Caulkins (Pitzer and Scripps) Deuteration of Cyclic Ketones upon Encapsulation in a Water-Soluble Synthetic Receptor
10:30 – 10:45 AM: Ashlea Patterson (UCSB) Kinetic and Irreversible Contributions to Capacity Degradation in Doped LiNiO2 Compounds
10:45 – 11:15 AM: Ryan Hadt (CalTech) Developing Ultrafast All-Optical Molecular Electron Spin Coherence Spectroscopy
11:15 – 11:30 AM: Pathorn Henry Teptarakulkarn (UCLA) Living on Thin Air: Investigating the Redox Landscape of Oxygen-Insensitive Huc [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Using Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy
11:30 – 12:00 PM: Mark Sherwin (UCSB) A new facility for studies of nanosecond electron spin dynamics at fields up to 16 T at frequencies up to 420 GHz
12:00 – 1:00 PM: Lunch and Posters
Session 2 (1:00 – 2:30 PM): Oral Session (Chair: Rachel Martin)
1:00 – 1:30 PM: Jose Uribe (SDSU) Innovative NMR Instrumentation of Biochemical Analysis
1:30 – 1:45 PM: Kevin Chalek (SDSU) Pushing the Boundaries of Solid-State NMR for Understanding Dragline Spider Silk Structure
1:45 – 2:00 PM: Yeonseong (Catherine) Seo (UCI) Mimicking oxidative damage in γS-crystallin with site-specific incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan
2:00 – 2:15 PM: Dhanya Sathiavals Reselammal (USC) Phosphorylation of α-Synuclein fibrils at S129 increases DNAJB1 binding
2:15 – 2:30 PM: Gwladys Riviere (UCR) Inhibition of Clinically Relevant Metallo-β-Lactamases NDM-1 and VIM-2 by Thanatin
2:30 – 3:45 PM: Coffee Break and Posters
Session 3 (3:45 – 5:00 PM): Oral Session (Chair: Melanie Cocco)
3:45 – 4:15 PM: Lalit Deshmukh (UCSD) Structure-Function Studies of Human CHMP4 Paralogs Using Solution NMR Spectroscopy
4:15 – 4:30 PM: Brendan Mahoney (UCLA) Basis of rapid heme transfer via ultraweak protein-protein interactions in pathogenic bacteria
4:30 – 5:00 PM: Jane Dyson (Scripps) How NMR illuminates disordered proteins
5:00 – 5:15 PM: Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks
5:15 PM: Dinner
Posters
1. Paula Magat (UCR) NMR-Assisted Crystallographic Investigation of Aspartate Aminotransferase: Protonation States and Catalytic Mechanism
2. Ali Kiaeefar (SDSU) Conformational Structure, Dynamics and Assembly of Native Silkworm Silk Proteins by Solution NMR and Modeling
3. Alexander Thome (UCR) Redefining the Size Limit for Protein Assignments at 1.1 GHz
4. Jennifer Romero (UCR) NMR Assisted Crystallography of Serine Hydroxymethyltransferase
5. Difei Wu (USC) Structural Integrity and Side-Chain Interaction at the Loop Region of the Bridge Helix Modulate Cas9 Substrate Discrimination
6. Robbie Mandagie and Lucas Tanikawa (PLNU) NMR Spectroscopy to evaluate the effect of alanine resides on phosphorylation of the oncogenic protein E7 from high-risk HPV
7. Keltin Harris and Carla Heberle Rivas (PLNU) Investigation of Hierarchical Phosphorylation of the Oncogenic Protein E7 from High-Risk HPV
8. Colton Hayse (UCSD) NMR Analysis of RNA Granule Transport Proteins implicated in ALS Pathology
9. Tonkhla Dankul (UCSD) Characterizing the interactions between HP1α and the binding partner Sgo1
10. Esmeralda Flores Cabrera (UCI) Voxelotor (Oxbryta) Binds Multiple Hemoglobin Sites and Influences Protein Structure
11. Spencer Nelson (UCSD) NMR Insights into Ubiquitin-Mediated Regulation of ESCRT Machinery in HIV-1 Budding
12. Carah Allen (Scripps) Understanding Conformational Diversity in the Fuzzy Coat of Amyloids Across Fibril Polymorphs Using Solid-State NMR
13. Suhas H Bhate (UCSD) Membrane interaction of ESCRT protein CHMP4B
14. Cody Googin (UCSB) Using Paramagnetic NMR to Probe Ion Solvation in Hybrid Aqueous/Organic Electrolytes for Zn/MnO2 Batteries
15. Marquise Crosby (UCI) The Investigation Of HγS-Crystallin As An Oxidative Sink
16. Piper Szeliga (UCLA) The Effect of syn-4-tBuphenyl-3-truxenetriol, Precursor to Zeolite Mimetic Ligands, on Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Sites
17. Lado Shapakidze (SDSU) Molecular structure and dynamics of basic amino acids adsorbed on various silica nanostructured surfaces
18. Helen Highland (USC) Control of Charge States of Silicon Vacancy(𝑆𝑖𝑉) in Diamonds Using HV Pulse Discharge
19. Yifan Song (USC) Determination of Fermi Energy of Diamond using Photoluminescence Spectra Analysis
20. Emma Latchem (UCSB) Using NMR spectroscopy to understand reaction mechanisms and transport in aqueous tin batteries
21. Cherish Kumala (USC) Shaping Excitation Pulses in EPR: Probing BDPA at High Fields
22. Derrick Lin (USC) Automated Characterization of Spin Relaxation and Coherence in High-Field EPR
23. Johanna Schubert (UCSB) Enhancing Time-Resolved High-Field EPR of Protein Dynamics via a Novel Quasioptical Sample Holder
24. Leah Webb (USC) Development of Phase and Amplitude-Modulated 115/230 GHz Microwaves for High Field Magnetic Resonance
25. Casey Bernd (UCSB) Optomechanical Phase Shifters for Free-electron-laser Powered Agile Pulsed Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
26. Wei-Hsu Lin (UCSB) Two-Axis Rotating Sample Holder for Cryogenic, High Field EPR
27. Christopher Williams (UCR) MAS-Cryoprobe: The Cold Standard for Room Temperature Sensitivity
28. Yuan Li (UCSD) Calcium Environments, Proton Defects, and Facet-Dependent Fluoride Interactions in Hydroxyapatite Nanostructures Probed by Multinuclear Solid-State NMR
29. Annie McAllister (UCI) Transceiver Coil Fabrication for Improved NMR Experimentation
30. Gem Nakamura (USC) Photoelectric detection of NV Center
31. Andrew Koerner (USC) Spin-Orbit Torque Switching of Multi-Domain States in Fe3GeTe2/Pt Revealed by Scanning X-Ray Transmission Microscopy
32. Mowen Zhao (USC) Characterizing a 2D Magnet Using Advanced X-ray Microscopy and Micromagnetic Simulation
33. Kyle Li (USC) Au-assisted large area exfoliation of van der Waals crystals
34. Nabiha Hasan (USC) Spin-squeezed state generation and applications
35. Sri Maddali (MilliporeSigma) Stable Isotopes in Scientific Research and Applications