Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group

2011 Meeting
Saturday, November 5, 2011
at Baxter Laboratories

Round Lake, Illinois

All times are Central Daylight Savings Time
      Chair: Christina Szabo (Baxter Healthcare)
8:25 - 8:40 Welcome: Dr. Andrew J. (Andy) Dunham, Vice President, R&D Technology Resources, Baxter Healthcare
8:40 - 9:00 Ernesto Fuentes (University of Iowa) "Structure, Dynamics, and Specificity of Tiam1 PDZ Domain Ligand-bound Complexes"
 
9:00 - 10:00 Daron Freedberg (US Food & Drug Administration); NMR of Carbohydrates On and Off cells. Keynote Speaker
 
10:00 - 10:20 Carlos Amezcua (Baxter Healthcare) "Assessment of Protein Structure Similarity by NMR: Applications to Biosimilars in New Formulations"
 
10:20     Coffee Break
      Chair: Cathy Quinn (Baxter Healthcare)
 
10:45 - 11:15 Yoshitaka Ishii (University of Illinois Chicago) "Reactions and Structures in Self-assembled Alzheimer’s Beta-amyloid and Graphene-related Carbon Nano-materials"
11:15 - 12:15 Bob Griffin (MIT) "Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at High Magnetic Fields" Keynote Speaker
12:15     Lunch
Optional Tour of Baxter NMR Facilities
 

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      Chair: Yoshitaka Ishii (University of Illinois, Chicago)
1:45 - 2:05 Roger Chylla (NMR Facility at Madison) "Shape Modeling of NMR Spectral Libraries to Analyze the Composition of Complex Biological Mixtures"
2:05 - 2:30 Andy Surface (Washington University St. Louis) "In situ High Pressure and Temperature NMR Analysis of Metal Carbonate Formation from CO2
2:30 - 3:30 Klaus Schmidt-Rohr (Iowa State University) "Spectral Editing in Solid-state 13C NMR: Analysis of Complex Organic Matter and of Nanocrystal-bound Citrate in Bone"
Keynote Speaker
3:30     Coffee Break
      Chair: John Grutzner (Purdue University)
3:50 - 4:10 Kelly Sackett (Michigan State University) "Membrane Location and Protein Conformation,
as Determinants of Membrane Fusion by the HIV gp41 Protein"
4:10 - 4:30 Kristen Nuzzio (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Towards Elucidating the Structure and Functional Dynamics of Membrane-Bound Tissue Factor by Solid-State NMR"
4:30 - 4:55 Tao Xie (Northwestern University) "Structural Basis for Molecular Interactions Involving MRG15 MRG Domains"
4:55 - 5:20 Nikolai Skrynnikov (Purdue University) "Toward a Comprehensive Characterization of Protein Disorder Using a Combination of NMR and MD Methods"
 

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