Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group History

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Year

Location

Host

Keynote Speaker

Topic

1970

Northwestern Univ.

Joe Lambert

Adam Allerhand

Fourier Transform NMR

 

1971

Purdue University

John Grutzner

Jiri Jonas

Relaxation Phenomena

 

1972

Standard Oil

Naperville IL

Bruce Wenzel

Jake Schaefer

FT NMR Methods & Problems

1973

University of Illinois at Chicago Circle

Ben Bangerter

Paul Fagerness

John Markley

Relaxation Times

Protein  Proton NMR

1974

G.D. Searle & Co.,
Chicago

Roy Bible

David Natusch

Gerhard Closs

Overhauser Effect

Triplet Lifetimes

1975

Notre Dame

Kenner Christiansen

Eric Oldfield

T1 Measurement & Application

1976

Abbott Labs,
North Chicago IL

 Rich Egan

 Tobin Marks

 Organometallic NMR

 

1977

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 Eric Oldfield

 Eric Oldfield

 Superconducting Spectrometers

 

1978

Amoco Research Center, Naperville

Joe Ray

(None)

 17 local speakers

 

1979

Upjohn Co.,
Kalamazoo, MI

George Slomp

Ed Stejskal

Solid-State NMR

1980

Purdue University

John Grutzner

Joe Lambert

Modern Assignment Techniques

1981

Loyola University,
Chicago

Ken Kopple &
David Crumrine

 Michael Albright

 High Resolution Multinuclear NMR of Solids

1982

G.D. Searle & Co.,
Skokie, IL

Roy Bible

 Hans Post

 Introduction to NMR Imaging

 

1983

University  of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Eric Oldfield

 Stan Smith

 NMR Imaging

1984

Argonne National Labs

Robert Botto

Nino Yannoni

Laurie Hall

Dave VanderHart

Structure & Dynamics in Organic Solids

Chemical Microscopy

Polymer Fiber Morphology

1985

Northwestern Univ

 

Joe Lambert 

Paul Lauterbur

Microscopic and Spectroscopic NMR Images

1986

Northwestern Univ Northwestern NMR Symposium

Tobin Marks

Gary Maciel

 (Bax, Lauterbur, Jelinski, Maciel, Oldfield, Ian Smith)

MAS for Surface Studies

 

1987

Abbott Labs

Rich Stephens

Gerhard Wagner


Joe Ackerman


Ed  Stejskal

 Use of Heteronuclear Experiments for the Analysis of Protein Structure

 Metabolic Pathways and Blood Flow by NMR in Situ

 Solid State NMR of Macromolecules and Metabolism

1988

Loyola University,
Chicago

David Crumrine

Adam Allerhand

Bob Bryant

 C-13 and P-31 Ultra High Resolution NMR

 Magnetic Relaxation in Solids and Liquids

1989

University  of Illinois, Chicago

Cynthia Jameson

Dennis Torchia

  

 Assignment, Structure, and Dynamics of Staphylococcal Nuclease

1990

Upjohn Co.,
Kalamazoo, MI

Paul Fagerness

Ad Bax

Bernie Gerstein

 
Mark Conradi

 Multinuclear NMR of Proteins

 Multiple Quantum Coherence in Dipolar Coupled Solids

 Cross Relaxation Experiments in Metal Hydrides

1991

G.D. Searle Co.
Skokie IL

Roy Bible

Naresh Sethi

Jiri Jonas

Merrill Nuss

 NMR in Rotating Solids;

 Dynamics of Fluids in Confined Geometries

 MRI and In-vivo Spectroscopy in the Pharmaceutical Industry

1992

Notre Dame

Tony Serianni

Bernhard Blümich


David LeMaster

 NMR Imaging of Solid Polymers: Methods and Applications

 Assignment and Dynamics of Proteins Using Alternating Carbon Enrichment

1993

Amoco Research Center, Naperville IL

Joe Ray

Lucio Frydman


Thatcher Root


Colin Fyfe

 Non-Cartesian Sampling Schemes in Multidimensional NMR

 Deuterium NMR Studies of Acid Sites in Zeolites

 Background and Examples of NMR Microscopy

1994

Purdue University

 

(IUPUI)

John Grutzner

 

 
(B.D.N.Rao)

Adam Allerhand

Mike Melchior

 

 Reminiscing by an Old F..t

 Silicon/Aluminum Ordering and Zeolite Chemistry

(Biochemical NMR Symposium)

1995

Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield IL

Walter Smith

Kurt Wüthrich

Recent Advances in NMR Structure Determination of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

1996

University of Illinois at Chicago

Cynthia Jameson &
Lucio Frydman

 Alex Pines

 Born in ‘45

 

1997

Argonne National Labs, Argonne IL

Robert Botto

Jim Prestegard

 

Paul Lauterbur


Kurt Zilm

Measurement of Dipolar Couplings in Field Oriented Systems: Experimental Hazards and Structural Potential

 NMR Microscopy: Up, Down, and Sideways

 Solids NMR of Uniformly C-13 Labeled Macromolecular Building Block: Assignment Strategies and Problems at High Fields

1998

Northwestern Univ.,

Ed Rivera
Joe Lambert

Gary Drobny

Solid State NMR Methods for the Study of Biomaterials

1999

Searle Co.

Roy Bible

Melinda Duer

 

Harry Dorn

 Multiple Quantum NMR for the Study of Dipolar Couplings Between Quadrupolar Nuclei

 Magnetic Resonance Studies of Empty-Cage and Metal Encapsulated Fullerenes

2000

University  of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Vera Mainz

Jonathan Sweedler


A.J. Shaka

 

Lucio Frydman

 

Small Volume NMR for Mass Limited Samples

Extracting the Most Information from your NMR Experiments: Recent Work with the Filter Diagonalization Method

NMR Experiments on Spinning and Static Samples: Something Old, Something New

2001

Abbott Labs,
Abbott Park, IL

Steve Hollis
Milt Levenburg

Ann McDermott

 

Mike Summers

 A Dymanic View of Enzyme Function: Solid State NMR Studies of TIM and other Proteins

 New Insights into Retroviral Genome Recognition and Packaging

2002

Notre Dame

Bradley Smith
Tony Serianni

Nico Tjandra


Charles Johnson


Mike Shapiro

 

Recent Advances in High Resolution NMR to Study Protein Structure and Dynamics

Why Chemists Need to make Pulsed Field Gradient NMR Diffusion Measurements

 Epitope Mapping of Ligand-Target Interaction by NMR

2003

BP Naperville Complex

Steve McKenna

Peter Rinaldi


Lewis Kay

 

 Multidimensional NMR Studies of Synthetic Macromolecules

 Looking Towards the Future with New NMR Probes of Protein Structure and Dynamics

2004

Loyola University ,
Chicago

David Crumrine

Art Palmer

 

 Ruth Stark

 New  Approaches for Characterizing Microsecond-Millisecond Timescale Dynamics in Proteins

 NMR Structural Studies of Intractable Plant Biopolymers

2005

Abbott Labs,
Abbott Park, IL

David Whittern

David Grant

 

 
 
Art Pardi

 

Combined Solid State NMR and Powder Diffraction Study of Natural Products. Synergism Provides a Method for Molecular X-Ray Structural Analysis

Structure and Dynamics of RNA and Protein-RNA Systems

2006

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tom Stringfellow

Mark Conradi

 Jeremy Nicholson

 

 Restricted Diffusion of Gases in Lungs

 Statistical Spectroscopy in Top-Down Systems Biology: From Personalized Healthcare to Molecular Epidemiology

2007

Argonne National Labs, Argonne IL

Rex Gerald II

Ed Samulski


David Weliky

 Insights into Structure and Symmetry of Liquid Crystals via Deuterium NMR

 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of: (1) Viral Fusion Peptides and Proteins and (2) High Temperature Metal Chalcophosphate Syntheses

2008

Washington University,
St. Louis MO

Sophia Hayes

Lucio Frydman

 
Nikolai Skrynnikov


Joe Ray

 Citius, Altius and Fortis - at the Interface of NMR, MRI and EPR

 Extremes in Protein Dynamics: From Crystalline to Denatured

 Heparin Contamination: The NMR Piece of a Puzzle Unravelled

2009

Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield IL

Joe Ray and
Christina Szabo

J.  Prestegard

 
Cynthia Larive

 New Assignment Strategies for Large and Glycosylated Proteins

 Adventures in Mixture Analysis by NMR

2010

University  of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chad Rienstra

Len Mueller 

 Hashim Al-Hashimi

Solid-State NMR as a Probe of Protein Structure and Function
3D Atomic Resolution Visualization of Nucleic Acid Dynamics by NMR

2011

Baxter Healthcare, Round Lake IL

Joe Ray and
Christina Szabo

Daron Freedberg

 Bob Griffin

 
Klaus Schmidt-Rohr

NMR of Carbohydrates On & Off Cells

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at High Magnetic Fields

Spectral Editing in Solid State 13C NMR: Analysis of Complex Organic Matter and Nanocrystal Bound Citrate in Bone

2012

Purdue University

John Grutzner

Ed Olejniczak

 

Robert Tycko

Cancer Drug Discovery Using Fragment Based Approaches and Structure Based Design.

Biomolecular Solid State NMR with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at Very Low Temperatures.