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Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group History

This is the Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group's history since 1970. To view a printable version, click here.

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 UrbanaChampaign	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, UrbanaChampaign	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 University	Joe Lambert	Paul Lauterbur	Microscopic and Spectroscopic NMR Images
1986	Northwestern University 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 University	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, UrbanaChampaign	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 Protein , 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 Macromolecule , 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 MicrosecondMillisecond 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	Citius, Altius and Fortis - at the Interface of NMR, MRI and EPR
2009	Baxter Healthcare, Deerfield IL	Joe Ray Christina Szabo	J. Prestegard Cynthia Larive	New Assignment Strategies for Large and Glycosylated Proteins Adventures in Mixture Analysis by NMR.
2010	University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign	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 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
2013	TCS Conference Center at Argonne National Lab	John V. Muntean	Ad Bax Chris Jaroniec Rod Wasylishen	“Homonuclear decoupling and residual dipolar coupling: How they can help us study folded and intrinsically disordered proteins” ”Solid-state NMR structural studies of proteins using paramagnetic probes” “Progress in studying protons in transition metal hydrides and quadrupolar nuclei in solid materials.”
2014	Northwestern University	Ishwar Radhakrishnan	Charalampos (Babis) Kalodimos Gianluigi Veglia	Molecular Chaperones in Action Solid-State NMR of Membrane Protein Complexes
2015	AbbVie, Inc.	Ian Marsden	Rafael Brüschweiler Katherine Henzler-Wildman Eric Munson	“NMR of Complex Biomolecular Systems: from Allostery of Glucokinase to the Analysis of Metabolomics Mixtures” “(A)Symmetry and Exchange: Testing the Multidrug Transport Mechanism of EmrE” "Solid-State NMR Studies of Pharmaceuticals"
2016	Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc.	Brian Volkman (MCW)	Jeffrey C. Hoch Richard Kriwacki Tatyana Polenova	“Beyond Fourier” “Phase Separation in Biology: Insights into Mechanism from NMR” “Structure and Dynamics of HIV1 Protein Assemblies by Integrated MAS NMR, MD, and Density Functional Theory”
2017	Pfizer Lake Forest Campus	Edward Zartler	Song-I Han Andy Byrd	“The Effect of Spin Dynamics in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization” “Allostery and Dynamics Create Processivity in Ubiquitanation”
2019	Univ. of Wisconsin	John Markley and Katherine Henzler-Wildman	Ann McDermott Frank Delaglio	“Protein Dynamics and Cellular Signaling: Studies by Solid State NMR” “Characterization of Biotherapeutics by Chemometric and Machine Learning Analysis of NMR Spectra”

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