Invited Speakers for Parallel Sessions

Biomolecular NMR

• Manuel Etzkorn, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; The Dynamic World of DNA Enzymes
• Flemming Hansen, UCL London; Developing artificial intelligence to improving the resolution and sensitivity of complex NMR data
• Dorothee Kern, Scripps; The Protein Dance – from NMR Experiments to AI Predictions
• Jun-Xia Lu, Wuhan University; Amelogenin Assembly Structure Transition during the Mineral Maturation
• Bernd Reif, TUM; Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of the Role of the Amyloid Fibril Fuzzy Coat in Secondary Nucleation and Fibril Polymorphism
• Paul Schanda, IST Vienna; Dynamics of allosteric proteins from solid and solution-NMR: getting help from improved pulse sequences and labelling and machine learning
• Anne Schuetz, LMU, Munich; Tales of a Temperamental Protein – Taming the Non-Structural Protein of the Hepatitis B Virus
• Ichio Shimada, RIKEN; Structural and dynamic insights into the activation of the μ-opioid receptor by an allosteric modulator
• Chun Tang, Peking University; Dynamic Allostery of Retroviral Capsid Protein Upon Maturation
• Rob Tycko, NIH; Time-Resolved Biomolecular Solid State NMR with Millisecond Time Resolution
• Pramodh Vallurupalli, TATA Institute; Studying Protein Conformational Dynamics Using CEST NMR Experiments
• Tuo Wang, Michigan State University; Adaptive Remodeling of Fungal Cell Walls in Response to Stress: Insights from Solid-State NMR and DNP

EPR

• Patrice Bertet, CEA Paris-Saclay; Single-spin spectroscopy using microwave photon counting
• Alice Bowen, University of Manchester; I2BODIPY as a new photoswitchable spin label for light-induced pulsed EPR dipolar spectroscopy exploiting magnetophotoselection
• Maxie Roessler, Imperial College London; Film-electrochemical EPR as a tool to investigate electron transfer reactions
• Sunil Saxena, University of Pittsburgh; A metallic spin on protein structure and dynamics

Hyperpolarization Methodologies

• Marina Bennati, Max Planck Institute; Recent Progress in Overhauser-enhanced liquid NMR at 9.4 Tesla
• Dominik Bucher, TUM; Towards single cell NMR spectroscopy
• Ed Chekmenev, Wayne State University; Toward Ventilation Lung Imaging Employing Parahydrogen Induced Polarization of Proton-Hyperpolarized Inhalable Gases Using Clinical Proton-Only MRI scanners
• Lyndon Emsley, EPFL; Agents of Polarization
• Kong Ooi Tan, ENS Paris; Hypershifted Spin Spectroscopy with Dynamic Nuclear Polarization at 1.4 K
• Nobuhiro Yanai, Kyushu University; Materials chemistry towards in-vivo DNP

Instrumentation

• Fabien Ferrage, ENS Paris; Ultrafast High-Resolution Relaxometry
• Jan Korvink, KIT; TBA
• Thai Ly, CSIRO; A 7-Metre-Diameter Magnetic Resonance Truck Sensor for the Bulk Sensing of Mine-Trucks
• Karen Sauer, George Mason University; Life outside the magnet: tales from low-field NMR
• Kazuyuki Takeda, Kyoto University; Creation of First-Order Dipolar Order under MAS

MRI/MRS

• Tamara Branca, University of North Carolina; Hyperpolarized Xenon: More Than Just a Gas
• Susie Huang, Mass General Hospital; Connectome 2.0: Next-Generation Human MRI Scanner for Bridging Studies of the macro-, meso-, and micro-connectome
• Daniel Topgaard, Lund University; Diffusion MRI methods borrowed from NMR relaxation dispersion and isotropic-anisotropic correlation
• Xiao-Hong Zhu, University of Minnesota; Development of 2H MRS-based Metabolic Imaging for Quantitative Study of Glucose Metabolism and Metabolic Reprogramming in the Human Brain

Organic, Inorganic, and Hybrid Materials

• Eike Brunner, Dresden University; In Situ NMR Spectroscopy of Flexible Metal-Organic Frameworks
• Raphaële Clément, UC - Santa Barbara; Advancing Magnetic and Magnetic Resonance Tools to Monitor Battery Processes
• Kazuma Gotoh, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; The use of ex situ / operando solid-state NMR for the analysis of hard carbon for secondary batteries
• Clare Grey, University of Cambridge; NMR and DNP Studies of Interfaces in Lithium-Ion Battery Electrode Materials
• John Griffin, Lancaster University; Investigating Structure and Mechanisms in Microporous Energy Materials using Solid-State NMR
• Aaron Rossini, Iowa State University; Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Unreceptive Isotopes Enabled by Indirect Detection with Frequency Domain Sampling

Small Molecules

• Ralph Adams, University of Manchester; Ultra-selective 1D NMR Spectroscopy
• Valerie Copie, University of Montana; NMR Metabolomics Investigations of the Gut-Brain-Metabolism Axis Underlying the Developmental and Progressive Neurodegenerative Disease, Familial Dysautonomia
• Krzysztof Kazimierczuk, University of Warsaw; Signal acquisition and processing for NMR of small molecules and their mixtures - spectral pseudo-dimensions, Wasserstein metric, and more
• Han Sun, FMP Berlin; Structural determination of conformationally flexible natural products and peptides using anisotropic NMR spectroscopy and density functional theory
• Christina Thiele, TU Darmstadt; Modern NMR Applied to Enantioselective Catalysis: Insights into Interactions and Changes in Dynamics Obtained From STD, CEST and R1ρ
• Thomas Williamson, University of North Carolina Wilmington; i-HMBC Methodology: Applications and Enhancements

Theory, Computation, & Data Processing in NMR

• Andrew Baldwin, University of Oxford; TBA
• Robbie Iuliucci, Washington & Jefferson College; Advancing Chemical Shift Tensor Predictions in Organic Crystals with Modern Electronic Structure Calculations
• Gaetano Montelione, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Hidden Structural States of Proteins Revealed by Conformer Selection with AlphaFold-NMR
• Len Mueller, UC - Riverside; SHALL WE PLAY A GAME? Monte Carlo Statistical Analysis of Structure Selection and Refinement in NMR Crystallography
• Tamar Wolf, Weizmann Institute; Unleashing the Potential of Dipolar Order: Sensitivity Enhancement under Static and MAS Conditions