2024 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert G. Griffin (MIT), Günther Laukien Prize Introduction
• Hashim M. Al Hashimi (Columbia University), Günther Laukien Prize Lecture

TUTORIALS

• Juan Eugenio Iglesias (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School), Machine Learning for Magnetic Resonance: From Bayesian Methods to Modern Neural Networks for Large-Scale Analysis of MRI Data
• D. Flemming Hansen (Francis Crick Institute and University College London), Transforming and Analyzing Complex NMR Spectra with Deep Neural Networks

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

Warren S. Warren (Duke University), Beyond Boltzmann and Bloch: Understanding Hyperpolarization, Hamiltonian manipulation, and Nonlinear NMR

• Lecture 1: Essentials of Hyperpolarization
• Lecture 2: Altering Reality for Nuclear Spins
• Lecture 3: Effects of Large Magnetization
• Lecture 4: Understanding Hyperpolarization Applications

2023 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert G. Griffin (MIT), Günther Laukien Prize Introduction
• Anne Lesage (High Field NMR Center of Lyon), The Structure of Surfaces from DNP Enhanced Solid-State NMR: the Old and the New History
• Lyndon Emsley (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne), DNP Enhanced NMR Crystallography

TUTORIALS

• Boyd Goodson (Southern Illinois University), Hyperpolarization: An Overview of Principles, Methods, and Applications
• Mark Conradi (ABQMR, Inc.), Low-Field NMR and MRI- Opportunities

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

Lecture series based James Keeler's book, Understanding NMR Spectroscopy, second edition, Wiley, 2010

• James Keeler (University of Cambridge), Lecture 1: Introduction
• James Keeler (University of Cambridge), Lecture 2: Equilibrium
• James Keeler (University of Cambridge), Lecture 3: Relaxation
• James Keeler (University of Cambridge), Lecture 4: Coherence Selection

2022 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert G. Griffin (MIT), Günther Laukien Prize Introduction
• Michael G. Garwood (CMRR, University of Minnesota), Ever-Expanding Impact of Frequency-Swept Pulses on NMR and MRI

TUTORIALS

• Isabella C. Felli (CERM, University of Florence), Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by NMR Spectroscopy
• Danielle Laurencin (CNRS, Institut Charles Gerhardt de Montpellier), Oxygen-17 NMR Spectroscopy: Examples of Strategies for Reaching Higher Sensitivity
• Jason P. Stockmann (Harvard Medical School), A Practical Guide to NMR/MRI RF Receive Array Coil Building

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

• Ilya Kuprov (University of Southampton), Simulation Tutorial 1: Density Operator Formalism
• Ilya Kuprov (University of Southampton), Simulation Tutorial 2: Liquid State Relaxation Theory
• Ilya Kuprov (University of Southampton), Simulation Tutorial 3: Magnetic Resonance of Static Solids
• Ilya Kuprov (University of Southampton), Simulation Tutorial 4: Coherent Spatial Dynamics
• Ilya Kuprov (University of Southampton), Simulation Tutorial 5: Distributed Magnetic Resonance

2021 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert G. Griffin (MIT), Günther Laukien Prize Introduction
• Gareth A. Morris (University of Manchester), Selective Excitation in Fourier Transform NMR

2020 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert G. Griffin (MIT), Günther Laukien Prize Introduction
• Simon Duckett (University of York), Signal Amplification by Reversible Exchange
• Konstantin Ivanov (International Tomography Center, Novosibirsk State University), SABRE: Spin Dynamics of the Formation of Hyperpolarization
• Warren S. Warren (Duke University), Adventures in Extended SABRE (X-SABRE)

TUTORIALS

• Robert J. Bryant (University of Virginia), Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion
• Robert Schurko (Florida State University), Ultra-Wideline Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy: Exploring the Periodic Table
• Giacomo Parigi (University of Florence), NMR Molecules and Biomolecules in the Presence of Paramagnetic Metals

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

• Peter J. Basser (NIH), Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI): Looking Backward, Looking Forward
• Paul Coote (Harvard), Optimal Control Theory in NMR

2019 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert Guy Griffin (MIT):  Laukien Introduction
• Geoffrey Bodenhausen (Ecole Normale Superieure): Two Recent Puzzles: CD3 and H2O
• Christian Griesinger (Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry): pending

TUTORIALS

• Ralph Hurd (Stanford University), In vivo MR - Spectroscopic Content:  How to Validate and Test Repeatability of Short TE Proton MR Spectroscopy
• Tatyana Polenova (University of Delaware), Biomolecular Solid-State NMR
• Peter van Zijl (Kennedy Krieger Institute, JHMI), CEST

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

• Burkhard Luy (Technical University of Munich), Residual Dipole Couplings and Small Molecules
• Leonard Mueller (UC Riverside), Tensors
• M. Albert Thomas (UCLA), Clinical NMR Spectroscopy (Basics & Selected Applications)

2018 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Gerhard Wagner (Harvard University), Impact of NMR in Mechanistic Biology

TUTORIALS

• Gregory Beran (university of California, Riverside) Ab initio Chemical Shift Prediction: Getting the Right Results for the Right Reason
• David Rovnyak (Bucknell University) and Frank Delaglio (NIST) Non-Uniform Sampling for Multidimensiional NMR: A Tutorial

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

• Arthur G. Palmer, III (Columbia University), Relaxation Dispersion: Theory & Experiment
• Daniel Vigneron (University of Cailironia, San Francisco), MRI Principles: How Experimental NMR Has Revolutionized Medical Care
• Jeffrey Reimer (University of Cailironia, Berkeley), Hyperpolization in Materials - A Primer

2017 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Introduction to Laukien Prize and Recipients, Robert Griffin (MIT)
• Kurt Zilm (Yale University) Indirect Detection in Solid State NMR: From Hahn to High Resolution MAS NMR of Proteins
• Bernd Reif (Technische Universitat München) Laukien Lecture

TUTORIALS

• Robert Powers (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) Metabolomics: Simple in Principle, But Complex in Practice
• Matthew Merritt (University of Florida) Recent Fruit from the "Evergreen": Real-Time Metabolism by Magnetic Resonance
• Mark Conradi (Washington University at St. Louis) NMR Sensitivity: the Reciprocity Theorem from a Power Viewpoi

HIGHLIGHTS FOR STUDENTS

• Michael Garwood (University of Minnesota) MRI for Real World Environments and Populations
• Warren S. Warren (Duke University) What is quantum about NMR? Basics of Spin Complexity, Coherences/Correlations/Entanglement, and Relaxation
• Peder E.Z. Larson (University of California, San Francisco) Principles of (N)MR Imaging
• Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute) A Primer on Solution State Multidimensional NMR
• Christopher P. Jaroniec (The Ohio State University) Basics of Biomolecular Solid-State NMR

2016 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Robert Balaban (National Heart Lung Blood Institute) Chemical Exchange Dependent Saturation Transfer (CEST)

TUTORIALS

• Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute) Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Solid- and Solution-State NMR and MRI
• Philip Grandinetti (The Ohio State University) p pathway selection (webcast) | View/Download slides for this talk (21mb)
• Gerhard Roth (Bruker Biospin) Insights into Superconducting Ultra High Field Magnet Technology

BACK TO PITTSBURGH: 40 YEARS LATER

• Introduction - Josef Dadok and Chad Rienstra
• R. Andrew Byrd (National Cancer Institute) It's Always Been about Sensitivity... and a Sense of Community: An ENC Perspective
• Jim Emsley (University of Southampton) NMR of Liquid Crystals since 1976
• Jacob Schaefer (Washington University, St. Louis) Cross-Polarization Magic-Angle Spinning (CPMAS) NMR etc.

2015 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Arthur G. Palmer III (Columbia University) Conformational Dynamics Using NMR Spectroscopy and MD Simulations

TUTORIALS

• Martin Blackledge (IBS Grenoble) Using Solid State NMR to Understand the Conformational Behavior of Instrinsically Disordered Proteins
• Leonard Mueller (University of California, Riverside) You Spin Me Right Round: Tensors and Rotations in NMR
• Steffen Glaser (Technical University Munich) Robust Control of Spin Dynamics: From Individually Optimized Pulses to Cooperative Pulses

2014 Lectures

GÜNTHER LAUKIEN PRIZE - The Günther Laukien Prize is sponsored by Bruker.

• Hartmut Oschkinat (Leibniz-Institut, Berlin) Towards a Comprehensive Methodology for Structure Determination of Biological Systems by Magic-Angle-Spinning NMR
• Ann McDermott (Columbia University) Probing Protein Binding Surfaces by Solid State NMR
• Beat Meier (ETH Zurich) Atomic-Resolution Structures by Solid-State NMR
• Mei Hong (MIT) Elucidating the Structural and Dynamical Basis of Membrane Protein Functions Using Solid-State NMR 
• Marcus Baldus (University of Utrecht) Bio-Solid-State NMR in a Non-Crystalline Environment
• Robert Tycko (NIH) Exploring the Potential of Biomolecular Solid State NMR

TUTORIALS

• Terry Gullion (West Virginia University) Basic Useful Circuits for NMR Spectroscopy
• James H. Keeler (University of Cambridge) The Basic Building Blocks of NMR Pulse Sequences
• Bertil Halle (Lund University) Water Relaxation Mechanisms (slides only, no audio)

2013 and Earlier Tutorials

2013 TUTORIALS 

• Arthur G. Palmer III (Columbia University), Principles of Nuclear Spin Relaxation
• Charles S. Springer (Oregon Health & Science Univ), The Taui of Life: 1H2O Relaxation in vivo

2012 TUTORIALS

• Jeffrey C. Hoch (University of Connecticut Health Center) ABC's of NUS
• Kurt Zilm (Yale University) Design, Care and Feeding of NMR Probes, Part I
• Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute) Ultrafast Multidimensional NMR – A Coherent Picture?

2011 TUTORIAL

• Kurt Zilm (Yale University) Design, Care and Feeding of NMR Probes: A Tutorial

2010 TUTORIALS

• Thomas M. Barbara (Oregon Health and Science University) Magnetic Susceptibility in High Resolution NMR and MRI
• Stanley Opella (University of California, San Diego) NMR Studies Of Membrane Proteins Call for a Comprehensive Approach

2009 TUTORIALS - Presentations available as PDF files

• Patrick Loria (Yale University) Protein Motions Studied by CPMG Relaxation Dispersion Experiments
• Shimon Vega (Weizmann Institute) Tutorial on the Basics of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

2008 TUTORIALS - Presentations available as PDF files

• Claudio Luchinat (CERM, University of Florence) Paramagnetic NMR: A Versatile Tool in Structural Biology
• Matthias Ernst (ETH Zurich) Heteronuclear Spin Decoupling in Magic-Angle-Spinning Solid-State NMR

2007 TUTORIALS - Presentations available as PDF files

• A. Dean Sherry (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) CEST and PARACEST Theory and Practice
• Chris J. Pickard (University of St. Andrews) GIPAW: A First Principles Theory of Solid State NMR
• Philip J. Grandinetti (Ohio State University) High Resolution Solid-State NMR of Quadrupolar Nuclei

2006 TUTORIALS - Presentations available as PDF files

• Lyndon Emsley (ENS Lyon) Numerical Methods for Pulse Sequence Optimization
• Erik Zuiderweg (University of Michigan) Solution NMR and Biophysical Chemistry
• Peter van Zijl (Johns Hopkins University Medical School) Probing Semi-Solid and Cytoplasmatic Macromolecules in Tissue via their Magnetization Exchange with Water