Final Program Schedule

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The poster session schedule is also available.

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2002

 4:00 - 8:00 PMConference/Symposium Registration
 6:00 - 8:00 PMMixer - Crystal Coast Ballroom

 

Friday, Oct. 25, Symposium in honor of E.O. Stejskal

(free for all registered conference attendees)

Empire Ballroom, Salons D & E

 8:00 AM - 4:00 PMConference/Symposium Registration
 8:00 - 8:40 AMContinental Imperial Breakfast
(free for all registered conference attendees)
Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
 8:45 AMIntroductory Remarks: Jeffrey White, North Carolina State University, Symposium Chairman
 8:45 - 9:45 AMPlenary Lecture - Jacob Schaefer, Washington University
Early CPMAS Experiments at Monsanto with Ed Stejskal
 9:45 - 10:30 AMGary Maciel, Colorado State University
Adventures with Spins on the Surface of Silica
 10:30 - 10:45 AMCoffee Break - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
 10:45 - 11:30 AMCharles Johnson, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
A Celebration of the Stejskal-Tanner Equation and Its Legacy
 11:30 - 12:15 PMDan Raftery, Purdue University
Sensitivity and Throughput Improvements in NMR Spectroscopy
 12:15 - 1:15 PMBuffet Lunch - free for all resitered and invited symposium and conference attendees - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
 1:15 - 2:15 PMPlenary Lecture - Alex Pines, University of California - Berkeley
NMR at Variable Distances and Angles
 2:15 - 3:00 PMEdward Samulski, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Biaxial Deformation of Polymer Networks and Deuteron Quadrupolar Interactions
 3:00 - 3:15 PMCoffee Break - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
 3:15 - 4:00 PMAlan English, DuPont Central Research & Development
Polytetrafluoroethylene: Synthesis, Structure, Dynamics, and Processing
 4:00 - 4:45 PMDave Cory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
NMR Perspectives on the Physics of Quantum Information Processing
 4:45 - 5:30 PMAlan Tonelli, North Carolina State University
NMR Studies of Polymers Included in and Coalesced from Their Inclusion Compounds Formed with Host Cyclodextrins
 7:00 - 9:00 PMReception and Banquet in Honor of E.O. Stejskal
separate registration and fee of $30 required - Crystal Coast Ballroom

 

Saturday, Oct. 26, SEMR Conference

Empire Ballroom, Salons D & E

 8:00 - 10:00 AMConference Registration
 8:00 - 8:30 AMContinental Imperial Breakfast, included with registration fee
Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
 8:30 - 8:40 AMOpening Remarks: Alex Smirnov and Tatyana Smirnova, North Carolina State University, SEMRC Co-Chairs
Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine
Chair: Kurt Warncke, Emory University
 8:40 - 9:30 AMPlenary Lecture: David D. Thomas, University of Minnesota
A Coordinated EPR and NMR Analysis of Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics
 9:20 - 9:40 AMThe Nuclease A Inhibitor Represents a New Variation of the Rare PR-1 Fold
Geoffrey A. Mueller, Thomas W. Kirby, Eugene F. DeRose, Mark S. Lebetkin, Gregor Meiss, Alfred Pingoud, and Robert E. London National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Institut für Biochemie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Heinrich-Buff-Ring Giessen, Germany
 9:40 - 10:00 AMPISA Wheel Helical Rotational Angle Analysis of M2 Proton Channel from Influenza A Virus
Changlin Tian, Jun Hu and Timothy A. Cross National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Florida State University
 10:00 - 10:20 AMCoffee Break - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine
Chair: John Cavanagh, North Carolina State University
 10:20 - 10:40 AMHigh Resolution Magnetic Relaxation Spectroscopy
Robert G. Bryant, Ching-Ling Teng, Kenneth G. Victor, Galina Diakova, Alexandra Van Quynh, Jean-Pierre Korb, Jack Freed, Alex Nevzorov, and Shawn Wagner
University of Virginia Charlottesville, Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée, Palaiseau, France, Cornell University
 10:40 - 11:00 AMStructure of the Intact Stem and Bulge of HIV-1 Ψ-RNA Stem Loop SL1
Dana C. Lawrence, Carrie C. Stover, Jennifer Noznitsky, Zhengrong Wu, and Michael F. Summers
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland, National Institutes of Health
 11:00 - 11:20 AMVariable Field EPR Studies of Radicals Formed During the Oxidation of Myoglobin by Hydrogen Peroxide
Tatyana. A. Konovalova, and L. D. Kispert, University of Alabama
 11:20 - 11:40 AMOrientation-Selection ESEEM Spectroscopy Reveals the Geometry of Reactant Centers in the CoII-Substrate and Product Radical Pair States of Coenzyme B12-Dependent Ethanolamine Deaminase
Kurt Warncke, and Jeffrey M. Canfield, Emory University
 11:40 - NoonStructural Basis for Topoisomerase I Inhibition by Nucleoside Analogs
William H. Gmeiner, Xi-an Mao, Shuyuan Yu, Richard T. Pon, Phillipe Pourquier, and Yves Pommier
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Core DNA Synthesis Facility, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie des Agents Anticancereux, Institut Bergonie, Bordeaux, France, National Institutes of Health
 Noon - 1:15 PMBuffet Lunch - included with registration fee - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine
Chair: William H. Gmeiner, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
 1:15 - 1:55 PMPlenary Lecture: Balaraman [Raman] Kalyanaraman, Medical College of Wisconsin
Bicarbonate-Dependent Peroxidase Activity of Human Cu, Zn SOD Causes Aggregation of Protein: Role of Tryptophan-Derived Radical Reaction
 1:55 - 2:15 PMMetals and Proteins: A Double Edged Sword
John Cavanagh, NC State University
 2:15 - 2:35 PMQ-band (34 GHz) EPR Characterization of the "g=4.1 Signal" from the S2 State of the Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolving Complex
Alice Haddy, K. V. Lakshmi, Gary W. Brudvig, and Harry A. Frank
University of North Carolina - Greensboro, Yale University, University of Connecticut
 2:35 - 2:55 PMEPR Spectroscopy Studies on the Structural Transition of Nitrosyl Hemoglobin in the Arterial-Venous Cycle of DEANO-Treated Rats
Adrian R. Jaszewski, Yang C. Fann, Yeong-Renn Chen, Keizo Sato, Jean Corbett, and Ronald P. Mason
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
 2:55 - 3:15 PMCoffee Break - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
Magnetic Resonance in Physics and Material Science
Chair: Haskell W. Beckham, Georgia Institute of Technology
 3:15 - 3:35 PMEnhanced Sensitivity Magnetic Resonance Techniques for Semiconductors: Optical Pumping, Dynamic Nuclear Polarization, and Electrical Detection
Clifford R. Bowers, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida
 3:35 - 3:55 PM9-287 GHz EPR Study of Fe-MCM-41 Molecular Sieves
Lowell D. Kispert, T. A. Konovalova, J. van Tol, and L. C. Brunel
University of Alabama, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University
 3:55 - 4:15 PMEvaluating Solid-State Structures for Quantum Computing: The Potential of High Frequency Electron Nuclear Double Resonance
Louis C. Brunel, and J. van Tol
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University
 4:15 - 4:35 PMNuclear Spin Relaxation in Alkali Halide Single Crystals During Deformation
K. Linga Murty, and O. Kanert
NC State University, National Science Foundation, Universitat Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
 4:35 - 4:55 PMStudies of Counterion Binding to Cationic Micelles and Solloids Using X- band and W-band EPR
Martin G. Bakker, Todd Morris, Edward L. Granger, and Alex I. Smirnov
The University of Alabama, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana, North Carolina State University
 6:00 - 7:30 PMBuffet Dinner - included with registration fee - Empire Ballroom, Salons A, B & C
 6:00 - 9:00 PMPoster Session - Empire Ballroom, Salons D & E

 

Sunday, Oct. 27, SEMR Conference

Empire Ballroom, Salons D & E

 8:00 - 8:30 AMBreakfast Snack - included with registration fee - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
Novel Methods and Applications in Magnetic Resonance
Chair: Robert G. Bryant, University of Virginia
 8:30 - 9:10 AMPlenary Lecture: R. David Britt, University of California - Davis
Pulsed EPR as a Probe of the Chemistry of Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution
 9:10 - 9:30 AMSorption Isotherm Measurements by NMR
Haskell W. Beckham, and Johannes Leisen
Georgia Institute of Technology
 9:10 - 9:30 AMProduction of >65% Nuclear Spin Polarized Xenon-129: Methods for Generation, Delivery, Collection, and Polarization Measurement in the Gaseous and Liquid States
Bhavin B. Adhyaru, Anthony L. Zook, and Clifford R. Bowers
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida
 9:50 - 10:10 AMCoffee Break - Empire Ballroom, Salons A & B
Novel Methods and Applications in Magnetic Resonance
Chair: Lowell D. Kispert, University of Alabama
 10:10 - 10:30 AMEffective Repeat Time Characterizes T1-weighting
W. Thomas Dixon, Daniel J. Blezek, Paritosh J. Dhawale, and Mukesh G. Harisinghani
General Electric Global Research, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital
 10:30 - 10:50 AMExcited Triplet States Studied by High-Frequency EPR: What Can We Learn?
Johan van Tol, M. Bortolus, and L.C. Brunel
Center for Interdisciplinary Magnetic Resonance, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University
 10:50 - 11:10 AM2D-FT-ESR in the mm-wave Age
Keith Earle, Wulf Hofbauer, Curt Dunnam, and Jack Freed
Cornell University
 11:10 - 11:30 AMProgress Toward Micron-Scale BOOMERANG NMR, and an Ideal Rodlike Liquid Crystal at High-Temperatures: Swimming Against the Mainstream
Louis A. Madsen, Garett M. Leskowitz, Daniel E. Miller, Kyung-Ah Son, Weilong Tang, Thomas George, Daniel P. Weitekamp, Theo J. Dingemans, and Edward T. Samulski
A. A. Noyes Laboratory of Chemical Physics Microdevices Laboratory at NASA-JPL, California Institute of Technology, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
 11:30 - 11:50 AMThe First Example of High-Frequency EPR Utilization in Identifying Ligand vs. Metal Oxidation in a Metal-Metal Bonded Complex: Cr2(DPPC)4PF6
Chris Ramsey, Naresh Dalal, F.Albert Cotton, and Penglin Huang
Florida State University, Texas A&M University
 11:50 AMBrief Business Meeting to Plan Next SEMRC

Conference Adjourn