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The 2023 CANMRDG meeting will be held on September 23rd, 2023
at AbbVie in North Chicago, IL
Hosts: Cassie Yang, Andrew Namanja, Ian Marsden


REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

PDF DIRECTIONS to the meeting at AbbVie:

https://tinyurl.com/canmrdg23directions

Program

Full PDF program with abstracts:
https://tinyurl.com/canmrdg23program
Keynote
José Napolitano, PhD
Senior Principal Scientist, Genentech
"NMR applications to advance small (and not so small) molecule pharmaceutical research"

TALKS
Small Molecules
  • Prof. Robert Powers (U. Nebraska - Lincoln): "NMR Metabolomics Best Practices: What We Are Doing, What We Should Be Doing, and Some Recent Advancements"

  • Dr. Thomas Frederick (AbbVie): "Fragment Based Drug Discovery Accelerated by Protein NMR Fingerprint Analysis"

  • Daniel Zagal (Univ. Illinois at Chicago), "Full Spin Analysis of Kratom Component Mitragynine and its Diastereomers"

Nucleic Acids
  • Momodou Camara (U. Nebraska - Lincoln): "Visualizing a two-state conformational ensemble in 7SK RNA central domain"

  • Riley Peterson (U. Wisconsin - Madison): "Solution structure of poly(UG) RNA"

  • Dr. Lakshmi Bhai NV (Columbia U.): "Hydrogen bonding in duplex DNA probed by DNP enhanced solid-state NMR N-H bond length measurements"

Solids
  • Ankur (Michigan State U.): "Solid-State NMR Analysis of Fungal Cell Walls from Cryptococcus neoformans Species"

  • Md Rokonujjaman (Michigan State U.): "NMR for the membrane location of SE of HIV gp41 proves the role of the hairpin in HIV fusion"

  • Dr. Yunhua Chen (AbbVie): "Exploring Surface Treatments of CsPbBr3 Perovskite Quantum Dots Using Solid-State NMR"

Frontiers
  • Prof. Leah Casabianca (Clemson U.): "NMR and Computational Studies of Toxic Small Molecules Interacting with Plastic Nanoparticles and DNA"

  • Dr. Collin Borcik (U. Wisconsin-Madison): "High Resolution Structure of PET Ligand Bound Alpha-Synuclein Fibrils"

POSTERS
  • Dr. Evgenii Kovrigin (Univ. Notre Dame): "Control of Bruker NMR Spectrometers from Python with KovriginNMR"

  • Prof. Charles Abrams (Truman College - one of the City Colleges of Chicago): "Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Insect with Contrast Agent: An Undergraduate Experiement"

  • Dr. Daniella Rebollar Ramos (Univ. Illinois at Chicago): "Quality Control of Natural Amino acids with Benchtop qH and 2D NMR"

  • Paul Kerber (Medical College of Wisconsin): "Fragment-based screening by protein-detected NMR spectroscopy"

  • Dr. Shuxi Jing (Univ. Illinois at Chicago), "Quantitative Analysis of Selective Proanthocyanidin Enrichment by qNMR"

  • Dr. Songlin Wang (NMRFAM), "National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison (NMRFAM User Program)"

  • Kalpana Singh (Michigan State Univ.), "Molecular Level Understanding of Candida Cell Walls Using SS-NMR"

  • Isha Gautam (Michigan State Univ.), "Solid State NMR Comparison of Cell Wall Polysaccharides in A. fumigatus and A. nidulans."

  • Aysegul Caskurlu (Univ. Illinois at Chicago), "Distinguishing Near-identical Diastereomers with Digital NMR Reference Materials"

  • Dr. Jayasubba Reddy Yarava (Michigan State Univ.), "Unveiling Fungal Cell Wall Complexity with Proton Detection Fast MAS NMR"

  • Anand Jacob (Michigan State Univ.), "Structural Adaptation of Fungal Cell Wall in Hypersaline Environment"

  • Debkumar Debnath (Michigan State Univ.), "A Study of Fundamental Reaction of Lignin with Formaldehyde by Solid-State NMR"

  • Ashley Hiett (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "Small multidrug transporter EmrE unaffected by lipid composition when bound to substrate"

  • Prof. Mark Maciejewski (UConn Health), "NAN & NMRbox: resources for NMR data collection, management, processing, and analysis"

  • Dr. Mikhail Gerasimov (Sanofi), "Poloxamer NMR Method Development for Covid-19 Vaccine"

  • Benjamin Harding (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "Objective Approaches to Acquire and Assess Multidimensional NMR Spectra of Biological Solids"

  • Moses Milchberg (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "Solid-state NMR structure of the A30P hereditary mutant alpha-synuclein fibril"

  • Owen Warmuth (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "SSNMR Fibril Structure Determination Using PASD and Strict Symmetry"

  • Juliet Cheng (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "Substrate-dependent transport behavior of a Small Multidrug Resistance transporter from P. aeruginosa"

  • Dr. Christopher Ptak (Univ. Iowa), "Structural analysis of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa second messenger binding protein"

  • Martin Olson (NMRFAM - Madison), "Customizable In-house 3D-printed Tool Kit for SSNMR"

  • Dr. Collin Borcik (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "High Resolution Structure of PET Ligand Bound Alpha-Synuclein Fibrils"

  • Eric Han (Univ. Wisconsin-Madison), "Solid-State NMR 13C Sensitivity at High Magnetic Field"

  • Dr. Christina Szabo (Baxter International), "Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy of an Aqueous Polysaccharide Product in Manufacturing"

Sponsors

Accommodations

Attendees staying overnight should find this list useful. CANMRDG has not negotiated group rates or blocked out rooms, and neither we nor AbbVie has a special relationship with these hotels.

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