Keynote Speakers

Qi Zhang,

Prof. of Biochemistry & Biophysics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"RNA in Action: Bring RNA Structure to Life"

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Luke Arbogast,

Director, Research and Development
Eli Lilly

“Precessing in the Field: A Midcareer Perspective on NMR Pursuits in Academia, Government, and Industry”

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Oral Presentations

Solid State NMR

• David Weliky (Michigan State University): Quantitative determination of broad structural distributions by solids NMR

• Jayasubba Reddy Yarava (Michigan State University): Unveiling Fungal Cell Wall Complexity with Proton Detection Fast MAS NMR

• Lokeswara Rao Potnuru (Northwestern University): Higher-order arrangements of phosphoryl group wires stabilize pathological tau fibrils as revealed by multiple quantum solid-state NMR under DNP conditions

Pushing the Frontiers of NMR

• Shiny Maity (Northwestern University): Exploring Water-Mediated Activation of AsLOV2 Through NMR and EPR Studies

• Benjamin Harding (UW-Madison): Scoring protein structures using top-down NMR

Biomolecular NMR

• Sarah Keane (University of Michigan): Structural and molecular investigation of precursor miRNAs

• Yi Zhang (University of Illinois at Chicago): Splice modulation of Risdiplam with different RNA Duplex by STD NMR

• Chung-Ta Han (Northwestern University): Identify the initial pinning sites of tau to seeding-competent fibrils and the role of structural water

Industrial Applications and Career Perspectives in NMR

• Christina Szabo (Baxter International): Benchtop NMR of a Polysaccharide Product

• Scott Schmick (3M): Importance of NMR from laboratory to production in a materials science and manufacturing company

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POSTERS

• Erik Andersson (University of Illinois at Chicago): Investigating host-microbe metabolism in temperate coral with 1H NMR metabolomics

• Ankur Ankur (Michigan State University): Unraveling the Cryptococcus neoformans Cell Wall through Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

• Grace Arhin (University of Michigan): Integrative screening approaches for the identification and characterization of small molecule ligands targeting pre-miR-31

• Scott Carnahan (Saint Mary's University of Minnesota): Creation of Stable Radicals by Gamma-Irradiation or Mechanochemistry for DNP Solid-State NMR Experiments

• Noel Chau (Michigan State University): Investigating Spike S2 Subunit Hairpin Proteins of the SARS2 Virus

• Debkumar Debnath (Michigan State University): Structural Elucidation of Rose Cell Wall in Absence of Boron by Solid-State NMR

• Mustapha El Hariri El Nokab (Michigan State University): Advanced structural characterization of oil shale sediment rock using solid state NMR spectroscopy

• Isha Gautam (Michigan State University): Echinocandin-Induced Structural Adaptations in Aspergillus Cell Walls via SSNMR

• Charles Hoogstraten (Michigan State University): Reference Protonated 13C and Nonexchangeable 1H Chemical Shift Values in Purine Residues of Unfolded RNA

• Anand Jacob (Michigan State University): Ags1 transglycosylation domain is functionally redundant with Aah1 and Aah3 enzymes critical for cell wall formation and function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

• Aswath Karai (Michigan State University): Solid-State NMR Analysis of Cell Wall Adaptations in Aspergillus Atacamensis Under Stress

• Tahmina Khatun (Michigan State University) Expression, purification, characterization, and fusion study of HA2 with A Polar Octapeptide Fused to the N-Terminal Fusion Peptide

• Yaping Liu (University of Michigan): Structural elucidation of oncomiR-1 RNA

• Alexander Paterson (UW-Madison NMRFAM): The Network for Advanced NMR at UW-Madison: 1.1 GHz Solid-State NMR and Knowledgebases

• Priya Sahu (Michigan State University): Understanding lignin biosynthesis using solid state NMR

• Jingon Shim (Northwestern University): Allosteric Modulation of Neurotensin Receptor Conformational States:  Dynamic Changes Induced by Gαiq and β-Arrestin-1

• Kalpana Singh (Michigan State University): Structural Analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus ∆sglA Conidial Cell Wall for the Development of Antifungal Vaccine Using Solid-State NMR

• Boden Vanderloop (University of Wisconsin - Madison): A robust method for the generation of the 13C-labelled fungicidal Glycosylated Polyene Macrolides, Nystatin and Natamycin.

• Cameron Vojvodin (Michigan State University): Mechanochemical Methods for 17O-Enrichment of Organic Solids and Biopolymers:  A 17O Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Study

• Jiaojiao Wang (Michigan State University): Innovative Approaches to Catalyst Behavior in Asymmetric Halofunctionalizations: Employing 19F NMR with Trifluoromethyl-Substituted (DHQD)2PHAL

• Megan Westwood (University of Michigan): Investigating structural features of pre-miR-122 that affect Dicer processing

• Peng Xiao (Michigan State University): Molecular View of Lignification and Lignin-Carbohydrate Interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana by Solid-State NMR

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