Friday, November 3

 

6:30 – 8:30 PM            Registration and Poster Setup

 

7:00 – 8:30 PM            Welcome Reception and Hors d’Oeuvres

                                    (Bivens Arm North and South)

                                                Sponsored by the Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Florida, and by Bruker Biospin                 

 

Saturday, November 4    

 

7:30 – 8:20 AM            Continental Breakfast (Bivens Arm Veranda)

 

 

Metalloenzymes and Organic/Inorganic Complexes

Chair: Joanna Long, University of Florida

 

8:20 – 8:30 AM            Welcome: Joanna Long and Gail Fanucci (Bivens Arm South)

 

 

8:30 – 9:00 AM            Brian Hoffman, Northwestern University

                                    EPR Study of the Low-Spin [d³; S =1/2], Jahn-Teller-Active, Dinitrogen Complex of a Nitrogen-Fixing Molybdenum Trisamidoamine

                                    Sponsored by the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

 

9:00 – 9:20 AM            Stephen Hill, University of Florida

                                    Single-Molecule Magnets and the Validity of the Giant Spin Approximation

9:20 – 9:40 AM            Hans J. Jakobsen, University of Aarhus

                                    Advancements in Natural Abundance Solid-State ¹⁴N and ³³S MAS NMR with Applications to Inorganic/Organic Materials

                                    Sponsored by ICAM

 

9:40 – 10:05 AM          Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware

                                    ⁵¹V Solid State NMR Spectroscopy of Vanadium Haloperoxidases and Bioinorganic Haloperoxidase Mimics

                                    Sponsored by UF Center for Structural Biology

 

10:05 – 10:20 AM        Jurek Krzystek, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    High-Frequency and -Field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of High-Spin Cobalt(II) and Nickel(II) Scorpionate Complexes

 

10:20 – 10:40 AM        BREAK

                                    Sponsored by Doty Scientific, Inc.

 

Technique Development and Instrumentation

Chair: Stephen Hill, University of Florida

 

10:40 – 11:05 AM        Candice S. Klug, Medical College of Wisconsin

                                    Applications of Multiquantum EPR Spectroscopy

                                    Sponsored by UF Center for Chemical Physics and UF Center for Condensed Matter

 

11:05 – 11:30 AM        Keith Earle, University of Albany

                                    Tools and Techniques for High Field EPR

                                                Sponsored by UF Center for Chemical Physics and UF Center for Condensed Matter

 

11:30 – 11:45 AM        Paul J. Kanyha, Tecmag, Inc.

                                    Single Board NMR Spectrometer

 

11:45 – 12:00 PM        F. David Doty, Doty Scientific, Inc.

                                    Improving S/N by 55% in a Triple-resonance Narrow-bore MAS Probe with Minimal RF Sample Heating

 

12:00 – 12:15 PM        Peter L. Gor’kov, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    Measurement of Power Deposition in Static Membrane Protein Samples with Low-E Probes

 

 

12:15 – 1:30 PM          LUNCH (Grand Ballroom A)

 

 

Student and Post-Doc Session

Chair: Arthur Edison, University of Florida

 

1:30 – 1:45 PM            Ellen W. Moomaw, University of Florida

                                    Multifrequency EPR Studies on the Mn Centers of Oxalate Decarboxylase

 

1:45 – 2:00 PM            Anup K. Upadhyay, Emory University

                                    Pulsed ELDOR (DEER) Approach to Understand the Aggregation States of Monoamine Oxidase (MAO) A and B in Detergent and Outer Mitochondrial Membrane

 

2:00 – 2:15 PM            Brian E. Coggins, Duke University

                                    Sampling of the NMR Time Domain Along Concentric Rings

                                   

2:15 – 2:30 PM            Saritha Nellutla, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    High Frequency - High Field EPR of Peroxychromates: A Possible New Bose-Einstein Condensation System

 

2:30 – 2:45 PM            Mikolai Fajer, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    Enhanced Sampling of Spin Label Molecular Dynamics Simulations

 

2:45 – 3:00 PM            Conggang Li, Florida State University

                                    M2-TMD conformation plasticity and Function

 

 

3:00 – 3:15 PM            BREAK

                                    Sponsored by Doty Scientific, Inc.

 

Membrane Proteins and Protein Membrane Interactions

Chair: Gail Fanucci, University of Florida

 

 

3:15 – 3:40 PM            Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, University of Michigan

                                    Is PISEMA the Best NMR Technique to Study Aligned Samples?

                                    Sponsored by UF Center for Structural Biology

 

3:40 – 4:05 PM            Daniel Huster, Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg

                                    Solid-State NMR Studies of the Structure and Dynamics of Membrane Bound Ras Proteins

                                    Sponsored by ICAM

 

4:05 – 4:30 PM            Myriam L. Cotten, Pacific Lutheran University

                                    A Solid-State NMR Study of Lipid-Bound Piscidin: Implications of Peptide Secondary Structure, Topology, and Fast Dynamics for Antimicrobial Function

                                    Sponsored by The McKnight Brain Institute

 

4:30 – 4:50 PM            David Cafiso, University of Virginia

                                    Protein-Membrane Electrostatic Interactions Determined by Site-Directed Spin Labeling and High-Resolution NMR

 

4:50 – 5:10 PM            Piotr Fajer, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    Mysteries of Force Generation in Muscle – pulsed EPR (DEER)

 

5:10 – 5:30 PM            Tatyana Konovalova, University of Alabama

                                    CW-Pulsed ENDOR, HYSCORE and HF-EPR Studies of Cyanobacterial Photosystem I Mutants with Altered P₇₀₀ Hydrogen-Bonding Patterns

 

 

 

5:30 – 7:00 PM            POSTER SESSION (Bivens Arm North)

                                    Sponsored by Varian

 

 

7:30 PM                       Dinner (Bivens Arm South)

 

 

 

Sunday, November 4

 

7:30 – 8:30 AM            Breakfast (Grand Ballroom A)

 

 

 

Soluble Complexes: Nucleic Acids and Proteins

Chair: Tim Logan, Florida State University

 

8:30 – 8:55 AM            Gabriele Varani, University of Washington

                                    NMR studies of RNA Dynamics in Protein-RNA Recognition

                                    Sponsored by the McKnight Brain Institute and UF Department of Chemistry

 

8:55 – 9:20 AM            Nancy Greenbaum, Florida State University

                                    Specific Recognition of the y-Dependent pre-mRNA Branch Site Helix by U2 snRNP Protein p14

 

9:20 – 9:40 AM            John Forder, University of Florida

                                    Malic Enzyme: A Significant Player in Cardiac Metabolism,

 

9:40 – 10:00 AM          Tatyana I. Smirnova, North Carolina State University

                                    Hydrogen Bond Formation by Nitroxide Spin-Labels in Solutions and Protein Cavity: HF CW EPR and ENDOR Experiments

 

10:00 – 10:20 AM        BREAK

                                    Sponsored by Doty Scientific, Inc.

 

New and Notable

Chair: Steve Blackband, University of Florida

 

 

10:20 – 10:40 AM        Clifford R. Bowers, University of Florida

                                    Single-file diffusion and gas exchange in a peptide nanotube system: a continuous-flow laser-polarized ¹²⁹Xe NMR study

 

10:40 – 11:00 AM        Maxim A. Voynov, North Carolina State University

                                    Spin-labeled pH-sensitive lipids: accessing electrostatics of phospholipid bilayer interface by spin-labeling EPR

 

11:00 – 11:20 AM        Johan van Tol, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    Prospects of High Field/Frequency Pulsed Electron Magnetic Resonance

 

11:20 – 11:40 AM        Nitin Jain, University of Tennessee

                                    Structural elucidation of Putidaredoxin – P450cam Complex utilizing NMR and neutron scattering data

 

11:40 – 12:00 PM        Victor D. Schepkin, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

                                    High Resolution Sodium and Proton MR Imaging: Rodent Cancer Chemotherapy

 

12:00 – 12:20 PM        Sergey Vasenkov, University of Florida

                                    Monitoring diffusion in complex systems on the nanoscale by pulsed field gradient NMR

 

12:20 – 1:00 PM          Box Lunch and Business Meeting (Bivens Arm North)