The 2023 Alpine Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Solids
Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France 10-14 September 2023
Scientific Committee
David Bryce (University of Ottawa)
Sabine Hediger (CNRS, CEA Grenoble)
Matthias Ernst (ETH Zürich)
Sunday 10th September 2023
9:00-12:30 Tutorial sessions on inorganic and organic topics
Monday 11th September 2023
08:30-10:25 Session 1 (chair: David Bryce)
Markus Weingarth: The mechanisms of lipid-targeting antibiotics
Nicole L. Kelly: CLASSIC NMR spectroscopy to investigate the ADOR process
Ayan Maity: Extending polarization across interfaces: A molecular ruler for endogenous DNP
Michael A. Hope: Optically enhanced solid-state 1H NMR spectroscopy
10:55-12:30 Session 2 (chair: Rachel Martin)
Kazuyuki Takeda: 14N NMR of magnetically oriented microcrystals
Amir Goldbourt: Atomic-resolution magic-angle spinning NMR
structure of the protein encoded by gene V of fd phage in complex with its full-length viral ssDNA
Gillian R. Goward: Quantification of lithium plating and ion dynamics in lithium ion cells revealed by magnetic resonance
spectroscopy
14:30-18:00 pm Round Tables
Tuesday 12th September 2023
08:30-10:00 Session 3 – Prize Session (chair: Matthias Ernst)
Vold Prize Lecture
Rob Schurko: The multifarious roles of protons in ultra-wideline NMR spectroscopy
Caldarelli Prize Lecture
Frederic A Perras: From DNP fundamentals to plastic upcycling and everywhere in between
10:30-12:40 Session 4 (chair: Pierre Florian)
Dominik Kubicki: Local structure and dynamics in emerging tellurium-based optoelectronic materials from high-temperature 125Te MAS NMR at 20 T
Lucia Corti: Diffusion pathways in oxide ion conductors from 17O and 71Ga variable temperature MAS NMR
Enrica Bordignon: Dynamics of the prepore-to-pore transition of a Tc toxin
18:00-19:30 Perspectives Session (chair: Aaron Rossini)
Higher NMR fields for solids: utopia or dystopia?
Panelists: Lynette Cegelski (Stanford University), Anne Lesage (CRMN Lyon), Arno Kentgens (Radboud University), Rob Schurko (Florida State University, MagLab)
Wednesday 13th September 2023
08:30-10:25 Session 5 (chair: Alexander Barnes)
Yoh Matsuki: Methods and instruments for high-field MAS DNP toward intracellular structural biology
Lama Hamdouna: Unveiling the mechanisms of mechanochemical processes using multinuclear high-field NMR spectroscopy
Nino Wili: Reverse dynamic nuclear polarisation for indirect detection of nuclear spins close to unpaired electrons
Józef R. Lewandowski: Structure of the complex between antibiotic teixobactin and lipid II
10:55-12:30 Session 6 (chair: Anja Böckmann)
Thierry Azaïs: Structural description of CaCO3 prenucleation clusters through 13C MAS-DNP NMR
Murari Soundararajan: Using endohedral 3He to probe superconductivity in the fulleride Rb3C60
Galia Debelouchina: Solid-state NMR spectroscopy of complex biological systems: from gels to cells
14:30-18:00 Round Tables
Thursday 14th September 2023
08:30-10:25 Session 7 (chair: Karen Johnston)
Mattias Edén: Utilizing dipolar-based NMR experiments for probing disordered structures across a sub-nanometer scale
Andreas Meyer: High-resolution 19F Electron Nuclear Double Resonance for structural biology
Evgeny Nimerovsky: New Dipolar Recoupling Methods
Lea Becker: What aromatic residues can tell us about protein dynamics when combining specific labeling and MAS NMR
10:55-12:30 Session 8 (chair: Sabine Hediger)
Thomas Biedenbänder: Serial polarization transfer by combination of cross-relaxation and rotational resonance under dynamic nuclear polarization
Christian Bonhomme: 35.2 T: The key to high-resolution 17O solid state NMR
Melinda J. Duer: NMR insights into the molecular structures of tissues in health and disease