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Roderick
Wasylishen (Department of Chemistry) 
Solid-State
NMR Group (R. Wasylishen)
NMR
Facility
(Department of Chemistry)
Brian
Sykes (Department of Biochemistry)
Leo
Spyracopoulos (Department of Biochemistry)
David
Wishart (Computing and Biological Sciences)
HMDB
Human Metabolome Database
YMDB
the Yeast Metabolome Database
Peter
S. Allen MR Research Centre
Our keynote lecturer this year is Prof. Chad Reinstra (UIUC) on BioSolids NMR. We will have Dr. Frank Delaglio (NIDDK, NIH) for the NMRPipe Suite; Dr. Nico Tjandra (LBPC, NIH) with Dynamics and Relaxation; Dr. Bruce Johnson (UMBC) on NMRView; Dr. Charles Schwieters (ISL, NIH) demonstrating Xplor-NIH, and one day on pulse sequence programming (Agilent/Bruker).
More
information will be available soon at http://www.nanuc.ca/resources/workshops.php
Please mark your calendars,
Tim
--
Timothy Burrow, Ph.D. MBA
Manager, NMR
University of Toronto 416-978-5728
NMR
News!
http://nmrweb.chem.utoronto.ca:8084/users/timburrow/
NMR Web pages:
http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/facilities/nmr/nmr.html
this is a reminder that the CSC 2012 abstract submission deadline is February 15.
On behalf of the organizing committee for the 95th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, it is my pleasure to invite you to take part in the "Solid-State NMR" symposium sponsored by the Physical, Theoretical and Computational Division of the Chemical Society of Canada. CSC 2012 will be held in Calgary, May 26-30, 2012. Three half-day sessions will be devoted to the Solid-State NMR symposium tentatively beginning Sunday afternoon, May 27th.
The confirmed invited speakers are Michèle Auger (Laval), Jochen Autscbach (SUNY - Buffalo), Alex Bain (McMaster), Darren Brouwer (Redeemer), David Bryce (Ottawa), Gillian Goward (McMaster), Yining Huang (Western), Scott Kroeker (Manitoba), Andrew MacFarlane (UBC), Karl T. Mueller (PNNL - Richland), Luke O'Dell (NRC Canada), Rob Schurko (Windsor), Victor Terskikh (NRC Canada), Gang Wu (Queen's).
In addition, the conference will feature the usual poster session. Finally, on Saturday, May 26th the National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids and Bruker Canada will be hosting the 7th Annual Solid-State NMR Workshop. I certainly hope that you and your colleagues can attend the workshop.
Please visit the conference web site http://www.csc2012.ca for a full list of symposia and for abstract submission instructions. All abstracts must be submitted on-line by Wednesday, February 15. The Web site also provides information on the many attractions in the Calgary area.
I am looking forward to seeing you in Calgary at the end of May. Very best wishes.
Yours sincerely,
Rod
--
Dr. Roderick E. Wasylishen
Canada Research Chair in Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
Gunning/Lemieux Chemistry Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2G2
Tel:
1-780-492-4336
Lab: 1-780-492-5732
Web: http://ramsey.chem.ualberta.ca
The conference plenary lecturer is Prof. Paul Alivisatos, Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley. You can view the wide range of symposia representing the "Energizing Chemistry" theme on the CSC2012 website at http://www.csc2012.ca
[VT:
for NMR folks, Division of Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry,
"Solid-State NMR" Symposium, Organizer: R. Wasylishen,
University of Alberta]
We
encourage you to forward this notice to your network of colleagues nationally
and internationally, to submit your abstracts and to join us in Calgary
next May.
Warren Piers, Conference Chair Treasurer
Thomas Baumgartner, Scientific Program Chair
Brian Sykes, a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, has won the 2010 University of Alberta Cup. The University Cup is among the highest honors that the University of Alberta confers on its faculty members. It is awarded in recognition of faculty members who have clearly excelled in both teaching and research. Prof. Sykes was presented with the University Cup at the 2011 Celebrate! ceremony, the university’s annual celebration of teaching, learning and research, held on September 16, 2011 (read the news story).
University
of Alberta
(Oct 7/11) University of Alberta, Department of Biochemistry
Dr. Leo Spyracopoulos invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in structural biology of the ubiquitination cycle, with a focus on protein NMR spectroscopy. This is a one-year position, with the possibility of extension. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
The Department of Biochemistry offers an intensive, collaborative environment for research in structural biology, housing state-of-the-art research facilities, which include high field 600 and 800 MHz NMR spectrometers.
The successful applicant will be employed primarily to study the structure, dynamics, interactions, and kinetics of proteins and enzymes of the ubiquitination cycle, with an emphasis on determining the molecular basis underlying the recognition of polyubiquitin chains as well as the enzymatic catalysis of ubiquitin chain elongation. Experience with general biochemistry, protein expression and purification, protein NMR spectroscopy, protein structure determination, molecular dynamics simulations, enzyme kinetics, and familiarity with computer programming and software (UNIX, Linux, Mathematica) is an asset. Responsibilities of the postdoctoral fellow include coordinating and completing research projects, training and mentoring graduate students, participating in research discussions, and working closely and cooperatively with other members of the Department involved in structural biology. The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to participate fully in research, publication, and dissemination activities.
Qualified candidates will have a recent Ph.D. in protein NMR spectroscopy or a closely related field. Applications will be accepted from candidates who will complete their doctoral degree within one year. Information about this position can be obtained by contacting Dr. Leo Spyracopoulos (leo.spyracopoulos "at" ualberta.ca).
Applicants should send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and an example of published research to Dr. Leo Spyracopoulos by e-mail, or by regular mail:
Dr.
Leo Spyracopoulos
Department of Biochemistry
Room 416, Medical Sciences Bldg.,
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H7
Canada
The University of Alberta welcomes diversity and encourages applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons.
Additional
Information:
Department of Biochemistry: http://www.biochem.ualberta.ca
Postdoctoral Fellows Office: http://www.postdoc.ualberta.ca
the Spyracopoulos lab: http://www.bionmr.ualberta.ca/~lspy/index.html
University
of Alberta
(Sept 15/11)  |
Canadian
Journal of Chemistry, Volume 89, Number 9 (2011) (part 2 of
2) David Bryce, Gang Wu, Yining Huang, "Tribute: Professor Roderick E. Wasylishen," Canadian Journal of Chemistry 89 (2011) xi-xvi. (Special Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/v11-067 |
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Special issue of Journal of Biomolecular NMR guest edited by Brian D. Sykes (University of Alberta), volume 49, numbers 3-4, April 2011. B.D.
Sykes, Journal of Biomolecular
NMR 49 (2011) 163-164.
(Editorial) http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10858-011-9479-3 |
G.E. Duggan, B.J. Miller, F.R. Jirik, H.J. Vogel, "Metabolic profiling of vitamin C deficiency in Gulo-/- mice using proton NMR spectroscopy," Journal of Biomolecular NMR 49 (2011) 165-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10858-011-9485-5
P. Mercier, M.J. Lewis, D. Chang, D. Baker, D.S. Wishart, "Towards automatic metabolomic profiling of high-resolution one-dimensional proton NMR spectra," Journal of Biomolecular NMR 49 (2011) 307-323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10858-011-9480-x
From
NMR of Liquids and Gases to Solids - reflections of an ardent
fan
Roderick E. Wasylishen
Gunning-Lemieux Chemistry Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton,
Alberta, T6G 2G2
Nuclear
magnetic resonance spectroscopy is arguably the most powerful
and diverse research tool available to scientists. NMR may
be used to investigate atoms or molecules in the gaseous,
liquid or solid state and has many useful applications. For
example, the NMR technique can be used to map water density
in the human body (MRI) or in fuel cells, measure hemodynamic
response related to neural activity in the human brain (functional
MRI), probe the three-dimensional structure of biological
macromolecules in solids and liquids, assist synthetic chemists
during the preparation of complex organometallic catalysts,
provide information about the structure of solid materials
that are not amenable to X-ray diffraction, and characterize
hydrocarbon reservoirs in situ (NMR well logging). I first
became fascinated by NMR spectroscopy because of the tight
link between spectroscopy and quantum theory; one could analyze
complex high-resolution NMR spectra using relatively simple
quantum mechanical procedures. In this presentation I will
review some of the progress in the field of NMR and focus
on recent efforts to investigate little-studied and considered
difficult quadrupolar nuclei such as 69/71Ga, 75As, 87Sr,
113/115In, and 121/123Sb via solid-state NMR. While NMR studies
of such isotopes remain challenging, the use of moderate to
high magnetic field strengths together with various signal
enhancement techniques makes these studies feasible and is
leading to interesting applications in inorganic and organometallic
chemistry. I will provide a brief tour of the NMR periodic
table as it pertains to non-integer spin quadrupolar nuclei,
focusing on the importance of using high magnetic field strengths.
Physical
Chemisty Chemical Physics has announced that the Canadian
Society for Chemistry (CSC) is now one of its co-owner societies.
To celebrate this new partnership, PCCP has created
a collection of 25
top cited articles from authors based in Canada to showcase
some of the great Canadian research published in PCCP. Five
articles on this list are from Canadian solid-state NMR research
groups, including four papers enabled by the National Ultrahigh-Field
NMR Facility for Solids.
 C.M.
Widdifield and D.L. Bryce, "Crystallographic
Structure Refinement with Quadrupolar Nuclei: a Combined
Solid-State NMR and GIPAW DFT Example Using MgBr2,"
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009)
7120-7122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b911448n |
| D.H.
Brouwer, S. Alavi and J.A. Ripmeester, "NMR Crystallography
of p-tert-Butylcalix[4]arene Host-Guest Complexes Using
1H Complexation-Induced Chemical Shifts," Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics 10 (2008) 3857-3860.
(Cover Article) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b805326j |
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L.A.
O'Dell and R.W. Schurko, "Static solid-state
14N NMR and computational studies of nitrogen EFG tensors
in some crystalline amino acids," Physical Chemistry
Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 7069-7077. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906114b |
| S.
Cadars, D.H. Brouwer and B.F. Chmelka, "Probing
local structures of siliceous zeolite frameworks by solid-state
NMR and first-principles calculations of 29Si–O–29Si
scalar couplings," Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics
11 (2009) 1825-1837. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b815361b |
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University
of Alberta, Edmonton (March
25/11) The Department of Biochemistry in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry invites applications for tenure-track or tenured positions in Functional Proteomics, Metabolomics and the Structural Biology of Proteins involved in human diseases.
The successful candidates will be expected to conduct research, teach undergraduate and graduate students, supervise graduate students and post-doctoral fellows and seek external funding. Priority will be given to researchers using proteomics, metabolomics and/or structural biological approaches to address fundamental biological questions. Major areas of strength of the Department and Faculty are in cardiovascular research, diabetes, cancer, cellular and molecular biology, cell signaling, structural biology of proteins and enzymes, lipid biochemistry and membrane biology (see also http://www.biochem.ualberta.ca). New laboratory space will be available within the Katz Research Innovation Facility of the University of Alberta. Significant infrastructure for mass spectrometry, NMR (http://www.nanuc.ca) and X-ray crystallography is already available, and funds from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry and Province of Alberta have been secured to expand and update existing instrumentation.
Applicants must have a PhD and/or MD, with a track record in the application of proteomics, metabolomics and/or structural biology to molecular discoveries associated with human disease.
Candidates are invited to submit a curriculum vitae, a detailed statement of research program, a sample of published work and the names of three references (who will only be approached with permission). Consideration of applications will commence after April 25, 2011; however, the competition will remain open until the positions are filled.
How
to Apply
Mail Dr. Charles Holmes, Professor and Chair
Department of Biochemistry
4-74 Medical Sciences Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7
For
more information see the original post
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
The
University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are
committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome
diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women
and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible
minorities, and Aboriginal persons.
University
of Alberta (March 14/11) A PhD or postdoctoral position is available immediately at the University of Alberta. The successful candidate will be jointly supervised by Dr. Roderick Wasylishen (Department of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in Physical Chemistry, web-page) and Dr. Christine Szymanski (Department of Biological Sciences and Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science, web-page). The student will be involved in a multidisciplinary project examining bacterial capsular polysaccharides and developing new techniques to examine bacterial-host interactions using high-resolution magic-angle spinning NMR. The NMR Facilities in the Department of Chemistry are well equipped for the collaborative research project. Specifically we have access to a Varian 600 with a nanoprobe for magic-angle spinning experiments. Details of the other NMR spectrometers in the Department can be found at: http://nmr.chem.ualberta.ca/ and http://ramsey.chem.ualberta.ca/
Applicants should have a strong background in NMR and biological chemistry. Knowledge of solid-state NMR, molecular modeling and NMR programming would be an asset.
Interested applicants should send a single PDF document containing a CV, one-page statement of research interests and contact information of three references to (cszymans "at" ualberta.ca).
NANUC
2011 NMR BootCamp (Biomolecular NMR Training Course)
August 15-20, 2011, University Of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
http://www.nanuc.ca/nmrbootcamp/2011_NMR_BootCamp/Welcome.html
University of Alberta (Dec 1/10) The Department of Chemistry is a large, complex, teaching and research department with 35 academic staff, each with their own research group, and a compliment of academic, non-academic, postdoctoral, and graduate student components totalling over 400 persons. Part of a team of specialists, this position will provide NMR support to researchers within the Department.
For
more information, and to apply online
http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/S104913120/
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Multidimensional
NMR Methods for the Solution State
edited by Gareth A. Morris and James W. Emsley Hardcover: 580 pages Publisher: Wiley; June 2010 Language: English ISBN: 978-0470770757 http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470770759 http://www.amazon.ca/dp/0470770759 |
Wiley: "Multidimensional NMR methods have transformed the way in which solution state NMR is used to elucidate the structures of chemical and biochemical systems. The first book covering new developments in nearly a decade, this much-needed resource explains recent experimental methods for the rapid measurement of multidimensional solution-state NMR spectra. With articles written by key developers of the techniques, the coverage deals with both the theoretical tools and the latest practical applications, giving an unmatched guide to students, researchers, technicians, and anyone else working with NMR techniques today"
Canadian contributions
A.D. Bain "COSY: Quantitative Analysis," Chapter 13, Multidimensional NMR Methods for the Solution State (EMR Books), Eds. G.A. Morris and J.W. Emsley, Wiley (2010) pp. 167-176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0095
T.T. Nakashima and R.E.D. McClung "Heteronuclear Shift Correlation Spectroscopy," Chapter 22, Multidimensional NMR Methods for the Solution State (EMR Books), Eds. G.A. Morris and J.W. Emsley, Wiley (2010) pp. 289-304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0209
R. Muhandiram and L.E. Kay "3D HMQC-NOESY, NOESY-HMQC, and NOESY-HSQC," Chapter 25, Multidimensional NMR Methods for the Solution State (EMR Books), Eds. G.A. Morris and J.W. Emsley, Wiley (2010) pp. 335-350. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470034590.emrstm0563
The complete Table of Contents is available on Stan's NMR blog.
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NMR
Crystallography |
Wiley: The term "NMR Crystallography" has only recently come into common usage, and even now causes raised eyebrows within some parts of the diffraction community. The power of solid-state NMR to give crystallographic information has considerably increased since the CPMAS suite of techniques was introduced in 1976. In the first years of the 21st century, the ability of NMR to provide information to support and facilitate the analysis of single-crystal and powder diffraction patterns has become widely accepted. Indeed, NMR can now be used to refine diffraction results and, in favorable cases, to solve crystal structures with minimal (or even no) diffraction data. The increasing ability to relate chemical shifts (including the tensor components) to the crystallographic location of relevant atoms in the unit cell via computational methods has added significantly to the practice of NMR crystallography. Diffraction experts will increasingly welcome NMR as an allied technique in their structural analyses. Indeed, it may be that in the future crystal structures will be determined by simultaneously fitting diffraction patterns and NMR spectra.
This Handbook is organised into six sections. The first contains an overview and some articles on fundamental NMR topics, followed by a section concentrating on chemical shifts, and one on coupling interactions. The fourth section contains articles describing how NMR results relate to fundamental crystallography concepts and to diffraction methods. The fifth section concerns specific aspects of structure, such as hydrogen bonding. Finally, four articles in the sixth section give applications of NMR crystallography to structural biology, organic & pharmaceutical chemistry, inorganic & materials chemistry, and geochemistry.
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The
front page of the Summer 2009 issue of the "Canadian NMR
Research" news bulletin features a news report about a special
NMR symposium in honour of Professor Rod Wasylishen which was
held during the 55th International Conference on Analytical Sciences
and Spectroscopy (ICASS) at Queen’s University on August 9-12,
2009. The symposium was organized by Gang Wu and was attended
by more then 50 of Rod's colleagues and friends. Read more here.
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Tenure-Track
Faculty Position, Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Chemical Biology, Carbohydrate Chemistry or a related field including the NMR of biomolecules and biologically oriented organic chemistry. Appointment will be made at the Assistant Professor level to an individual who complements the research interests of the department; an appointment at the Associate Professor level for an outstanding candidate may be considered.
http://oraweb.aucc.ca/pls/ua/ua_re3?ADVERTISEMENT_NUMBER_IN=9684
Research
Associate, NMR, Chemistry
The Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Carbohydrate Science has a vacancy for a Research Associate specializing in the structural determination of complex carbohydrates by high resolution NMR and detailed studies of their complexes with enzymes and carbohydrate binding proteins.
http://oraweb.aucc.ca/pls/ua/ua_re3?ADVERTISEMENT_NUMBER_IN=9584
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If
you are planning on visiting Edmonton, don't miss a rare opportunity
to glimpse inside of a cut-open NMR magnet at the University of Alberta.
A well thought out and professionally arranged magnet display has been
recently opened to public in the Chemistry Department building. Not
only you have a chance to see what's inside of an NMR magnet, you will
also learn a great deal about NMR from a slide presentation that runs
continuously on the overhead monitor for your enjoyment. If traveling
to Edmonton is not in your plans, you can still see this presentation
online, courtesy
of Albin Otter, an NMR Facility Service Officer at the University
of Alberta, who coordinated efforts in putting this wonderful educational
display together (photo credit). |
Canadian Solid-State NMR research is front and center at the upcoming Gordon Research Conference at the University of New England, in Biddeford, Maine. Two key lectures in the “NMR of Materials” session are to be given by Rod Wasylishen (University of Alberta) and Joe Zwanziger (Dalhousie University). To register by May 24:
Magnetic
Resonance Gordon Research Conference
June 14-19, 2009, Biddeford, ME
Registration deadline May 24, 2009
http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=magres
Fu Chen (University of Alberta) March 2, 2009
Research
supervisor: Roderick Wasylishen
Ph.D. thesis: “Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance investigations of some Group 11 and Group 13 compounds”
The 55th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) will be held at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) on August 9-12, 2009. The conference will feature a special NMR Symposium in honour of Professor Rod Wasylishen.
The conference will also have a fantastic social program including the Magical Dinner with Canada's Magic Champion Eric Leclerc and a very popular Sunset Dinner Cruise of the Thousand Islands.
The abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is now open and will last until June 1, 2009.
ICASS offers a special discount for early bird registration which is available until April 1, 2009.
Please check the ICASS conference website for details: http://www.icass.ca/2009/
Or
contact the NMR Symposium organizer, Gang Wu, for more information
http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wu/
August 5, 2008
"It
appears that this summer has been full of events (personally and professionally)
that are, in one way or another, associated with Rod Wasylishen.
At the end of May, I attended the annual conference
of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) in Edmonton, Alberta. Rod organized
a special two-day symposium devoted to Advances in Solid-State NMR, which
many of Rod’s current and former students participated in ..."
Read the full Guest Editorial by Gang Wu in the Summer 2008 issue of the Canadian NMR Research News Bulletin
We
are delighted to learn that Rod Wasylishen's Tier I Canada Research Chair
in Physical Chemistry has been renewed for a period of seven years (official
announcement). Rod's many scientific contributions are well-known to the
Canadian NMR community and do not require a special introduction. Besides
being a prominent world-renowned NMR researcher and a
mentor to many of us, Rod is also an active member of the 900 NMR Facility
Steering Committee. Please join us in extending our warmest congratulations
to
Rod and his family.
Photo from : http://www.ualberta.ca
"Today, the Faculty of Science is comprised of seven departments, and enjoys a reputation as one of the finest in the country. Home to over 7,100 undergraduate and graduate students, 315 faculty and 300 staff, we are committed to maintaining our record of excellence in research and teaching while we continue to recruit and educate the best and brightest students."