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Scientific Program

Scientific Sessions will begin at 8:30 a.m.
on Saturday, October 18 and Sunday, October 19
Friday, October 17
5:00 - 8:00 PMRegistration
6:00 - 8:00 PMMixer - Sponsored by Varian, Inc.

Saturday, October 18
8:00 - 8:30 AMContinental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:35 AMOpening Remarks: Hans van Tol and William Brey

Protein Structure and Dynamics I
Chair: John West, Florida A&M University
8:35 - 9:05 AMSolid State NMR studies of biomolecular structure, Joanna R. Long, Frank Mills, Vijay Antharam, Matthew Eddy, Elizabeth Fry and Manish Mehta
9:05 - 9:35 AMHigh-field and pulsed EPR to examine symmetry of PS1, Kevin Redding, Fraser MacMillan, Anna Lisa Maniero, Hans van Tol, Fabrice Rappaport, Yajing Li, Feifei Gu and Louis-Claude Brunel
9:35 - 9:55 AMLee-Goldburg Frequency Modulated Cross Polarization in Solid-State CPMAS NMR, Riqiang Fu, Jun Hu and Timothy A. Cross
9:55 - 10:15 AMStructure of a DNA Duplex Containing an x-Anomeric Adenosine: Insights into Substrate Recognition by Endonuclease IV, Markus W. Germann, James M. Aramini, Stephen H. Cleaver and Richard P. Cunningham
10:15 - 10:30 AMCoffee Break
10:30 - 10:50 AMProtein Binding to Lipid Nanotube Arrays, Alex I. Smirnov, Ali M. Alaouie, Yevgeniy Degtyarev, Andres Ruuge, and Shani Smith

Imaging & and Biological Applications
Chair: Stephen Gibbs, Florida State University
10:50 - 11:20 AMNoninvasive Imaging of Stem Cell Kinetics during Skeletal and Cardiomyopathy, Kevin S. Cahill, Tiffany Frimel, Sean Germain, Gaberial Gaidosh, Johnny Huard, Barry J. Byrne, and Glenn A. Walter
11:20 - 11:40 AMBehavioral Effects of High Magnetic Fields in Rats and Blockade by Labyrinthectomy, Thomas A. Houpt and James C. Smith
11:40 - 12:00 AMChaos Control and the Butterfly Effect in High-Field Magnetic Resonance, Susie Y. Huang, Jamie D. Walls, Maria Y. Wang, Monty Liong and Yung-Ya Lin
12:00 - 12:20 PMHigh Field EPR Characterization of the Site of the Peroxyl Radical Location in Oxidized Horse Heart Myoglobin, T. Konovalova, L. Kispert, J. van Tol and L.-C. Brunel
12:20 - 1:00 PMLunch

Magnetic Resonance of Materials
Chair: C. Russell Bowers, University of Florida
1:00 - 1:30 PMMethod development and new phenomena in solid state, Zhehong Gan, Hyung-Tae Kwak, Parthasarathy Srinivasan and John Quine
1:30 - 2:00 PMNMR in Pulsed High Field Magnets, Juergen Haase
2:00 - 2:20 PMHigh Frequency and field EPR of Kramers species: direct determination of zero-field splitting in high-spin cobalt (II), J. Krzystek, S.A. Zvyagin, A. Ozarowski and J. Telser
2:20 - 2:40 PMDiffusion-Ordered NMR Spectroscopy of Threaded Macromolecules, Tiejun Zhao and Haskell W. Beckham
2:40 - 2:55 PMCoffee Break

Protein Structure and Dynamics II
Chair: Arthur Edison, University of Florida
2:55 - 3:25 PMProtein Conformations in Solutions: a View from a Mn(II) Binding Site, Tatyana I. Smirnova
3:25 - 3:55 PMMagic-Angle Spinning Methods and Applications to Proteins: Assignments, Structural Constraints, and Improved Sensitivity, Donghua Zhou, W. Trent Franks, Benjamin Wylie, Ying Li, Brian Money, Dan Graesser and Chad M. Rienstra
3:55 - 4:15 PMInterdomain Interactions in DtxR using Paramagnetic Relaxation Enhancements, V. Marin, V. Rangachari, J.F. Love, J.R. Murphy and T. Logan
4:15 - 4:35 PMEffects of Sample Preparation Conditions on the Conformation of the OM Protein BtuB, Gail E. Fanucci, Jae Y. Lee, David S. Cafiso
4:35 - 4:55 PMStructural Role of Protons of Pseudouridine in RNA Duplexes as Measured by NMR Experiments in Supercooled Water, Kersten Schroeder, Jack Skalicky and Nancy Greenbaum
5:00 - 7:00 PMPoster Session
7:00 - 8:00 PMBuffet Dinner
8:00 - 8:45 PMAfter Dinner Program: "Some Tales About the Development of Magnetic Resonance", Wallace S. Brey

Sunday, October 19
8:00 - 8:30 AMContinental Breakfast

Magnetic Systems and Molecular Magnets
Chair: Naresh Dalal, Florida State University
8:30 - 9:00 AMBroadband Single Crystal EPR Spectroscopy from 8 to 715 GHz in Magnetic Fields to 33 Tesla, S. Hill, R.S. Edwards, N. Aliaga-Alcalde, G. Christou, J.M. North and N. S. Dalal
9:00 - 9:30 AMEMR Investigations of Quantum Antiferromagnets, Christopher P. Landee
9:30 - 9:50 AMInvestigation of phase separation and spin dynamics in La(1-x)SrxCoO3 using zero field and high field NMR, Michael J.R. Hoch
9:50 - 10:10 AMFully-Localized Mixed-Valence Species: EPR Studies of the oxidized products of [M02](CH30)2[M02], J. Micah North, Naresh Dalal, F. Albert Cotton, Chun Y. Liu, Carlos A. Murillo and Xiaoping Wang
10:10 - 10:30 AMCoffee Break

Prospects for Biomolecular NMR at Very High Magnetic Fields
Chair: James H. Prestegard, University of Georgia
10:30 - 11:00 AMNew Structural Tools from Magnetic Alignment at Very High Fields, J.H. Prestegard, J.N. Glushka and C.M. Bougault
11:00 - 11:30 AMStructure and Dynamics of DNA Processing Assemblies, Walter J. Chazin, Arun Ignatius Alphonse Kumar, Melissa E. Stauffer and Shibani Bhattacharya
11:30 - 12:00 PMCrystal Ball Gazing: Membrane Proteins at 900 MHz and Above, Timothy Cross
12:00 - 12:30 PMSEMRC Business Meeting
12:30 PMConference Adjournment