2018 Symposium
NMR in Biomedical Research: from Metabolomics to Structural Biology
A Symposium was held on Tuesday 4 September 2018 to mark the refurbishment and installation of new 600 MHz and 800 MHz NMR spectrometers in the NMR Facility of the Centre for Biomolecular Spectroscopy.
The programme for the Symposium is available here
See also Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine news item here
Keynote talks were given by:
Prof. Lucia Banci, CERM, University of Florence, Italy
The contribution of NMR to the description of cellular processes
Dr. Martin Blackledge, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France
NMR studies of large-scale protein conformational dynamics : From fundamental biophysics to functional biology
Prof. Art Edison, University of Georgia, USA
New methods for in vivo metabolomics
Prof. Mike Shattock, King's College London, UK
The Salt of the Earth: NMR studies of Na elevation and metabolic dysfunction in heart failure
Shorter presentations highlighted some of the research being done at King's. These included:
Dr. Stefi Benjamin, Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics (FoLSM).
Allosteric communication in the Fc region of Immunoglobulin E
Dr. Eva Crosas Molist, Randall Centre for Cell & Molecular Biophysics (FoLSM).
NMR-based metabolomic investigation of metastatic melanoma
Dr. Alessandro Sicorello, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience (IoPPN).
The structural properties in solution of the intrinsically mixed folded protein ataxin-3
Miss Ingebjørg Hungnes, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering (FoLSM).
NMR Analysis of a Rhenium Bioconjugate: Modelling Novel Radioactive Medical Imaging Agents
We wish to thank Bruker UK Ltd., CJS Direct Ltd., Goss Scientific Instruments Ltd., Fisher Scientific, Wilmad and CortecNet for their kind support