The Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in partnership with the National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network on Extreme Biophysics, will host a symposium and workshop on the applications of high pressure and reverse micelle nuclear magnetic resonance, NMR, in protein structure biology on April 6-7 in College Station.

a graphic of cells representing high pressure and reverse micelle nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
Participants of the April 6 High Pressure and Reverse Micelle Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Symposium and April 7 workshop will learn how to use these techniques on proteins. (Texas A&M AgriLife graphic by Joshua Wand)

The April 6 symposium will be held from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in Room 108 of the Biochemistry and Biophysics Building, and the April 7 workshop will be held from 9 a.m.-noon in Rooms N127 and 213.

Seating is very limited for the workshop, and registration is required by March 1 for both events. To register, visit https://tx.ag/NMRSymposium. A complimentary lunch will be provided during the symposium for those who register.

Symposium featured speakers

The symposium will feature keynote speaker Ad Bax, Ph.D., section chief, Biophysical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Section, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Other speakers will include:

  • Nathaniel Nucci, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey.
  • Brian Fuglestad, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
  • Anthony Bishop, Ph.D., postdoctoral research associate, Texas A&M Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Bryan-College Station.
  • Cathy Royer, Ph.D., professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
  • Julien Roche, Ph.D., associate professor, Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
  • Kevin Gardner, Ph.D., director, Structural Biology Initiative – City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center, New York.
  • Joshua Wand, Ph.D., professor and department head, Texas A&M Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Bryan-College Station.

Workshop includes demonstrations, hands-on experience

The April 7 workshop will be led by Nucci, Fuglestad and Wand and will feature hands-on demonstrations on high pressure and reverse micelle NMR techniques using model proteins.

For more information, contact Betty Cotton, assistant to the department head, at 979-458-0630, or by email at [email protected].

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