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christmas

20th December 2024

Solid-state NMR group wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

dinu

13th December 2024

Dr Luga Dinu has given an update on national research facility and new 1.2 GHz magnet due to be delivered in 2025, at the NMRDG-BSRC winter meeting organised by Royal Society of Chemistry, at Burlington House, London

ying

12th December 2024

Dr Wing Ying Chow has given a talk at the NMRDG-BSRC winter meeting organised by Royal Society of Chemistry, at Burlington House, London. Ying has updated us on her research so far.

Winter meeting

12th December 2024

Steven, Dinu, Michael, Ying, Jairah, Helena, Anna, Rosalie and Svetlana (and former group member Ben, who has joined us from Austria) have attended the NMRDG-BSRC winter meeting organised by Royal Society of Chemistry, at Burlington House, London.

trent

30th October 2024

Solid-state group has taken a break from all the NMR to carve some pumpkins for the spooky season!!

We would also like to say our goodbyes to Dr Trent Franks who will be leaving the group to join Ohio University, USA. We wish Trent a lot of success in future endeavours!

anna

1st October 2024

Solid-state NMR group would like to welcome Anna Fleck who has joined us here at Warwick from University of Würzburg, Germany.

She will be working with Rosalie Thompson during her three month placement.

helena

1st October 2024

We would like to welcome Helena Loan who has started her PhD at Warwick. She will be working with Dr Michael Hope. Her project is focused on using solid-state NMR to characterise the structure and mechanisms of energy materials.

rosalie

30th August 2024

Rosalie Thompson has won the award for the best presentation at the 17th European Workshop on Lignocellulose and Pulp held in Turku, Finland 26-30th August for her talk entitled "New insights into the structure of cellulose in plant cell walls".

Congratulations!

michael

12th July 2024

Dr Michael Hope has been awarded a prestigious EPSRC fellowship, worth £1.4 million.

This fellowship will help Michael pave the way in transitioning to cleaner, renewable energy.

Congratulations Michael on this amazing achievement!

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11th July 2024

Dr Trent Franks attended a CCPN conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury. He delivered a talk on the role, that the UK High-Field Solid-State NMR National Research Facility has, in Biological NMR.

castep

8th July - 10th July 2024

Steven Brown and Svetlana Pavlović attended the CASTEP NMR masterclass at the University of Oxford.

stephanie

1st July 2024

Stephanie Bachmann has joined NMR National Research Facility at Warwick.

She will be working as a part of NRF's Local Management Team in order to support the work carried out at 1GHz and 850 MHz spectrometers, and support the trans-national access as part of the EU PANACEA project.

Welcome Stephanie!

euromar

30th June - 4th July 2024

Ananya Singh, Wing Ying Chow, Michael Hope and Józef Lewandowski attended EUROMAR in Bilbao, Spain.

Józef gave a talk on 'Alternative structure of teixobactin-lipid II complex', Michael gave a presentation on 'Proton Migration and Halide Ordering in Lead Halide Perovskites'. Ananya presented a poster.

nmrdg

24th - 25th June 2024

Ananya Singh, David Bradley, Hannah Pilsworth, Liam Medlin and Svetlana Pavlović attended the RSC NMR discussion group meeting at Birmingham University.

Ananya and Dave gave talks, while Ananya, Dave, Liam and Svetlana presented posters during the poster session.

Ananya won a prize for one of the best posters! We congratulate Ananya for this amazing recognition for the work done so far.

panacea

16th - 21st June 2024

Michael Hope, Józef Lewandowski and Svetlana Pavlović attended PANACEA NMR summer school in Venice, Italy.

Michael gave a lecture about Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP), while Józef gave a lecture on Relaxation and its importance in NMR. Svetlana presented her work during the round table discussion.

apv

4th - 5th June 2024

Svetlana Pavlović attended a course organised by APV Mainz 'Advanced Analytical Methods for Formulation development', in Darmstadt, Germany.

1.2 building process

14th May 2024

Work has begun on the building to host the 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer as funded by UKRI

to be provided by Bruker, with some additional MAS probes from Phoenix.

mo's viva

23rd April 2024

Mohammed Rahman has passed his viva today.

We congratulate Mo, and wish him a lot of success in his future career!

book cover rsc

27th March 2024

Steven Brown’s chapter entitled “NMR Crystallography in Pharmaceutical Development” with co-authors Les Hughes and Helen Blade from AstraZeneca and Pat Szell (former post-doc at Warwick and AstraZeneca) has been published in the Royal Society of Chemistry book entitled NMR Crystallography in Pharmaceutical DevelopmentLink opens in a new window.

bruker visit

4th March 2024

Dinu, Steven and Trent have visited the Bruker solid-state NMR probe production facility in Ettlingen, Germany, and see the production of one of the ordered 1.2 GHz MAS probes.

deci

1st March 2024

Mo’s paper in collaboration with AstraZeneca and C4X entitled “Polymorph Identification for Flexible Molecules: Linear Regression Analysis of Experimental and Calculated Solution- and Solid-State NMR Data” has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A.

sci

24th January 2024

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled “Solid-state NMR of pharmaceuticals” at the Society of Chemical Industries Formulation Forum 5th Annual Event: design through characterisation and analysis, in London.

Clare Grey

18th January 2024

Clare Grey is awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Warwick.

jennifer

16th January 2024

We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Gomez from Nijmegen University who is visiting Warwick this week, as an exchange of local operators in the PANACEA project.

ying

10th January 2024

Dr Wing Ying Chow has been awarded the Institute of Physics excellent contribution to Magnetic Resonance Award for her contributions to NMR characterisation of biological systems.

The prize is awarded jointly by the BRSG (Institute of Physics Magnetic Resonance Society) and the NMR Discussion Group (NMRDG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry on an annual basis to honour work representing one or more substantial contributions to the field.

Ying will present her award lecture in December 2024 at the NMRDG Christmas Meeting in Burlington House, London.

Todd

8th January 2024

We would like to welcome Todd Davey, who joined solid-state NMR group in January 2024.

He will be working on his PhD with Professor Josef R. Lewandowski.

christmas dinner
 

25th December 2023

Solid State NMR group wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

NMRDG 14th December 2023

14th December 2023

Steven Brown, Jairah Lubay, Ananya Singh and Jack Drant have attended the NMRDG Christmas meeting, at the Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House in London.

oxford uni

6th December 2023

Steven Brown gave a presentation entitled “Solid-state NMR at High Magnetic Fields” at the Science and Technologies in High Magnetic Fields meeting in Oxford https://sthmf.web.ox.ac.uk/programme.Link opens in a new window

infranalytics

22nd November 2023

Steven Brown gave a presentation entitled “Solid-state NMR of pharmaceuticals and plant cell walls” at the INFRANALYTICS 2nd user meeting in Strasbourg https://infranalytics.eu/images/jevents/programme-2023-16112023.pdfLink opens in a new window.

panacea

15th November 2023

Anjali Menakath and Trent Franks participated in the EU PANACEA project 's Second Annual User Meeting in Florence : when science meets art https://panacea-nmr.eu/news/142-panacea-s-second-annual-user-meeting-in-florence-when-science-meets-artLink opens in a new window.

Bruker

8th November 2023

See Steven Brown’s Bruker videos on his research applying solid-state NMR to pharmaceuticals and plant cell walls https://www.bruker.com/en/landingpages/bbio/resolution-in-a-new-dimension-for-solving-challenges-of-society/discover-the-mechanisms-of-antibiotics-with-high-field-nmr.htmlLink opens in a new window and how he fell in love with NMR https://www.bruker.com/en/products-and-solutions/mr/make-mr-more-relevant/falling-in-love-with-mr.htmlLink opens in a new window as recorded at Euromar this year.

Michael Hope

1st November 2023

We would like to welcome to Michael Hope who joined Warwick as an Assistant Professor in Chemistry.

20th anniversary dinner - steven

3rd October 2023

Steven Brown celebrates 20 years at Warwick, at the Long Service Awards Celebration Dinner, hosted by the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Warwick, Stuart Croft.

Ray - anniversary

1st October 2023

Ray Dupree celebrates 60 years since his first academic appointment as a Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Ray joined Warwick 3 years later.

Ben's viva

28th September 2023

Congratulations to Ben Tatman on passing his PhD viva.

Ben has taken up a post at the National Physical Laboratory.

We wish him a lot of success in his career.

Cluj Napoca conference 2023

19th September 2023

Steven Brown gave the opening talk entitled Solid-State NMR of Pharmaceuticals and Plant Cell Walls” at the Processes in Isotopes and Molecules conference in Cluj, Romania.

Alpine conference, twitter
 

18th September 2023

Jozef Lewandowski, Anjali Menakath, Mohammed Rahman and Jack Drant attended the Alpine Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Solids in Chamonix, France.

Euromar Logo

11th July 2023

Steven Brown gave a lecture entitled "Solid-State NMR of Pharmaceuticals and Plant Cell Walls", at EUROMAR in Glasgow.

Panacea logo

15th June 2023

Steven Brown gave a lecture on inverse detection of quadrupolar nuclei, with applications to pharmaceuticals, at the PANACEA workshop on solid-state NMR for quadrupolar nuclei in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Spin energy levels under slow and fast spinning

12th May 2023

Paper published in J. Chem. Phys. on "Nuclear spin diffusion under fast magic-angle spinning in solid-state NMR"

Ben's magnificent paper, "Nuclear spin diffusion under fast magic-angle spinning in solid-state NMR" from his University of Warwick and Bruker funded PhD has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.

14N Paper TOC graphic

24th April 2023

Paper published in J. Magn. Reson. on "Comparison of Methods for 14N-1H recoupling in 14N-1H HMQC MAS NMR"

Ben's amazing paper, "Comparison of Methods for 14N-1H recoupling in 14N-1H HMQC MAS NMR" from his University of Warwick and Bruker funded PhD has been published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance.

TOC Graphic for this paper

1st March 2023

Paper published in J. Pharm. Sci on "Discovering the Solid-State Secrets of Lorlatinib by NMR Crystallography: To Hydrogen Bond or Not to Hydrogen Bond"

Zainab's splendid paper, "Discovering the Solid-State Secrets of Lorlatinib by NMR Crystallography", applying NMR crystallography to the pharmaceutical Lorlatinib with Pfizer from her EPSRC funded PhD, has been published in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Celebrations after the viva

15th February 2023

Zainab passed her PhD viva!

Congratulations to Zainab Rehman on passing her PhD viva.

Cover art

1st February 2023

Cover art in ChemPhysChem

Pat Szell's paper applying 35Cl solid-state NMR to pharmaceuticals in collaboration with AstraZeneca has been selected for the cover art in an issue of ChemPhysChem!

Dansk Forening for Molekylspektroskopi

31st January 2023

Danish NMR Meeting in Helsingor

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled "Solid-state NMR of pharmaceuticals" at the Danish NMR meeting in Helsingor.

Svetlana joined NMR group

9th January 2023

Welcome to Svetlana Pavlović, an AS CDT PhD student supervised by Steven Brown. She will be working on a project supported by Novartis, focusing on an analysis of soft gel-like materials produced during dissolution of oral pharmaceutical products.

1 GHz NMR spectrometer at Warwick

19th December 2022

Warwick University to host UK's most powerful Nuclear Magnetic Resonance instrument

A consortium led by the University of Warwick has been awarded a £17 million grant from the UKRI Infrastructure Fund to procure a 1.2 GHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance instrument at 1.2 GHz. The high-field spectrometer will serve the national research community in the physical and life sciences. It will add to the already significant NMR capabilities here which include the existing 850 MHz and 1 GHz high-field solid-state NMR National Research Facilities. Read press release.

IOP BRSG Group

16th December 2022

BRSG Christmas Meeting

Zainab Rehman and Wing Ying Chow gave talks entitled "The use of solid-state NMR in the characterisation of an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient" and "Biological structures in the extracellular context" at the BRSG Christmas Meeting.

Birmingham NMR Facility

18th November 2022

Birmingham NMR Users Meeting

Steven Brown gave a talk on "1.2 GHz NMR in the UK for Solution- and Solid-State NMR" at the Birmingham NMR Users Meeting.

PANACEA

18th October 2022

PANACEA NMR Users Meeting

Steven Brown gave a talk on "Solid-State NMR for Polymers, Biopolymers, and Biomaterials" at the first PANACEA NMR users meeting in Lyon.

PCCP Slice & Dice paper

12th October 2022

Paper published in PCCP on "Slice & Dice: nested spin-lattice relaxation measurements"

Trent and Jacqueline’s paper entitled "Slice & Dice: nested spin-lattice relaxation measurements" has been published in PCCP.

Swedish NMR meeting logo

6th October 2022

Swedish NMR Meeting in Gothenburg

Steven Brown gave a talk on "Solid-state NMR of Pharmaceuticals and Plant Cell Walls" at the Swedish NMR Meeting in Gothenburg.

Chlorine Paper Description

5th October 2022

Paper published in ChemPhysChem on "Exploring the Potential of Multinuclear Solid-state 1H, 13C, and 35Cl Magnetic Resonance to Characterize Static and Dynamic Disorder in Pharmaceutical Hydrochlorides".

Pat’s paper arising from a collaboration with AstraZeneca as part of his Innovate UK funded project, entitled "Exploring the Potential of Multinuclear Solid-state 1H, 13C, and 35Cl Magnetic Resonance to Characterize Static and Dynamic Disorder in Pharmaceutical Hydrochlorides" has been published in ChemPhysChem.

Jairah
Ananya

3rd October 2022

Jairah and Ananya join the Solid-State NMR group!

Welcome to Jairah and Ananya! Jairah's research will be focusing on "Developing fast magic-angle spinning NMR methods for applications to biological systems." supervised by Józef Lewandowski and Steven Brown, while Ananya's research will be focusing on the "Development of solid-state NMR approaches for probing extracellular matrices with relevance to human disease" supervised by Wing Ying Chow.

RSC Molecular Spectroscopy group logo

18th August 2022

Molecular Spectroscopy Group Online Seminar

Steven Brown gave a talk on "Solid-state NMR of Pharmaceuticals" at the RSC Molecular Spectroscopy Group Online Seminar.

The Plant Cell cover

4th August 2022

Paper published in The Plant Cell on "Eudicot primary cell wall glucomannan is related in synthesis, structure, and function to xyloglucan"

A paper by Rosalie Cresswell, Steven Brown, and Ray Dupree at Warwick and Paul Dupree's group in Cambridge regarding the Eudicot primary cell wall glucomannan has been published in The Plant Cell.

Paper title and logo

26th July 2022

Paper published in PCCP on "Optimisation of 1H PMLG homonuclear decoupling at 60 kHz MAS to enable 15N-1H through-bond heteronuclear correlation solid-state NMR spectroscopy"

Jacqueline’s paper entitled "Optimisation of 1H PMLG homonuclear decoupling at 60 kHz MAS to enable 15N-1H through-bond heteronuclear correlation solid-state NMR spectroscopy" has been published in PCCP.

Paper TOC graphics

20th July 2022

Paper published in Crystal Growth and Design on "Combining X-ray and NMR Crystallography to Explore the Crystallographic Disorder in Salbutamol Oxalate".

Pat’s paper arising from a collaboration with Bath and AstraZeneca as part of his Innovate UK funded project, entitled "Combining X-ray and NMR Crystallography to Explore the Crystallographic Disorder in Salbutamol Oxalate" has been published in Crystal Growth and Design.

EUROMAR 2022

11th July 2022

EUROMAR Conference in Utrecht

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled: ”Nitrogen (14N/15N)-Hydrogen MAS NMR Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy: Developing Methods for Pharmaceutical Applications” at EUROMAR 2022 in Utrecht. Ben, Mo and Zainab presented posters.

TOC From Article

1st July 2022

Paper in Dalton Transactions selected for quarterly HOT article collection

Ray Dupree is a co-author on a paper with collaborators in Sweden "Synthesis and structural characterisation of solid titanium(IV) phosphate materials by means of X-ray absorption and NMR spectroscopyLink opens in a new window" which has been selected for the Dalton Transactions quarterly HOT article collection.

RSC NMRDG

1st July 2022

NMRDG Postgraduate Conference in Manchester

Ben Tatman gave a talk entitled “Spin Diffusion at Fast Magic-Angle Spinning” at the NMRDG postgraduate meeting in Manchester. Chris, Mo and Zainab presented posters.

Post-viva celebrations

10th June 2022

Jacqueline passed her PhD viva!

Congratulations to Jacqueline Tognetti on passing her PhD viva.

Figure showing stunted plant growth

9th June 2022

Paper in Nature Plants

Ray Dupree was a co-author on a paper entitled "Golgi-localized putative S-adenosyl methionine transporters required for plant cell wall polysaccharide methylation" in Nature Plants. This paper identified genes that regulate the properties of pectin, with their mutants causing pectin to gel as jam in the plant cell wall and the plant to be stunted. Such a stunted plant is shown in the figure on the left.

PANACEA

21st February 2022

Trans-national access to the solid-state NMR infrastructure at Warwick is enabled via the EU-funded PANACEA project

As part of the EU-funded PANACEA project, it is now possible to request access to the solid-state NMR infrastructure at Warwick at https://panacea-nmr.eu/

 

Dominick Kubicki

1st February 2022

Wing Ying Chow joins the Solid-State NMR group as an Assistant Professor

Welcome to Ying! They use a combination of solid-state NMR and related techniques to study the structure and dynamics of complex biological materials of the extracellular matrix with emphasis on gaining insight into human health and disease.

KTP header

1st February 2022

AstraZeneca/University of Warwick KTP rated Outstanding

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between AstraZeneca and the University of Warwick (with Pat Szell, Józef Lewandowski, and Steven Brown) to mitigate some of the problems of crystallographic disorder in active pharmaceutical ingredients has been rated as outstanding. Read the case study here.

Anjali

17th January 2022

Anjali Menakath (re)joins the Solid-State NMR group

Welcome to Anjali! Anjali joins us as a postdoc funded by the EPSRC via the Warwick Analytical Science Centre and the BBSRC ALERT19 funding for the new 600 MHz Avance Neo console and probes.

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4th January 2022

Physics Departmental Prize Awarded to Rosalie Cresswell

Congratulations to Rosalie Cresswell who has been jointly awarded the Physics Department's Postdoc Prize 2021 for the best paper by a postdoc in 2021! The paper entitled "Importance of Water in Maintaining Softwood Secondary Cell Wall Nanostructure" can be found in Biomacromolecules, 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00937

17th November 2021

SSNMR/DNP Zoominar

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk at the MIT SSNMR/DNP Zoominar entitled "Interacting intrinsically disordered regions in complexes in the solid state”

Image of NMR Hall

29th October 2021

Konstantin Ivanov Intercontinental Seminar

Steven Brown gave a talk at the Konstantin Ivanov Intercontinental Seminar entitled "Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR of Organic Molecules"

Figure abstract

20th October 2021

Paper published in Biomacromolecules on "Importance of Water in Maintaining Softwood Secondary Cell Wall Nanostructure".

A paper by Rosalie Cresswell, Steven Brown, and Ray Dupree at Warwick and Paul Dupree in Cambridge as well as collaborators in Brazil and New Zealand (Scion) regarding the importance of water in the maintenance of the nanostructure of the secondary cell wall structure of softwood has been published in Biomacromolecules.

One click crystallography

12th October 2021

Paper published in Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance on "A toolbox for improving the workflow of NMR crystallography".

A new paper by Patrick Szell, Steven Brown and AstraZeneca presents a novel toolbox to assist with the workflow of NMR crystallography as part of an INNOVATE-UK funded KTP project.

30th September 2021

Paper published in Chemical Science

A new paper by Lewandowski group (Angelo Gallo and Józef Lewandowski) in collaboration with Jenner group entitled "Molecular Basis for Acyl Carrier Protein-Ketoreductase Interaction in trans-Acyltransferase Polyketide Synthases" was published in Chemical Science.

Figure from paper

2nd September 2021

Paper published in CrystEngComm on "Taming the dynamics in a pharmaceutical by cocrystallization".

A new paper by Patrick Szell, Steven Brown, Józef Lewandowski and AstraZeneca applies solid-state NMR to understand taming of dynamics in a pharmaceutical by co-crystallisation as part of an INNOVATE-UK funded KTP project.

Dominick Kubicki

1st September 2021

Dominik Kubicki joins the Solid-State NMR group as an Assistant Professor

Welcome to Dominik! Dominik’s research focuses on developing new materials for sustainable optoelectronic technologies. He uses a combination of solid-state NMR, MAS DNP and diffraction strategies to study their structure at multiple length scales.

IUCr Logo

19th August 2021

International Union of Crystallography Conference

Zainab Rehman presented a poster on 'Solid-State NMR Crystallography Analysis of Lorlatinib - an Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient'

Graphical Abstract for Relaxation Paper

11th August 2021

Paper published in JMR on Accelerating 15N and 13C relaxation measurements

A paper entitled Accelerating 15N and 13C R1 and R1p relaxation measurements by multiple pathway solid-state NMR experiments by Jacqueline Tognetti, Trent Franks, Angelo Gallo and Józef Lewandowski, was published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance. Congratulations to Jacqueline on the first paper of her PhD!

RSC NMRDG

18th June 2021

RSC NMRDG Postgraduate Meeting

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled 'Magic-Angle Spinning Solid-State NMR of Organic Molecules'

Koorosh

14th June 2021

Koorosh passed his PhD viva!

Congratulations to Koorosh Fatemian on passing his PhD viva.

 

6th April 2021

Console Upgrade for 600 MHz

Our new Bruker Avance Neo console has been delivered and installed on the 600 MHz instrument!
Nicole Kelly

14th January 2021

Nicole passed her PhD viva!

Congratulations to Nicole Kelly who passed her PhD viva.

IOP BRSG Group
 

18th December 2020

BRSG Founder's Prize for Best Presentation awarded to Patrick Szell.

Congratulations to Patrick Szell on being awarded the Founder's Prize for Best Presentation at the 2020 Magnetic Resonance for Industrial Research BRSG Christmas Meeting for his presentation on dynamic disorder in pyrrolidine ringsLink opens in a new window!
1 GHz solid-state NMR spectrometer

17th November 2020

1 GHz solid-state NMR magnet at field.

The UK's first 1 GHz solid-state NMR spectrometer has been brought to field at the University of Warwick. See the press release hereLink opens in a new window.
Kristian

11th November 2020

Kristian passed his PhD viva!

Congratulations to Kristian Barnsley who passed his PhD viva.
MQMAS Paper abstract

23rd September 2020

J. Mag. Res. paper published

A paper entitled Simultaneous MQMAS NMR Experiments for Two Half-Integer Quadrupolar Nuclei by Samuel J. Page, Angelo Gallo, Steven P. Brown, Józef R. Lewandowski, John V. Hanna, and W. Trent Franks was published in J. Mag. Res.

Paper abstract

18th September 2020

Journal of Physical Chemistry paper published

A paper entitled Conformations in Solution and in Solid-State Polymorphs: Correlating Experimental and Calculated Magnetic Resonance Chemical Shifts for Tolfenamic Acid by authors from Warwick, AstraZeneca and C4X, Helen Blade, Charles D. Blundell, Steven P. Brown, Jack Carson, Hugh R. W. Dannatt, Leslie P. Hughes and Anjali K. Menakath, was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry

Sarah

27th July 2020

Sarah passed her PhD viva!

Congratulations to Sarah Mann who passed her PhD viva.
 

22nd May 2020

ChemPhysChem paper published

A paper entitled Structure Effects on the Ionicity of Protic Ionic Liquids by authors from Warwick and Monash, Sarah Mann, Steven P. Brown, and Douglas R. MacFarlane, was published in ChemPhysChem.

Paper figure abstract

15th May 2020

Journal of Physical Chemistry paper published

A paper entitled MAS NMR Investigation of Molecular Order in an Ionic Liquid Crystal by authors from Warwick, Imperial and GlaxoSmithKline, Sarah Mann, Mohit K. Devgan, W. Trent Franks, Steven Huband, Chi Long Chan, Jeraime Griffith, David Pugh, Nicholas J. Brooks, Tom Welton, Tran N. Pham, Lisa L. McQueen, Józef R. Lewandowski, and Steven P. Brown, was published in a themed issue (on deep eutectic solvents) in Journal of Physical Chemistry.

Emily

24th April 2020

Emily passed her PhD viva!

Congratulations to Emily Corlett who passed her PhD viva.
Graphical abstract

10th April 2020

Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance paper published

A paper entitled Investigating discrepancies between experimental solid-state NMR and GIPAW calculation: N=C-N 13C and OH...O 1H chemical shifts in pyridinium fumarates and their cocrystals by authors from Warwick, AstraZeneca and Syngenta, Emily K. Corlett, Helen Blade, Leslie P. Hughes, Philip J. Sidebottom, David Walker, Richard I. Walton, and Steven P. Brown, was published in Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

 

18th March 2020

Magn Reson Chem paper published

A paper entitled R5-amino-2-methylpyridinium hydrogen fumarate: An XRD and NMR crystallography analysis by authors from Warwick, AstraZeneca and Syngenta, Emily K. Corlett, Helen Blade, Leslie P. Hughes, Philip J. Sidebottom, David Walker, Richard I. Walton, and Steven P. Brown, was published in Magn. Reson. Chem.

Angelo

9th March 2020

JMR Award for outstanding paper for Angelo and Trent

Angelo Gallo is presented with the JMR Award for an outstanding paper for his and Trent Frank's manuscript on parallel acquistion.

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30th Dec 2019

Molecular Pharmaceutics paper published

A paper entitled Revealing Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonding Structure and Dynamics in a Deep Eutectic Pharmaceutical by Magic-Angle Spinning NMR Spectroscopy by Sarah Mann, Tran Pham, Lisa McQueen, Józef Lewandowski and Steven P. Brown was published in Mol. Pharmaceutics.

Congrats to Sarah on the first paper from her PhD!

Anjali

14th November 2019

Anjali passed her PhD viva!

Congratulations to Anjali Menakath who passed her PhD viva.
nature Coms logo

31st Oct 2019

Nature Communications paper published

A paper entitled Molecular architecture of softwood revealed by solid-state NMR was published with our Cambridge collaborators. Warwick authors: Dinu Iuga, Trent W. Franks, Steven P. Brown and Ray Dupree. The research was featured (Nov 18) in Chemical & Engineering News in an article “A surprising portrait of wood’s molecular makeup

Read more here: Link

Nat Chem

23rd Sept 2019

Nature Chemistry paper published

A paper by Simone Kosol, Angelo Gallo, Daniel Griffiths, T. R. Valentic, J. Masschelein, M. Jenner, E. L. C. de los Santos, L. Manzi, P. K. Sydor, D. Rea, S. Zhou, V. Fülöp, N. J. Oldham, S.-C. Tsai, G. L. Challis, Józef R. Lewandowski entitled "Structural Basis for Chain Release from the Enacyloxin Polyketide Synthase.", which is a result of a large scale collaborative effort in the field of integrated structural biology of systems involved in biosynthesis of natural products, was published in Nature Chemistry.

Alpine Conference

 

15-19th Sept 2019

Alpine Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Solids

Jacqueline Tognetti gave a talk entitled "Proton detected magic angle spinning solid-state NMR". Emily Corlett, Angelo Gallo, Józef Lewandowski, Sarah Mann and Zainab Rehman gave round table presentations.

CCPN

4th Sept 2019

CCPN Conference in Leicester

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk entitled "Proton detected magic angle spinning solid-state NMR".

euroismar

29th August 2019

Euroismar

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled "High-Field and Fast-MAS Solid-State NMR: Enabling Application to Pharmaceuticals and Supramolecular Assembly". Józef Lewandowski gave a talk entitled "Multiple acquisitions for protein assignment, structure and dynamics". Trent Franks, Angelo Gallo, Dinu Iuga and Józef Lewandowski presented posters. Shanshan Zhou also attended.

Sci Rep

31st July 2019

Scientific Reports paper published

A paper by Carl Öster, Simone Kosol and Józef Lewandowski entitled "Quantifying Microsecond Exchange in Large Protein Complexes with Accelerated Relaxation Dispersion Experiments in the Solid State" was published in Scientific Reports.

JMR

6th July 2019

Journal of Magnetic Resonance paper published

A paper by Angelo Gallo, Trent Franks and Józef Lewandowski entitled "A Suite of Solid-state NMR Experiments to Utilize Orphaned Magnetization for Assigning Proteins Using Parallel High and Low Gamma Detection" was published in J. Magn. Reson.

JMB

20th June 2019

Journal of Membrane Biology paper published

A paper by Muhammad Hasan involving Dixon, Lewandowski and Brown groups entitled "Modulation of Transmembrane Domain Interactions in Neu Receptor Tyrosine Kinase by Membrane Fluidity and Cholesterol" was published in Journal of Membrane Biology.

emily_paper

14th May 2019

CrystEngComm paper published

A paper by Emily Corlett and Steven Brown in collaboration with AstraZeneca and Syngenta entitled "An XRD and NMR crystallographic investigation of the structure of 2,6-lutidinium hydrogen fumarate" was published in CrystEngComm.

Cardiff

10th December 2018

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk entitled "Structure and dynamics of protein complexes by NMR" in the School of Chemistry at the University of Cardiff.

 
JACS

5th December 2018

A paper resulting from collaboration of Challis group with Lewandowski group entitled "Binding of distinct substrate conformations enables hydroxylation of remote sites in thaxtomin D by cytochrome P450 TxtC" was published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Read it here.

 

19th November 2018

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled “High-Field Solid-State NMR: Applications to Pharmaceuticals, Supramolecular Assemblies and Plant Cell Walls” at the Ultra-high field NMR spectroscopy: challenges and new horizons workshop in Lille, France

 
durham

13th November 2018

Emily Corlett gave a talk at a joint meeting entitled “Holistic approaches to structural characterisation” of the collaborative computational project for NMR crystallography (CCP-NC) and the British Crystallography Association Industry Group (BCA-IG) in Durham. Steven Brown, Kiran Jandu, Sarah Mann, Anjali Menakath, Zainab Rehman and Jacqueline Tognetti all also attended the meeting.

 

3rd October 2018

Natural Product Reports paper published

A review from Lewandowski and Challis groups on "Protein–protein interactions in trans-AT polyketide synthases" was published in Natural Products Reports. Read it here.
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2nd October 2018

Journal of Physical Chemistry B published

A Lewandowski group paper on collaborative work led by Emsley and Blackledge groups entitled "Protein Dynamics from Multi-Field Variable Temperature NMR Relaxation and MD Simulation" published in Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Read it here.

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1st October 2018

Welcome to Zainab Rehman and Kiran Jandu who join the group as a PhD student (funded by EPSRC and Pfizer) and a MSc by research student.

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20th September 2018

Chemical Science paper published

A paper from Lewandowski group in collaboration with Chris Dowson, Kim Lewis, Torsten Herrmann and Novobiotic Pharmaceuticals entitled "Structural studies suggest aggregation as one of the modes of action for teixobactin" was published in the Chemical Science. Read it here.

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13th September 2018

Steven Brown visited the laboratories of Adam Lange and Hartmut Oschkinat and gave a talk entitled “Using NMR Crystallography for Structural Elucidation and Insight” at the FMP in Berlin, Germany.

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7th September 2018

CCPNMR meeting in University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk "Characterisation of protein-protein interfaces in large complexes by solid state NMR solvent paramagnetic relaxation enhancements".

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4th September 2018

SMARTER meeting

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled “Using NMR Crystallography for Structural Elucidation and Insight” at the SMARTER meeting in Ljubljana in Slovenia, with Emily Corlett, Sarah Mann, Anjali Menakath and Jacqueline Tognetti all presenting posters.

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21st June 2018

NMRDG meeting, University of Warwick

Students from all the groups participated in the NMR DG meeting. Sarah Mann won the best talk prize and Emily Corlett won the best poster prize.

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30th May 2018

EMBO workshop, Grosseto, Italy

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk "Integrated structural biology as a tool to facilitate development of new antibiotics". Angelo and Becky presented posters.

1 GHz solid-state NMR facility to be hosted at Warwick

The UK's first 1 GHz solid-state NMR spectrometer is on its way to the University of Warwick, thanks to £8 million grant from the Engineering and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The high-field spectrometer will serve the national research community in the physical and life sciences. It will add to the already significant NMR capabilities here which include the existing 850 MHz high-field solid-state NMR National Research Facility.

19th April 2018
UK 850 MHz Solid-State NMR Facility annual symposium

Angelo and Trent gave talks at the 8th annual symposium of the UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR facility, that took place at the University of Warwick.

JMR

7th April 2018
Journal of Magnetic Resonance paper published

A paper resulting form a collaboration of Lewandowski group with Samoson and Sternberg groups entitled "1H Line Width Dependence on MAS Speed in Solid State NMR - Comparison of Experiment and Simulation" was published in the Journal of Magnetic Resonance. Read it here.

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8th January 2018
Nature Chemical Biology paper published

A paper resulting from a collaboration of Lewandowski group with Challis, Oldham and Jenner groups entitled "Mechanism of intersubunit ketosynthase–dehydratase interaction in polyketide synthases" was published in Nature Chemical Biology. Congrats to Simone Kosol who is one of the main authors of the work. Read it here.

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13th December 2017
BRSG Christmas Meeting

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk entitled "Solid-state NMR of dynamic biological systems at 60-111 kHz magic angle spinning" at the BRSG Christmas Meeting "NMR under extreme conditions". Andy, Anjali, Becky, Dinu, Emily and Sarah attended the meeting.

14th September 2017
Alpine SSNMR Conference in Chamonix, France

Józef Lewandowski gave a lecture-style talk entitled "Integrated structural biology of enacyloxin polyketide synthase – contribution of solid state NMR to study dynamically rich protein complexes" at the Alpine SSNMR Conference in Chamonix, France. Ray Dupree, Emily Corlett, Anjali Menakath and Becky Stevens gave round table style talks.

 
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7th August 2017
JACS paper published

A paper "Characterization of protein-protein interfaces in large complexes by solid state NMR solvent paramagnetic relaxation enhancements" by Carl Öster, Simone Kosol, Jonathan Lamley, Dinu Iuga and Józef Lewandowski in collaboration with Madl and Samoson groups was published in JACS. Read it here.

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26th July 2017
RACI Cetenary Congress in Melbourne

Józef Lewandowski gave an invited lecture entitled "Protein stucture and dynamics though the lense of solid-state NMR" at the RACI Centenary Congress in Melbourne, Australia.

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3rd July 2017
Plenary talk at EUROMAR

Józef Lewandowski gave a plenary lecture entitled "NMR-led investigations of biomolecular complexes" at EUROMAR in Warsaw, Poland.

14th June 2017
JACS paper published

A collaborative paper involving Lewandowski group and Ladizhansky group entitled "Solid-state NMR provides evidence for small-amplitude slow domain motions in a multi-spanning transmembrane α-helical protein" has been published in JACS. Read it here.

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16th May 2017

Marlow Award talk at King's College

Józef Lewandowski gave an RSC Marlow Award lecture in King's College London.

11-13th April 2017
Faraday Joint Interest Group Conference 2017, Coventry

Józef Lewandowski received the RSC Marlow Award and gave a plenary lecture entitled "Protein stucture and dynamics though the lense of solid-state NMR". Becky presented poster.

 

6th April 2017
UK 850 MHz Solid-State NMR Facility annual symposium

Carl gave a talk at the seventh annual symposium of the UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR facility, that took place at the University of Warwick.

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26-31 March 2017
ENC, Asilomar, USA

Steven gave an invited talk: "Solid-State MAS NMR of Guanosine Self-Assembly, Organometallic
Hydrates and Polyaniline Nanostructures" and Angelo, Sławek and Trent presented posters at the 58th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference in Asilomar, Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
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22-24th March 2017
Direct Biosythesis V, Coventry

Alma, Angelo, Józef, Simone and Sławek presented posters at the Direct Biosynthesis V at University of Warwick.

16th March 2017

ERC day at the IECB in Bordeaux, France

Józef gave an invited talk entitled "Enacyloxin polyketide synthase - NMR-led integrated structural approach to enable synthetic biology" at the ERC Day at the IECB in Bordeaux, France.

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15th March 2017

Paper featured in Wiley’s spectroscopyNow webpage

Manju and Steven’s VIP paper Co-existence of Distinct Supramolecular Assemblies in Solution and in the Solid State in Chem Eur J has been featured in the NMR section of Wiley’s spectroscopyNow webpage in an article entitiled What a difference a state makes: NMR curiosity.

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16th February 2017

VIP paper featured on the cover of Chemistry European Journal

A VIP paper Co-existence of Distinct Supramolecular Assemblies in Solution and in the Solid State describing EPSRC funded research by Manju Reddy in Steven Brown’s group, in collaboration with Italian and US researchers has been featured on the cover of Chemistry European Journal. The study identified a change in the self-assembled structure of a guanosine derivative upon passing from solution to solid state and vice versa. The research was highlighted in a University press release entitled Molecular phenomenon discovered by advanced NMR facility.

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14th January 2017
Paper featured in CrystEngComm inside cover

A paper in CrystEngComm by Ann-Christin and Steven in collaboration with Dave Walker at Warwick’s X-ray diffraction facility employing NMR crystallography and PXRD to investigate water molecules in orotic acid and its lithium and magnesium salts has been featured as the insider cover.

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21st December 2016
Nature Communications paper published

A Nature Communications paper Folding of xylan onto cellulose fibrils in plant cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR showed that xylan, which forms a threefold helical screw in solution, flattens into a twofold helical screw ribbon to bind intimately to cellulose microfibrils in the plant cell wall solving a long-standing mystery of how key sugars in cells bind to form strong, indigestible materials. The research, led by Ray Dupree and his son Paul (University of Cambridge), was highlighted in a University press release entitled ‘Glue’ that makes plant cell walls strong could hold the key to wooden skyscrapers. Other Warwick authors are Steven, Ann-Christin and Oigres.

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16th December 2016
Christmas celebrations

The solid-state NMR group enjoyed a 3-course Christmas dinner at The Tame Hare in Leamington Spa.

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16th December 2016

International Symposium Connecting EPR, ssNMR and DNP for the Study of complex Biomolecules

Józef gave a talk entitled "Structure and dynamics of protein complexes by solid-state NMR" at the International Symposium Connecting EPR, ssNMR and DNP for the Study of complex Biomolecules at Ringberg Castle in Germany.

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15th December 2016
NMRDG Xmas meeting

Anjali, Emily, Sarah and Steven attended the NMRDG Xmas meeting in London.

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14th December 2016
BRSG Christmas meeting

Anjali, Emily, Sarah, Andy, Ray and Steven attended the BRSG Christmas meeting in London entitled “Applications of Magnetic Resonance in Materials Science”.

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2nd December 2016
Institute of Physics blog

Steven Brown is one of seven UK Physicists quoted in an Institute of Physics blog about their Brexit concerns: “It is especially sad that the UK will no longer be able to shape EU science policy – the UK has been a major driving force in ensuring that European Research Council fellowships are the gold standard of scientific research excellence. The impact on the UK of not being able to shape and influence EU science policy – notably, pushing for the primacy of scientific excellence – will be detrimental.”

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31st October 2016
Article published in Analytical Chemistry

An article was published in Analytical Chemistry about a new 14N-1H DQ three-dimensional pulse sequence that was developed when Manju visited JEOL in Japan to use their fast MAS probes.

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6th October 2016
Habilitation of Pierre Thureau

Steven Brown was a member of the evaluation committee for the Habilitation of Pierre Thureau in Marseille.

 

6th October 2016

Welcome to new group members

Welcome to the new PhD students Emily Corlett, Koorosh Fatemian, Nicole Kelly and Sarah Mann and MChem students Chris Cousins, Faaria Iqbal and Helen Smith.

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3rd October 2016
Congratulations to Ann-Christin Pöppler

Congratulations to Ann-Christin Pöppler who has taken up her first independent research post at the University of Wuerzburg.

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28th September 2016
Steven Brown gave a talk at the pNMR meeting in Venice

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled “Ab Initio Random Structure Searching (AIRSS), Powder X-ray Diffraction and NMR Crystallography for Molecular Organic Solids” at the pNMRLink opens in a new window meeting in Venice.

Remembering Erwin Hahn

Sadly, on Sept 22 Erwin Hahn (aged 95) passed away.

In 1949, shortly after completing his Ph.D. developing pulsed NMR, Hahn discovered the spin echo. He found that after decay of the initial pulse response (now called FID) the NMR signal could be made to reappear, as if by magic, following a second pulse some time later. The reappearing signal (effectively time has been reversed) is the echo, which he modestly said was discovered accidentally because he couldn't make the signal go away and in the end had to resort to explaining the phenomenon.

Hahn's scientific achievements, as well as discovering the spin echo, include development of cross-polarisation (the Hartmann-Hahn condition) and the prediction and demonstration of self-induced optical transparency.

He has many scientific children, grandchildren, etc. One of them is Ray Dupree. In the light of his achievements and the strength of magnetic resonance at Warwick, the University awarded him an honorary degree in 2007. Below you can see the picture after the awarding ceremony where Erwin Hahn "hangs out" with Ray, Steven, Mark Newton and Mark Smith.

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15th September 2016
eMagRes article published

A review article entitled "Relaxation-Based Magic-Angle Spinning NMR Approaches for Studying Protein Dynamics" authored by Jonathan Lamley and Józef Lewandowski was published in Encyclopedia of Magnetic Resonance.

15th September 2016
FGMR Discussion Meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany

Józef gave an invited plenary lecture entitled "Structure and dynamics of protein complexes by solid-state NMR" at the 38th FGMR Discussion Meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.

 

15th September 2016

Steven Brown, John Hanna, Jozef Lewandowski, Ray Dupree and Dinu Iuga are signatories to a submissionLink opens in a new window by over 20 UK academics to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Leaving the EU.

11th-15th September 2016
SMASH Conference in La Jolla, USA

Congrtulations to Azz, who won a prize for the best poster at the SMASH conference in La Jolla, CA, USA.

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4th-8th September 2016

SMARTER Conference in Bayreuth, Germany

Steven and Ann gave talks, Anjali, Miri, Tiago and Tomasz presented posters and Trent attended the SMARTER (Structure elucidation by combining Magnetic Resonance, Computational Modelling and Diffraction) 5 conference in Bayreuth, Germany.

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1st September
Aiden passed his PhD viva

Congratulations to Aiden Robertson on passing his PhD viva, with external examiner Jim Tucker (University of Birmingham) and Jozef as internal examiner.

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21st-26th August 2016
International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kyoto, Japan

Angelo, Carl, Simone and Józef presented posters at the ICMRBS in Kyoto, Japan.

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17th-21st July 2016

Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Breckenridge, CO, USA

Ray, John, Józef and James attended RMC in Breckenridge, CO, USA. Józef gave an invited talk entitled "Energy landscapes, anisotropic motions and protein dynamics in large protein complexes". Ray, John and James presented posters.

 
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7th July 2016

EUROMAR in Aarhus, Denmark

Steven Brown gave an invited talk at the EUROMAR conference in Aarhus, Denmark entitled “Application of Solid-State NMR to Pharmaceuticals, Polymers, Self-Assembly and Plant Cell Walls”. He also attended an editorial board meeting of the journal Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance that took place at the conference.

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4th July 2016

UK-Japan Symposium in Leicester

Alma, Angelo, Becky, Simone and Józef attended the UK-Japan Symposium: "From single molecules to cells and tissues" in Leicester. Józef gave an invited talk entitled "Structure and dynamics of protein complexes by solid-state NMR".

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30th June 2016
Daniel receives IAS Early Career Fellowship

Congratulations to Daniel on the awarding of the IAS Early Career Fellowship.

 
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23rd June 2016

NMRDG PhD event in Oxford

Anjali, Azz, Alma and Becky all presented posters at the NMRDG PhD event in Oxford. .

 
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9th June 2016

Nature Communications paper published

Ray and Steven are co-authors on a multi-institution paper entitled Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis. This paper identified proteins that regulate cellulose assembly in plants, important in understanding how plants produce their biomass.

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6th June 2016
Steven Brown gave a talk at the Canadian Society of Chemistry conference

Steven Brown gave an invited talk entitled “Application of High-Field Solid-state NMR to Pharmaceuticals, Polymers, Supramolecular Self-assembly and Plant Cell Walls” at the 99th conference of the Canadian Society for Chemistry conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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1st June 2016
Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium


Aiden, Azz and Daniel gave talks. Becky and Richard presented posters. Congratulations to Jonathan for winning the Faculty Prize for the best PhD thesis and Daniel for the best talk in the chemical biology session.

Jozef

9th May 2016

RSC Marlow Award for Józef

Józef Lewandowski was awarded RSC Marlow Award for the "development and applications of solid-state NMR methodology to study structure and dynamics of biomolecules." Press release.

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12th April 2016
57th ENC in Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Józef Lewandowski gave an invited talk entitled "Energy Landscapes, Anisotropic Motions and Dynamics in Large Protein Complexes" at the 57th ENC in Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

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7th April 2016

UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR national facility annual symposium

Ann and John gave talks at the sixth annual symposium of the UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR facility, that took place at the University of Warwick.

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7th April 2016
TRSC Protein Dynamics Workshop in Les Houches, France

Józef Lewandowski gave an invited talk entitled "Hierarchy of Protein Motions from Solid-State NMR Measurements" at the TRSC Protein Dynamics Workshop in Les Houches, France.

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6th April 2016
Ann gave a talk at the British Crystallography Association meeting in Nottingham

Ann gave a talk entitled “Good Cop and Bad Cop” – NMR Crystallographic and Powder X-ray Analysis of Lithium and Magnesium Orotate Hydrates” at the British Crystallography Association meeting in Nottingham, with Aiden, Anjali, Gemma and Tomasz all also attending.

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21st March 2016
Tiago and Tomasz join the group

Welcome to Professor Tiago Venâncio and Dr Tomasz Pawlak who have joined the group to work with Steven Brown on NMR crystallography of pharmaceuticals as a visiting academic and researcher from Brazil and Poland.

2nd February 2016
New WB 700 MHz magnet delivered

Today a new Bruker WB 700 MHz magnet (funded in part by an ERC grant to Józef Lewandowski and in part by the University of Warwick) was delivered. The spectrometer will be hosted in the MAS building and will be optimised for biomolecular NMR applications. It will be equipped with tripple channel 0.7 mm, 1.3 mm, 3.2 mm MAS probes. We all are looking forward to the new and exciting science that this instrument will enable us to do.

1st February 2016
PNAS paper published

A collaborative paper involving Lewandowski group, van der Wel group (U. Pittsburgh) and Wetzel group (U. Pittsburgh) was published in the PNAS. The study entitled "Huntingtin exon 1 fibrils feature an interdigitated β-hairpin–based polyglutamine core" provides insights on structure and formation mechanism for huntingtin exon 1 fibrils implicated in Hungtington disease.

16th December 2015

Pacifichem, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk entitled "Hierarchy of picoseconds to microseconds anisotropic protein motions" at the Pacifichem in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

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14th December 2015

BRSG Christmas meeting

8 members of the Warwick solid-state NMR group attended the BRSG Christmas meeting on NMR Crystallography at the Institute of Physics in London.
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10th December 2015

Paper published with collaborators in New Zealand in the ACS journal Macromolecules on solid-state NMR characterisation of a polyaniline material.

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9th December 2015

Jonathan passed his PhD viva

Congratulations to Jonathan Lamley who passed his PhD viva with external examiner Adam Lange (FMP-Berlin) and internal examiner Steven Brown.
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16th November 2015
Trent Franks joins the group

Welcome to Trent Franks who joins the Warwick Solid-State NMR group to work with Steven Brown and Jozef Lewandowski.

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12th November 2015
Steven Brown gave a talk at Astra Zeneca

Steven Brown gave a presentation entitled “NMR Crystallography of Organic Solids” at the British Crystallographic Association Industry Group autumn meeting at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield.

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4th November 2015
Paper published in Crystal Growth & Design

A paper was publiced in Crystal Growth & Design (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.5b01440) as part of an EPSRC-funded collaboration between Warwick, Bologna (Italy) and Maryland (USA).

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2nd November 2015

Angewandte Chemie paper published

A manuscript by Jon Lamley, Carl Öster, Becky Stevens and Józef Lewandowski on the influence of different intermolecular interactions on protein dynamics was featured as a Very Important Paper in Angewandte Chemie. The paper presents first ever extensive site-specific relaxation measurements on a large non-crystalline GB1-antibody complex in a few nanomole quantities and compares them to similar measurements on crystalline GB1. The study paves the way for direct characterization of dynamics in biologically important but sensitivity-limited samples of proteins within large complexes. Read here.

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16th October

Steven Brown gave a talk at CEA, Saclay

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled “Application of High-Field Solid-State NMR to Pharmaceuticals, Supramolecular Self-Assembly and Plant Cell Walls” at CEA, Saclay.

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15th October

Meeting of the Conseil Scientifique

Steven Brown attended the meeting of the Conseil Scientifique of the French Network of High-Field NMR Facilities in Gif-sur-Yvette.

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5-6th October 2015

Inauguration of New Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Biorefinery/Green Chemistry Laboratories in Luleå, Sweden

Ray Dupree gave a talk on "Probing the Molecular Architecture of Plant Secondary Cell Walls

using 2D and 3D 13C solid state NMR" at the inauguration event in Luleå, Sweden.

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5th October

Welcome to new group members

Welcome to new PhD students Anjali and Alma and new postdoc Angelo.

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20-23rd September 2015

SMASH 2015 NMR Conference

Dinu Iuga attended the SMASH conference in Baveno, Italy and gave a talk on “Applications of High-Field Solid-State NMR to Small Organic MoleculesLink opens in a new window”.

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16th September 2015

JMR Paper published

A paper presenting results obtained by Aiden Robertson on his visit to JEOL in Japan earlier this year has been published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance.

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8th September 2015

37th FGMR Discussion Meeting

Steven Brown gave a talk entitled: “Application of High-Field Solid-State NMR to Pharmaceuticals, Supramolecular Self-Assembly and Plant Cell Walls” at the 37th FGMR Discussion Meeting (Joint conference of the German & UK Magnetic Resonance Societies) in Darmstadt, Germany.

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2nd September 2015

PhD day at AstraZeneca

Steven Brown and Miri Zilka attended the PhD day at AstraZeneca in Macclesfield – Miri gave a poster entitled “Interpreting Solid to Molecule Differences of NMR Parameters in Molecular Crystals”

13-17th September 2015
Alpine NMR conference in Chamonix

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk "Protein motions and intermolecular interactions: large protein complex vs. crystal". Ray Dupree, Ann-Christin Pöppler and Miri Zilka presented posters.

 

19th August 2015

Group seminar by Pierre Thureau

Pierre Thureau from Marseille, France gave a seminar to the group about his latest DNP work.

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17th August 2015

CASTEP workshop in Oxford

Ann-Christin, Gemma, Aiden and Miri attended the CASTEP workshop in Oxford.

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16th August 2015
ISMAR conference in Shanghai

Józef Lewandowski received the ISMAR Anatole Abragam Prize and delivered the Abragam lecture entitled "Protein structural dynamics through the lens of solid state NMR" at the ISMAR Conference in Shanghai.

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22nd July 2015
CCPN meeting in Buxton

Steven Brown gave a lecture entitled “NMR Crystallography of Organic Solids” at the CCPN meeting in Buxton, where Becky Stevens also presented a poster entitled “Quantitative Determination of Site-Specific Activation Energies in a Protein Backbone”

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17th July 2015

PCCP paper published

A paper by Jonathan Lamley, Matthew Lougher and Józef Lewandowski in collaboration with Stephan Grzesiek's group (Basel, Switzerland) on combined analysis of multifield 13C' and 15N relaxation to characterise protein backbone dynamics was published in PCCP. The study sheds light on how the same complex motions will be manifested in fundamentally different ways in solution and solid-state relaxation. The presented approach leads to a more accurate quantification of both fast and slow protein motions that are often of crucial functional importance. The study also validates use of 13C’ R as a quantitative probe of slow dynamics. Read more here.

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25th June 2015
Azzedine awarded Waldner Teaching Prize

Azz was awarded Waldner Teaching Prize for demonstrating in year 2 undergraduate chemistry labs.

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25th June 2015
Lewandowski gave an invited talk at the ISMEC

Józef Lewandowski gave an invited talk entitled "Application of paramagnetic metal complexes to study structures and dynamics of protein complexes in the solid state’" at the International Symposium on Metal Complexes in Wrocław, Poland.

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24th June 2015
Lewandowski awarded Anatole Abragam Prize

Józef Lewandowski was awarded Anatole Abragam Prize of International Society of Magnetic Resonance "for his outstanding accomplishments to date and his promise in the development of solid-state NMR methodology and its application to the study of biomolecular structure and dynamics." The prize will be presented in August during ISMAR Conference in Shanghai.

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16th June 2015

Solid state NMR workshop in Brazil

Steven Brown gave a workshop on Solid-State NMR at UFRJ Rio de Janiero, Brazil

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10th June 2015

Lewandowski gave an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference

Józef Lewandowski gave an invited talk entitled "Direct Observation of Hierarchical Protein Dynamics" at the Gordon Research Conference on Computational Aspects - Biomolecular NMR in Il Ciocco, Italy.

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9th June 2015
Steven Brown gave a lecture at the 15th AUREMN NMR Users Meeting

Steven Brown gave a lecture entitled “Applications of High-Resolution 1H Solid-State NMR Methods to Supramolecular Self Assembly, Plant Cell Walls and Pharmaceuticals” at the 15th AUREMN NMR Users Meeting at Angra dos Reis, Brazil

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3rd June 2015

Steven Brown gave invited lecture at Danish Center for Ultahigh Field NMR Spectroscopy

Steven Brown gave an invited lecture entitled “Application of High-Field Solid-State NMR to Pharmaceuticals, Supramolecular Self-Assembly and Plant Cell Walls” at the Inauguration of the Danish Center for Ultrahigh Field NMR Spectroscopy in Aarhus.

1st May 2015

Lewandowski in Science on hierarchical protein dynamics

Józef Lewandowski in collaboration with Lyndon Emsley (EPFL, Lausanne/ENS-Lyon) and Martin Blackledge (IBS, Grenoble) reports in Science on a direct observation of hierarchy of protein and solvent motions in protein conformational energy landscape. The findings of the study employing a series of variable temperature magic angle spinning multinuclear NMR relaxation measurements on a nanocrystalline protein reconcile divergent interpretations from techniques that are individually sensitive to dynamic phenomena occurring on different time scales and at different locations in protein-solvent systems. Read more here.

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16th April 2015

ENC in California

Manju gave a poster entitled “Understanding Self-Assembly Process at Molecular Level: Structure and Function of Guanosine Derivatives” at the Experimental NMR conference in Asilomar, California.

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16th April 2015

Crystallisation & Polymorphism for Discovery Chemists in Cambridge

Aiden, Ann-Chrisitn and Gemma attended the SCI event on Crystallisation & Polymorphism for Discovery Chemists in Cambridge.

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26th March 2015

Annual Symposium of the UK 850 MHz Solid-State NMR Facility

At the annual symposium of the UK 850 MHz Solid-State NMR Facility, Manjunatha Reddy gave a talk entitled “Understanding Self-Assembly Process at Molecular Level: Structure and Function of Guanosine Derivatives”

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25th March 2015

Publication featured as ACS Editors’ choice article

A publication in Biochemistry entitled: "Probing the Molecular Architecture of Arabidopsis thaliana Secondary Cell Walls Using Two- and Three-Dimensional 13C Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy" has been featured as an ACS Editors’ choice article – this represents a collaboration between Warwick and the group of Professor Paul Dupree in Cambridge.

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20th March 2015

Steven Brown was opponent at PhD exam in Stockholm

Steven Brown was opponent at the PhD exam of Boris Kharhov (supervisor Sergey Dvinskikh) in the Department of Chemistry at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.

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2nd February 2015
Aiden and Jon visit JEOL

Aiden Robertson and Jon Lamley visited JEOL in Japan to carry out fast MAS experiments at 600 and 700 MHz.

 

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22th January 2015

Ann-Christin is awarded a Newton International Fellowship

Ann-Christin has been awarded a Newton International Fellowship by the Royal Society. The project is "Organometallics in the Solid State: Advanced Structure Elucidation by NMR Crystallography", supervised by Steven Brown.

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15th January 2015

Scott King Graduates

Congratulations to Dr Scott King who graduated today! We wish him every success in the future.

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12th January 2015

Simone and Kristian joins the group

Welcome to Simone Kosol who is starting a postdoc with Józef Lewandowski and Kristian Barnsley who is starting a master project with Steven Brown.

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8th December 2014

Seminar at Cardiff University

Steven Brown gave a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, Cardiff University entitled: “Solid-State NMR and NMR Crystallography of Organic Solids: Probing Structure-Directing Interactions in Pharmaceuticals and Supramolecular Chemistry”

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3rd December 2014

Rob Kelly defended his PhD thesis

Congratulations to Rob Kelly who successfully defended his thesis today.

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11th November 2014

JACS Spotlights paper - Lewandowski group

A paper by Jonathan Lamley, Dinu Iuga, Carl Öster and Józef Lewandowski in collaboration with Stephan Grzesiek (Basel, Switzerland) and Ago Samoson (Tallinn, Estonia) on quantitative NMR spectroscopy of large protein complexes at fast spinning frequencies has been published in JACS. The approach described in the manuscript enables obtaining structural and dynamics measurements on hundreds of kDa protein complexes in quantities as small 2 nanomoles.

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17th September 2014

pNMR Conference in Cambridge

Józef Lewandowski gave invited lecture entitled "Applications of Paramagnetic Effects to Study Protein Complexes by Solid-state NMR" at Paramagnetic NMR Conference in Cambridge. Sam Page and Greg Rees presented posters.

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1st to 4th September 2014
SMARTER4 Conference

There were 13 attendees from Warwick at the SMARTER4 meeting in Durham. Manju gave a talk entitled "Guanosine self-assembly: characterizing structure-directing non-covalent interactions through solid-state NMR and computational studies".

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1st - 3rd September 2014

CCPN conference Scarborough

Józef Lewandowski gave an invited talk entitled “Fast magic angle spinning: from protein dynamics to structural studies of large protein complexes in nanomolar quantities" at the 2014 CCPN conference in Scarborough. Matt Lougher and Carl Öster presented posters.

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26th August
Ann-Christin Pöppler joins the group

Welcome to Ann-Christin who joins the group as a Feodor Lynen fellow funded by the Humboldt Foundation.

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26th August

JACS spotlight paper

A paper in collaboration with Jeff Davis (Maryland, USA) resulting from an EPSRC-funded project of guanosine self-assembly has been published in JACS and featured as a spotlight article.

greg_face

16th July 2014

BRSG Summer meeting

Miri Zilka and Greg Rees gave lectures at the BRSG Summer meeting in Nottingham. At the BRSG AGM, Steven Brown stood down from the BRSG committee after 9 years of service (Secretary 2007 to 2010, Chair 2010 to 2013.

euromar

30th June 2014

Invited lecture at EUROMAR

Steven Brown gave an invited lecture entitled "Applications of High-Resolution 1H Solid-State NMR methods to supramolecular self-assembly and Pharmaceuticals" at the EUROMAR conference in Zurich.

Gemma poster

25th June 2014

Members of the group gave talks and presented posters at the NMRDG Postgraduate meeting in Nottingham

Aiden Robertson and Greg Rees gave talks entitled "Characterising Molecular Self-Assembly by High Resolution 1H Solid-State NMR" and "Characterisation of platinum-based fuel cell catalyst materials using 195Pt wideline Solid-State NMR". Miri Zilka and Gemma Candy also presented posters. 10 members of the group attended the meeting.

nmr football team

24th June 2014

NMR football team wins silver medal

The NMR 5-a-side football team came in second place in the Warwick 5-a-side cup. They also reached the Champions League quarter final after winning their league. Aiden Robertson, Stephen Day, Rob Kelly, Jonathan Lamley, Frederik Roemer, Jimmy Edgell and Carl Öster played for the team.

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20th June 2014

Seminar at UNED, Madrid

Steven Brown gave a seminar entitled “Solid-State NMR of Organic Solids: Probing Structure-Directing Interactions in Pharmaceuticals and Supramolecular Chemistry” at the Department of Chemistry, UNED, Madrid, Spain at the invitation of long standing collaborator, Professor Rosa Claramunt.

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12th June 2014

Workshop at AstraZeneca, Macclesfield

Miri Zilka gave a lecture entitled “Modelling dissolution & crystal growth” at a workshop on understanding Dissolution attended by researchers from Warwick, Nottingham and Sheffield Universities.

 

Postdoc position available in Lewandowski group

Postdoctoral position in structural biology of trans-AT polyketide synthases is available in Lewandowski group is available from July 1 2014.

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/condensedmatt/nmr/jobs

Chianti

3rd June 2014
Józef Lewandowski gave a talk at Chianti EMBO Workshop

Józef gave an invited talk entitled "Protein Dynamics in the Solid State" at the Chianti EMBO Workshop on magnetic resonance in structural biology, which took place in Grosseto, Italy.

http://events.embo.org/14-mr/

mariecurie

18th May 2014

Marie Curie meeting in Venice

Miri Zilka, Carl Öster, Steven Brown and Józef Lewandowski and other researchers from Warwick and industrial collaborators from e.g., AstraZeneca and Pfizer attended a 2-day meeting for the Centre for Analytical Science Innovative Doctoral Programme at Warwick in Venice.

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16th May 2014

European Symposium on Biological and Organic Chemistry (ESBOC), Gregynog, Wales.

Manju and Aiden gave posters at the ESBOC meeting.

beyond the molecule

1st May 2014

Manju attended the EPSRC Directed Assembly Network Beyond the Molecule meeting

Manju attended the EPSRC Directed Assembly Network Beyond the Molecule meeting entitled Observing, Measuring and Controlling Molecular Assembly at the National Physics Laboratory in London

http://beyondthemolecule.org.uk/d6/node/29

becky_new

15th April 2014

Becky Stevens joins the group

Becky will be doing her AS:MIT project on "Characterization of protein motions with 13C relaxation measurements in the solid state" supervised by Józef Lewandowski.

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14th April 2014

Greg Rees joins the group

Greg Rees rejoins the NMR group to work on the development and application of solid state NMR in the study of catalytic materials with John Hanna.

NMRDG

10th April 2014

Members of the group attended NMRDG Spring Meeting in Cambridge

Matt Lougher and Carl Öster attended the NMR in Structural Biology conference organised by the NMR Discussion Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge.

http://www-keeler.ch.cam.ac.uk/NMRDG/

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9th April 2014

Hiroki Takahashi gave a talk at Warwick

Hiroki Takahashi returned to Warwick to give a talk entitled “DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR spectroscopy and magnetic resonance force microscopy for structural biology”

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3rd April 2014
Jon Lamley and Stephen Day gave talks at the fourth annual symposium of the UK 850 MHz Solid-State NMR Facility at the University of Warwick.

Stephen Day gave a talk entitled “A Mutlinuclear NMR study of Sr2Sc2-yGayO5 Perovskite Fuel Cell Materials & Rare-Earth Containing GeS2-Ga2S3 Chalcogenide Glasses for Bright Fibre Laser Devices” and Jon Lamley gave a talk entitled “Solid-State NMR of Nanomolar Quantities of Protein Complexes at 60-100 kHz Magic Angle Spinning”

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/condensedmatt/nmr/850/annual-symposia/2014-annual-symposium/

soton

31st March 2014

Members of the group attended the Southampton NMR Opening Event

Manju, Gemma, Sam and Josh attended the opening event for the brand new NMR facility at the University of Southampton.

http://blog.soton.ac.uk/magres/?page_id=2347

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26th March 2014

Józef Lewandowski and Jon Lamley attended ENC in Boston

Józef Lewandowski gave a talk entitled “Protein Dynamics in the Solid State” at the ENC in Boston. Jon Lamley gave a poster on the subject “Solid-State NMR of Nanomolar Quantities of Protein Complexes at 60-100 kHz Magic Angle Spinning”

http://www.enc-conference.org/Conference/GeneralInformation/tabid/157/Default.aspx

bbc

24th March 2014
Members of the NMR group appeared on BBC Midlands Today

Members of the NMR group appeared on BBC Midlands Today in a “Made in the Midlands” feature about the Birmingham Science City (http://www.birminghamsciencecity.co.uk/Link opens in a new window) project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFWdn10Rj78&feature=youtu.be

marseille

21st March 2014

Steven Brown gave a seminar at Aix-Marseille University

Invited by Pierre Thureau, Steven Brown gave a seminar entitled "Solid-State NMR of Organic Solids: Probing Structure-Directing Interactions in Pharmaceuticals and Supramolecular Chemistry"

http://sacs-lcp.univ-provence.fr/document.php?pagendx=10293&project=sacs-lcp

rhodopsin

27th January 2014
Paper published and highlighted in 'JACS Spotlights'

A new paper about characterisation of site-specific molecular motions of a 7-helix membrane protein within a lipid bilayer using solid-state NMR measurements has been published in JACS (read article). The article was highlighted in JACS Spotlights (read the Spotlights article).

Title: Conformational Dynamics of a Seven Transmembrane Helical Protein Anabaena Sensory Rhodopsin Probed by Solid-State NMR

Authors:Daryl B. Good, Shenlin Wang, Meaghan E. Ward, Jochem Struppe, Leonid S. Brown, Józef R. Lewandowski and Vladimir Ladizhansky

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6th January 2014
Gemma Joins our Group

Gemma Candy has joined our group to study for an EPSRC CASE funded PhD with GSK, supervised by Steven Brown.

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6th January 2014
David Bryce visits our group as an IAS Fellow

David Bryce from the University of Ottawa, Canada is visiting our group from 6th January to 29th January as an IAS Fellow. As part of this visit a symposium has been organised entitled "NMR Crystallography: Combining Experiment and Calculation".
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16th December
Group attends the BRSG Christmas Meeting

The group attended the BRSG Christmas Meeting held at the IOP. The conference titles was "Signal Enhancement Methods in Magnetic Resonance".

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12th November
3 Talks Given and Group Attends Bruker Users' Meeting

The group attended the 2013 Bruker Users' Meeting held at UK Headquarters of Bruker. Manjunatha Reddy, Stephen Day and Jonathan Lamley all gave talks.

Manjunatha Reddy: Applications of High-Resolution 1H Solid-State NMR Methods to Characterising Supramolecular Self-Assembly
Stephen Day: A Multinuclear Solid State NMR and Density Functional Theory Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Group I Hydrogen Dibenzoates
Jonathan Lamley: Applications of Fast Magic Angle Spinning to Protein NMR

1312-100

3rd December
New console delivered

A new Bruker Avance III HD console has been delivered and installed for the 100 MHz system. The new console consists of two 6-405 MHz 1kW amplifiers and a BCU II for variable temperature experiments.

1312 sam page

2nd December
New PhD student starts in the group

Sam Page has joined the group to study for a PhD with John Hanna on Low Field 7Li and 31P MAS NMR Studies of Paramagnetic Olivine and Substituted Olivine-Based Battery Materials.

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28th October
New paper published and listed as 'Hot Article'

A new paper (DOI) about research supported by CCP-NC has been published in CrystEngComm and has been listed as a 'Hot Article'.

Title: An NMR crystallography DFT-D approach to analyse the role of intermolecular hydrogen bonding and π–π interactions in driving cocrystallisation of indomethacin and nicotinamide

Authors: Dmytro V. Dudenko, Jonathan R. Yates, Kenneth D. M. Harris and Steven P. Brown

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23rd October
Steven Brown attended the meeting of the Couseil Scientifique in Bordeaux.

Steven Brown attended the meeting of the Conseil Scientifique of the French Network of High-Field NMR Facilities in Bordeaux.

10th October
8 New Projects Students Join the Group.

8 new project students start their final year projects in our group.
(Left to Right) James Edgell, Scarlett Rose Boiardi, Sam Doughty, John Potter, Emily Hughes, Alex Cobb, Zoe Libman and Sam Doughty.

1310-newPhD

30th September
Tom Hooper, Azzedine Dabo, Daniel Griffiths and Maria Vlachou start PhDs

We welcome new and previous members back to study PhDs in our group.

1309-smash

24th September
Steven Brown Chairs Session at SMASH

Steven Brown chaired a workshop entitled Solid-State NMR in Pharma at the SMASH conference in Santiago da Compostela, Spain.

8th to 12th September
Group attends the 8th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR

The group attended the 8th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR. Among others attending Aiden Robertson, Jon Lamley, Robert Kelly, Dinu Iuga and Dmytro Dudenko presented posters.

1st September
Carl Oster and Miri Zilka join our group.

Carl Oster and Miri Zilka join our group to study for PhDs through the Warwick Centre for Analytical Science, Innovative Doctoral Training Program.

1308-ssnmr

22nd August
Article appears in Top 5 Highly Downloaded Articles.

Steven Brown's article “Applications of high-resolution 1H solid-state NMR” published in Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance appears in the Top 5 Highly Downloaded Article for the first half of 2013.

1308-oxford

7th August
Steven Brown talks at the ICCOSS.

Steven Brown gave a lecture at the International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS) at St Catherine's College, Oxford entitled Solid-state NMR spectroscopy of organic solids: probing structure-directing interactions.

Dymtro Dudenko also presented a poster.

1307-jpc

30th July
Paper Published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (DOI)

A paper has been published after a successful visit from Elisa Carignani from Marco Geppi’s group in Pisa.

Title: Strong Intermolecular Ring Current Influence on 1H Chemical Shifts in Two Crystalline Forms of Naproxen: a Combined Solid-State NMR and DFT Study.

Authors: Elisa Carignani, Silvia Borsacchi, Jonathan P. Bradley, Steven P. Brown, and Marco Geppi.

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17th July
Lyndon Emsley visits our group.

Professor Lyndon Emsley from Université de Lyon visited our group, as part of this visit Lyndon gave a talk titled "Surface Enhanced NMR Spectroscopy".

1307-euromar

30th June - 5th July Józef Lewandowski gives a talk at Euromar 2013

Józef Lewandowski presented a talk at Euromar 2013 held in Hersonissos, Crete. Józef's talk was titled "Site-Specific Protein Dynamics in the Solid State Probed by 13C and 15N Relaxation Measurements Employing Magic Angle Spinning Frequencies up to 100 kHz".

John Hanna also presented a poster titled "A Solid State 31P, 43Ca and 29Si MAS and DOR NMR, and GIPAW DFT Study of A-Tricalcium Phosphate and Si-Substituted A-Tricalcium Phosphate Bioactive Materials"

1306 Tom Tam

12th June
Tom Tam successfully defends his thesis.

Tom Tam successfully defended his thesis titled "Overhauser Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation Studies in Solution-State at 3.4T" and managed the impressive feat of having no corrections.

1305-pccp

21st May
Paper appears Recent HOT PCCP articles blog.

A Paper titled "Spectral assignments and NMR parameter–structure relationships in borates using high-resolution 11B NMR and density functional theory" by Oliver L. G. Alderman, Dinu Iuga, Andrew P. Howes, Kevin J. Pike, Diane Holland and Ray Dupree (DOI) has appeared in a Recent Hot PCCP articles blog by Rowan Frame, Development Editor for PCCP.

1305-rio

21st May
Steven Brown gives an invited lecture at the 18th ISMAR Meeting in Brazil.

3 Members of our group attend the 18th International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR) meeting held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Steven Brown gave an invited lecture titled "14N-1H Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy of Organic Solids" and Scott King and Zhong-Jie Lin presented posters.

1307-jpc

3rd May
Paper published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry (DOI)

As part of the Collaborative Computational Project for NMR Crystallography (CCP NC) a paper has been published in the Journal of Physics Chemistry C.

Title: Exploiting the Synergy of Powder X-ray Diffraction and Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy in Structure Determination of Organic Molecular Solids.

Authors: Dmytro V. Dudenko, P. Andrew Williams, Colan E. Hughes, Oleg N. Antzutkin, Sitaram P. Velaga, Steven P. Brown, and Kenneth D. M. Harris.

1304-JRL

26th April
Paper published in Accounts of Chemical Research (DOI)

Title: Advances in Solid-State Relaxation Methodology for Probing Site-Specific Protein Dynamics.

Author: Józef Lewandowski

1304 Azz

15th April
Azzedine Dabo joins our group.

Azzedine Dabo joins our group to do a project titled" Solid State NMR based approaches for facilitating chromatography method development." as part of an MSc in Analytical Science Methods and Instrumental Techniques.

11th April
Warwick hosts the UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR facility annual symposium.

The UK 850 MHz solid-state NMR facility hosted its annual symposium at Warwick University with Józef Lewandowski and Rob Kelly giving talks titled "Fast Magic Angle Spinning at High Fields: Advancements in 1H detection and Protein Dynamics" and "Exploring the Structure of Alzheimer’s Amyloid Aggregates Using High Field Solid-State NMR" respectively.

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3rd April
James MacDonald successfully defends his thesis.

James MacDonald successfully defended his thesis titled "Multinuclear Solid State NMR Studies of α-Tricalcium Phosphate and Silicon Substituted α-Tricalcium Phosphate"

1304 manju

1st April
Dr Manjunatha Gollapalli Narayana Reddy joins our group.

Dr Manjunatha Gollapalli Narayana Reddy has joined the group to work on an EPSRC funded project titled "Switchable & Biomimetic Self-Assembly of Guanosines: Characterising the Interplay of Structure-Directing Non-Covalent Interactions by Solid-State NMR". Manju joins us from the Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles ISCN/CNRS, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau.

1303-dharmesh

4th March
Dr Dharmesh Patel joins our group.

Dr Dharmesh Patel joins our group as part of a collaborative project between Warwick and the Dupree Group at the University of Cambridge. Investigating secondary plant cell walls through the use of 2D and 3D 13C solid-state NMR in order to gain an understanding of the structural organisation of carbohydrates in the Arabidopsis cell wall.

1303-mol-pharm

9th January
Paper Published in Molecular Pharmaceutics(DOI)

Title: Probing Hydrogen Bonding in Cocrystals and Amorphous Dispersions Using 14N–1H HMQC Solid-State NMR.

Authors: Andrew S. Tatton, Tran N. Pham, Frederick G. Vogt, Dinu Iuga, Andrew J. Edwards, and Steven P. Brown.

1301 SSNMR

1st January
Steven Brown joins the editorial board of the journal Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

Steven Brown has accepted an invitation to join the editorial board of the journal Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.

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