21st Conference of National Magnetic Resonance Society, India; NMRS-2015
March 6-9, 2015,
Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar-143 005 (India)
Scientific Programme
Friday, March 6, 2015
2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
4.00 pm – 4.40 pm
4.40 pm – 5.20 pm
5.20 pm – 5.50 pm
5.50 pm – 6.20 pm
6.20 pm – 6.50 pm
6.50 pm – 7.20 pm
Registration
Inauguration
Chair: Prof. C. L. Khetrapal
Inaugural Lecture by Dr. Bernhard Blümich: Dynamic Phenomena by Compact NMR: Reaction Kinetics and Moisture
Transport
Tea
Session I: Chair: Prof. Anil Kumar
IT-1: Jeffrey Reimer
What NMR Can Tell Us About Metal Organic Frameworks
IT-2: N. Chandrakumar
Everyman’s NMR
IT-3: RV Hosur
The Plasmodium falciparum P2 story
Dinner
Saturday, March 7, 2015
9.00 am – 9.40 am
9.40 am – 10.10 am
10.10 am – 10.40 am
10.40 am – 11.10 am
9.40 am – 10.10 am
10.10 am – 10.40 am
10.40 am – 11.10 am
11.10 am – 11.40 am
11.40 am – 12.10 pm
12.10 pm 12.40 pm
12.40 pm – 1.10 pm
11.40 am – 12.10 pm
12.10 pm - 12.40 pm
Session II: Chair : Prof. RV Hosur
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
Plenary Lecture I: Anil
Recent Developments in Quantum Information Processing by NMR
Kumar
Session III: Chair: Dr. G. S. Kapur
Venue: Conference Hall
Applications of NMR and LC-NMR spectroscopy for the detection and identification of the
IT-4: Avik Mazumder
chemicals related to the Chemical Weapons Convention
IT-5: Roberta Cipullo
NMR applications inpolyolefins: beyond resolution
IT-6: Tian Fang
Real Time Polyolefin Product Analysis With On-Line Process NMR
Session IV: Chair: Prof. B. Bluemich
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
Ultrafast multidimensional NMR: recent developments, hybrid approaches and quantitative
IT-7: Patrick Giraudeau
applications
Insights into the mechanical properties of polymers by probing their functional group, and
IT-8: T S Ajith Kumar
segmental motions using solid-state NMR
Lowering of energy barriers in disease-causing mutations facilitates formation of non-native
IT-9: Sujoy Mukherjee
conformers in transthyretin
Tea
Session V: Chair: Prof. KVR Chary
Venue: Conference Hall
Structure and Dynamics of Microtubule-Associated and HIV-1 Protein Assemblies by Magic
IT-10: Tatyana Polenova
Angle Spinning NMR Spectroscopy
A Structural Model of Neuropeptide Y in Complex with the Y2 GPCR Integrating NMR and
IT-11: Daniel Huster
Mutagenesis Data
Understanding the link between structure, dynamics and toxicity of α-Synuclein and its mutants
IT-12: Ashutosh Kumar
in PD
Session VI: Chair: Prof. N. Suryaprakash
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
IT-13: Ēriks Kupče
New Ways to Record Multi-Dimensional NMR Spectra
IT-14: Klaus Zangger
Enhancing the resolution of proton-detected NMR spectra by spatially-selective excitation
3.35 pm – 4.00 pm
IT-15: Rangeet
Spin echoes in inhomogeneous magnetic field: use of non-equidistant Pi pulses
Bhattacharyya
Lunch
Session VII: Chair: Prof. A. C. Kunwer
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
IT-16: Tye Husheer
Cryogen Free High Field NMR
IT-17 Gerhard Althoff
Recent Advances in Solid-State Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
Recent Progress of JEOL: Ultrafast MAS combined with RFDR MethodThe fast 15N/15NIT-18: Mr. Srinivasa, JEOL
chemical shift correlation experiment-Useful in the field of biological solids
IT-19: K K Bhagchandani
Five different approaches for Verification & Elucidation of unknowns; using NMR
4.00 pm – 6.00 pm
Tea and POSTER session (Poster No. 1 – 50)
12.40 pm – 1.10 pm
1.10 pm – 2.20 pm
2.20 pm – 2.45 pm
2.45 pm – 3.10 pm
3.10 pm – 3.35 pm
6.00 pm – 6.20 pm
6.20 pm – 6.40 pm
6.40 pm – 7.00 pm
7.00 pm – 8.00 pm
8.00 pm
Award Lecture Session VIII: Chair: Prof. A. S. Brar, President, NMRS India
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
CBMR Gold medal Lecture Mechanistic Structural Biology of Histone like DNA Binding protein of Helicobacter pylori:
1: Dinesh Kumar
Implication to Rational Drug Discovery
CBMR Gold medal Lecture
New Methods in Solution and DNP-Enhanced Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
2: Sachin R. Chaudhari
Jharna Rani Award Lecture:
NMR Enantiomeric Analysis and Development of New NMR Experiments
N. Lokesh
Cultural programme
Dinner
Sunday, March 8, 2015
9.00 am – 9.30 am
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Session IX: Chair: Prof. S. Subramanian
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
IT-20: S. Ragothama
NMR Contours of Peptide Geometries
IT-21: Matthias Ernst
Transient Compensation in Symmetry-Based Recoupling
10.00 am – 10.30 am
IT-22: S. Ganapathy
10.30 am – 11.30 am
Tea and POSTER Session (Poster No. 51 – 76)
11.30 am - 11.45 am
11.45 pm – 12.00 pm
12.00 pm – 12.15 pm
12.15 pm – 12.30 pm
12.30 pm – 12.45 pm
12.45 pm – 1.00 pm
1.00 pm – 2.00 pm
2.00 pm – 2.15 pm
Homo- and Heteronuclear Correlation Techniques of Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy
and Structural Characterization of Catalytically Important Materials
Session XII: Chair: Dr. Ganesh Pandey
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
Carbon Quantum Dots: A new Macromolecular crowding agent for probing in-cell like
SAOP-1: Somnath Mondal
conditions
HR-MAS NMR Metabolomics for Teratogenicity: Evaluation in Cyclophosphamide Treated
SAOP-2: Rohit Mahar
Rats
Longitudinal Changes on the DTI Measures and Histological Findings Following Mild
SAOP-3: Kavita Singh
Traumatic Brain Injury
SAOP-4: K. Sirisha
Design and study of Novel Oxetane β3-Amino Acids and α/β-Peptides
Performance of Uhrig’s Dynamic Decoupling Sequence in Suppressing Decoherence due to
SAOP-5: Arnab Chakrabarti
Translational Diffusion
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P NMR study of intact guava (psidium guajava) fruit: Effect of short term anoxia on
SAOP-6: Amey Kirwai
phosphorylated metabolite levels
Lunch
Session XIII: Chair: Prof. MPS Ishar
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
RDC-enhanced NMR spectroscopy of heterogeneous backbone secondary structures: Design
SAOP-7: Kavitha Rachineni
and accurate determination of α-helix mimicry in unnatural β/α oligo peptides
2.15 pm – 2.30 pm
2.30 pm – 2.45 pm
2.45 pm – 3.00 pm
3.00 pm – 3.15 pm
3.15 pm – 3.30 pm
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm
SAOP-8: Kanwarpal Singh
Reaction Monitoring by Desktop NMR Spectroscopy
NMR-based metabolomic approach to investigate correlations in the altered metabolic profiles of
SAOP-9: Navdeep Gogna
obese and diabetic subjects in a South Indian Asian population
SAOP-10: Asif Equbal
rCW: Towards efficient and robust heteronuclear decoupling in MAS NMR
SAOP-11: Eldho K Mathai
Modification of the CODEX experiment using symmetry sequences
Furan-Based Locked Z-Vinylogous γ-Amino Acid Stabilizing Protein α-Turn in Water-Soluble
SAOP-12: Shrikant Sharma
Cyclic α3γ Tetrapeptides
Structure and Dynamics of a putative UV inducible protein (UVI31+) from Chlamydomonas
SAOP-13: Himanshu Singh
reinhardtii that exhibits RNA and DNA endonuclease activity
Visit to Wahga Border, Golden Temple and Dinner
Monday, March 9, 2015
9.00 am – 9.40 am
Session XIV: Chair: Prof. Subodh Kumar
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
Plenary Lecture II: S. Subramanian: The development of time-domain and CW EPR Imaging and their implications
in cancer research
Session XV: Chair: Prof. K. V. Ramanathan
Venue: Conference Hall
9.40 am – 10.10 am
10.10 am – 10.30 am
IT-23: Mandar Deshmukh
Arabidopsis ta-siRNA interference pathway: DRB4’s inter-domain orientation and dsRNA recognition
OP-1: Nilamoni Nath
Application of NMR based Anisotropic Interactions from Small Molecules to a Biomolecule
10.30 am – 10.50 am
OP-2: Kaustubh R. Mote
High resolution proton-detected solid state NMR spectroscopy of fully protonated proteins at slowmoderate magic angle spinning speeds
10.50 am – 11.10 am
OP-3: Archana Sahu
9.40 am – 10.10 am
The use of quantitative NMR for the determination of memantine API and its marketed
formulations
Session XVI: Chair: Prof. Gurcharan Kaur
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
IT-24: Robert Powers
Metabolomics and Drug Discovery
10.10 am – 10.40 am
IT-25: Priyanka Sharma
10.40 am – 11.00 am
11.00 am – 11.30 am
OP-4: Arjun Sengupta
11.30 am – 12.00 am
12.00 am – 12.30 am
12.30 pm – 1.00 pm
Design and development of spin exchange optical pumping (seop) based xenon polarizer for
hyperpolarized MRI
Estimation of brain response during sleep from serum metabolome by NMR spectroscopy
Tea
Session XVII: Chair: Prof. J. Reimer
Venue: Conference Hall
Ligand-Protein Interaction Studies by NMR of Long-Lived States
IT-26: Roberto Buratto
Observation of surface sites of nanoparticles by solid-state NMR enhanced by Dynamic Nuclear
IT-27: Olivier Lafon
Polarization
Dynamic Nuclear Polarization for Structural Characterization of Functionalized Surfaces
IT-28: Moreno Lelli
Session XVIII: Chair: Dr. Matthias Ernst
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
11.30 am – 12.00 am
IT-29: KV Ramanathan
Investigation of Structure, Topology and Dynamics of Partially Ordered Phases by NMR
12.00 am – 12.30 am
12.30 pm – 12.50 pm
IT-30: T. Narasimhaswamy
Molecular Topology of Mesogens by 13C-1H Dipolar Couplings
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12.50 pm – 1.10 pm
OP-5: Nitin P. Lobo
OP-6: Shilpi Modi
1.10 pm – 2.15 pm
Lunch
C NMR Investigations and the Molecular Order of Two Ring Mesogens
Biomarkers of trait anxiety – A step ahead
Session XIX: Chair: Prof. Klaus Zangger
Venue: Conference Hall
2.15 pm – 2.45 pm
IT-31: Kavita Dorai
2.45 pm – 3.15 pm
IT-32: Navin Khaneja
3.15 pm – 3.45 pm
IT-33: Bikash Baishya
3.45 pm – 4.05 pm
4.05 pm – 4.20 pm
OP-7: Srinivas Chinthalapalli
2.15 pm – 2.45 pm
IT-34: Sathyamoorthy
Bharathwaj
2.45 pm – 3.15 pm
3.15 pm – 3.45 pm
IT-35 : Nakul C Maiti
3.45 pm – 4.05 pm
4.05 pm – 4.25 pm
4.20 pm – 5.40 pm
4.40 pm –
8.00 pm
Characterizing Multi-Qubit Entanglement and Quantifying Decoherence on NMR Quantum Information
Processors
Three Pulse Recoupling
Perfect Echo based 2D NOESY: Suppression of Zero-Quantum Artifacts and sensitivity enhancement
issues
Homonuclear decoupling in 13C-enriched molecules for spectral simplification of 13C NMR
OP-8: V Ramesh
A new pure phase method to acquire complex signal in t1 dimension
Session XX: Chair: Dr. Subash Khushu
Venue: Guru Nanak Bhavan Auditorium
IT-36: Krishna Mohan Poluri
OP-9: V. S. Chandrasekhar
Pammi
OP-10: N.C. Bhanumathi
Devi
Tea
GBM and Valedictory
session
Dinner
Structural perturbations caused by Hoogsteen base pairs in duplex DNA
Deuterium Isotope Effect on 13C Chemical Shift of Different Position of D-Ribose
Dissecting the Differential Oligomerization and Ligand Interactions of Neutrophil Activating Chemokines
Functional MRI based Localization of Emotion Perception
Natural abundance 15N NMR spectrscopic studies of selected anti-viral drugs