Program

Wednesday June 11

13:00 - 16:00Registration & coffee

16:00 - 16:15Opening words & Welcome

The XXX years of Finnish NMR symposium Mika Ala-Korpela, Computational Medicine Research Group, Helsinki University of Technology & Folkhälsan Research Center & Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

16:15 - 18:00Scientific Session I - NMR of Plants Chaired by Jouko Vepsäläinen and Sampo Mattila

16:15 - 16:40Tomatoes: NMR and MS. Good ketchup? Jacques Vervoort, Department of Biochemistry, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

16:40 - 17:00Structural elucidation of novel metabolites in strawberry accumulating after stilbene synthase gene transfer Pasi Soininen, Department of Biosciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

17:00 - 17:20NMR plant metabolomics Petri Lackman, VTT Technical Research Centre Finland, Helsinki, Finland

17:20 - 17:40Physical properties of Pinus sylvestris as studied by PGSTE NMR Päivi Kekkonen, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

17:40 - 18:00Local diffusion propagators of a fluid absorbed in wood observed by position exchange spectroscopy Ville-Veikko Telkki, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

19:00 - 24:00Activities in nature & sauna, Bruker Country House Buffer in Finnish Style, get-together party, relaxation

Thursday June 12

07:00 - 09:00Breakfast

09:00 - 11:00Scientific Session II - NMR Applications in Materials Physics Chaired by Jukka Jokisaari and Juha Vaara

09:00 - 09:40Recent results from Tallinn NMR lab Raivo Stern, National Institute of Chemical Physics & Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia

09:40 - 10:00What can relativistic effects in 1H NMR tell us about structure of polyalcohole amine complexes Michal Straka, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland & Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

10:00 - 10:20NMR studies of water in hydrophobic systems Nickolay Sergeyev, Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation

10:20 - 10:40Characterization of liquid crystals in pore glasses by means of NMR of probe atoms and molecules Pekka Tallavaara, Department of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

10:40 - 11:00Quantitative 13C-NMR and its applications on lubricant base oils Valtteri Mäkelä, Laboratory of Organic Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

11:00 - 11:30Coffee

11:30 - 13:00Scientific Session III - Metabonomics Chaired by Hannu Maaheimo and Reino Laatikainen

11:30 - 12:10Metabonomics of diabetes Julian Griffin, University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry, UK

12:10 - 12:40Metabonomics NMR in human populations Hartmut Schäfer, Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Rheinstetten, Germany

12:40 - 13:00From nanotechnology to metabonomics Jesus Brezmes, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

13:00 - 14:30Lunch

14:30 - 16:00Scientific Session IV - Technical and Methodological Advancements Chaired by Taito Väänänen and Arto Annila

14:30 - 14:50New products and applications to enhance NMR throughput Naoyuki Fujii, Analytical Instruments Division, JEOL (U.K.) LTD.

14:50 - 15:10Recent developments in liquids probe design at Varian Péter Sándor, Varian, UK

15:10 - 15:40New tools for NMR Manfred Spraul, Bruker BioSpin GmbH, Rheinstetten, Germany

15:40 - 16:00NMR and MRI at low fields Risto Ilmoniemi, Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Helsinki, Finland

16:30 - 18:00Poster Session & Refreshments

19:00 - 24:00Gala dinner - The XXX years of Finnish NMR Symposium

Friday June 13

07:00 - 09:00Breakfast

09:00 - 11:00Scientific Session V - Protein and Molecular Structures Chaired by Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Juhani Lounila

09:00 - 09:20Insight into protein structure and interactions from methyl groups - new methods Peter Würtz, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

09:20 - 09:404D proton chemical shift prediction for proteins Juuso Lehtivarjo, Department of Biosciences, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

09:40 - 10:00Interplay between the immunoglobulin like domains of filamin A Outi Heikkinen, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

10:00 - 10:20Probing the structure of SC3C2@C80 by quantum chemical calculations of magnetic resonance properties Stefan Taubert, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

10:20 - 10:40Synthesis and structural study of novel mono- and diketals of bile acids and pentaerythritol Satu Ikonen, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

10:40 - 11:00Solid-state NMR studies of N-lithocholyl-L-(valine ethyl ester) Virpi Noponen, Department of Chemistry, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

11:00 - 11:30Coffee

11:30 - 13:00Scientific Session VI - Novel MRI Contrasts Chaired by Risto Kauppinen and Olli Gröhn

11:30 - 12:10pH MRI Risto Kauppinen, Biomedical NMR Research Center, Dartmouth Medical School, USA

12:10 - 12:35Biochemical and functional MRI of articular cartilage Miika Nieminen, Oulu University Hospital, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Finland

12:35 - 13:00Assessing water dynamics during cell death by rotating frame relaxation MRI contrasts Olli Gröhn, National Bio NMR Facility, Biomedical Imaging Unit, A. I. Virtanen Institute, University of Kuopio, Finland

13:00 - 13:10Awards & Closing

13:10 - 13:30Meeting of the Finnish NMR Discussion Group

13:30 - 15:00Lunch