You are welcome to attend the workshop From Fast Field-Cycling to Ultrafast High-Resolution Relaxometry, a joint meeting between the FC-RELAX doctoral network, the HIRES-MULTIDYN project, and the IMF-NMR project, from March 13 to March 15 2025 at ENS – PSL in the heart of Paris. The workshop will be followed by a training school on high-resolution relaxometry from March 17 to March 19 2025. We have a fantastic and diverse program that covers all flavors of relaxometry, with exceptional speakers, join us!

Featured invited speakers:

  • Dermot Brougham, University College Dublin
  • Frans Mulder, Johannes Kepler University Linz
  • Arthur G. Palmer, Columbia University
  • Anne-Laure Rollet, Sorbonne Université
  • Éva Jakab Toth, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, Orléans

Registration is free but mandatory. Please register here before February 9. The number of participants is limited, register now!

The workshop will take place in the beautiful library (room R) of the department of chemistry at Ecole Normale Supérieure – PSL, in the heart of historic and scientific Paris. The address of the building is 24, rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France.

Program of the Workshop

Thursday March 13

  • 8h50-9h00: Welcome by Fabien Ferrage and Giacomo Parigi
  • 9h00-9h30: Fabien Ferrage, Dynamics of biomolecular systems by high-resolution relaxometry
  • 9h30-10h00: Dermot Brougham, NMR relaxometry in guiding magnetic nanoparticle synthesis and colloidal stabilisation for applications in MRI and hyperthermia
  • 10h00-10h15: Madalina Ranga, Characterization of the Proton Exchange Processes Between [Gd(DOTP)]⁵⁻ with Meglumine, D-Glucamine, and Dimeglumine
  • 10h15-10h30: Kahinga Kamau, Spin-lattice and spin-spin relaxation – a consistent model for trypsin
  • 10h30-11h00: coffee break
  • 11h00-11h30: Giacomo Parigi, Field-cycling relaxometry of olive oil
  • 11h30-11h45: Ana Paula Aguilar Alva, Side-chain dynamics in the kinase p38g by ultrafast high-resolution relaxometry
  • 11h45-12h00: Muhammad Muntazir, Data Processing Software for FC NMR Relaxometry and Characterization of Advanced Materials
  • 12h00-12h30: Arthur G. Palmer, Relaxometry using the Field Cycling Technology Shuttle at NYSBC: New Science on the Horizon?
  • 12h30-14h00: lunch reception
  • 14h00-14h30: Jakob Teetz, Leveraging Molecular Dynamics for Enhanced Interpretation of High-Resolution Relaxometry
  • 14h30-14h45: Adam Kubrak, Sensing molecular interactions in blood serum by high-resolution relaxometry
  • 14h45-15h00: Rajka Pejanovic, A Deep Learning Approach for Removing Vibration Artifacts in Shuttled NMR Experiments
  • 15h00-15h30: Jorge Garibay, Ultrafast high-resolution relaxometry
  • 15h30-16h00: coffee break
  • 16h00-18h00: Complementary training for FC-RELAX DC: Manoj Nimbalkar, Navigating Your Career Path After a PhD
  • 16h00-19h00: HIRES-MULTIDYN confidential meeting
  • 19h30-21h30: dinner at Lilane

Friday March 14

  • 9h00-9h30: Zsolt Baranyai, Thermodynamic and Kinetic Differences in the Proton Exchange Processes of Stereoisomers Formed by [M(HP-DO3A)] (M3+=Eu3+, Gd3+ and Y3+)
  • 9h30-10h00: Manoj Nimbalkar, FFC relaxometry and its applications
  • 10h00-10h15: Danuta Kruk, Fluoroniline as an almost perfect heteronuclear spin system
  • 10h15-10h30: Claudio Luchinat, Interactions between small molecules and macromolecules through high-resolution relaxometry
  • 10h30-11h00: coffee break
  • 11h00-11h30: Céline Henoumont, NMR, a toolbox to characterize nanoparticular contrast agents for MRI
  • 11h30-11h45: Angel Mary Chiramel Tony, Molecular picture behind the frequency-dependant NMR relaxation rates
  • 11h45-12h00: Madeleine Rhodes, Elucidating Water Dynamics Driving T1 Relaxation below 200 mT in Biological Filamentous Structures
  • 12h00-12h30: Frans Mulder, Investigation of co-solute paramagnetic relaxation using field shuttling
  • 12h30-14h00: lunch reception
  • 14h00-14h30: Eva Toth, Towards safer and more specific MRI agents
  • 14h30-14h45: Valeriia Baranauskaite, Slow motion dynamics in polymers according to TD NMR and FFC
  • 14h45-15h00: Giulia Licciardi, Exploring dynamics in alpha-synuclein: what can high-resolution relaxometry reveal?
  • 15h00-15h30: Pedro Sebastiao, OneFit-Engine at the core of the different NMR model fitting tools for data analysis
  • 15h30-16h00: coffee break
  • 16h00-16h30: Danuta Kruk, The theoretical challenge of combining low and high freqeuency relaxation data for ionic liquids
  • 16h30-16h45: Denis Burov, Novel coil designs and practical compromises in modern NMR instrumentation. Academic approach to industrial R&D
  • 16h45-17h00: Alessandro Ruda, High-resolution NMR relaxometry of small molecules perspectives and applications.
  • 17h00-17h30: Anne-Laure Rollet, Cover this interface that should not be seen
  • 18h00-18h30: Visit of the FFC relaxometry platform at Sorbonne University
  • 19h00-21h00: dinner at Polidor

Saturday March 15

  • 9h00-9h30: Leonid Grunin, Phases Composition Analysis by TD-NMR
  • 9h30-10h00: Erkki Lähderanta, Theory and molecular dynamics simulations of NMR relaxation of dendrimers for biomedical applications
  • 10h00-10h30: Angelo Galante, Metamaterials enhanced NMR
  • 10h30-11h00: coffee break
  • 11h00-11h30: Lionel Broche, Data structures and methods for field-cycling NMR analysis
  • 11h30-11h45: Mamoona Riffat, Adsorption Phenomenon of colloidal system by NMR relaxometry
  • 11h45-12h00: Guru Kiran, Synthesis, Equilibrium, Kinetic, and Relaxation Properties of Mn(II) Complexes
  • 12h00-12h30: Ralf Ludwig, Predicting NMR dipolar relaxation rates from theory: The example of water and perspective for ionic liquids
  • 12h30-14h00: lunch reception