Ann-Christin Pöppler
Title: Taking up the chase with NMR Spectroscopy – From structural insights into solid drug-polymer formulations to their fate in biorelevant media
Ann-Christin is a trained chemist with a PhD in inorganic chemistry (University of
Göttingen, 2013), where
she worked with NMR in solution and anisotropic media. She was introduced to the world of solid-state NMR and to
a smaller extent also to XRD and computational methods through her postdoctoral experiences.
Daniel Monleón Salvadó
Title: The role of NMR metabolomics in current molecular epidemiology
Professor of Cell Biology at the Department of Pathology at the University of Valencia and
principal
investigator of the metabolomics group at INCLIVA and the University of Valencia. More than 20 years
researching the biomedical applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). His research focuses on the
study of metabolic profiles to support and help diagnosis, characterization, and selection of therapies in
different diseases.
Douglas V. Laurent
Title: NMR Spectroscopic Structural and Stability Studies Pave the Way for Polyproline II Helices as the Next LEGO® for Protein Design
DVL studied in protein folding and stability at Texas A&M and Stanford Universities and
joined the MRL in
1997 to learn to apply NMR to characterize proteins. Some proteins do not adopt a well defined fold. These
intrinsically disordered proteins or ‘IDPs’ play essential roles in coordinating a myriad of
cell processes, but can reek havoc when they misfold to amyloid conformers.
Many ‘disordered’ proteins are rich in glycine and our recent works suggests they may actually adopt folded polyproline II helices. Our ongoing research will test this hypothesis and provide the bases so that polyproline II helices can be designed with useful functions and higher ordered structures for Biotechnology.
Krzysztof Kazimierczuk
Title: Non-stationary NMR spectroscopy
Krzysztof Kazimierczuk did his PhD in 2009 at the University of Warsaw, Poland. After a
postdoc in the group
of prof. Vladislav Orekhov (Swedish NMR Centre, University of Gothenburg) became a head of Laboratory of NMR
Spectroscopy in the Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw. His research focuses on NMR methods
based on novel signal processing concepts.
Nuno Basílio
Title: Taking up the chase with NMR Spectroscopy – From structural insights into solid drug-polymer formulations to their fate in biorelevant media
Nuno Bası́lio studied Chemistry at the University of the Algarve (Portugal) and obtained
his PhD in 2011 from
the University of Santiago de Compostela with Prof. Luis Garcı́a Rio and Prof. José Ramón Leis. He then
moved to the NOVA University of Lisbon to work as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Fernando Pina.