The 20th Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Users Meeting will have a broad program, comprising 1 keynote lecture (each lasting 1 hour), 6 plenary lectures (each lasting 45 minutes), 6 symposia (each lasting 2 hours), and 2 poster presentation sessions (each lasting 2 hours 30 minutes), as well as the opening and closing ceremonies. The annual assembly of AUREMN associate members is also scheduled to take place.
 

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
 

MONDAY, October 6^th

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
 

15:30 – 17:00 Delivery of credentials
 

17:00 – 17:30 Opening Ceremony, followed by a tribute to Professor Anderson de Sá Pinheiro (in memoriam)
 

17:30 – 18:30 Opening Lecture: Arthur S. Edison (University of Georgia, USA)
Title: New ways of using NMR in metabolomics and glycomics.

Chair: Luzineide W. Tinoco (UFRJ, Brazil)
 

18:30 – 22:00 Welcome Dinner

 

TUESDAY, October 7^th
 

09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Lecture 1: Ricardo Urbano (UNICAMP, Brazil)

Title: Pushing the boundaries of solid-state NMR in physics: from fundamental understanding to practical applications.

Chair: Marcos de Oliveira Junior (USP, Brazil)
 

09:45 – 10: 05 Coffee Break
 

Symposium 1: Small Molecules/Computational Methods

Chair: Claudio F. Tormena (UNICAMP, Brazil)
 

10:05 – 10:35 - Fernando M. dos Santos Junior (UFF, Brazil)

Title: Structural characterization of natural products using quantum chemical calculations of NMR parameters: new insights.
 

10:35 – 11:05 - Ariel Sarotti (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)

Title: In Pursuit of Utopia: Developing Ultra-Fast In Silico Methods for Structural Elucidation
 

11:05 – 11:35 - Caroline Raquel Bender (UFSM, Brazil)

 Title: Saturation difference NMR applied to the study of polymers and ionic liquid interactions
 

11:35 – 12:05 Fernando Hallwass (IME, Brazil)

Title: New Alignment Media for Residual Dipolar Coupling (RDC) and Residual Chemical Shift Anisotropy (RCSA) Measurements
 

12:05 – 12:20 Beatriz M. da Silva (UFRJ, Brazil)

Title: Development of a Molecular Fragment Library for Enzyme Ligand Identification by NMR
 

12:20 – 12:35 Patrick R. Batista (Unicamp, Brazil)

Title: Explicit Solvent and Conformational Dynamics Play a Role for J-Coupling Calculations
 

12:35 – 14:15 LUNCH
 

Symposium 2: Imaging by NMR/TD NMR

Chair: Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon (USP, Brazil)
 

14:15 – 14:45 Letícia Rittner (Unicamp, Brazil)

Title: MRI Processing and Analysis Using Artificial Intelligence
 

14:45 – 15:15 Maria Concepción García Otaduy (USP, Brazil)

Title: Correlation of Ultra-high field (7T) brain MRI with histopathology findings
 

15:15 – 15:45 Daniel Papoti (UFSCAR, Brazil)

Title: Multichannel radiofrequency coils for magnetic resonance Imaging in ultra-high field scanners
 

15:45 – 16:15 Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon (USP, Brazil)

Title: Quantitative MRI
 

16:15 – 16:30 Nataly Melo Campos (USP, Brazil)

Title: Petrophysics of Sedimentary Outcrop Rocks: Integrated Evaluation of Oil Reservoirs and CO₂ Storage Using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
 

16:30 – 16:45 Marcos Batista Machado (UFAM, Brazil)

Title: A Sustainable TD‑NMR Protocol for the Quantitative Analysis of Triacylglycerols in Copaíba Oil‑Resin: Development and Validation
 

16:45 – 17:15 Sponsor’s Lecture 1- Clemens Anklin (Bruker, United States)

Title: Expanding the boundaries of NMR

Chair: Alexandre Schefer (Bruker, SP, Brazil)
 

17:15 – 17:35 Coffee Break
 

17:35 – 18:20 Plenary Lecture 2: Meghan Halse (University of York, United Kingdom)

Title: Hyperpolarised Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy for Analytical Applications

Chair: Tito J. Bonagamba (USP, Brazil)
 

18:20 – 19:50 POSTER SESSION 1 – ODD-NUMBERED POSTERS

Chair: Jochen Junker (FIOCRUZ, RJ, Brazil)
 

19:30 – 22:00 DINNER

WEDNESDAY, October 8th
 

07:30 – 12:00 SAILING TOUR - By membership. (Tickets at event secretariat).
 

12:30 – 14:15 LUNCH
 

14:15 – 15:00 Plenary Lecture 3: Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevedo (USP, Brazil)

Title: Beyond Relaxometry: ¹H TD-NMR Methods for Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics in Complex Materials

Chair: Luiz Alberto Colnago (Embrapa, Brazil)
 

Symposium 3: Biomolecular NMR

Chair: Gisele Cardoso de Amorim (UFRJ, Brazil)
 

15:00 – 15:30 Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre (Institut Pasteur, France)

Title: Integrative structural biology of bacterial membrane nanomachines.
 

15:30 – 16:00 Rodolfo Rasia (IBR-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)

Title: Molecular (non)recognition in plant gene expression regulation.
 

16:00 – 16:30 Ariana Vasconcelos (UFRJ, Brazil)

Title: NMR studies of the mechanism of action of disintegrins: structure and dynamics of the complex disintegrins/integrins.
 

16:30 – 16:50 Coffee-break
 

16:50 – 17:05 Vanessa Leite (UFRJ, Brazil)

Title: Interaction Characterization Between the SDAB-MRH-IGG Nanobody and Immunoglobulin G
 

17:05 – 17:20 Peter Reis Bezerra (UFRJ, Brazil)

Title: Conformational Equilibrium and Water Desolvation Delineates the Encounter Complex Between Sars-Cov-2 N-Terminal Domain of Nucleocapsid Protein and RNA
 

17:20 – 17:50 Sponsor’s Lecture 2 – Felipe Simões (Air Products, SP, Brazil)

Title: Global and National Helium Market Update

Chair: Antonio Gilberto Ferreira (UFSCar, SP, Brazil)
 

17:50 – 18:20 Sponsor’s Lecture 3 – Donald Bouchard (Alegre Science, USA)

Title: Q.One in Brazil: The New Quantum-Novo Platform High Performance for All

Chair: Cristina Consalter (FIT Instruments, SP, Brazil)
 

18:20 – 19:50 POSTER SESSION 2 – EVEN-NUMBERED POSTERS

Chair: Luciano Morais Lião (UFG, GO, Brazil)
 

19:50 – 22:00 Dinner

 

THURSDAY, October 9th
 

09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Lecture 4: Mario Piccioli (University of Florence, Italy)

Title: Paramagnetic NMR as a tool to structurally characterize iron-sulfur proteins
Chair: Adolfo H. de Moraes (UFMG, Brazil)
 

09:45 – 10: 05 Coffee Break
 

Symposium 4: Quantitative NMR/Medicinal Chemistry

Chair: Kahlil Schwanka Salome (UFPR, Brazil)
 

10:05 – 10:35 Gerlon Oliveira (UnB, Brazil)

Title: Practical Aspects of qNMR: From Drug Purity to Food Authenticity and Forensic Investigations
 

10:35 – 11:05 Eurico Cabrita (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)

Title: Using ¹⁹F-NMR to monitor conformational changes in neurotransmitter membrane transporters
 

11:05 – 11:35 Aline Lima de Oliveira (UnB, Brazil)

Title: Quantitative NMR and Chemometrics in Rosewood Essential Oil Differentiation
 

11:35 – 11:50 Luisina Rodriguez (University of the Republic, Uruguay)

Title: Quantitative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for the Quantification of Psychedelics in Ayahuasca and Mushroom Samples
 

11:50 – 12:05 Thais Tobias (USP, Brazil)

Title: Determination of Multiples Quality Parameters of Cocoa Products Using Quantitative ¹³C Solid State NMR
 

12:05 – 12:35 Sponsor’s Lecture 4 – Klemens Kessler (QUAD Systems AG, Zurich Switzerland)

Title: QUAD Systems: Innovations in high field NMR (300-600MHz)

Chair: Andrea Andrade (dpUnion, SP, Brazil)
 

12:35 – 14:15 Lunch
 

Symposium 5: NMR for Materials

Chair: Sônia Cabral de Menezes (AUREMN, RJ, Brazil) e Marcos de Oliveira Júnior (USP, Brazil)
 

14:15 – 14:45 Thiago Branquinho de Queiroz (UFABC, Brazil)

Title: Surface and paramagnetic effects in pseudo-cubic NaYF4 nanoparticles by solid state 19F and 23Na NMR combining time and spectral resolution
 

14:45 – 15:15 Charlotte Bocquelet (University of Lyon, France)

Title: Benchtop DNP on Varying ¹H Concentrations Towards Broad Range Sample Hyperpolarization
 

15:15 – 15:45 Olivier Lafon (Université de Lille, France)

Title: Gaining unique insights into the atomic-level structure of materials using ultra-high-field NMR. 
 

15:45 – 16:00 Matheus José Ferreira (USP, Brazil)

Title: Structural Characterization of Mechanically Amorphized LiCa(PO₃)₃ and Al(PO₃)₃ Using High Resolution Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
 

16:00 – 16:15 Renato Pereira Murback Filho (USP, Brazil)

Title: Exploring Short-Range Order in a Cadmium-Based Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework Glass by Solid State NMR Spectroscopy
 

16:15 – 16:35 Coffee Break
 

16:35 – 17:05 Plenary Lecture 5: Tatyana Polenova (University of Delaware, USA)

Title: Pushing the Sensitivity and Resolution Boundaries of Magnetic Resonance: Challenges and Opportunities for Chemistry, Molecular Biophysics, and Cellular Structural Biology
Chair: Marcos Batista Machado (UFAM, Brazil)
 

17:05-17:50 - Plenary Lecture 06: Ruth Gschwind (U. Ragensburg, Germany)

Title: NMR in Photo- and Organocatalysis - Pushing the Limits

Chair: Renata Mendonça Araujo (UFRN, Brazil)
 

17:50 – 18:20 Sponsor’s Lecture 5 – Ronald Soong (Magritek, USA)

Title: Smart, Compact, and Powerful: The Expanding Role of Benchtop NMR in Modern Industrial & Research Applications

Chair: Ernesto Rezende Souza (Quantum Design, SP, Brazil)
 

18:20-18:50 Sponsor’s Lecture 6 – Ernesto Rezende Souza (Quantum Design, SP, Brazil)

Title: NexGen: Essential Helium Recovery for Sustainable Cryogenic Operations
 

18:50 – 20:00 AUREMN General Assembly, with a special tribute to Professor Adelina Costa Neto, founder of Auremn (in memoriam).
 

20:00 – 22:00 DINNER

 

FRIDAY, October 10th
 

08:30 – 09:15 Plenary Lecture 07: Young Hae Choi (Leiden University, Holanda)

Title: Revisiting NMR-Based Chemical Profiling of Medicinal Plants: A Holistic Approach to Uncovering New Dimensions of Traditional Medicine

Chair: Antônio Gilberto Ferreira (UFSCar, Brazil)
 

09:15 – 09:35 Coffee Break
 

Symposium 06: Metabolomics/Natural Products

Chair: Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP, Brazil)
 

09:35 – 10:05 Juan Lopez - (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru)
Title:  New-Old Tricks Applied to Complex Mixtures and Metabolomics
 

10:05 – 10:35 Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP, Brazil)

Title: Application of NMR metabonomics in health: diagnostics and prognostics
 

10:35 – 11:05 Clara Detúlio Martins Cavalcante (UFRN, Brazil)

Title: Integrated Genomic and Metabolomic Approaches Reveal the Antimicrobial Peptide Biosynthetic Potential of Bacillus paralicheniformis BD165
 

11:05 – 11:20 Luciana Marçal Ravaglia (UFMS, Brazil)

Lipid Profiling of Powder Milk and Dairy Compounds Using ¹H And ¹³C NMR Spectroscopy
 

11:20 – 12:00 - Awards for the best student works, presented at the Meeting.
 

12:00 – 12:15 Closing Ceremony
 

12:15 – 14:00 LUNCH
 

14:00 – Buses depart for Rio de Janeiro.