Programme – RSC ESR Group

The conference is now over. Thanks to all our participants and sponsors for contributing to an excellent meeting. Please join us at our 51st Annual International Meeting, at Queen Mary University of London, 8th–12th April 2018.

The 2017 programme is available below.

The full abstract booklet can be downloaded here (Caution 38 MB file).

Sunday, 2 April
15.00 – 18.00	Registration
16:00 – 18:00	Oxf/Camb Boat Races – view in Keble bar
	16:35 Women’s Race
	17:35 Men’s Race
18.00 – 20.15	Fish and Chip Supper in Chemistry Research Laboratory. Opening remarks by Prof. Faulkner (Head of Inorganic Chemistry)
20.15 – 21.15	Organ Recital in Keble College Chapel. Organist: Matthew Golesworthy.
21.15 – 0.00	Bar open in Keble

Monday, 3 April
9.00 – 9.10	Christiane Timmel & Arzhang Ardavan	Welcome
Chair: Gunnar Jeschke
9.10 – 9.50	Stefan Stoll	Plenary: New Insights from AWG-based Pulse EPR
9.50 – 10.10	Enrica Bordignon	Characterizing an optogenetic tool by EPR: light-induced swing of the sensory module of a cyanobacterial phytochrome
10.10 – 10.30	Jack Freed	Overcoming Insufficient Signal Strength in ESR
10.30 – 10.55	Coffee
Chair: Gareth Eaton
10.55 – 11.05	Jakob Lopez	SP1: Data Management with LOGS software
11.05 – 11.35	Jeffrey Harmer	Invited: Non-uniform Sampling in Pulsed EPR – Optimizing Data Acquisition for Multi-dimensional Experiments
11.35 – 11.55	Gavin Morley	High Resolution Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
11.55 – 12.15	Graham Smith	Zero and Low Deadtime Pulsed EPR Measurements at High Power Levels for Characterisation of Systems for DNP
12.15 – 12.35	Malte Drescher	Multiple scale investigation of molecular diffusion inside functionalized porous hosts
12.35 – 13.45	Lunch
Chair: Edgar Groenen
13.45 – 13.55	Richard Wylde	SP2: HF/HF EPR enabled by Quasi-Optical Components of TK Instruments
13.55 – 14.25	Stephen Blundell	Invited: Using a muon as a local probe: solving the site problem
14.25 – 14.45	Stephen Hill	Very High Field EPR Studies of Orbitally Degenerate Transition Metal Ions
14.45 – 15.05	Hitoshi Ohta	Multi-Extreme THz ESR: Developments and Future
15.05 – 15.25	Alexander Schnegg	Determination of Very Large Zero-Field Splittings in Integer and Half-Integer High-Spin Co Complexes by FD-FT THz-EPR
15.25 – 15.45	Junjie Liu	ESR Study for a Chiral Molecule-based Spin Chain
15.45 – 17.00	Poster Session (odd #’s) and Coffee
Chair: Klaus Möbius
17.00 – 17.30	Jan Behrends	Invited: Spin-Correlated Polaron Pairs in Organic Solar Cells
17.30 – 18.30	G. Jeschke	Laudatio
17.30 – 18.30	Andrin Doll	Bruker Thesis Prize Lecture
18.30 – 20:00	Dinner
20:00 – 21:00	Peter Höfer	Bruker Prize Lecture
20:00 – 21:00	T.F. Prisner	Laudatio
21:00 – 0.00	Bruker Reception

Tuesday, 4 April
9.00 – 9.05	Alice Bowen	Announcements
Chair: Klaus-Peter Dinse
9.05 – 9.45	Andreas Heinrich	Plenary: Electron Spin Resonance of single atoms on a surface
9.45 – 10.05	David Keeble	Air exposure induced recombination in PTB7:PC71BM solar cells studied by electrically detected magnetic resonance
10.05 – 10.25	Stergios Piligkos	Towards Molecular 4f Single-Ion Magnet Qubits
10.25 – 10.50	Coffee
JEOL Student Talk Competition, Chair: Robert Bittl
10.50 – 11.10	Sabine Richert	Through-Bond and Through-Space Electronic Communication in Linear and Cyclic Copper Porphyrin Nanostructures
11.10 – 11.30	Jason Sidabras	Planar Micro-Resonators and Micro-Helix Geometries for Studying Protein Single Crystals with X-band EPR
11.30 – 11.50	Nurit Manukovsky	Time domain simulation of Gd³⁺—Gd³⁺ DEER
11.50 – 12.10	Reuben Harding	Observation of a clock transition in the EPR spectrum of ¹⁵N@C₆₀
12.10 – 12.30	Dennis Bücker	Laser-Induced Magnetic Dipolar Spectroscopy
12.30 – 13.45	Lunch
13.45 – 15.00	Poster Session (even #’s) and Coffee
15.00 – 18.30	Free time see social programme
	Committee Meetings	15.00 – 15.30 CAESR Steering Committee
		15.30 – 17.00 National Facility Steering Committee
		17.00 – 18.30 RSC ESR Group Committee
18.30 – 20.30	Dinner
20:30 – 0.00	JEOL Reception – including announcement of the JEOL Prize

Wednesday, 5 April
9.00 – 9.05	William Myers	Announcements
Chair: Thomas Prisner
9.05 – 9.15	Alastair Lawson	SP3: Biophysical Applications of Pulsed Dipolar Spectroscopy in UCB Celltech
9.15 – 9.55	Olav Schiemann	Plenary: EPR-based distance measurements to metal ions in vitro and within cells
9.55 – 10.15	Bela Bode	Quantifying Binding and its Cooperativity from the Modulation Depths of Pulse Dipolar EPR
10.15 – 10.35	Karin Halbmair	PELDOR/DEER Distance Measurements with the Semi-Rigid Spin Label TOPP in a WALP Peptide Immersed in Lipid Bilayers
10.35 – 11.00	Coffee
Chair: Daniella Goldfarb
11.00 – 11.10	Steve Fryatt	SP4: Modular Electrochemical PalmSens Unit Applicable for Simultaneous Electrochemical ESR (SEESR)
11.10 – 11.40	Maxie Rößler	Invited: The role of Fe-S cluster N2in the energy coupling mechanism of respiratory complex
11.40 – 12.00	Sabine Van Doorslaer	EPR study of chlorite dismutase and dye-decolorizing peroxidases
12.00 – 12.20	Katharina Keller	EPR and solid-state NMR of Mn²⁺ substituted ATP-fueled protein engines
12.20 – 12.40	Thilo Hetzke	Two-dimensional ELDOR-detected NMR as a useful tool for correlating ¹³C and ³¹P nuclear spins to paramagnetic Mn²⁺ ions in a Tetracycline-binding RNA aptamer
12.40 – 13.55	Lunch
Chair: Jack Freed
13.55 – 14.25	Ilya Kuprov	Invited: Deep neural network processing of DEER data
14.25 – 14.45	Thomas Prisner	Effect of ubiquitin-binding domains on the conformational flexibility of K48-linked ubiquitin chains studied by advanced dipolar EPR spectroscopy
14.45 – 15.05	Frauke Breitgoff	Reliable distance distributions from 5-pulse Double Electron Electron Resonance (DEER)
15.05 – 15.25	Ronald Mason	Fluorescent Proteins such as GFP Catalytically Generate Superoxide and H₂O₂
15.25 – 15.45	Mark Newton	Exploring the optical and spin-physics of defects in diamond
15.45 – 16.10	Coffee
Chair: Keith McLauchlan
16.10 – 16.40	Stefan Weber	Invited: EPR Characterization of Intermediate Paramagnetic States in Blue Light Photoreceptors
16.40 – 17.00	Andreas Sperlich	On the Role of Triplet Excitons in Organic Solar Cells
17.00 – 17.20	Marilena Di Valentin	Triplet-state spin labels for highly-sensitive PELDOR spectroscopy
17.20 – 17.40	Christopher Wedge	Optically Hyperpolarized Electrons for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
17.40 – 18.00	Ulrich Steiner	Delocalization of Coherent Triplet Excitons in Linear Rigid Rod Conjugated Oligomers
18.00 – 19.00	RSC ESR group Annual General Meeting
19.15	Banquet

Thursday, 6 April
9.00 – 9.05	Christiane Timmel	Announcements
Chair: Takeji Takui
9.05 – 9.45	Eric McInnes	Plenary: Pulsed EPR Studies of Actinides
9.45 – 10.05	Toshikazu Nakamura	Microscopic Investigation of Electric Conducting Materials using Pulsed and Multi-frequency ESR Study in IMS
10.05 – 10.25	Nicolai Bunzmann	Investigation of spin states in organic light emitting diodes based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence via multi-frequency magnetic resonance techniques
10.25 – 10.45	Christopher Kay	Nanosecond time-resolved characterization of a pentacene-based room-temperature MASER
10.45 – 11.10	Coffee
Chair: Ronald Mason
11.10 – 11.30	Sandra Eaton	Rapid-Scan EPR Imaging
11.30 – 11.50	Valentina Lukinović	Investigation of the electronic structure of B₁₂ coenzymes by TREPR: methylcobalamin
11.50 – 12.10	Klaus Möbius	The Magic of Disacchride Matrixes for Protein Dynamics and Function as Decoded by High-Field EPR Spectroscopy. More than Just a Game?
12.10 – 12.30	Andrea Folli	High pressure EPR: watching conformational dynamics of enzymes upon interaction with reactive substrates
12.30 – 12.50	Maryam Seif-Eddine	Multidimensional EPR and DFT study of the demethylmenasemiquinone binding mode to E. coli nitrate reductase A
12:50 – 12:55	Maxie Rößler	RSC-ESR 2018
13.00	Packed lunch and Fin.