In the name of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance (ISMAR), the Brazilian NMR Users Association (AUREMN) and the Organizing Committee, I am happy to invite you for participating at the ISMAR 2013, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from May 19^th to 24^th.

The ISMAR Meeting is one of the most important events of the world because it covers all the topics and applications of magnetic resonance in all areas of science. Accordingly, this meeting will be conducted with ten plenary lectures and four parallel sessions of different topics, with the participation of world wide scientists, technicians and students, as well as the exposition of several important companies dedicated to magnetic resonance in science, applications and commerce. I also invite you to participate in the two satellite meetings; the V^th Iberoamerican NMR Meeting and the Biomedical Imaging Symposium.

Magnetic resonance is a fundamental scientific method and research area, with great impact in physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, biophysics, geology, material sciences and medicine. Until now, ten scientists working on the development of magnetic resonance were awarded with Nobel prizes, indicating the strength and importance of this research area. At this meeting, it will be presented several of the most innovative and important contributions in magnetic resonance, leading to a strong motivation of development on science and technology.

Rio de Janeiro is a beautiful city, with several attracting locations and activities for tourists. This meeting will be at the Royal Tulip Hotel, located 14 km away from Copacabana, in front of Pepino beach, at São Conrado. The meeting organization will provide shuttle buses for all ISMAR attendants from Leme, Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon to the conference site. In this event there will also be several social activities, such as the welcome cocktail, and the Brazilian Night, a special confraternization party that includes dinner, Brazilian music and dance.

I expect your participation and scientific contribution, where I am sure that you will find a beautiful and friendly environment to gather and exchange scientific information.

Please do not hesitate to ask for help or information on any details of the event and other related activities. It will be a pleasure to meet you here and share this event with you.

 

José Daniel Figueroa-Villar
Chairman

Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission for ISMAR 2013 is now open. You can submit the abstracts for poster presentations until April 15^th, 2013. Applications for upgrades to oral presentation will be accepted until January 31^st, 2013.

The Scientific Committee will review the abstracts and select the applications for oral communications. The decision regarding oral presentations will be made until February 2013. The authors will be informed by e-mail.

To submit an abstract you need to be registered at ISMAR conference. There is a limit of two abstracts per registration. Please follow the instructions below:

• Prepare your abstract (up to about 300 words) with a normal word processor. You may use greek letters normally.
• Access your restricted area and click on "Submit your first/second Abstract".
• Enter title, authors, affiliation and choose up to two scientific categories for your abstract.
• Copy your abstract text from the word processor into the textbox.

The payment of your registration fee must be complete prior to April 22^nd for inclusion of your abstract in the abstract book, presentation at the poster session and receiving student award, if this is the case.

Posters

Posters shall be up by Monday morning, 10:30 and remain until Friday morning 10:30. Poster size is up to 90 by 120 cm, that is oversize A0 portrait. Please bring something to fix your poster, as poster boards are not suitable for push-pins, double sided tape works fine.

Posters are numbered sequentially, following a two letter code to identfy the day of poster presentation. Please check in the Abstracts Book when your poster is sheduled to be presented.

Submit your abstract now!

If you have any queries about the abstract submission process or if you want to withdraw your submission, please contact contact us at ismar2013@auremn.org.br.

Registration

Please note the deadlines:

March 22nd, 2013	Early on-line registration deadline (with discount)
April 30th, 2013	Registration payment deadline in order to present your poster and have the abstract included in the abstract book
April 30th, 2013	On-line registration deadline

Registration Fees

ISMAR Meeting

	Until Mar 22nd 2013, R$	After Mar 22nd 2013, R$	On-Site, R$
Professionals	1280,00	1480,00	1480,00
Professionals (AUREMN/ISMAR members)	1180,00	1380,00	1380,00
Students	540,00	740,00	740,00
Porous Media Workshop only	250,00	300,00	300,00
Accompanying Person	300,00	500,00	500,00
Brazilian Night	220,00	220,00	220,00
Brazilian Night, Students	150,00	150,00	150,00

Registration includes: Shuttle service transportation to and from conference venue (if you are not at the Royal Tulip Hotel), access to all conference sessions, exhibition, conference Welcome Reception, coffee breaks and conference materials.

Accompanying person registration includes: Shuttle service transportation to and from conference venue (if you are not at the Royal Tulip Hotel), conference Welcome Reception and coffee-breaks.

Satellite Meetings

	Until Mar 22nd 2013, R$	After Mar 22nd 2013, R$	On-Site, R$
Biomedical Imaging Symposium	250,00	300,00	300,00
Biomedical Imaging Symposium (AUREMN/ISMAR members)	120,00	160,00	160,00
Biomedical Imaging Symposium Students	120,00	160,00	160,00
Vth Iberoamerican NMR Meeting	250,00	300,00	300,00
Vth Iberoamerican NMR Meeting (AUREMN/ISMAR/GERMN/PTNMR members)	120,00	160,00	160,00
Vth Iberoamerican NMR Meeting Students	120,00	160,00	160,00

Registration includes: Shuttle service transportation to and from conference venue (if you are not at the Royal Tulip Hotel), access to sessions of the Biomedical Imaging Symposium and/or the Vth Iberoamerican NMR Meeting, exhibition, coffee break during the meeting (s), Satellite Meeting (s) material (s).

Approximate exchange rates on 10/10/2012: 1 USD = 2 R$ and 1 EUR = 2.60 R$.

Payment

You can make your payment at any time after your registration following the instructions in your reserved area and taking the deadlines above into account. All major credit cards are accepted for your payment, brazilians may choose to pay by banking slip.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations before April 5^th will receive a 75% refund. Afterwards no refunds will be possible.

Proceed to on-line registration

Workshop "NMR on Porous Media"

This workshop is part of the ISMAR 2013 Meeting, all attendees of the event may join. A separate registration for it is also available, please check on the registration page. The Workshop will take place on wednesday May 22^nd 2013 at Royal Tulip Hotel, location of the main event.

Tentative Program

May 22nd - Wednesday
Time	Lecture	Lecturer
08:30-08:55	PM-IL-10d	Improved Estimation of Oil and Gas Reserves Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging "MRI" Technology – Applications and Case Histories Maged Fam, Halliburton, Colombia
08:55-09:20	PM-IL-11d	Transport and Reaction in Porous Media: New Information Obtained Using Compressed Sensing and Bayesian Methods Lynn Gladden, University of Cambridge, UK
09:20-09:35	PM-ST-7d	Pore Size Distribution of Unconsolidated Geomaterials Marcos Montoro, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina
09:35-10:00	PM-IL-12d	Diffusion dynamics in porous media Yiqiao Song, Schlumberger, USA
10:00-10:30	Coffee break
10:30-10:55	PM-IL-13d	Earth’s-field Surface NMR for Groundwater Characterization Elliot Grunewald, Vista Clara, USA
10:55-11:20	PM-IL-13d	Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Fluids in Porous Media Bruce Balcom, University of New Brunswick, Canada
11:20-11:15	PM-ST-8d	Single-scan T1-T2 Relaxation Correlation Experiment Susanna Ahola, University of Oulu, Finland
11:15-11:50	PM-ST-9d	High Pressure Magic Angle Spinning NMR Capability Flaviu Turcu, Babes-Bolyai University, Romenia
11:50-12:15	PM-IL-13d	Efficient measurement of T1/T2 ratio in porous media Martin Hurlimann, Schlumberger, USA

Pre-Conference Meetings

Pre-Conference Meetings will be organized on sunday May ¹⁹ 2013 by WW-NMR and We-NMR. Participation is free for all conference attendee's.

We-NMR Workshop

This workshop will provide a general introduction to grid computing and the We-NMR services currently available through the We-NMR virtual research community portal (We-NMR), with emphasis on structure calculation and refinement with AMBER, analysis of SAXS data for complexes with MAXOCC and docking with HADDOCK.

The objective of We-NMR is to optimize and extend the use of NMR and SAXS research infrastructures through the implementation of an e-infrastructure in order to provide the user community with a platform integrating and streamlining the computational approaches necessary for NMR and SAXS data analysis and structural modeling. We-NMR allows groups lacking the resources to add NMR and SAXS to their toolbox, as well as dedicated NMR groups to improve their standard from basic practice towards cutting-edge research.

• Expected number of participants: 30
• Application: Candidates should submit an email to wenmrrio@gmail.com containing a short CV and a letter stating their research interests and the impact they expect this workshop will have on their research.
• Application dead line: April 30^th, 2013
• Participants should have experience with Linux and are asked to bring their own laptop with at least 8Gb of free space on disk

Tentative Program

May 19, 2013		We-NMR Workshop
8:30 - 8:45		Opening - Introduction to We-NMR
8:45 - 10:15		Practical session 1: Structure Calculation - AMBER
10:15 - 10:30		Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00		Practical session 2: Conformational space of complexes from SAXS data - MAXOCC
12:00 - 13:00		Lunch
13:00 - 15:00		Practical session 3: Docking with HADDOCK

WW-NMR Workshop

Coordination: Fabio C. L. Almeida/Ulrich Guenther
Homepage of WW-NMR

WW-NMR is a world wide Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) initiative to bring together research groups and institutions specialised in all aspects of NMR spectroscopy in Europe with laboratories in five other countries. The program has been funded by the EU as an IRSES program.

WW-NMR builds on EU-funded infrastructures in the Europe and supports strategic and sustainable links between these infrastructures with nine Partners from outside Europe who have developed life science projects which are highly relevant to the European groups. NMR spectroscopy is a broadly applicable technology relevant to all aspects of Life Science research, with major influence and impact on the biomedical industries.

PARTNERS
The proposed research project brings together internationally recognized leaders from 15 academic institutions and 10 countries who share complementary knowledge and skill sets. Together they will collaborate on advances in the field of NMR spectroscopy for molecular and structural biology, research of ligand and membrane interactions and signaling, and metabolomics.

• UBham: HWB-NMR centre at the University of Birmingham, UK
• BMRZ: The Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance at the University of Frankfurt, DE
• CIRMMP: Consorzio Interuniversitario Risonanze Magnetiche di Metalloproteine, University of Florence, IT
• SONNMR: Utrecht NMR Center for Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, DE
• CNRS-CRMN: Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs de Lyon, FR
• UCAM-DCHEM: Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
• TIFR: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
• UWC: University of Western Cape Biomolecular NMR, South Africa
• CISR: The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
• IBR: NMR Lab at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology of Rosario, Argentinia
• ABTLuS: Associação Brasileira de technologia de Luz Síncrotron
• CNRMN: National Center for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Brazil
• WIPM: Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, China
• PKU: Peking University, China
• USTC: NMR Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China

Tentative Program

May 19, 2013		WW-NMR/COSMOS Workshop
		Metabolomics Methods and New Standards
		Introduction to WW-NMR and COSMOS
8:30 - 9:00		COSMOS, C. Steinbeck, EBI - Progress in Metabolomics Standardization
9:00 - 9:25		Ulrich Guenther, Birmingham – Deciphering metabolic changes in cancer using metabolic fluxes
9:25 - 9:50		Claudio Luchinat, Florence. Intra- and inter-individual variability in metabolomic NMR profiles: challenges and opportunities
9:50 - 10:15		Ana Carolina Zeri - LNBIO - Brazilian Bioscience National Laboratory - Metabolomic investigation of chemotherapy resistance in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
10:15 - 10:40		Emelie Barbet-Massin - Proton detection in biomolecular solid-state NMR
10:40 - 11:00		Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25		Ana Paula Valente - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Salivary metabolite signatures of children with and without dental caries lesions
11:25 - 12:00		Round Table: Funding Structures and Possibilities for Collaborations
12:00 - 13:00		Lunch
		Protein NMR Methods
13:00 - 13:25		Rodolfo Rasia - IBR - Universidad Nacional de Rosario -Induced folding in RNA recognition by Arabidopsis thaliana DCL1
13:25 - 13:50		Harald Schwalbe - Targeting extracellular receptors by small molecules
13:50 - 14:15		Roberto Salinas – University of São Paulo - Characterization of the Type 4 Secretion System of a Phytopathogen by High-Resolution NMR
14:15 - 14:40		Rolf Boelens - Structure and dynamics in gene regulation
14:40 - 15:05		Luciana Machado – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – Excited State of the plant defensin SD5 is compact and stabilized by polar contacts
15:05 - 15:10		Final Remarks

User Meetings

Agilent Technologies

The Agilent Technologies Users Meeting will be hold on Sunday, May 19^th, in the Room Ônix at the Royal Tulip Hotel from 9:00 to 13:00. Please note that a separate registration with Agilent Technologies might be requested.

Bruker

The Bruker Users Meeting will be hold on Sunday, May 19^th, in the Rooms Turmalina/Topázio at the Royal Tulip Hotel from 12:00 to 14:40. Please note that a separate registration with Bruker is requested.

MestreLab

The MestreLab Users Meeting will be hold on Monday, May 20^th, in the Room Água Marinha at the Royal Tulip Hotel from 12:30 to 13:30. Please note that a separate registration with MestreLab might be required.

Prizes

Anatole Abragam Prize and Lecture

The Anatole Abragam Prize is an official ISMAR prize given to young investigators.
Sponsored by Bruker, the first version of this prize will be given in Rio de Janeiro in 2013. Further information and the call for candidates is available on the ISMAR Website.

ISMAR Prize and Lecture

The ISMAR Prize is an official prize awarded to senior scientists who have significantly contributed to the Magnetic Resonance field. It is sponsored by Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (CIL).

Jack Freed is the winner of the the ISMAR Prize 2013

The prize will be delivered at the opening session of ISMAR on May 19th , 2013.

Speakers

Plenary Lecturers