20th NMR Users Meeting
October 6th to 10th, 2025
Hotel do Bosque in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (https://www.hoteldobosque.com.br/)
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.
Organizing Committee
Anderson de Sá Pinheiro (UFRJ, Brazil), President
Luzineide Wanderley Tinoco (UFRJ, Brazil), Vice-president
Gisele Cardoso Amorim (UFRJ, Brazil), Treasurer
Marcos Batista Machado (UFAM, Brazil), Secretary
Alan Diego da Conceição Santos (UFSM. Brazil)
Andersson Barison (UFPR, Brazil)
Clarissa Piccinin Frizzo (UFSM, Brazil)
Clemens Anklin (Bruker, Germany)
Glaucia Braz Alcântara (UFG, Brazil)
Ivana Silva Lula (UFMG, Brazil)
Lorena Mara Alexandre Silva (EMBRAPA, Brazil)
Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel)
Marcos de Oliveira Junior (USP, Brazil)
Rafael Bruschweiler (Ohio State University, USA)
Rodolfo Rasia (Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Rosario, Argentina)
Scientific Committee
Claudio Francisco Tormena (UNICAMP, Brazil) – President
Alejandro Vila (Universidad de Rosario, Argentina)
Ana Gil (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Ana Paula Valente (UFRJ, Brazil)
Anne Lesage (Univeristé de Lyon – France)
Antonio Gilberto Ferreira (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Beatriz Jimenez (University of Adelaide, Australia)
Fernando Fernandes Paiva (USP, Brazil)
Gary Martin (Seton Hall University, USA)
Jair Carlos Checon de Freitas (UFES, Brazil)
Leonard Mulller (University of California, Riverside-USA)
Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel)
Luiz Alberto Colnago (Embrapa, Brazil)
Matthew Augustine (University of California, USA)
Rafael Bruschweiler (Ohio State University, USA)
Renata Mendonça Araujo (UFRN, Brazil)
Ricardo Rodrigues Urbano (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Sonia Maria Cabral de Menezes (AUREMN, Brazil)
Tiago Bueno de Moraes (USP, Brazil)
Tiago Venâncio (UFSCAR, Brazil)
Tito José Bonagamba (USP, Brazil)
Confirmed Speakers
Alessandro André Mazzola (PhyMED Consultores em Física Médica e Radioproteção Ltda, Diagnóstico por Imagem)
Aline Lima de Oliveira (UnB, Brazil) – Quantitative NMR and Chemometrics in Rosewood Essential Oil Differentiation
Ariana Vasconcelos (UFRJ, Brazil) – NMR studies of the mechanism of action of disintegrins: structure and dynamics of the complex disintegrins/integrins
Ariel Sarotti (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
Arthur S. Edison (University of Georgia, USA) – Opening Lecture – New ways of using NMR in metabolomics and glycomics
Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmão (FFCLRP-USP, Brazil) –
Caroline Raquel Bemder (UFSM, Brazil) – Saturation difference NMR applied to the study of protein-íonic liquid interactions
Charlotte Bocquelet (University of Lyon, France)
Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevedo (IFSC-USP, Brazil) –
Eurico Cabrita (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal) –
Fernando Hallwass (UFPE, Brazil)–
Fernando M. dos Santos Junior (UFF, Brazil) –
Juan Lopez (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru/NIDDK, USA) –Absolute Metabolite Quantification by Pure Shift NMR
Letícia Rittner (Unicamp, Brazil)
Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP, Brazil) – Application of NMR metabonomics in health: diagnostics and prognostics
Maria Concepción García Otaduy (USP, Brazil)
Mario Piccioli (University of Florence, Italy) –
Meghan Halse (University of York, United Kingdom) – Enhancing benchtop NMR spectroscopy by combining hyperpolarisation and multiplet refocusing.
Nadia Izadi-Pruneyre (Institute Pasteur, France) – Integrative Structural Biology of Bacterial Membrane Nanomachines
Olivier Lafon (Université de Lille, France) –
Ricardo Urbano (UNICAMP, Brazil) – Pushing the boundaries of solid-state NMR in physics: from fundamental understanding to practical applications
Rodolfo Rasia (IBR-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
Ruth Gschwind (U. Ragensburg, Germany) – In situ NMR spectroscopy for monitoring heterogeneous photocatalysis
Stefano Cacciatore (ICGEB, Cape Town, South Africa) –
Thiago Branquinho de Queiroz (UFABC, Brazil)
Young Hae Choi (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Below are details of the event’s plenary sessions and symposia:
MONDAY, October 6th
15:00 – 17:00 Registration
17:00 – 17:30 Opening Ceremony
17:30 – 18:30 Opening Lecture: Arthur S. Edison (University of Georgia, USA)
Title: New ways of using NMR in metabolomics and glycomics.
Chair: Anderson S. Pinheiro (UFRJ)
18:30 – 21:30 Welcome Dinner
TUESDAY, October 7th
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Lecture 01: 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 (IFSC-USP)
09:45 – 10: 15 Coffee Break
Symposium 01: Small Molecules/Computational Methods
Chair: Claudio F. Tormena (UNICAMP)
10:15 – 10:45 – Fernando M. dos Santos Junior (UFF, Brazil)
Title: Structural characterisation of natural products by means of quantum chemical calculations of NMR parameters: new insights.
10:45 – 11:15 – Ariel Sarotti (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
Title: DFT-NMR
11:15 – 11:45 – Caroline Raquel Bender (UFSM, Brazil)
Title: Saturation difference NMR applied to the study of protein-íonic liquid interactions.
11:45 – 12:15 Fernando Hallwass (UFPE, Brazil)
12:15 – 12:30 Selected from abstracts
12:30 – 12:45 Selected from abstracts
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
Symposium 02: Imaging by NMR/Instrumentation
Chair: Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon (FFCLRP-USP)
14:15 – 14:45 Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmão (FFCLRP-USP, Brazil)
14:45 – 15:15 Letícia Rittner (Unicamp, Brazil)
15:15 – 15:45 Maria Concepción García Otaduy (USP, Brazil)
15:45 – 16:15 Alessandro André Mazzola (PhyMED Consultores em Física Médica e Radioproteção Ltda, Diagnóstico por Imagem)
16:15 – 16:30 Selected from abstracts
16:30 – 16:45 Selected from abstracts
16:45 – 17:15 Coffee Break
17:15 – 18:00 Plenary Lecture 02: Meghan Halse (University of York, United Kingdom) Title: Enhancing benchtop NMR spectroscopy by combining hyperpolarisation and multiplet refocusing.
Chair: Tito J. Bonagamba (IFSC-USP, Brazil)
18:00 – 20:00 Poster Session 01
WEDNESDAY, October 8th
14:15 – 15:00 Plenary Lecture 03: Ruth Gschwind (U. Ragensburg, Germany)
Title: NMR in Photo- and Organocatalysis – Pushing the Limits.
Chair: Fernando Hallwas (UFPE)
Symposium 03: Biomolecular NMR
Chair: Gisele Cardoso de Amorim (UFRJ)
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.
16:30-16:45 Selected from abstracts
16:45-17:00 Selected from abstracts
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 18:00 Sponsor’s Lecture 01
18:00- 20:00 Poster Session 02
THURSDAY, October 9th
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Lecture 04: Mario Piccioli (University of Florence, Italy)
Title: Paramagnetic NMR as a tool to structurally characterize iron-sulfur proteins
Chair: Adolfo H. de Moraes (UFMG)
09:45 – 10: 15 Coffee Break
Symposium 04: Quantitative NMR/Medicinal Chemistry
Chair: Luzineide W. Tinoco (UFRJ)
10:15 – 10:45 To be confirmed
10:45 – 11:15 Eurico Cabrita (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
11:15 – 11:45 – Aline Lima de Oliveira (UnB, Brazil)
Title: Quantitative NMR and Chemometrics in Rosewood Essential Oil Differentiation
11:45 – 12:00 Selected from abstracts
12:00 – 12:15 Selected from abstracts
12:15 – 12:45 Sponsor’s Lecture 02
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
Symposium 05: Time domain-NMR/Materials
Chair: Sônia Cabral de Menezes (AUREMN)
14:15 – 14:45 Thiago Branquinho de Queiroz (UFABC, Brazil)
14:45 – 15:15 Charlotte Bocquelet (University of Lyon, France) – Title: Benchtop DNP on varying 1H spins quantity 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 Selected from abstracts
16:00 – 16:15 Selected from abstracts
16:15 – 16:45 Coffee Break
16:45 – 17: 30 Plenary Lecture 05: Tatyana Polenova (University of Delaware, USA)
Chair: Marcos Batista Machado (UFAM)
17:30-18:15 – Plenary Lecture 06: Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevedo (IFSC-USP, Brazil)
18:15 – 19:30 General Assembly
FRIDAY, October 10th
09:00 – 09:45 Plenary Lecture 07: Young Hae Choi (Leiden University, Holanda)
Title: Produtos Naturais
Chair: Antônio Gilberto Ferreira (UFSCar)
09:45 – 10: 15 Coffee Break
Symposium 06: Metabolomics/Natural Products
Chair: Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP)
10:15 – 10:45 – Stefano Cacciatore (ICGEB, Cape Town, South Africa)
Title: Innovative Approaches to Data Analysis in Metabolomics
10:45 – 11:15 Juan Lopez – (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru/NIDDK, USA)
Title: Absolute Metabolite Quantification by Pure Shift NMR.
11:15 – 11:45 Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP, Brazil)
Title: Application of NMR metabonomics in health: diagnostics and prognostics
11:45 – 12:00 Selected from abstracts
12:00 – 12:15 Selected from abstracts
12:15 – 12:45 Sponsor’s Lecture 03
12:45 – 13:45 Closing Ceremony