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.
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20th Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Users Meeting
FINAL PROGRAM
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: Luzineide W. Tinoco (UFRJ, Brazil)
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, Brazil)
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break
Symposium 01: Small Molecules/Computational Methods
Chair: Claudio F. Tormena (UNICAMP, Brazil)
10:15 – 10:45 – Fernando M. dos Santos Junior (UFF, Brazil)
Title: Structural characterization of natural products using quantum chemical calculations of NMR parameters: new insights.
10:45 – 11:15 – Ariel Sarotti (Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
Title: In Pursuit of Utopia: Developing Ultra-Fast In Silico Methods for Structural Elucidation
11:15 – 11:45 – Caroline Raquel Bender (UFSM, Brazil)
Title: Saturation difference NMR applied to the study of polymers and ionic liquid interactions
11:45 – 12:15 Fernando Hallwass (UFPE, Brazil)
Title: New Alignment Media for Residual Dipolar Coupling (RDC) and Residual Chemical Shift Anisotropy (RCSA) Measurements
12:15 – 12:30 Selected from abstracts
12:30 – 12:45 Selected from abstracts
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch
Symposium 02: Imaging by NMR
Chair: Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon (FFCLRP-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 Carlos Ernesto Garrido Salmon (FFCLRP-USP, Brazil)
Title: Quantitative MRI
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 02: Meghan Halse (University of York, United Kingdom)
Title: Hyperpolarised Benchtop NMR Spectroscopy for Analytical Applications
Chair: Tito J. Bonagamba (IFSC-USP, Brazil)
17:30 – 19:30 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: Renata Mendonça Araujo (UFRN, Brazil)
Symposium 03: 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.
16:30-16:45 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, Brazil)
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break
Symposium 04: Quantitative NMR/Medicinal Chemistry
Chair: Kahlil Schwanka Salome (UFPR, Brazil)
10:15 – 10:45 Gerlon Oliveira (UnB, Brazil) Invited
Title: Practical Aspects of qNMR: From Drug Purity to Food Authenticity and Forensic Investigations
10:45 – 11:15 Eurico Cabrita (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal)
Title: Using 19F-NMR to monitor conformational changes in neurotransmitter membrane transporters
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: NMR for Materials
Chair: Sônia Cabral de Menezes (AUREMN)
14:15 – 14:45 Thiago Branquinho de Queiroz (UFABC, Brazil)
Title: High-resolution solid-state NMR for probing intermolecular interactions
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 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)
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)
17:30-18:15 – Plenary Lecture 06: Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevedo (IFSC-USP, Brazil)
Title: Beyond Relaxometry: ¹H TD-NMR Methods for Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics in Complex Materials
Chair: Luiz Alberto Colnago (Embrapa, Brazil)
18:15 – 19:30 General Assembly
FRIDAY, October 10th
09:00 – 09:45 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)
09:45 – 10:15 Coffee Break
Symposium 06: Metabolomics/Natural Products
Chair: Ljubica Tasic (UNICAMP, Brazil)
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)
Title: New-Old Tricks Applied to Complex Mixtures and Metabolomics
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