Workshops

Training

NMRFAM has a long history of providing workshops to train beginning users and non-experts in NMR data analysis. We are developing new content, including modern solution NMR data analysis, sample preparation, and hands-on training in solid-state NMR rotor packing, spectrometer setup and data acquisition.

2023 Solid-State NMR Hands-On Workshop Aug 1-4th, 2023

(We had a successful workshop! See you August of 2024!)

Workshop Contents

This workshop will provide hands-on experience to beginning to intermediate solid-state NMR users, and is designed to complement the theoretical introduction to solid-state NMR provided by the Solid-State NMR Winter School (https://winterschool.mit.edu/). Topics include:

Hands on practice in packing and spinning rotors using rotor-packing devices, including both powder and sticky biological samples.
Hands on practice in probe configuration and tuning, of particular interest for materials science applications.
Hands-on practice in measuring pulse sequence timing, power and phase shifts, and modifying pulse sequences (Bruker Topspin).
Hands-on practice in experimental setup and data acquisition, including optimization of cross-polarization, decoupling, and other key parameters.

2023 Scheduling Information

Schedule and Important Dates (Dates will be updated in May 2023)

May – July, 2023 – Check our website for workshop dates, format, and registration information. Registration will be on first come, first serve basis. The cost of this workshop is $100.00. The deadline for registration is July 3rd, 2023 and will be on first come, first serve basis.

Please submit Registration form and any questions to Lai Bergeman (lai.bergeman@wisc.edu)

Lodging options for the workshop can be found here.

Participant Requirements

Workshop participants who have some prior introductory experience with solid-state NMR will benefit most from this workshop, although we are also happy to use this forum as a means to introduce new users to the magic of spinning and the power of decoupling. Workshop content will primarily focus on biosolids NMR, but users interested in materials applications are also very welcome! Many of the methods, especially the instrumentation aspects, are generally applicable to both biosolids and materials, and NMRFAM is developing a major new focus in materials solid-state NMR and looking for collaborators and users.

All workshop participants will have the opportunity to do “hands on” work with rotor packing and spinning, probe tuning, pulse sequence editing and compiling, and configuration/optimization of experiments at NMRFAM spectrometers.

Along these lines, NMRFAM will provide standard samples to participants, but we will also be glad to support workshop participants who wish to bring their own research samples along with them to the workshop. This is very much encouraged, and in order to coordinate this in advance we would like participants to let us know by Thursday, July 20, 2023 if they are interested in bringing along their own research samples. We will then use this information to coordinate individual work plans for the week of the workshop. In cases where we run out of time at spectrometers to collect the data during the workshop for everyone who is interested, data collection will continue after the workshop with support of NMRFAM staff and the data shared with the participants remotely. Of course, we also encourage participants to visit NMRFAM in the future to continue these projects.

In addition, please let us know if you have exotic nuclei of interest and/or special requests for pulse sequences that you wish to use in your research. We will primarily use our standard NMRFAM (and Bruker) pulse sequence libraries, but if given sufficient advanced notice, we can consider implementation of other pulse sequences that you wish to use in your research. Again, if we are not able to complete this during the workshop itself, NMRFAM staff will follow up in collaboration with you afterwards to help solve your research problems.

Finally, please also let us know in advance if you require accommodations of any type and we will make every effort to prepare for your visit.

Past Solution Workshops

2023 Solution NMR Structural Biology Workshop June 5-9 , 2023 at CCRC NMR Facility, University of Georgia (UGA)

Solution NMR Structural Biology Workshop – We had a successful Workshop! See you in Madison next year!

June 5-9, 2022 at UGA

Presented jointly by NMRFAM (UW-Madison) and CCRC NMR Facility (UGA)

Instructors include:

Frank Delaglio (Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research/NIST)

Art Edison, Jim Prestegard, John Glushka, and Alex Eletsky (University of Georgia)

Sam Butcher, Riley Petersen, Marco Tonelli, and Katie Henzler-Wildman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Mark Maciejewski (University of Connecticut Health Center)

2022 NMRFAM Solution NMR Structural Biology Workshop - June 20-24, 2022

Solution NMR Structural Biology Workshop – We had a successful Workshop! See you in Georgia next year!
June 20-24, 2022 at NMRFAM
Presented jointly by NMRFAM (UW-Madison) and CCRC NMR Facility (UGA)
Presenters include Katie Henzler-Wildman, Marco Tonelli, Vilius Kurauskas (NMRFAM) and Art Edison, Jim Prestegard, Alex Eletsky (CCRC), and Jeff Hoch (UConn)

2022 Solution NMR Topics