Program
Morning Session (9:20 – 10:30 PM EDT)
8:45 – 9:20: Breakfast/check in
9:20 – 9:30: Robert Menger (2025 NJACS Chair) /Rongfeng Zheng (2025 NJACS NMR Topical Group Chair)
Opening Remarks
9:30 – 10:15: Tatyana Polenova, University of Delaware
MAS NMR, with and without DNP for integrative and cellular structural biology
Coffee Break (10:15 – 10:30 EDT)
10:30 – 11:15: Yande Huang, Bristol Myers Squibb
NMR Study of the Inclusion Complexation of Cyclodextrins with Cimlanod, a pH Sensitive Prodrug of HNO
11:15 – 12:00: Theresa A. Ramelot, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Modeling Protein Flexibility: NMR-Guided Detection of Hidden States Revealed by AlphaFold
Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT)
1:00 – 2:10: Keynote Session Stephan Grzsesiek, University of Basel
A high-resolution description of G protein-coupled receptor functional motions by backbone NMR spectroscopy
Coffee Break/Networking (2:10 – 3:00 PM EDT)
3:00 – 3:45: Dominique P. Frueh, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Finding Needles in Haystacks; Overcoming NMR spectroscopic crowding to unravel functional protein dynamics
3:45 – 4:30: Alisha ‘Jonesy’ Jones, New York University
Investigating the structural dynamics of noncoding RNAs
4:30 – 4:40: QingZhe Ni, 2026 Chair NJACS NMR Topical Group
Closing Remarks
Dinner Reception (6:00 – 8:00 PM EDT)
(Invitation only for speakers and donors/NJACS NMR group committee)
