Jacob Schaefer to be honored at symposium/banquet

The St Louis NMR Discussion Group is excited to announce a symposium and banquet, January 6, 2017, in honor of Dr Jacob (“Jake”) Schaefer. Schaefer has had a long and distinguished career at Washington University, beginning as an adjunct professor in 1978 while a fellow at Monsanto, and progressing directly to the Charles Allen Thomas Professorship in 1986, a post he still holds.

Jake has been the recipient of many honors and awards, in particular for us here, the Saint Louis Award in 1977 and the Midwest Award in 1987. His specialty is high-resolution solid-state NMR. He is the co-inventor of cross-polarization magic-angle spinning (1976) and rotational-echo double resonance (1989). Both techniques have become standard methods and are currently in use world-wide.

The symposium features a confirmed list (current information here) of at least 13 international speakers. Attendance at the symposium is free, including lunch. There is a charge if you wish to attend the banquet immediately following the symposium. You can register for any or all phases of this event until December 22. Registrants will be sent banquet details. If you are bringing any “accompanying persons” to the banquet, please have them register separately.

Confirmed Speakers (as of post date)

• Mobae Afeworki, ExxonMobil DNP in Jake’s NMR lab and research in an industrial basic-research setting
• Alexander Barnes, Washington University Technology for Electron Decoupling and Pulsed DNP in Rotating Solids
• Lynette Cegelski, Stanford University CPMAS and REDOR: Bugs, Films, and Leaves
• Hellmut Eckert, Universität Münster, Germany Inspired by Rochester 1988: Using REDOR for Structural Studies of Inorganic Glasses
• Joel Garbow, Washington University School of Medicine Monsanto to Washington University: Tales of a Schaefer Post-doc
• Terry Gullion, West Virginia University Some Recollections of REDOR and Some Observations of Peptides on Gold Nanoparticles
• Joon Kim, Baylor University How mosquitoes and algae get fat: carbon metabolic fluxes by solid-state NMR
• Chris Klug, Naval Research Lab Taking Advantage of Low Field NMR
• Matt Merritt, University of Florida, Gainesville Paths Less Traveled: Using NMR to Understand Metabolism
• Gary Patti, Washington University Metabolic Anachronisms from Jake Schaefer’s 1985 Lab Notebook
• Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, University of Michigan Dynamic Structural Interactions between Membrane-Bound Cytochrome P450 and Redox Partners by NMR
• Asher Schmidt, Technion University, Israel Biominerals interfaces and mesoporous materials surfaces: the molecular REDOR eyes expose mechanistic pathways in functional materials
• David Weliky, Michigan State University Solid-State NMR of Viral Fusion Proteins