Category Archives: News from the SeRMN

News about the SeRMN that do not fit in any other of the available categories.

TRANSACT-ITN project awarded to GABRMN, SeRMN & CIBER-BBN

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TRANSCAT ITN ProjectTransforming Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy into a Clinical Tool (TRANSACT) is an European research project awarded in the call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-ITN, of the 7th Framework Programme Marie-Curie Actions, to a network of partners including the GABRMN and SeRMN at UAB, and the associated partner CIBER-BBN. The project is coordinated by Prof. Sabine Van Huffel, Prof. Uwe Himmelreich, and Dr. Diana Sima, of the Department of Electrical Engineering ESAT-SCD, and Department of Imaging & Pathology, Biomedical MRI Unit, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Scientist-in-charge at UAB will be Prof. Carles Arús (GABRMN) and Miquel Cabañas (SeRMN), and Dr. Margarida Julià-Sapé will be scientist-in-charge at CIBER-BBN. Dr. Silvia Lope-Piedrafita (SeRMN) will take part in the project as senior scientist.

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Teodor Parella, SeRMN Director, receives GERMN-Bruker NMR Award

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2012 GERMN-Bruker Award to Teo Dr. Teodor Parella, Director of the NMR Service and Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, received last September the GERMN-Bruker Award at the VI GERMN Bienal Meeting held in Aveiro, Portugal, for his contributions to the development and application of the NMR spectroscopy technique. Continue reading Teodor Parella, SeRMN Director, receives GERMN-Bruker NMR Award →

Master thesis on NMR methods to mesure residual proton-carbon dipolar couplings in small molecules

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Last September I defended my Master thesis entitled: “Medida de Acoplamientos Dipolares Residuales en Moléculas Orgánicas”

In recent years the use of Residual Dipolar Couplings (RDCs) has had a huge impact on the structure determination of biological macromolecules by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR). Its usefulness in determining the structure of small/medium-size organic compounds is increasingly more recognized. Continue reading Master thesis on NMR methods to mesure residual proton-carbon dipolar couplings in small molecules →

Presentations to the Ibero-American NMR & GERMN Bienal & Iberian NMR joint meeting

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Next week several SeRMN members will present our research work at the IV Ibero-American NMR – VI GERMN Bienal – III Iberian NMR joint meeting that will take place in Aveiro (Portugal) from 25th to 28th September. Find below a summary of our contributions.

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Doctoral thesis on new Chiral Solvating Agents based on molecular tweezers

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Last July I defended the doctoral thesis entitled “Nous agents de solvatació quiral tipus pinça amb anells antracènics: derivats de trifluorometilamines i trifluorometilcarbinols binòlics”.

The thesis focuses on the synthesis and behaviour of new Chiral Solvating Agents (CSA) based on molecular tweezers. The newly synthesized enantiopure compounds can be classified in two big groups:

  • the ones with a trifluoromethylanthrylamine backbone and an isopthalyc acid  as a linking molecule, and
  • the trifluoromethylcarbinol derivatives linked by a BINOL molecule, which adds an additional stereogenic element due to its chiral axis.

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7th Workshop on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging (MRI/MRS) Applied to Laboratory Animals

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Dates:  24th -27th October 2011

Organized by the SeRMN of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB).

This workshop combines a comprehensive series of lectures on the technology of magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging (MRS/MRI) with hands-on laboratory sessions to provide practical demonstrations of key concepts and procedures for preclinical studies.

Whether you are considering MRI as a research tool in your lab or just would like to learn more about MRI, this workshop addresses practical aspects of experimental MRI with laboratory animals and provide valuable hands-on experience on a 7 T Bruker BioSpec spectrometer.

Number of participants will be limited to 4.

For the registration, please fill the Registration Form and email it to ,  registration deadline ends October 10th.

See Workshop Brochure for more information or contact Silvia Lope via email.

What is DNP? Obtaining enhanced NMR signals for in-vitro and in-vivo applications

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Dynamic Nuclear Polarization is the method for obtaining strongly polarised nuclear spins, resulting in enhanced NMR signals for 13C and 15N nuclei in solution-state

Our NMR facility (SeRMN) has recently installed a HyperSense® (Oxford Instruments), a new instrument capable of delivering a huge sensitivity enhancement for your in-vitro and in-vivo applications allowing an easy and quick switching between both applications.

Liquid-state NMR spectroscopy is an important technique into a wide range of applications. However, it is limited by an intrinsically lack of sensitivity due to the low gyromagnetic ratio and natural abundance of the nuclei usually under study (13C, 15N, etc.) as compared with other analytical methods. Continue reading What is DNP? Obtaining enhanced NMR signals for in-vitro and in-vivo applications →

Hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance metabolic imaging in a mouse brain glioma model

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Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) of hyperpolarized [1-13C]pyruvate is a promising technique to noninvasively monitor metabolic changes in vivo. This method uses dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) techniques to obtain tens of thousands fold enhancement in the polarization of [1-13C]pyruvate and its metabolic products, like lactate, providing sufficient MR signal for high spatial and temporal resolution spectroscopic imaging of these metabolites. Continue reading Hyperpolarized 13C magnetic resonance metabolic imaging in a mouse brain glioma model →

Conference: Metabolomics

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Dr Toby Athersuch will be giving a talk on May the 20th at 12:00 h in the Sala de Graus 2, Facultat de Ciències i Biociències, Campus UAB. His talk is entitled “Adventures in metabolic hyperspace: an overview of metabonomic approaches and applications”. (Conference announcement: Conferència Toby – SeRMN)

Toby AthersuchDr Toby Athersuch is a Lecturer in Environmental Toxicology & Biomarkers in the MRC-HPA Centre for Environment & Health (Imperial College London). His appointment is jointly held between Biomolecular Medicine in the Department of Surgery & Cancer, and The Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in the School of Public Health. His research is primarily focused on the development and application of state-of-the-art analytical techniques such as high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic and mass spectrometric (MS) methods to the study of molecular mechanisms of human disease processes.  The application of metabolic profiling and other integrated post-genomic profiling technologies to answering epidemiological questions using various study designs is a rapidly expanding field of research, and requires the development of profiling techniques to underpin the required individual-level analyses. (See more: Short Bio – Toby Athersuch )

All interested individuals are welcome to attend this session.