News- NEWS FROM THE GROUP
- A grant in the bilateral NWO-DFG cooperation programme has been obtained (Dec. 2011).
- Dr. Bela Bode has been awarded an EaStCHEM Hirst Academic Fellowship to join faculty of the University of St Andrews (July 2011).
- Focus session on “spin-related phenomena in organics” at the annual meeting of FOM in January 2012 in Veldhoven approved (July 2011).
- Dr. Chen Song published a manuscript in PNAS showing that the cofactor in phytochrome undergoes a photoflip of pyrrole ring D (Feb. 2011).
- Dr. Ben Anger obtained the first signal of hyperpolarized 129Xe gas in our laboratory (30 Aug 2010 at 15.30).
- Prof. Shimon Vega (Weizmann Institute) has been teaching magnetic resonance as van-Arkel guest professor at our institute (April-June 2010).
- Dr. Bela Bode received a Feodor-Lynen grant of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gesellschaft (Oct. 2009) and a Marie-Curie fellowship of the European Union (Dec. 2009).
- Our former PhD student Dr. Thierry Rohmer received an Ernst Award 2009 (Sept. 2009) for his publication in PNAS (Oct. 2008) on the structure-function relation of the photoreceptor phytochrome. He also received the "Thesis of the year 2009" award of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (Oct. 2009).
- Our group has been hosting the 2009 meeting of the Dutch NMR Discussion Group (16 Oct. 2009).
- The new textbook by Möbius and Savitsky on high-field EPR spectroscopy dedicates a chapter to our work on photo-CIDNP MAS NMR (June 2009).
- Our group received an ALW "open competition" grant for low-field photo-CIDNP NMR experiments (Nov. 2008).
- The new 400-MHz WB magnet system, dedicated to optical experiments and obtained by an NWO Middelgroot grant (Feb. 2008), is now on field (Oct. 2008).
- Our former PhD student Dr. Eugenio Daviso received the “Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry Award for Young Scientists Prize” donated by John Wiley & Sons. The prize has been presented during the EUROMAR conference (St. Petersburg/Russia, 6-11 July 2008).
- Our former PhD student Dr. Anna Diller received the "researcher of the year 2007"-award of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry (Dec. 2007) as well as an Ernst Award 2008 (Sept. 2008).
- Our former PhD student Dr. Shipra Prakash received an Ernst Award 2006.
2. POSITIONS- BSc and MSc students are always welcome. Please contact.
- If you are interested on doing postdoctoral work on optical methods in NMR, feel free to discuss about possibilities. Candidates from South-America may click here. Candidates from Germany might click here.
3. TALKS BY GUESTS & SYMPOSIA Tue 1 Feb 2011, 10.00
Dr. Daniel Kattnig (Max-Planck-Institut Polymerforschung Mainz)
“Probing exciplex systems by magnetic field effects”. Tue 23 Nov 2010, 10.00
Dr. Tilman Kottke (Univ. Bielefeld, Biophysical Chemistry)
“Photoactivation of the blue-light sensor cryptochrome”. Fri 3 Sep 2010, 11.00
Prof. Dr. Markus Wohlgenannt (Dept Physics & Astronomy, University of Iowa)
“Magnetoresistance caused by molecular hyperfine & ferromagnetic stray fields”. Mon 23 Aug 2010, 14.00
Dr. Steven Morgan (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel & CEA Saclay)
“Multiple spin echoes & instabilities in dissolve hyperpolarized 3H or 129Xe”. Mon 23 Aug 2010, 11.00
Dr. Jan Behrends (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin)
“Spins as probes for charge transport in solar cells”. Mon 22 Mar 2010, 14.00
Dr. Pieter C.M.M. Magusin (Eindhoven University of Technology)
“Hydrogen siting anf dynamics in hydrogen-storage materials by 1H and 2H NMR”. Mon 8 Mar 2010, 10.00
Prof. Dr. Lawrence J. Berliner (University of Denver)
“Detecting of nitric oxide: Combining NMR and EPR”. Wed 7 Oct 2009, 10.00
Dr. Till Biskup (FU Berlin & Freiburg Univ.)
“Electron transfer reactions in cryptochromes probed by time-resolved EPR”. Mon 15 Jun 2009, 13.00
Prof. Dr. John Golbeck (PennState Univ.)
“The heliobacterial reaction center”. Fri 20 Mar 2009, 11.45
Dipl.-Phys. Holger Stork (Technische Univ. Darmstadt)
“Field-cycling NMR”. Mon 9 Mar 2009, 9.30
Dr. Bela Bode (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt)
“Molecular structure at a distance: Quantitative interpretation of PELDOR data”. Mon 19 Jan 2009, 10.00
Dr. Benjamin C. Anger (Weber State University)
“Intrinsic gas-phase spin relaxation of 129Xe”. Tue 2 Dec 2008, 11.00
Dr. Matthias Ernst (ETH Zürich)
“Spin diffusion in MAS solid-state NMR”. 3nd Leiden International Symposium on Spin-Chemistry
Tue 18 Nov 2008,9.30-11.30 Eugenio Daviso (Leiden Institute of Chemsitry)
“Photo-CIDNP in solid state“.
Prof. Dr. Peter Hore (University of Oxford)
“Photo-CIDNP in liquid state“.
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Jeschke (ETH Zürich)
“Symmetry break and polarization production“. Thu 6 Nov 2008, 10.00
Prof Dr. Wolfgang Gärtner (MPI Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
“The role of the chromophore in biological photoreceptors”. Mon 15 Sept 2008, 10.00
Dr. Ovidiu F. Pascui (Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
“Moblility in semi-crystalline polymers, investigated by 13C MAS and 129Xe NMR”. Fri 29 Aug 2008, 10.00
Dr. Pierre Kempgens (Limoges)
“Cobalt-59 NMR study of the tetrahedral cluster Co4(CO)12: relaxation and exchange”. Thu 12 Jun 2008, 11.00
Prof. Dr. David B. Knaff (Center Biotechnology & Genomics, Texas Tech. Univ.)
“Nitrite reductase and thioredoxin reductase:
Biophysical, structural and biochemical studies of two ferredoxin-dependent enzymes”. Fri 25 Apr 2008, 15.30
Prof. Dr. Norio Murata (Tokyo)
“Photoinhibition of photosystem II”. 2nd Leiden International Symposium on Spin-Chemistry
Thu 11 Oct 2007, 10.00-12.00 Prof. Dr. Klaas Hellingwerf (University of Amsterdam)
“Radical photo-sensing“.
Dr. Peter Gast (Leiden Institute of Physics)
“Pigeons and photo-inhibition“.
Eugenio Daviso (Leiden Institute of Chemistry)
“Nanosecond-laser flash photo-CIDNP MAS NMR on bacterial photosynthetic RCs“.
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Jeschke (Universität Konstanz)
“Time-resolved solid-state CIDNP studies: Theoretical considerations“. 1st Leiden International Symposium on Spin-Chemistry
Tue 18 Sept 2007, 10.00-12.00 Prof. Dr. Clemens Glaubitz (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
“Biophysics of multidrug efflux pumps“.
Anna Diller (Leiden Institute of Chemistry):
“The donor side of photosystem II“.
Esha Roy (Leiden Institute of Chemistry):
“Photo-CIDNP MAS NMR on Type-1 reaction centres“.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lubitz (MPI Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
“Structure and function of hydrogenase: Basis for a biological hydrogen production“. Fri 30 Mar 2007, 11.00
Prof. Dr. Tom Wenckebach (TU Delft)
“DNP - Dynamic nuclear polarisation” Fri 19 Jan 2007, 11.00
Prof. Dr. Rob Kaptein (Utrecht University)
“The early days of CIDNP. A personal account” Fri 17 Nov 2006, 14.00
Prof. Dr. Govindjee (University of Illinois, Urbana-Campaign)
“Bicarbonate in photosystem II Fri 8 Sept 2006, 11.00
Prof. Dr. Joachim Bargon (University of Bonn)
“The Discovery and Subsequent Development of CIDNP” Thu 27 May 2004, 16.00
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Gärtner (MPI Bioanorganische Chemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
“Chromophore-protein interactions in plant and bacterial phytochromes“ Thu 29 April 2004, 11.15
Prof. Dr. Armen Mulkidjanian (Department of Biology/Chemistry, University of Osnabrück)
“Relaxation control over biological electron transfer, some illustrative examples” Wed 15 Jan 2003, 11.15
Prof. Dr. Alfred R. Holzwarth (MPI Strahlenchemie, Mülheim an der Ruhr)
“Excitonic coupling and spectral assignment in D1-D2-Cyt-B559 RCs of photosystem II“ Wed 20 Nov 2002, 10.15
Dr Gunnar Jeschke (MPI Polymerforschung Mainz)
“The mechanism of photo-CIDNP in solids”
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