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The International Society for Magnetic Resonance writes on its web page: http://www.ismar.org/ It is with great sadness that ISMAR announces that Sir Paul Callaghan died from cancer March 24, 2012 at the age of only 64. He was an eminent figure in science in New Zealand and in NMR of materials. He is most known for his pioneering work combining rheology and NMR to unravel the flow behaviour of complex systems such as liquid crystals and polymer melts. These developments reach far beyond NMR and clearly represent landmarks of our field. His book on NMR Microscopy is a classic. His achievements have been recognized by numerous honours, prizes, and recognitions throughout the world.
Soon you might again be lucky to meet a real world class nmr expert in our nmr labs:
Professor Alistair L. Wilkins from New Zealand is returning for his annual 3 month stay in Oslo.
Module one "NMR" in KJM-MENA4010 starts up Thursday August 23rd and finished Wednesday September 5th. Students and supervisors should note that this module is only offered once a year (August/September) from now on.
Dear 5250 / 9250 participants - spring 2012. The obligatory laboratory/colloquies are held on Mondays and Tuesday for up to 15 weeks, starting February 6th. Each of you will be working at an nmr spectrometer only one day per week. You will be working in pairs setting up and executing a whole bunch of nmr experiments on the spectrometer: AVII400, DRX500 and AVII600. You will be rotated between the three instruments. We will discuss theory and practical aspects in the nmr rooms. Up to 6 persons will work on Mondays and up to 6 persons on Tuesdays. The work starts at 0900 AM and stops at 17.00 (05.00 PM) but your actual experiment might run until next morning when you will come in and stop the experiment.
In case Mondays or Tuesdays are in conflict with your teaching obligations as a PhD student the Monday groups or the Tuesday groups will be moved to Fridays if all assigned to that day do agree.
KJM 9250 contain some more advanced NMR experiments and a wider theoretical curriculum (see below here). Thanks to efforts in our administration KJM 5250 might also be part of a Bachelor curriculum! Students wanting this must apply to get KJM 5250 included in their Bachelor curriculum. How to do this is described here: http://www.mn.uio.no/studier/opptak/enkeltemner-master.html The application should be sent by e-mail to: studieinfo@kjemi.uio.no
Module 1 (nmr) in KJM-MENA4010 starts at 09.00 AM Thursday January 19. and runs thru Wednesday February 1. New users are adviced to participate.
The AVII400 and DRX500 nmr spectrometers are reserved for this course 14 days.
The three nmr instruments AV600, AVII400 and DRX500 are reserved for KJM9250 from Monday February 6th every Monday and Tuesday the whole sping semester of 2012 for KJM9250. Iconnmr on AVII400 will be shut off on Mondays at 0900 and restarted on Wednesday morning 0900 or shortly thereafter every normal working week. Three instruments two weekdays will enable 12 participants. The number of reserved instrument(days)/week will be reduced with one instrument day pr week for each fewer participant pairs.
KJM5250 / KJM9250 spring 2012. The course code is changed to KJM9250. KJM9250 will run in the spring of 2012 if 5 or more PhD students register. If less than 5 PhD students do register the course will be cancelled in 2012 and run next time in the spring of 2014. Lectures will most likely start on Wednesday February 1st. The intertwined practical and theoretical colloquiums in the NMR Center will start on Monday February 6th and run the whole semester. Students will work in pairs of two and two. Two or three NMR instruments will be used each day for up to two/three days a week which means a maximum of 12 students can participate. Each of you will use an nmr instrument one whole day each week, but you can leave the instrument now and then when acquisitions are going on. According to information received the course can now only be taken by PhD students and and rumors says that master students are forbidden to take the course unless they register the course as a "special course" in their curriculum.
On November 28th frode Rise will host a seminar in room Ø 316: "ICONNMR/BACS automation with the AVII400 nmr instrument. Differences and similarities with the DPX300 instrument."
The MestReNova Manuals can be downloaded from:
http://mestrelab.com/resources/manuals/
Anders Vik`s shorter manual can be downloaded here.
Module 1 in KJM-MENA4010- NMR will in the spring of 2012 start on Thursday January 19th and will end on Wednesday February 1st.
Free software for mac, iphone and ipad By John Georg Seland
Do you have a mac, an iphone or an ipad, and you are interested in understanding more of the NMR theory? Then you should check out the software called Insensitive. It connects the theory of the vector model, product operators and density matrix, and generates spectra based on different spin systems and pulse sequences. It is really great! Read more and download at this link.
Please be aware that our nmr tube holders/spinners are extremly costly. Each of them do cost 95 Euro + 25 % VAT which is about 900 NOK for each of them. Please do not spill chemicals on them. They are for instance harmed by ethanol or acetone. Please wash your hands and remove dirty gloves from the laboratories before touching a spinner. A bottle of isopropanol will soon be placed in the hood. You can use this to clean dirty spinners. Dirty spinners do also pollute the inner part of the NMR magnets giving rise to lots of unnecessary work. Dirty spinners are moving erratically - giving rise to artefacts in the spectra. Please also do not drop them on the floor. They are fragile.
A preowned BACS 120 sample changer from Sweden arrived on October 20th 2011.
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The "12th Norwegian National MR meeting" will be arranged in Oslo Tuesday January 10th and Wednesday January 11th in 2012.
http://www.nsmr.no/NSMR/MR2012/index.html
The meeting is preceeded by Bruker Biospin´s MR User meeting.
http://www.nsmr.no/NSMR/MR2012-Bruker/index.html
Agilent Technologies has a fairly new web page with lots of nmr information: http://www.spinsights.net/ It contains lots of information, fun and interesting stories. If ever in need of explaning what NMR is for non understanding friends or family direct them to: http://www.agilent.com/labs/features/2011_101_nmr.html
Mestre Nova 7.0.3 for Macintosh is now available for registered UiO users at our NMR facility. Please contact F. Rise if you want to activate MestReNova on a Macintosh. Please find the IP number of the Macintosh you are using with www.whatismyip.org or if you are installing outside the UIO network the MAC address: http://www.coffer.com/mac_info/ of your Macintosh. You will then get a license file from Frode, place this somewhere on desktop. Download the software from: http://mestrelab.com/software/mnova-suite/download/ and install it by clicking on the "dmg" file. When starting the program you will be asked if you have a license file. Answer yes and navigate to the license file on the desktop. Then you can start using MestReNova. If in trouble you will get personal help when asking for it.
Mestre Nova 7.0.3 for windows is now available for registered UiO users at our NMR facility. Please contact T.V. Hansen if you are a pharmacy user and F. Rise if you are a chemistry user or user from other parts of UiO (excluding Pharmacy). Please inform us about the IP number of the PC you are using www.whatismyip.org or if you are installing outside the UIO network the MAC address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address of the PC. You will find this with: run (or start search in lower left corner on the screen) followed by cmd and then finally ipconfig -all and the result is a number similar to: 00-1C-24-AC-62-D5. If you have several internet access points (cable and wifi) you will get several numbers. Submit them all. You will then get a license file from Trond Vidar or Frode. Download the software from: http://mestrelab.com/software/mnova-suite/download/ Somewhere in the installation process select: NMR and prediction. Unmark Run Mestre Nova (dont start the program). Then you put the license file in the correct position: For XP/Vista 32 the license file shall be located at: C:\Program Files\Mestrelab Research S.L\MestReNova\licenses For Win7 the license file shall be located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Mestrelab Research S.L\MestReNova\licenses Then you can start using Mestre Nova
Daniel Sachse bruker en tilnærming som kalles metabolomics, altså utnytter de stoffene fra energiomsetningen vår - metabolittene - som kroppen skiller ut. På samme måte som man kan danne seg et bilde av det som foregår inne i kroppen ved hjelp av en DNA-profil eller en protein-profil, håper forskerne innen metabolomics å kunne utvikle enkle og gode diagnoseverktøy ved hjelp av metabolitt-profiler, sier Sachse.Prøvene blir analysert ved hjelp av en analysemetode som heter magnetisk resonansspektroskopi, i samarbeid med Kjemisk institutt ved UiO. Magnetresonsans-spektroskopi sender kraftige magnetfelt inn i atomer. Protonene i atomkjernen begynner å vibrere med en svingetakt som er karakteristisk for hvilket stoff det er. Ved å se hvordan svingetakten (frekvensen) varierer med magnetfeltet, kan forskerne finne ut den kjemiske sammensetningen av stoffer. I en enkel urinprøve kan forskerne få informasjon om mer enn 150 ulike stoffer. Det er første gang metabolittprofiler over så mange deltakere samles inn .
June 12 2011 "gasworld" reported about upcoming helium supply shortages: Thanks to insider information, gasworld can exclusively reveal that the world is again dealing with a shortage of helium. Jane Dawson explores the issue further. Sources from within the heart of the industrial gases community have alerted gasworld to a current and worsening helium shortage. The deficit of helium is a subject that has received significant media coverage for over a year, but as we discovered the issue is a lot more imminent than previously realised. Indeed, according to industry sources the outlook is less than rosy, with informants predicting, “a sustained period of tight supply at the best of times and helium shortages during times of plant outages.” Continue reading at: http://www.gasworld.com/news.php?a=5727
As usual the NMR- Center does not have money to hire personnel during the summer vacation period. The users and the instruments are regretfully left to care for themselves. Luckily funds for filling liquid nitrogen on each and every Wednesdays are available.
Recently many of our nmr-pcs have restarted in the night. When crashing the experiments are of course corrupted and the expensive electronics might as well be damaged. Master students, Ph.D. students and post docs working under time constraints are regretfully delayed.
It is recommended to use 1H-13C HMQCBI from now on on the DPX 300 nmr instrument