The Second International Symposium on the Progress in Magnetic Resonance Methodologies - Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy was convened from June 28 to July 1 in Wuhan, capital city of central China's Hubei Province.
Under the joint sponsorship of CAS, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, and the Chinese Society of Magnetic Resonance, the meeting was co-organized by the State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance & Atomic and Molecular Physics, the CAS Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics (WIPM), and Wuhan Center for Magnetic Resonance.
More than 40 scholars attended the conference. They were from the US, the UK, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong Special Administration Region and mainland China.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has made remarkable progress in recent years. This is highlighted by the Noble prize-winning achievements of biomolecular structure determination using NMR technique by Kurt Wuthrich, ETH, and of magnetic resonance imaging by Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield.
This conference was aimed to bring together Chinese leading scientists who are working at the development and application of NMR techniques to the studies of biomolecular structure and dynamics and to provide a forum for them to present the latest advancements and explore the enormous potential presented at the interdisciplinary frontiers of medicine, biochemistry, chemistry, and physics.
The topics and technical sessions of the symposium included: signal transduction, transcription, enzyme catalysis, nucleic acids, NMR based drug-design and structural genomics, and methodology.