THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENDANCE.The Gateway NMR Conference brings together NMR practitioners to allow them to share their exciting research, to get to know each other, to share news and know-how, and to initiate potential collaborations. The third Gateway NMR conference was held on November 2^nd and 3^rd 2018, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. A total of 70 people were in attendance.  

 

POSTER AWARDS. In addition to the oral sessions, we had poster sessions.  There were total 19 students/postdocs posters, as well as four staff/scientist posters. All posters were excellent and highly competitive. Secret poster-judges selected three among the students/postdocs posters, based on the poster abstract and scientific quality of the posters. Please congratulate the awardees, Abigail, Bikash and Ananya.

            FEBS J poster prize: 

                        Abigail Leggett, Ohio State University

                        Bikash Sahoo, University of Michigan

            Suraj Manrao Student poster prize:

                        Ananya Mukundan, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

FUTURE GATEWAY NMR CONFERENCE.  The 4^th Gateway NMR Conference will be co-organized by Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (University of Michigan) and David Weliky (Michigan State University) in the fall of 2019. 

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.  We thank the Department of Structural Biology of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and its Chair Angela M. Gronenborn for support of the conference. We also thank Doug Bevan, Teresa Brosenitsch, Mike Delk, Dean Duncan, and Janet Zambotti in the Department of Structural Biology at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine for administrative assistance. We also thank financial support from Bruker, CIL, FEBS Journal, JEOL, MestreLab, SIAL, SSP, and Suraj Manrao Student Science Fund (listed below).

 

ORGANIZERS in 2018

            Organizing committee members 

            Rieko Ishima (Chair); Rafael Brüschweiler; Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy; David Weliky 

            Local Scientific committee members

            Rieko Ishima; Andrew P. Hinck; Damodaran Krishnan Achary 

 

 

Financial Support

Bruker

CIL 

FEBS Journal

JEOL 

MestreLab 

SIAL 

Spectroscopy Society in Pittsburgh 

University of Pittsburgh 

Suraj Manrao Student Science Fund

 

 

 

“Challenges of Big Data“
Interdisciplinary Summer School 
University of Pittsburgh
August 13-17, 2018

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We are organizing a small, pilot interdisciplinary graduate summer school on the Challenges of Big Data from August 13-17 at the University of Pittsburgh.  We will accept between 12 and 20 science, philosophy, and history and philosophy of science graduate students from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.  The goal is to provide guidance and experience in interdisciplinary engagement, encompassing historical, philosophical and scientific perspectives.  We will discuss challenges that big data generate, such as quantity vs. quality of big data, managing privacy and application, transparency and bias in the analysis of big data, and how to write from and for different disciplines.   Following the group discussion each morning, students will divide into small groups to collaborate in writing a perspective-style article on some aspect of big data. We will meet from 10 am to 4 pm each day, concluding with a dinner on Friday, August 17.

 Presentations by:

• Michael J. Becich, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine

• Lillian Chong, Department of Chemistry

• David Danks, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University 

• Angela Gronenborn, Department of Structural Biology 

• Sandra Mitchell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science

 

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How To Apply:

To apply, email the following information to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Teresa Brosenitsch).

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Last Name
Department
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Organizing Committee:

Sandra Mitchell, Department of History and Philosophy of Science This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Angela Gronenborn, Department of Structural Biology This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lillian Chong, Department of Chemistry  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Co-sponsored by the Department of Structural Biology, School of Medicine; the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, the Office of the Provost and the Associate Dean's Office for Graduate Studies and Research, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

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