Twitter Conference

Social media platforms have brought down the physical barriers to scientific discussion. That’s where the Twitter conference organized by global NMR discussion meetings come in.

Following last year’s success, Global NMR Discussion Meetings successfully held the 2nd online conference on Twitter in July 2023.
The conference is available to all students and postdocs using magnetic resonance techniques (NMR and EPR etc.) to answer questions in biology, chemistry, materials science, physics, and more.

The participants uploaded a short 2-minute video or a poster to present their work. 42 presentations were shown which attracted a total of over 155,000 views on Twitter.

Here we highlight the research topics of the winners.

Enjoy those interesting interviews with the young generation of the NMR/EPR community.

Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) for sensitivity enhancement in Liquid State NMR using compact instrumentation

Charlotte Bocquelet

Charlotte Bocquelet is a 3rd year Ph.D. student under the supervision of Prof. Sami Jannin at the Center of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at the Université Lyon 1, France. Previously, she obtained a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and a Masters in analytical physical chemistry, during which she developed a passion for NMR spectroscopy and hardware design. Her work focuses on hyperpolarization using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) to enhance the signal in liquid state NMR. Her thesis project aims at turning DNP into a new version that will be widely compatible with liquid-state NMR spectroscopy by replenishing hyperpolarization with a compact flow system and accumulating the scans to perform multidimensional experiments and coherence selection. This approach would also benefit the use of hyperpolarized NMR for reaction monitoring providing the boost of signal to analyze carbon and other nuclei.

NMR spectroscopy using diamond quantum sensors

Robin Allert

Robin Allert is an up-and-coming scientist and PhD student in the field of quantum sensing at the Technical University of Munich. With his focus on the development of novel detectors for NMR spectroscopy, he is pioneering the use of quantum sensors in diamonds. This innovative technology opens up new possibilities for NMR spectroscopy in compact lab-on-a-chip devices. Robin's visionary goal is to extend NMR spectroscopy to the analysis of single human cells and enable NMR spectroscopy for high-throughput applications such as enzyme screening.

NMR metabolomcis to detect cancer cells

Sofia Mariasina

Sofia Mariasina is a Research Assistant at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia) in the Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, Laboratory for magnetic Tomography and Spectroscopy.

Her scientific interests are NMR metabolomics, protein structure by NMR and methyltransferase.

She also teaches in high school at the Moscow Chemical Lyceum.

Nuclei, Atoms and Photons

Michael Tayler

Michael Tayler is an ICFO staff scientist and NMRduino co-founder. Michael made his PhD in 2013 at University of Southampton. He investigates spin physics at the interface of chemistry, atomic physics and photonics, to deepen insight into materials structure and realize sensor applications with commercial potential.