Conferences

Biological EPR-Spectroscopy

 

School of Biology/Centre for Biomolecular Sciences

University of St. Andrews

Talks at Conferences

(1) Electron-Electron Spin-Spin Exchange between Trovacenyl Units mediated by Hydrogen Bonds, E. O. Fischer Meeting, Munich, Germany, June 1996.

 

(2) CW X-Band EPR Detection of Selectively Generated Guanine Radicals in DNA, International VW-Symposium, Wildbad Kreuth (Germany), June 2000 (invited).

 

(3) Distance Measurements on Oligonucleotides with Spin Labels, GDCh Jahrestagung, Würzburg (Germany), September 2001 (invited).

 

(4) Nanometer Distance measurements on RNA, Biochemistry Meeting “Ligand-RNA Interactions”, Frankfurt (Germany), March 2002.

 

(5) EPR Detection of Selectively Generated Guanin Radicals in DNA, 6^th European Conference on Bioinorganic Chemistry, Lund/Copenhagen (Sweden/Denmark), July 2002.

 

(6) Nanometer Distances Measurements on RNA using S- and X-band PELDOR, DFG-Rundgespräch Magnetische Resonanz, Hirschegg (Austria), September 2002 (invited).

 

(7) Radicals and Radical Interactions in DNA, TMR-Network Meeting, Wildbad Kreuth (Germany), October 2002 (invited).

 

(8) Nanometer Distance Measurements on Oligonucleotides, 5^th Meeting of the European Federation of EPR Groups, Lissabon (Portugal), September 2003.

 

(9) Pivaloyl Substituted Thymidines as Initiators for Electron Transfer in DNA, Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlanta (USA), November 2003.

 

(10) Binding of Metal Ions and Organic Ligands to RNA. An EPR Spectroscopic Study, 13. Nachwuchswissenschaftler-Symposium “Bioorganische Chemie”, Hamburg (Germany), September 2004 (invited).

 

(11) Structure of the high-affinity manganese(II) binding site in a hammerhead ribozyme, Meeting of the Biochemical Society/Royal Society of Chemistry „RNA Structure and Function“ Edinburgh (UK), December 2004.

 

(12) Global structure elements in biomolecules, Bunsentagung, Frankfurt (Germany), May 2005.

 

(13) PELDOR measurements on biological systems, Specialized Colloque AMPERE "EPR and ENDOR Spectroscopy of Metal Proteins and Spin-Labeled Proteins" Leiden (Netherlands), June 2005.

 

(14) Spin Labeling: Applications in Life Science, 3^rd European EPR Summer School, Naurod-Wiesbaden, July 2005 (invited).

 

(15) Determining local and global structure elements in biomolecules using pulsed EPR spectroscopy, 4th International Symposium of the Volkswagen Foundation on "Interplay between Molecular Conformations and Biological Function", Heidelberg, October 2005 (invited).

 

(16) Spin Counting and Distance measurements between Nitroxides and Metals using PELDOR, Cost-Meeting, Budapest (Hungary), October 2005.

 

(17) PELDOR: Distance Measurements between Metals and Nitroxides, spin counting and domain arrangement, "Advanced Techniques & Applications of EPR. The 39th Annual International Meeting", Edinburgh (UK), April 2006.

 

(18) Multiple Mn²⁺ Binding to the Diels Alder Ribozyme studied by EPR-Spectroscopy, International Symposium of the SFB 579 “RNA Ligand Interactions”, Frankfurt (Germany), August 2007 (invited).

 

(19) PELDOR: Beyond Distance Measurements, 29th Annual Discussion Meeting “Magnetic Resonance in Biophysical Chemistry”, Göttingen (Germany), August 2007 (invited).

 

(20) PELDOR on RNA and Beyond Distance Measurements, 41^st Annual International Meeting of the ESR Spectroscopy Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, UK, April 2008.

 

(21) Macromolecular Structure determination using pulsed electron spin resonance techniques. TDRI Grant Holders` Workshop, Warwick, March 2008 (invited).

 

(22) Advantages and Limitations of Structure Determination of Oligonucleotides by PELDOR. CEF workshop on RNA Protein Interaction, Frankfurt, Germany, September 2008 (invited).

 

(23) Spin Labeling, 4th European EPR Summer School, St Andrews (invited).

 

(24) EPR spectroscopy and Oligonucleotide Structures. Rocky Mountain Conference, 32^nd Intenational EPR Symposium, Estes Park, Colorado, USA, July 2009 (invited).

 

 

Seminars at Institutes

(1) Optical and EPR spectroscopical Studies of Charge Transfer in DNA, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich (Germany), August 2001.

 

(2) Local and Global Structur Information from RNA using Pulsed EPR, Gesellschaft für Biochemie und Molekularbiologie, University of Kaiserslautern (Germany), September 2002.

 

(3) EPR Spectroscopic Studies of Charge Transfer in DNA, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel (Switzerland), September 2002.

 

(4) EPR Spectroscopic Tools to study Radical Interactions in DNA, Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, October 2002.

 

(5) EPR-Spectroscopy to study structures of RNA, Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Göttingen (Germany), March 2003.

 

(6) Lokale und Globale Strukturelemente des bakteriellen IF2, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Germany), March 2004.

 

(7) Structural Information from RNA/DNA using Pulsed EPR Spectroscopy, MPI of Bioinorganic Chemistry, Mülheim (Germany), May 2004.

 

(8) Bestimmung globaler Strukturelemente in Biomolekülen mittels PELDOR, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), November 2004.

 

(9) Pulsed EPR-Spectroscopy: A Tool to Determine Local and Global Structure Elements in Catalytic Active RNA, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot (Israel), November 2004.

 

(10) CW- and Pulsed-EPR-Spectroscopy: Tools to study structures and ET-reactions in biomolecules, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich (Germany), November 2004.

 

(11) Studying local and global structure elements in biomolecules with pulsed EPR-spectroscopy, Department of Genetics, Kassel (Germany), January 2005.

 

(12) Studying Local and Global Structure Elements in Biomolecules with Pulsed EPR-Spectroscopy, Science Institut, Reikijavic (Iceland), January 2005.

 

(13) Studying Local and Global Structure Elements in Biomolecules with Pulsed EPR-Spectroscopy, EMBL, Heidelberg (Germany), February 2005.

 

(14) Basics of EPR, Seminar of the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Hirschegg (Austria), March 2005.

 

(15) Studying Local and Global Structure Elements in Catalytic Active RNAs with Pulsed EPR-Spectroscopy, BMO, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (Germany), April 2005.

 

(16) Determining local and global structure elements in biomolecules using pulsed EPR spectroscopy, Group Seminar Biochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Munich (Germany), September 2005.

 

(17) PELDOR: A method to determine global structure elements in biomolecules, SFB449, Free University of Berlin, Berlin (Germany), April 2006.

 

(18) Characterization and Localization of Mn²⁺ Binding Sites in Ribozymes using
Pulsed EPR Spectroscopy, Cancer Research UK Nucleic Acid Structure Research Group, University of Dundee, Dundee (UK), September 2006.

 

(19) Nanometer Distance Measurements on Biomolecules, Center for Biomolecular Sience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews (UK), September 2006.

 

(20) EPR-Spectroscopic Studies on Biomolecules, School of Biology, St Andrews (UK), January 2007.

 

(21) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance  Spectroscopy and Structural Biology, Center for Biomolecular Sience, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews (UK), November 2007.

 

(22) RNA Catalysis: EPR Spectroscopy to the Rescue. School of Biology and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary College, London, UK, February 2008.

 

(23) Biological EPR Spectroscopy in St Andrews. Research Forum, St Andrews, April 2008.

 

(24) Funktionelle Oligonukleotide: Ein Neues Feld für EPR Spektroskopie. Chemistry Department, Konstanz, Germany, May 2008.

 

 

Organised Events

(1) Conference: RNA-Structure, Function and Ligand Interaction, Frankfurt (Germany), 30.10. - 1.11.2003 (together with Jens Wöhnert and Joachim W. Engels).

 

(2) Sammet-Gastprofessorship for Thomas R. Cech: RNA Catalysis with and without Proteins, Frankfurt (Germany), 27.1. - 30.1.2004 (together with Thomas F. Prisner).

 

(3) European EPR School, Frankfurt (Germany), May 2005 (together with Thomas F. Prisner, Fraser MacMillan, Gunnar Jeschke, Marina Bennati and Klaus-Peter Dinse).

 

(4) European EPR Summer School, St Andrews (Scottland), August 2008 (together with G.M. Smith, D.J. Keeble)

Centres of Magnetic Resonance and Biomolecular Sciences/Schools of Biology, Physics and Chemistry