El coloquio excepcional del Instituto Balseiro del jueves 27 de septiembre se titula: "Ultrafast Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance: What is it, and what is it good for". El orador será Lucio Frydman, Department of Chemical and Biological Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Es un Profesor invitado por el Programa Maldacena.

Se realizará este jueves a las 12.30 hs. en el Salón de Actos del Instituto Balseiro, en el Centro Atómico Bariloche (Av. Bustillo 9500). La entrada es gratuita y abierta a todo el público. Para ingresar, es necesario presentar el DNI en la entrada del CAB.

Resumen:

Few branches of spectroscopy match the versatility and range of applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, NMR. In its spectroscopic mode, NMR (also known as magnetic resonance spectroscopy, MRS, in the context of in vivo applications) NMR provides structural and dynamic information about molecules in the widest range of situations: from solid materials and pharmaceutical polymorphs, to the dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids in cells, to metabolic activities in living organisms. NMR thus serves as the “eyes” of the chemist and the biophysicist when it comes to molecular details. In its imaging mode (MRI), NMR has become one of the most widely used forms for monitoring human diseases in general and brain function in particular. In this talk, the new horizons that are opened by different protocols will be exemplified, particularly in connection with a variety of NMR, MRI and MRS projects we are currently involved with in preclinical and clinical fields. The incorporation into these experiments of nuclear hyperpolarization procedures capable of increasing the sensitivity of these single-scan nD MR acquisitions by factors ranging from 103-106, will also be discussed.

Minibiografia:
Lucio Frydman nació en Argentina y obtuvo su Licenciatura en Química (1986) y Doctorado en Química Física (1990) en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Actualmente es Profesor y Director del Departamento de Física Química y Biológica del Weizmann Institute of Sciences de Israel, Chief-Scientist en el National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (Florida), director del Kimmel Institute for Magnetic Resonance y del Clore Institute for High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, y Editor-in-Chief en la revista Journal of Magnetic Resonance. Es un reconocido líder en resonancia magnética tanto es sus facetas espectroscópicas como de imágenes, con impacto en ciencia básica y aplicaciones en Química, Biología y Medicina.