Wageningen NMR Centre

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Wageningen NMR Centre
European Community Large-Scale NMR Facility
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Multi facial NMR?

• About 30 EC Users per year That are multi new
  faces in the laboratory!
• Also NMR has multi faces

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WnmrC as EC-LSF

• European Community Large-Scale Facility for
  biological and agricultural NMR research
• Wide-spread interest from EC Users (about 30
  Users per year)
• Free access to advanced NMR spectrometers
• Training in NMR spectroscopy, data analysis, and
  interpretation

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Mission Statement WnmrC

• The realisation of excellent research and
  training in the field of NMR in agriculture and
  biology
• To strengthen the scientific position in the
  field of NMR within Europe with two unique
  selling points whole-plant NMR and LC-NMR-MS
• To increase implementation of NMR in agricultural
  applications

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WnmrC Spider in Web
Fields of research
Biotech
Food
Plant
Soil
Environ
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Distribution of EC Users
Measuring Days
Per Year

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Why NMR?

• NMR is an extremely powerful analytical tool
• detailed information on atomic and molecular
  level
• detailed qualitative and quantitative information
  
• NMR is an imaging tool
• high-quality images at resolution up to 10 ?m
• non-invasive and non-destructive

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What does NMR give?

• NMR Spectroscopy
• Spectral resolution
• liquids
• chemical shift
• spin-spin interaction
• relaxation parameters
• structural and chemical information

• NMR Imaging
• Spatial resolution
• flow/diffusion
• imaging
• image of water distribution
• contrast effects from relaxation parameters

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Dedicated Research Tasks

• In vivo NMR on plant systems
• In vivo NMR in biotechnology
• bioreactors
• metabolic pathways
• transport processes
• High-resolution NMR
• small biomolecules
• quality control
• automated analysis
• Solid-state NMR on food and soil systems

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Training and Teaching

• Training of undergraduate and graduate students,
  and EC Users
• Development of new teaching material, including a
  multimedia NMR book
• Organisation of international courses
• Organisation of international seminars and
  meetings

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NMR Meetings and Courses
Subject
Date and Venue
October 1994, Wageningen


PhD course Plant Biophysics
January 1995, Wageningen

Meeting NMR and Food Sciences



PhD course Biological Spectroscopy
April 1996, Wageningen


August 1996, Amsterdam
Workshop Towards Whole Plant Functional Imaging


PhD course In vivo NMR
September 1996, Utrecht
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Meeting NMR in Soil Science
September 1996, Wageningen


PhD course Biophysical Computing
October 1997, Wageningen
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Meeting NMR in Environmental Sciences
October 1997, Ede
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Meeting NMR in Biotechnology
November 1998, Ede


PhD course In vivo NMR
November 1998, Utrecht


November 1999, Wageningen
Meeting NMR in Environmental Biotechnology
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Special Issues
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Outlook

• WnmrC covers a unique scientific field in
  Agriculture and Biology
• The coherence is increased by collaborating with
  Agricultural Departments
• The future is bright for these unexplored fields

Biotech
Food
Plant
Soil
Environ
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You are Welcome to WnmrC
WnmrC is open for scientists from all EC countries