Session #1: All Molecules, Great and Small
Session Chairs: Anuji Abraham and Amber Balazs
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H

8:40 a.m. HIF-2 inhibitors: Examples of the versatility of NMR in drug discovery
Speaker: Kevin Gardner, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center

9:10 a.m. Component Quantification in Solids with the Mixture Analysis Using References Method
Speaker: Dirk Stueber, Merck & Co, Inc.

9:40 a.m. NMR Solution Conformational Analysis and Its Application to Drug Design
Speaker: Guoyun Bai, Johnson & Johnson

Session #2: Solid … Solid as a Rock
Session Chairs: Ryan Nieuwendaal, Amrit Venkatesh, and Jim DeFelippis
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H

10:45 a.m. Practical Aspects of Elucidating Molecular-Level Phenomena in Rechargeable Battery Materials by NMR Spectroscopy: Tips, Tricks, Pitfalls, and Examples
Speaker: Robert Messinger, The City College of New York

11:15 a.m. Structure and Molecular Dynamics of Semicrystalline Polymers as Explored by Solid State NMR Spectroscopy
Speaker: Toshikazu Miyoshi, The University of Akron

11:45 a.m. Solid-State Time Domain NMR for Pharmaceutical Analysis
Speaker: Michael Hanrahan, Kansas Analytical Services

Session #3: Metabolomics/Mixture analysis: to isolate or not to isolate … lets go with not!
Session Chairs: Amy Freund, Laura Castanar Acedo, and Tim Bergeron
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H

2:20 p.m. An NMR-based metabolomic view of the natural history of COVID-19 disease
Speaker: Oscar Millet, CIC bioGUNE

2:50 p.m. GEMSTONE: ultra-selective NMR methods for fast analysis of complex spectra
Speaker: Mathias Nilsson, University of Manchester

3:20 p.m. Identification and Quantification of Natural and Engineered Metabolites
Speaker: Brendan Duggan, University of California, San Diego

Session #4: Big Trouble in Little Magnets
Session Chairs: Matthew Augustine, Mike Janicke and Gennady Khirich
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H

4:25 p.m. NMR in the chemical warehouse: Development of rapid identification testing procedures with benchtop instrumentation
Speaker: Jose Napolitano, Genentech Inc.

4:55 p.m. Benefits of Applying SHARPER Benchtop NMR in Complex Molecules
Speaker: Claire Dickson, Oxford Instruments

5:25 p.m. Dual Q, Actively Controlled RF Coil for Improved Signal Detection at Low Magnetic Fields
Speaker: Karl Stupic, NIST

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall with PANIC Exhibitors
Room: La Jolla Ballroom A – D 

Session #6: Super Session (Part 2): qNMR Advanced Session and Updates, presented by US Pharmacopeia
Session Chairs: Joe Ray, Kristie Adams, and Klas Meyer
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H 

10:45 a.m. Quantitative NMR Determination of PLGAs Molecular Weight and Lactic/Glycolic Ratio
Speaker: Yixin Ren, US Pharmacopeia

11:15 a.m. A new approach for automated qNMR data analysis
Speaker: Ben Shapiro, US Pharmacopeia

11:45 a.m. Application of software solution to further develop benchtop NMR as a viable PAT
Speaker: Jiayu Zhang, The University of British Columbia

Session #7: The tough stuff- measuring difficult things in soft materials
Session Chairs: Sarah Mattler and Jim DeFelippis
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H  

2:20 p.m. Long-Chain Branch Detection and Quantification in Ethylene-Hexene LLDPE with New 13C NMR Pulse Sequences
Speaker: Zhe Zhou, Dow

2:50 p.m. Monitoring Hydrogel Swelling Using Unilateral NMR
Speaker: Daniel Gruber, University of Colorado Boulder

3:20 p.m. Speedy and Robust Quantitative Analysis using Generic QA-RINEPT: From Small Molecules to Polymeric Materials
Speaker: Jianbo Hou, Dow

Session #8: PANIC 10th Anniversary Session (We are 10!)
Session Chairs: Joe Ray, Kristie Adams, and Sarah Mattler
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H 

4:25 p.m. Impacting Drug Design using NMR Solution Conformations
Speaker: Kathleen Farley, Pfizer

4:55 p.m. Tackling a Tripartite Glycan Conundrum: Flexibility/Sparse Structural Data/Signal Resolution
Speaker: Darón Freedberg, FDA

5:25 p.m. Rapid NMR Method for the Assignment of Regioisomers in Monosubstituted 1,2,3-Thiadiazoles
Speaker: Carlos Amezcua, FMC 

Coffee Break
Room: La Jolla Ballroom Foyer

Session #10: MR in Chemistry: A Few of Our Favorite Things
Session Chairs: Gennady Khirich, Amber Balazs, and John Cort
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H 

10:30 a.m. Applied pKa Determination via NMR to Aid Surfactant Understanding
Speaker: Jackie Thomas, Procter & Gamble

11:00 a.m. LED-NMR: A Practical Tool for Shining Light on Photochemical Reactions
Speaker: Mikhail Reibarkh, Merck & Co, Inc.

11:30 a.m. Reference-free Quantitative NOE and the Structural Value of Two-bond (2JCH) Coupling Constants for Configurational Analysis of Small Molecules
Speaker: Roberto Gil, Carnegie Mellon University

Session #11: Bayes’ed and (Un)Confused: Using Bayesian Statistics and Prior Knowledge to Understand NMR Data and Make Decisions
Session Chairs: Frank Delaglio and Mark Dixon
Room: La Jolla Ballroom E – H 

12:20 p.m. Belief, Decision, and Bayes
Speaker: Hamid Eghbalnia, UConn Health

12:50 p.m. When is a peak, a peak?
Speaker: Colin Kinz-Thompson, Rutgers University – Newark

1:20 p.m. Back to basics – S/N, resolution and lineshape in time-domain analysis
Speaker: Krish Krishnamurthy, Chempacker LLC