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Southern California Users of Magnets Meeting, 2025
Southern California Users of Magnets Meeting, 2025
Event date:
Saturday, Sep 27, 2025 - Saturday, Sep 27, 2025 Export event
Irvine, California, US - West Coast
Event Date/Time: Saturday, September 27, 2025 9:30 am - 6:00 pm PDT (UTC -7) Time Zone Converter
Location: UC Irvine Campus
It is our absolute pleasure to invite you to the 2025 Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Conference. Please mark your calendars for the next SCUM meeting to be held on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at the beautiful UC Irvine campus.
The SCUM conference has long been a congregation of experts, students, and enthusiastic users of magnets across Southern California, and this year we are particularly excited to discuss new insights and advances explored recently.
Registration for the 2025 SCUM meeting will open in June.
Contact information:
Melanie Cocco-UCI ([email protected]) and Susumu Takahashi-USC ([email protected])
Co-chairs of 2025 SCUM meeting
Event Schedule
CONFERENCE PROGRAM - Saturday, September 27, 2025 (all times in PDT)
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am |
Conference Check-in & Light Breakfast |
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am |
Meeting Opening |
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| 10:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Session 1: Oral Session (Chair: Susumu Takahashi) |
| 10:00 am - 10:15 am |
Kelly Luo (USC) Spin-orbit torque in van der Waals magnetic heterostructures: from microscopic domain imaging to ultrasensitive Sagnac Kerr interferometry |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am |
Bethany Caulkins (Pitzer and Scripps) Deuteration of Cyclic Ketones upon Encapsulation in a Water-Soluble Synthetic Receptor |
| 10:30 am - 10:45 am |
Ashlea Patterson (UCSB) Kinetic and Irreversible Contributions to Capacity Degradation in Doped LiNiO2 Compounds |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am |
Ryan Hadt (CalTech) Developing Ultrafast All-Optical Molecular Electron Spin Coherence Spectroscopy |
| 11:15 am - 11:30 am |
Pathorn Henry Teptarakulkarn (UCLA) Living on Thin Air: Investigating the Redox Landscape of Oxygen-Insensitive Huc [NiFe]-Hydrogenase Using Dipolar EPR Spectroscopy |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm |
Mark Sherwin (UCSB) A new facility for studies of nanosecond electron spin dynamics at fields up to 16 T at frequencies up to 420 GHz |
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| 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Lunch and Posters |
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| 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm |
Session 2: Oral Session (Chair: Rachel Martin) |
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm |
Jose Uribe (SDSU) Innovative NMR Instrumentation of Biochemical Analysis |
| 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm |
Kevin Chalek (SDSU) Pushing the Boundaries of Solid-State NMR for Understanding Dragline Spider Silk Structure |
| 1:45 pm - 2:00 pm |
Yeonseong (Catherine) Seo (UCI) Mimicking oxidative damage in γS-crystallin with site-specific incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan |
| 2:00 pm - 2:15 pm |
Dhanya Sathiavals Reselammal (USC) Phosphorylation of α-Synuclein fibrils at S129 increases DNAJB1 binding |
| 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm |
Gwladys Riviere (UCR) Inhibition of Clinically Relevant Metallo-β-Lactamases NDM-1 and VIM-2 by Thanatin |
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| 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm |
Coffee Break and Posters |
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| 3:30 pm - 5:15 pm |
Session 3: Oral Session (Chair: Melanie Cocco) |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Maurizio Pellechia (UCR) |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm |
Lalit Deshmukh (UCSD) Structure-Function Studies of Human CHMP4 Paralogs Using Solution NMR Spectroscopy |
| 4:30 pm - 4:45 pm |
Brendan Mahoney (UCLA) Basis of rapid heme transfer via ultraweak protein-protein interactions in pathogenic bacteria |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm |
Jane Dyson (Scripps) How NMR illuminates disordered proteins |
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| 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm |
Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks |
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| 5:30 pm |
Dinner |
POSTERS
| 1. Cody Googin (UCSB) Using Paramagnetic NMR to Probe Ion Solvation in Hybrid Aqueous/Organic Electrolytes for Zn/MnO2 Batteries |
| 2. Paula Magat (UCR) |
| 3. Ali (SDSU) Conformational Structure, Dynamics and Assembly of Native Silkworm Silk Proteins by Solution NMR and Modeling |
| 4. Yuhang Ren (USC) Spin Dynamics of Photoexcited Molecular Spins at High Field |
| 5. Alexander Thome (UCR) Redefining the Size Limit for Protein Assignments at 1.1 GHz |
| 6. Annie McAllister (UCI) Transceiver Coil Fabrication for Improved NMR Experimentation |
| 7. Gem Nakamura (USC) Photoelectric Detection of NV Center |
| 8. Andrew Koerner (USC) Spin-Orbit Torque Switching of Multi-Domain States in Fe3GeTe2/Pt Revealed by Scanning X-Ray Transmission Microscopy |
| 9. Cherish Kumala (USC) Shaping Excitation Pulses in EPR: Probing BDPA at High Fields |
| 10. Seongju Kim (USC) Spin Dynamic |
| 11. Derrick Lin (USC) Automated Characterization of Spin Relaxation and Coherence in High-Field EPR |
| 12. Suhas H Bhate (UCSD) Membrane Interaction of ESCRT Protein CHMP4B |
| 13. Spencer Nelson (UCSD) NMR Insights into Ubiquitin-Mediated Regulation of ESCRT Machinery in HIV-1 Budding |
| 14. Mowen Zhao (USC) Characterizing a 2D Magnet Using Advanced X-ray Microscopy and Micromagnetic Simulation |
| 15. Christopher Williams (UCR) MAS-Cryoprobe: The Cold Standard for Room Temperature Sensitivity |
| 16. Lado Shapakidze (SDSU) Molecular Structure and Dynamics of Basic Amino Acids Adsorbed on Various Silica Nanostructured Surfaces |
| 17. Yifan Song (USC) Determination of Fermi Energy of Diamond using Photoluminescence Spectra Analysis |
| 18. Difei Wu (USC) Structural Integrity and Side-Chain Interaction at the Loop Region of the Bridge Helix Modulate Cas9 Substrate Discrimination |
| 19. Sri Maddali (MilliporeSigma) The Role of Stable Isotopes in Scientific Research and Diverse Applications |