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2026 Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Meeting

2026 Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Meeting

2026 Southern California Users of Magnets (SCUM) Meeting

Event date: Saturday, Oct 17, 2026 - Saturday, Oct 17, 2026 Export event

Riverside, California, US - West Coast

Event Date/Time: Saturday, October 17, 2026 9:00 am - 5:15 pm, PDT Time Zone Converter
Location: UC Riverside, Pentland Hills B107/C101: the Bear Cave (click here for printable agenda, poster list, and parking map)
Parking: Lot 13 UCR (scan posted barcodes for daily permit)

Event registration is now at capacity.
For additional information, please contact Len Mueller (UC Riverside) or Melanie Cocco (UC Irvine).

 

Event Speakers

Brad Chmelka, UCSB
Melanie Cocco, UCI
Emma Rova Danelius, UCR
Juli Feigon
Alex Guseman, UCSD
Greg Holland, SDSU
Max Kling, UCR
Derrick Lin, USC
Annie McAllister, UCI
Sebastian Ramos, UCR
Juliette Whiteside, Caltech
Blake Wilson, USC
Difei Wu, USC
Sophie Young, UCSD

 

Event Schedule

(all times in PDT)

9:00 am - 9:30 am Coffee, Registration, and Arrival - Conference Room B107/C101
9:30 am - 9:35 am Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:35 am - 10:00 am Emma Rova Danelius, UCR The Many Shapes of Molecules: Exploring Conformational Diversity
10:00 am - 10:15 am Derrick Lin, USC On Chip Pulsed EPR: a 14 GHz CMOS spectrometer in a permanent magnet
10:15 am - 10:40 am Brad Chmelka, UCSB Solid-state NMR analyses of the compositions, structures, and reactivity of heterogeneous catalysts
10:40 am - 10:55 am Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:20 am Blake Wilson, USC Tracking DNA Hybridization With Time-Resolved Solid-State NMR
11:20 am - 11:35 am Sebastian Ramos, UCR Which Tautomer is it? Structure Determination of Four Antihelmintic Mix of Drugs and Polymorphs with Solid-State NMR
11:35 am - 11:50 am Sophie Young, UCSD Solid-state NMR strategies to characterize the interactions between fluorescent sensors and pathological mineral surfaces
11:50 am - 12:15 pm Melanie Cocco, UCI Mechanistic analysis of hemoglobin-binding drugs reveals new insight using NMR spectroscopy
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch - Glasgow Dining Hall
1:30 pm - 1:55 pm Alex Guseman, UCSD Glycopolymers stabilize protein folding and protein-protein interactions
1:55 pm - 2:10 pm Annie McAllister, UCI NMR Sample Coil Optimization, Fabrication, and Characterization with Homebuilt Magnetic Field Testing Device
2:10 pm - 2:25 pm Difei Wu, USC Site-Directed Spin Labeling Reveals Correlations Between PAM-distal Nucleic Acid and Cas9 HNH Nuclease Domain Activation
2:25 pm - 2:50 pm Greg Holland, SDSU Hard Surfaces, Soft Binders: Multinuclear MAS NMR of the Bio–Nano Interface
2:50 pm - 4:05 pm Poster Session - Poster Room F111 (bring your coffee from the conference room)
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm Juliette Whiteside, Caltech Ultrafast spin coherence reveals ion-pairing–mediated molecular dynamics in solution
4:20 pm - 4:35 pm Max Kling, UCR Origin of the 31P NMR Chemical Shift in Lewis Acid Adducts of Triethylphosphine Oxide. Does the Gutmann−Beckett Method Relate to Lewis Acid Strength?
4:35 pm - 5:00 pm Juli Feigon Structural biology of 7SK RNP, a dynamic regulator of eukaryotic and HIV-1 transcription
5:00 pm Closing Remarks
5:15 pm Facility Tour: Meet the MAS - Chemical Sciences First Floor
CryoProbe
Pizza for the Road
   

 

Posters
Poster # Presenter Poster Title
1 Yifan Song Spin-squeezed state generation using dipole-coupled spins
2 Lado Shapakidze pH- and Morphology-Dependent binding of Arginine on Silica Nanoparticles Surface
3 Paula Magat Protonation States in the Active Site of Aspartate Aminotransferase
4 Dr. Wenyi Zhou / Prof. Kelly Luo Building Ultrafast Magneto-Optical Microscopy for Quantum Materials at USC
5 Jonathan Aalto Room-temperature electron spin coherence in tungsten(V) oxos: Leveraging excited-state angular momentum for all-optical initialization and readout
6 Alexia de Loera-Lee Probing the Molecular States of a Recombinant Spider Silk Protein by Solution NMR
7 Arshiyan Alam Laaj Nitroxide-doped anionic micelles as model systems for quantum sensing at the interface
8 Arshad Abdulvahid HTRA1 Forms Multimeric Assemblies with TDP-43: A Solid-State NMR Study
9 Leah Webb Rare-Earth Centers: A Combined Optical and Magnetic Resonance Approach
10 Colton Hayse Mechanistic Studies of Annexin A11–TDP-43 Coaggregation: Implications for ALS/FTD Pathogenesis
11 Robert Krumland-Dunning Rapid 93Nb ssNMR structural characterization of niobium oxides via empirical correlations and machine learning
12 Ali Kiaeefar Residue-Specific Characterization of Silkworm Silk Protein Structure and Dynamics by Solution-State NMR and Molecular Modeling
13 Mohit Gupta Benchmarking DFT and Machine Learning for 19F NMR Crystallography
14 Sam Marchant Domain Specific Segmental Labeling of Hp1α
15 Alexander Thome Pushing the Limits: Resonance Assignment of a 144 kDa Enzyme via 1.1 GHz NMR
16 Terry Ye Gold-Mesh Exfoliation for 2D Spintronics
17 Andrew Koerner Thermal activation and suppression of spin-orbit torque multi-domain switching in Fe3GeTe2/Pt heterostructures revealed by scanning transmission X-ray microscopy
18 Rushabh Bhakta Determining Interactions Between HP1α and Protein Binding Partners
19 Isaac Mottern Optical and X-ray Detection of Stochastic Domain Switching of Molecular Beam Epitaxy grown Fe3GeTe2/Bi2Te3 Films
20 Angela Qian Fabrication and Characterization of Internal Probe Components for a 3D-Printed NMR Probe
21 Edith Gollub Assessing the thermodynamic effects of macromolecular crowding on protein stability with 19F NMR
22 Davit Alimbarashvili Probing the Structure and Assembly of Native Aciniform Silk and Minimal Peptides by Solution and Solid-State NMR
23 Zimo Li Fabrication and “Nanosqueegee” Atomic Force Microscopy Cleaning of van der Waals Heterostructures for Spin-Orbit Torque
24 Jeffrey Dykstra Additive Manufacturing and Metallization to Develop Solid State NMR Probe Components
25 Kevin Anderton 23Na NMR Studies of Amorphous Chlorides for Solid-State Na-Ion Batteries
26 Alessandro Franco Machine-Learned Automation for Fabrication and Scalability of 2D Magnets
27 Srikanth Maddali Stable Isotopes in Scientific Research and Applications
28 Pathorn Henry Teptarakulkarn Modeling the Evolution of a Hydrogenase: A Semi-Synthetic Approach Towards a Bimetallic Site in Rubredoxin
29 Kevin Alexander Investigating the Mechanism of Superionic Zn2+ Conduction in Hydrated ZnPS3 with 67Zn Solid-State NMR
30 Victor Pytlewski Investigating the Mechanism of Superionic Zn2+ Conduction in Hydrated ZnPS3 with 67Zn Solid-State NMR