May 25 - 29, 2009, Cluj - Napoca, ROMANIA. ProgramApply following colour codes:Name of the Session Plenary Lecture or Oral Presentation Poster Session Coffee Break Social Event Sunday (May 24, 2009)
HourAppointment
16:00/20:30Arrival and Check-in
20:30/ - Welcome cocktail
Monday (May 25, 2009)HourAppointment
09:30/10:00Welcome, Opening Ceremony
Isotope Separation and Labelled Compounds
Chairman: Damian Axente
10:00/10:50Yasuhiko Fujii
Valence - state isotope effects in chemical exchange reactions of some elements
10:50 - 11:10Coffee Break
Chairman: Damian Axente
11:10 - 12:00Kenji Takeshita
Development of counter-current centrifugal extractor with Taylor-Couette flow and its
application to close-separation process
12:00 - 12:50Ilie Hodor
Theory of hydrogen isotope separation by thermal diffusion with inclusion of isotopic
exchange reaction
12:50 - 15:00Lunch
Isotope Separation and Labelled Compounds II
Chairman: Kenji Takeshita
15:00 - 15:30Paula Raica
The role of mathematical models for the analysis of 13C and 15N isotope separation by
chemical exchange
15:30 - 16:00Damian Axente
Nitrogen isotope exchange in the systems NO-HNO3 and HNO2-HNO3
16:00 - 16:30Chang Kiu Lee
Preparation of dideuterioallyl mercaptans
16:30 - 17:00Valer Almasan
Synthesis of total and selective deuterium labelled heavy molecules
17:00 - 17:20Coffee Break
Applications in environment science, hydrology, geology, biology and food security I
Chairman: Guillaume Tcherkez
17:20 - 18:10James R. Lyons
An update on the oxygen isotope composition of the solar system
18:10 - 19:00Hermann Katzlinger
Multicollectors in Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) - History and Future
19:00 - 19:30Petru Berdea
Using environmental isotopes in monitoring of waters along the Romanian Danube
basin
20:00 - Dinner
Tuesday (May 26, 2009)HourAppointment
Applications in environment science, hydrology, geology, biology and food security II
Chairman: James R. Lyons
09:00 - 09:50Carl A.M. Brenninkmeijer
Painstakingly accurate and precise measurements of 13C and 18O of CO2 in air
samples collected on a monthly basis by the CARIBIC Airbus A340-600 at cruising
altitude
09:50 - 10:40Guillaume Tcherkez
On the 13C/12C isotopic signal of day and night respiration at the mesocosm level
10:40 - 11:10Raluca Vremera
Hydrogen isotopic variations in the major water source of Rm.Valcea, Romania
11:10 - 11:30Coffee Break
Isotope effects in organic and inorganic chemistry I
Chairman: Piotr Paneth
11:30 - 12:20Shuji Kato
Non-IRC product dynamics in gas phase ion-molecule reactions of alkyl hydroperoxides
ROOH): isotope labeling and trajectory studies
12:20 - 12:50Ian H. Williams
Ensemble-averaged QM/MM kinetic isotope effects for SN2 reactions in solution
12:50 - 15:00Lunch
Catalysis, enzymes and biomolecules I
Chairman: Richard J. Robins
15:00 - 15:50Arieh Warshel
How do enzymes work and how do they not work: what has been learnt from computer
simulation studies?
15:50 - 16:40Vern L. Schramm
Isotope effects, transition state formation and dynamics in catalysis
16:40 - 17:00Coffee Break
Isotope effects in organic and inorganic chemistry II
Chairman: Ian H. Williams
17:00 - 17:50Gérald Remaud
Quantitative 13C NMR spectrometry as a new tool for site-specific isotopic fractionation
studies
17:50 - 18:20In-Sook Han Lee
Kinetic isotope effects for hydride transfer reactions between NAD + analogues
18:20 - 20:00POSTER SESSION
20:00 - Dinner
Wednesday (May 27, 2009)HourAppointment
08:30Excursion to Sibiu
14:00Lunch in Sibiu
20:00Dinner in Cluj-Napoca
Thursday (May 28, 2009)HourAppointment
Isotope effects in organic and inorganic chemistry III
Chairman: Gérald Remaud
09:00 - 09:30Piotr Paneth
Missing connection between natural abundance and isotopically enriched material
09:30 - 10:00Martin Elsner
Variability in carbon and nitrogen isotope fractionation associated with bacterial
and abiotic hydrolysis of atrazine
10:00 - 10:50James T. Hynes
Theoretical analysis of the isotope dependence of geometric structure correlations for
hydrogen bounded complexes
10:50 - 11:10Coffee Break
Catalysis, enzymes and biomolecules II
Chairman: Amnon Kohen
11:10 - 12:00Rudolph K. Allemann
Different reaction mechanisms for psychrophilic, mesophilic and thermophilic
dihydrofolate reductases
12:00 - 12:30Vicent Moliner
Mechanism and plasticity of enzymes. A computational study
12:30 - 13:00Valer Almasan
Influence of the support nature on the spillover phenomenon in Ni/oxide catalysts
by H/D isotopic exchange
13:00 - 15:00Lunch
Catalysis, enzymes and biomolecules III
Chairman: Rudolph K. Allemann
15:00 - 15:50Richard J. Robins
Insights into the mechanisms of fatty acid modifying reactions by quantitative 2-D
deuterium NMR in chiral oriented media
15:50 - 16:20Renata Kwiecien
Isotope effects during tropane demethylation by Pseudomonas cultures
16:20 - 16:50Amnon Kohen
Mechanistic studies of thymidylate synthase
16:50 - 17:10Coffee Break
Catalysis, enzymes and biomolecules IV
Chairman: Vicent Moliner
17:10 - 17:40Iñaki Tuñón
A comparative analysis of the reaction mechanisms of phosphodiesters hydrolysis in
different aqueous and enzymatic environments
17:40 - 18:10Kevin Francis
Branching of an intermediate formed during turnover of N. Crassa 2-nitropropane
dioxygenase inflates the observed kinetic isotope effect for the reaction
19:30 -Banquet
Friday (May 29, 2009)HourAppointment
Isotopic analysis and medical applications
Chairman: Carl A.M. Brenninkmeijer
09:30 - 10:20Anil S. Modak
Companion diagnostic breath tests for oncology drugs
10:20 - 10:50Nabil Saad
Autonomous, continuous laboratory-class water vapor isotopologue measurements in
remote field deployments
10:50 - 11:10Ian H. Williams Closing Remarks
11:10 - 11:30Coffee Break
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