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Sharing new findings and insights

Over the years, I have contributed to several scientific conferences and had the opportunity to present my research to an engaged and knowledgeable audience. These conferences have provided me with invaluable insights and allowed me to connect with other researchers in my field. By sharing our knowledge, we can work together to advance scientific understanding and develop innovative solutions to the challenges we face.

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Below is a list of my contributions to the scientific conferences I had the privilege to attend.

  Invited talks

  1. Novel NMR methods: the art of simplifying complexity. ENC Conference, Asilomar, USA, 2024.

  2. Ultra-high resolution NMR methods for the analysis of biological systems. Chemical Glycobiology Meeting, Segovia, 2024.

  3. NMR spectroscopy: a technique in the search for new challenges. Instituto Pluridisciplinar Colloquium, Madrid, 2024.

  4. Cutting-edge selective NMR methods: improving selectivity and resolution simultaneously. Autumn GERMN NMR, Madrid, Spain, 2023.

  5. Seeking simplicity in spectral complexity? Cutting-edge NMR methods at your disposal. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Baveno, Italy, 2023.

  6. Novel NMR methods: the art of simplifying complexity. Bruker User Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2023.

  7. 2D Heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy. XVI Manuel Rico NMR School, Jaca, Spain, 2023.

  8. New NMR tools for the study complex systems. Blas Cabrera Seminar, IQF-CSIC Madrid, Spain, 2023.

  9. Understanding Pure Shift NMR. Global NMR Discussion Meetings, 2023. (Online)

  10. Cutting-edge NMR methods: tales from a mancNMR methodologist. An NMR testimonial Symposium, Manchester, UK, 2023.

  11. Cutting-edge NMR methods for the analysis of complex systems. Integrative Resonance Meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2023.

  12. Tales from a NMR methodologist. II Symposium GERMN-junior, Madrid, Spain, 2023.

  13. Seeking simplicity in spectral complexity? Cutting-edge NMR methods at your disposal. XII GERMN Bienal Meeting, Almería, Spain, 2022.

  14. New NMR tools for complex structural problems. Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) Biennial Meeting, Granada, Spain, 2022.

  15. New NMR tools for getting the most out of your spectra. New advances in Chemistry Seminar, IIQ-CSIC Seville, Spain, 2022.

  16. New NMR tools for analysis of carbohydrates. I GlycoNMR Summit, USA, 2022. (Online)

  17. Pure shift NMR spectroscopy. XV Manuel Rico NMR School, Jaca, Spain, 2022.

  18. New NMR tools for industrial applications. Johnson Matthey Seminar, Reading, UK, 2022

  19. Getting the most out of your NMR spectra: Novel NMR tools. Tokyo Institute of Technology Seminar, 2021. (Online)

  20. Tales from an NMR spectroscopist. University Complutense of Madrid, 2021. (Online)

  21. Divide and Rule. I Symposium GERMN-junior, 2021. (Online)

  22. Ultra-high NMR: Pure shift NMR. International NMR School, Mexico, 2020. (Online)

  23. Separating the wheat from the chaff. Indian NMR Society Seminar, India, 2020. (Online)

  24. Defeating Complexity: New NMR methods for mixture analysis.  Magnetic Resonance Meet the Future of Biophysics, 2020. (Online)

  25. Pure shift NMR spectroscopy. International NMR School, Mexico, 2020. (Online)

  26. Defeating Complexity: New NMR methods for mixture analysis.  ENC Conference, Baltimore, USA, 2020.

  27. New NMR tools for getting the most out of your spectra. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Porto, Portugal, 2019.

  28. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship. PDRA Fellowship Advice Session University of Manchester, UK, 2019.

  29. Pure shift NMR spectroscopy. XIV Manuel Rico NMR School, Jaca, Spain, 2019.

  30. Simplifying the analysis of mixtures: new NMR methods and software. PANIC, Practical Applications of NMR in Industry Conference, South Carolina, USA, 2019.

  31. Pure shift NMR. Mexican NMR Meeting, Pachuca del Soto, Mexico, 2018.

  32. Diffusion NMR - A versatile tool for the analysis of mixtures. Mexican NMR Meeting, Pachuca del Soto, Mexico, 2018.

  33. Divide and rule: new NMR methods for the analysis of mixtures. EUROMAR Conference, Nantes, France, 2018.

  34. Pure and simple: understanding pure shift NMR methodology. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Baveno, Italy, 2017. (Workshop)

  35. HOBS: broadband homonuclear decoupled band-selective NMR experiments with full sensitivity. ENC Conference, Asilomar, USA, 2015.

  36. Modern NMR methods and their practical applications. Merck Co. & Ltd, Rahway, USA, 2015.

 Other contributions

  • Zangger-Sterk and band-selective methods. Workshop on Pure Shift NMR, Manchester, UK, 2017. (Co-organiser/speaker)

  • PSYCHE pure shift NMR: spectral simplification and its applications. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, La Jolla, USA, 2016.

  • PSYCHE pure shift NMR: spectral simplification and its applications. Postgraduate NMRDG Meeting, Oxford, UK, 2016.

  • Modern NMR methods for Chemists. UAB Postgraduate meeting, Barcelona, Spain, 2014.

  • Enantiodifferentiation through frequency-selective pure shift 1H NMR. Ibero-American NMR Meeting / GERMN Bienal Meeting / Iberian NMR Meeting, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2014.

Oral presentations

Poster presentations

  • New NMR tools for getting ultra-high resolution spectra: Pure shift NMR. L. Castañar. SRUK International Symposium, Liverpool, UK, 2019.

  • Simplifying complexity: a new approach for the analysis of fluorine-containing mixtures by NMR. L. Castañar, P. Moutzouri, T. M. Barbosa, C. F. Tormena, R. Rittner, A. R. Phillips, S. R. Coombes, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Baveno, Italy, 2017.

  • PSYCHE pure shift NMR: spectral simplification and its applications. L. Castañar, M. Foroozandeh, G. Dal Poggetto, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, La Jolla, USA, 2016.

  • PSYCHE pure shift NMR: spectral simplification and its applications. L. Castañar, M. Foroozandeh, G. Dal Poggetto, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris. Postgraduate NMRDG Meeting, Oxford, UK, 2016.

  • Ultrahigh-resolved pure shift NMR experiments for the analysis of complex mixtures of compounds with near/identical 1H and 13C NMR spectra. L. Castañar, R. Roldán, P. Clapés, A. Virgili, T. Parella. EUROMAR Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.

  • HOBS: broadband homonuclear decoupled band-selective NMR experiments with full sensitivity. L. Castañar, A. Virgili, T. Parella. ENC Conference, Asilomar, USA, 2015.

  • Enantiodifferentiation through frequency-selective pure shift 1H NMR. L. Castañar, M. Pérez-Trujillo, P. Nolis, E. Monteagudo, A. Virgili, T. Parella. Ibero-American NMR Meeting / GERMN Bienal Meeting / Iberian NMR Meeting, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2014.

  • Band-selective pure shift 1H NMR experiments with full sensitivity. L. Castañar, P. Nolis, A. Virgili, T. Parella. EUROMAR Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 2014.

  • Simultaneous multi-slice excitation in spatially encoded NMR experiments. L. Castañar, P. Nolis, A. Virgili, T. Parella. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2013.

  • Slice-selective HSQMBC experiments. L. Castañar, P. Nolis, J. Sauri, A. Virgili, T. Parella. EUROMAR Conference, Hersonissos, Greece, 2013.

  • NMR methods to measure residual long-range proton-carbon dipolar couplings in aligned anisotropic media. L. Castañar, P. Nolis, A. Virgili, T. Parella. Ibero-American NMR Meeting / GERMN Bienal Meeting / Iberian NMR Meeting, Aveiro, Portugal, 2012.

Others

  • Solvent signal suppression in pure shift NMR. E. Gates, J. Bradley, M. Johnson, G. A. Morris, R. W. Adams, L. Castañar. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Baveno, Italy, 2023. (Talk)

  • How to stop convection ruining pure shift NMR experiments. E. Caytan, H. Foster, L. Castañar, R. W. Adams, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris. EUROMAR Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2023. (Talk)

  • Investigation of exhaled breath condensate by NMR based metabolomics. H. Wang, L. Castañar, S. Fowler, M. Nilsson. EUROMAR Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2023.

  • Solvent signal suppression in pure shift NMR. E. Gates, J. Bradley, M. Johnson, G. A. Morris, R. W. Adams, L. Castañar. EUROMAR Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2023.

  • Ultra-high resolution fluorine and phosphorus NMR Spectroscopy. C. Mycroft, B. Ijzendoorn, M. Mehta, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris, L. Castañar. EUROMAR Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2023.

  • Ultra-selective, 1D clean in-phase correlation spectroscopy. D. A. Taylor, P. Kiraly, P. Bowyer, M. Nilsson, L. Castañar, G. A. Morris, R. W. Adams. EUROMAR Conference, Glasgow, UK, 2023.

  • Ultra-high resolution NMR analysis of fluorine-containing systems. C. Mycroft, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson, L. Castañar. SMASH Conference, La Jolla, USA, 2022.

  • GEMSTONE-ROESY: Ultra-selective, ultra-clean 1D rotating-frame Overhauser spectrocopy. E. Gates, J. Montgomery, M. J. Smith, J. Bradley, M. Johnson, G. Widmalm, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris, R. W. Adams, L. Castañar. SMASH Conference, La Jolla, USA, 2022.

  • New NMR methods for structural and conformational analysis of fluorinated systems. C. Mycroft, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson, L. Castañar. EUROMAR Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2022. (Talk)

  • GEMSTONE: ultra-selective NMR methods for complex spectra. E. Gates, J. Montgomery, M. J. Smith, J. Bradley, M. Johnson, G. Widmalm, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris, R. W. Adams, L. Castañar. EUROMAR Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2022. (Talk)

  • Relaxational signal attenuation during selective pulse. R. Li, L. Castañar, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris. EUROMAR Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2022.

  • Putting heteronuclei on the chopping block – extracting component spectra from complex mixtures. M. J. Smith, G. Dal Poggetto, C. F. Tormena, L. Castañar, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. EUROMAR Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2022.

  • Pure shift relaxation-encoded selective TOCSY. M. J. Smith, L. Castañar, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, 2021.

  • Broadband suppression of heteronuclear and homonuclear couplings in 1H NMR. C. Mycroft, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris, L. Castañar. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, 2021.

  • Efficient, free and open-source tools to process NMR data: GNAT and MAGNATE. L. Castañar, G. Dal Poggetto, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. ENC Conference, Asilomar, USA, 2019.

  • A new analysis tool for 3D diffusion NMR experiments. G. Dal Poggetto, L. Castañar, M. Foroozandeh, P. Kiraly, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 2018.

  • A new analysis tool for 3D diffusion NMR experiments. G. Dal Poggetto, L. Castañar, M. Foroozandeh, P. Kiraly, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. EUROMAR Conference, Nantes, France, 2018.

  • MODO-FESTA: exploiting fluorine for mixture analysis. T. M. Barbosa, L. Castañar, P. Moutzouri, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris, R. Rittner, C. F. Tormena. Ibero-American NMR Meeting / GERMN Bienal Meeting / Iberian NMR Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018.

  • Analysing highly complex mixtures: combining tailored multilinear relaxation and diffusion experiments with PARAFAC tensor analysis. G. Dal Poggetto, L. Castañar, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Baveno, Italy, 2017.

  • REST and multivariate NMR methods in beer analysis. G. Dal Poggetto, L. Castañar, R. W. Adams, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. EUROMAR Conference, Warsaw, Poland, 2017.

  • A new NMR approach to the analysis of fluorine-containing mixtures. T. M. Barbosa, C. F. Tormena, R. Rittner, P. Moutzouri, L. Castañar, M. Nilsson, G. A. Morris. AUREMN, Angra dos Reis, Brazil, 2017.

  • Homodecoupled J-resolved HSQC: direct determination of accurate 1H-13C RDCs in a single PMMA compressed gel sample. L. Castañar, M. García, E. Hellemann, P. Nolis, R. R. Gil, T. Parella. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, La Jolla, USA, 2016.

  • Distinguishing small structural differences with selective pure shift TOCSY. G. Dal Poggetto, L. Castañar, G. A. Morris, M. Nilsson. EUROMAR Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 2016.

  • Pure in-phase heteronuclear correlation NMR experiments. L. Castañar, J. Sauri, R.T. Williamson, A. Virgili, T. Parella. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Atlanta, USA, 2014.

  • Fast and efficient enantiodifferentiation through pure shift NMR. L. Castañar, M. Pérez-Trujillo, E. Monteagudo, L. T. Khun, P. Nolis, A. Virgili, R. T. Williamson, T. Parella. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Atlanta, USA, 2014.

  • Perfect-HSQC: suppression of phase and amplitude JHH modulations. L. Castañar, E. Sistaré, A. Virgili, R.T. Williamson, T. Parella. SMASH, Small Molecule NMR Conference, Atlanta, USA, 2014.

  • New examples of enantiodifferentiation using ABTE: the case of lamotrigine and colchicine. The application of HOBS sequence. L. Castañar, A. Virgili, T. Parella, R. Claramunt. Ibero-American NMR Meeting / GERMN Bienal Meeting / Iberian NMR Meeting, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2014.

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