The Illinois EPR Research Center

Welcome to the Illinois Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Research Center (IERC) home page. The IERC is a research laboratory started in 1985 and for 18 years was supported in part by the NIH National Center for Research Resources under grant RR01811.  It is now funded by NIH, ACS-PRF, and other sources.  It is located on the campus of the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Its Directors are Professors R. Linn Belford and Robert B. Clarkson.  The Associate Director is Antony R. Crofts, and the Assistant Director and Laboratory Manager is Mark J. Nilges.

EPR service is supported by user fees and by subsidies from the School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the School of Chemical Sciences, and the office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.. Many kinds of instrumentation and expertise are available including state-of-the art special-purpose facilities.  Prospective users should contact Mark Nilges. Tel: 217-333-3969 Fax: 217-333-8868

For your information: For about 15 years, the IERC also was the editorial office for the international EPR Newsletter and management office for the International EPR Society (IES). Starting in 2003, Prof.Belford has become Founder Editor of the Newsletter; the Society management office has moved to Milwaukee, WI, USA (Dr. Chris Felix, Treasurer of IES) and the editorial office to Kazan, Tatarstan, RU (Dr. Laila Mosina, Editor of  EPR Newsletter).  [Some information on the EPR Newsletters and IES when the editorship and IES office were part of the IERC may be found on these web pages:  news and IES .
 

Above is a legacy  photo of some of our group.  Who's current, who's alumnus/a, and who just didn't show up for the photo session?

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• IERC FTP site

IERC maintains an anonymous FTP server containing a variety of public domain simulation programs and documents pertaining to EPR. You can browse and download the contents by accessing the heading above. For security reasons, uploading of your programs is no longer permitted.  If you wish to explore the possibility of posting any of your programs on our FTP site, please contact Mark Nilges.

• 10th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on BIO-MEDICAL ESR SPECTROSCOPY and IMAGING, Fukuoka, Japan,  April 1st to 3rd, 2003.Email: ESRworkshop@pch.phar.kyushu-u.ac.jp  WWW: (http://sympo.phar.kyushu-u.ac.jp/p03/) 
•  36th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL MEETING of the ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE GROUP of the ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY “ADVANCED TECHNIQUES and APPLICATIONS of EPR"  Chancellors Hotel & Conference Centre, The University of Manchester, UK,  6th - 9th April 2003 to be held in collaboration with The JOINT RSC/SCI COLLOID and SURFACE SCIENCE GROUP -  "RESONANCE TECHNIQUES in COLLOID and POLYMER SCIENCE", same location, April 10-11 2003.    http://www.cf.ac.uk/esr/manchester.html   (murphydm@cardiff.ac.uk)
•  ESR SIMULATION WORKSHOP and SYMPOSIUM “NEW DEVELOPMENTS in ESR”, ACERT NIH-NCRR National Biomedical Research Center, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, April 25-26, 2003. -- In honor of Prof. Jack H. Freed, commemorating both his 40 years’’ contributions to Electron Spin Resonance spectroscopy and his 65th birthday.  earle@ccmr.cornell.edu ;  http://www.acert.cornell.edu;http://www.acert.cornell.edu/images/ESR_Brochure_.lt_screen_res_2.pdf 
• 2003 GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE on MAGNETIC RESONANCE at Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, June 15-20, 2003.  The Chair of this meeting is Kurt W Zilm, and the Vice Chair is Michael Mehring.  Please visit the Gordon Research Conferences home pages (http://www.grc.org) for information on the conference and the location. For Magnetic Resonance Conference information, see:  http://www.grc.org/programs/2003/magres.htm 
• 8^th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP on "Electron Magnetic Resonance of Disordered Systems", Sofia, Bulgaria, June 7-16, 2003,  E-Mail to N.D. Yordanov, Convener, at: emardis@ic.bas.bg Web: http://www.cf.ac.uk/esr/fed.html

26^thINTERNATIONAL EPR SYMPOSIUM at the 45^thROCKY MOUNTAIN CONFERENCE on ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, Denver, Colorado, July 27-31, 2003.  On Sunday, July 27, there will be a Workshop on Distance Measurements by EPR.  During the Symposium, there will be a session on distance measurements by EPR, a session recognizing the contributions of Prof. Larry Kevan, and the 2nd Lawrence H. Piette Memorial Lecture.  Email: seaton@du.edu.
• 5^th MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF EPR GROUPS (EFEPR), Lisbon, Portugal, September 7-11, 2003.  Website: http://dequim.ist.utl.pt/EFEPR   Email: jptelo@popsrv.ist.utl.pt 
• 6^thINTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on ESR DOSIMETRY and APPLICATIONS”, Campos do Jordao, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 12-16 October 2003 Emails: Shigueo Watanabe watanabe@if.usp.br  Oswaldo Baffa  baffa@ffclrp.usp.br, or program chair Dr. Anne Skinner, anne.r.skinner@williams.eu 
• 10^th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM on MAGNETIC RESONANCE in COLLOID and INTERFACE SCIENCE (X-ISMRCIS), Hangzhou, China,  organized by Zhejiang University, June 16~20, 2004.  Email: ismrcis04@hotmail.com  Web:  http://www.zju.edu.cn/~ismrcis

 

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