under the auspices of:
Gruppo Interdivisionale Risonanze Magnetiche (SCI)

Schedule

Porto Conte Ricerche - September 21-24, 2004
Tramariglio (Alghero) - Sardegna (Italy)

The congress is sponsored by:

We also thank for financial help:

Venue

The congress will be held in the Porto Conte research center starting from the welcome reception on the evening of September 21st and closing with the social dinner on the evening of September 24th. Porto Conte is a wonderful bay close to the city of Alghero, Sardinia (Italy). Alghero can be easily reached by plane. Although we are eager to discuss our new exciting NMR results, we plan to give the participants enough free time (well, not so much as we all would like to...) during the day for enjoying the sea and the natural beauties of north-western Sardinia.

Organizing Committee

Scientific Committee

Lucia Zetta (President of the GIDRM, CNR, Milano)
Carla Marchioro (President of the GIRM, GSK, Verona)
Mauro Andrea Cremonini (UNI, Bologna)
Mauro Fasano (UNI, Varese)
Stefano Mammi (UNI, Padova)
Mario Piccioli (UNI, Firenze)
Roberto Simonutti (UNI-Bicocca, Milano)
Marco Tatò (Medical Center, Nerviano, Milano)

Local Organizing Committee

Mariano Casu (UNI, Cagliari)
Gianni Cerioni (UNI, Cagliari)
Matilde Chessa (Portoconte Ricerche, Alghero)
Nicola Culeddu (CNR, Sassari)
Costantino Floris (UNI, Cagliari)
Adolfo Lai (UNI, Cagliari)
Maria Antonietta Zoroddu (UNI, Sassari)

Topics

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• NMR in Agricultural and Food Science
• NMR in Biomedicine
• NMR in Drug Design
• NMR in Materials and Polymers
• NMR Methodology
• NMR in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
• NMR in Proteins

The following scientists have already agreed to present lectures at the congress:

• Lucia Banci (Uni, Firenze)
• Gaetano Barbato (IRBM, Roma)
• Tiziana Beringhelli (UNI, Milano)
• Hanne Christine Bertram (DIAS, Tjele, DK)
• Stefano Ciurli (UNI, Bologna)
• Angiolina Comotti (UNI-Bicocca, Milano)
• Filippo Conti (UNI, Roma)
• Claudio Dalvit (Medical Center, Nerviano, Milano)
• Muriel Delepierre (Pasteur Institute, Paris, F)
• Lyndon Emsley (ENS, Lyon, F)
• Luigi Gomez-Paloma (UNI, Salerno)
• Bertil Halle (UNI, Lund, S)
• Carla Isernia (UNI, Napoli)
• Luisa Mannina (UNI, Campobasso)
• Bruno Maraviglia (UNI, Roma)
• Beat H. Meier (ETH, Zürich, CH)
• Giovanni Natile (UNI, Bari)
• Wolfgang von Philipsborn (UNI, Zürich, CH)
• Donatella Potenza (UNI, Milano)
• Enzo Terreno (UNI, Torino)
• Carlo Alberto Veracini (UNI, Pisa)

Fees

Registration fees include coffee breaks and social dinner but NOT accommodation:

50 € (GIDRM Members only)	100 € (Non Members)	Before June 30, 2004
100 € (GIDRM Members only)	150 € (Non Members)	After June 30, 2004

Fees may be paid by credit card or by bank transfer to GIDRM, Deutsche Bank, account number 881467, ABI 03104, CAB 01602 (or swift code DEUTITM461 if you send your payment from outside Italy).

Hotels

Participants are kindly requested to book their own hotel rooms. Hotel Porto Conte has agreed to reserve 80 rooms for the congress participants. Hotel Porto Conte is about 10 Km far from Tramariglio and a bus service will be organized to take our participants from the hotel to the congress site and back 2-3 times a day. Prices for the congress participants (per day and per room) are as follows:

Double room single person (B&B)	70 €
Double room single person (half board, no drinks)	85 €
Double room single person (full board, no drinks)	90 €
Double room two persons (B&B)	80 €
Double room two persons (half board, no drinks)	110 €
Double room two persons (full board, no drinks)	120 €

Participants who would like to book a room in Hotel Porto Conte are kindly required to download and fill in a reservation form (in doc, openoffice or pdf format). The form must be faxed to the hotel not later than July 30, 2004. A deposit amounting to the cost of two nights is required upon hotel confirmation.

The closest hotel to the congress site is Hotel Capocaccia. The hotel has agreed to reserve a limited number of rooms for the congress participants until July 30, 2004. Availability and prices are not guaranteed after July 30, 2004. Prices are per person with full board and for 4 nights from September 21 to 25, 2004.

Single room	480 € (420 € without sea-sight)
Double room	380 €
Extra bed (up to 2)	330 €
Children (age 2 to 12)	230 €
Each extra night (during the congress week)	10 €

For further information please contact Hotel Capocaccia.

Participants should ask for a half board, since lunches will be consumed at the cafeteria of the Porto Conte research center (tickets for lunches can be bought at the congress registration).

Grants

A limited number of Congress Attendance Grants (CAG) will be available for young scientists (under 35). Grants will include the congress fee and 4 nights accommodation in the Portoconte Ricerche guesthouse with full board. If you want to apply for a grant please submit the title of your abstract, your curriculum vitæ and a presentation letter from your research advisor before the congress deadline.

Poster contest

All posters presented by young researchers (under 35) are eligible to take part in our poster contest. The posters will be judged by a committee composed of some of the foreign colleagues attending the congress. The presenting authors of the three posters deemed the best will win a monetary price.

Last year's first prize winner was Dr. Andreas Maus from UNI, Freiburg, Germany (left in the above picture receiving the prize from GIDRM president Dr. Lucia Zetta), who presented a poster entitled "1H-NMR investigation of chain ordering effects in polymer crystallization".

Second prize was awarded to Dr. Federica Pancotti from UNI, Roma (center) who studied "A 13C and 1H NMR study of gluconeogenesis and mitocondrial fatty acid metabolism using [3-13C] lactate and [U-13C] oleate in bioreactors containing rat hepatocytes entrapped in alginate gel beads".

Dr. Marco Bisaglia from UNI, Padova (right) received the third prize for his studies about "Topological characterisation of human α-synuclein in a membrane mimetic environment"

If you would like to compete, please put a label on the poster similar to the one shown above. Good luck to you all!

Abstracts

The abstracts must be sent via e-mail to portoconte2004@gidrm.org not later that June 30, 2004. You will be notified of the acceptance of your contribution by July 15, 2004. Please, download the abstract template (in doc, openoffice or pdf format) and follow the style therein for your abstract.

Posters

The dimensions of the posters cannot exceed 100 cm of height by 80 cm of width.

On-line Registration

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