Supporting Highlighting and Advancing Recent Developments in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (SHARED EPR)

该项目建立了一个研究协调网络，名为“支持、突出和推进电子顺磁共振的最新发展”(共享电子顺磁共振)，旨在促进电子顺磁共振波谱领域创新仪器和技术的开发和传播。EPR对化学、物理、生物和材料科学等学科的科学研究具有重要意义。它是一种用于研究从生物分子到聚合物再到半导体的各种样品的结构和动力学的技术。通过EPR获得的信息然后被用来了解这些分子或材料是如何发挥作用的，以及如何改进它们。然而，EPR在许多科学学科中的广泛适用性可能会阻碍使用该技术的群体之间的有效互动。将一个学科取得的进展传达给其他学科的研究人员，对于EPR领域的整体增长至关重要。共享的EPR网络旨在确保这些进步从开发它们的实验室转移到需要它们的实验室，无论涉及什么学科。该网络的主要目标是：促进EPR方法、仪器和技术的进步；促进交叉受精，并在美国EPR社区内建立新的合作研究机会；以及建立国际合作。该网络将通过带头开展下列网络活动和培训机会来实现这些目标。一年一度的重大挑战研讨会将与一次全国科学会议一起组织，该会议汇集了各种EPR研究人员，以确定和解决EPR光谱学领域面临的主要问题。将开发一个门户网站，集中存放有关电子病历研究和资源的信息，并为非专家提供电子病历社区的门户。该网络将赞助EPR技术转移体验，学生和博士后花时间在其他实验室进行实验，学习新的EPR技术，他们将带回国内实验室实施这些技术。大学前的少数民族学生将得到支持，在底特律地区的斯坦普斯通磁共振培训中心参加以研究为基础的科学体验。通过共享EPR网络与德国优先计划SPP 1601财团的互动，将促进国际合作，该财团的名称为“EPR光谱学灵敏度的新前沿：从生物细胞到纳米材料”。该项目由分子和细胞生物科学部、化学部和材料研究部共同资助。

This project establishes a Research Coordination Network named "Supporting, Highlighting and Advancing Recent Developments in Electron Paramagnetic Resonance" (SHARED EPR) that aims to promote the development and dissemination of innovative instrumentation and techniques in the area of EPR spectroscopy. EPR is of central importance to scientific research in the disciplines of Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Materials Science. It is a technique which is used to investigate structure and dynamics in a wide variety of samples, ranging from biological molecules to polymers to semiconductors. The information obtained with EPR is then used to understand how these molecules or materials function, and how improved ones can be made. However, the broad applicability of EPR across many scientific disciplines can inhibit effective interaction between groups that use the technique. It is crucial to the overall growth of the field of EPR that advances achieved in one discipline be communicated to researchers in the other disciplines. The SHARED EPR network is designed to ensure these advances are translated from the lab in which they are developed to the labs in which they are needed, no matter what discipline is involved. The Primary Goals of the network are to: facilitate the advancement of EPR methodology, instrumentation and techniques; foster cross-fertilization and establish new collaborative research opportunities within the U.S. EPR community; and establish international collaborations. The Network will achieve these goals by spearheading the following network activities and training opportunities. An annual Grand Challenge Workshop will be organized in conjunction with a national scientific meeting that brings together a diverse range of EPR researchers to identify and address major issues facing the field of EPR spectroscopy. A web portal will be developed to provide a centralized location for information regarding EPR research and resources and serve as a gateway to the EPR community for non-specialists. The Network will sponsor EPR Technology Transfer Experiences in which students and postdocs spend time and doing experiments in other labs to learn new EPR techniques which they will bring back and implement in their home labs. Pre-college minority students will be supported to participate in a research-based science experience at the Steppingstone Magnetic Resonance Training Center in the Detroit area. International collaborations will be fostered through the interaction of the SHARED EPR Network with the German Priority Program SPP 1601 consortium titled "New Frontiers in Sensitivity for EPR Spectroscopy: From Biological Cells to Nano Materials." This project is co-funded by the Division of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, the Division of Chemistry, and the Division of Materials Research.