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OTTAWA, May 4, 2010  —  Associate Professor David Bryce, from the University of Ottawa’s Department of Chemistry and the Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, along with colleague Jérôme Boisbouvier from the Institut de Biologie Structurale in Grenoble, France, collaborated on a scientific article that was recently published in the journal Nature Chemistry.

Titled Direct detection of CH/Pi interactions in proteins, the paper discusses a novel application of NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) spectroscopy that will enable researchers to study protein structure and function with a new level of precision, and holds potential applications in understanding the molecular basis for certain diseases associated with protein mutations and malfunction.

David Bryce became a faculty member at the University of Ottawa in 2005, after postdoctoral work at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory of Chemical Physics in Bethesda, Maryland. His research focuses on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, employing powerful magnetic fields to explore the behaviour of molecules at the atomic and subatomic level.

The collaboration between the two institutions originated in 2005 with a seed grant from the France-Canada Research Fund, which encourages and helps implement collaborations between French and Canadian research teams.

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