21st edition of the Young Belgian Magnetic Resonance Scientists symposium - YBMRS 2025

6 Nov 2025, 09:00 → 7 Nov 2025, 17:10 Europe/Brussels

Floreal Blankenberge

Anthony Morena (Université de Namur), Elien Derveaux (UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT)

The 21st editon of the YBMRS conference will take place in Floréal Blankenberge on Thursday the 6th and Friday the 7th of November 2025. 
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Final Program YBMRS 2025.pdf

Thursday 6 November

09:00 → 10:00 Registration and Poster Setup

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome

10:10 → 12:00 Tutorials: Educational Session 1 - Chair: Elien Derveaux

10:10 Tutorial: Decoding modern NMR methods to unlock their full potential

Speaker: Laura Castañar Acedo (Complutense University of Madrid)

11:05 Tutorial: What can and cannot be simulated in magnetic resonance

Speaker: Ilya Kuprov (Weizmann Institute of Science)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:50 Plenary lecture: Plenary Session 1 - Chair: Luca Fusaro

13:00 Plenary lecture: Simplifying complexity: novel NMR tools to aid spectral analysis

Speaker: Laura Castañar Acedo (Complutense University of Madrid)

13:50 → 14:30 Oral contributions: Plenary Session 1 - Chair: Roy Lavendomme

13:50 3D printing of subject-specific passive shims to improve in vivo MRI

Speaker: An Vanduffel (KU Leuven)

14:10 Synthesis and Optimisation of Gallium Doped Dendritic Silica Materials for CO2 Conversion: a Structure - Activity Correlation via ssNMR

Speaker: Nicolas Pierard (unamur)

14:30 → 14:50 Flash presentations of posters: Poster Session 1 - Flash presentations of posters

14:30 Unravelling the Role of Structure and Defects in Reduced Commercial Titania with Potential for Visible-Light Photocatalysis

Speaker: Lore Van den Bergh (University of Antwerpen)

14:32 Quantitative multinuclear MAS NMR spectroscopy reveals why NH3 TPD severely underestimates dealumination of zeolites upon hydrothermal aging.

Speaker: Eric Breynaert (NMRCoRe - NMR/X-ray platform for Convergence Research)

14:34 Examining cation dynamics in layered 2D hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites using solid-state NMR

Speaker: Ediz Garip (Universiteit Hasselt)

14:36 Computational optimization of 3D-printed flexible MRI receive coils

Speaker: Quentin Goudard (KU Leuven)

14:38 Toward reliable molar mass determination of glycolated polymer channel materials for organic electrochemical transistors

Speaker: Lize Bynens (Hasselt University)

14:40 A Quadruplex-Triplex Hybrid with a Pseudo Three-Layered Core of a Codeine Aptamer

Speaker: Lie Yoanes Maria vianney (Ghent University)

14:42 AI-Driven Analysis of Multiparametric MRI for Evaluating Response to Targeted and Immune Therapies in Preclinical Melanoma Models

Speaker: Madeline El Assal (Louvain Drug Research Institute(LDRI)/Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain))

14:44 Insights into the crystallisation of simple organic salts using multinuclear NMR in the liquid state

Speaker: Luca Fusaro (University of Namur)

14:46 Structural Insights into Acyl Chain–Dependent Membrane Interactions of Pseudomonas Cyclic Lipodepsipeptides

Speaker: Xinyu Qian (Ugent)

14:50 → 16:20 Posters: Poster Session 1 - All posters - Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:10 Plenary lecture: Plenary Session 2 - Chair: José Martins

16:20 Plenary lecture: Deep neural networks in magnetic resonance data processing

Speaker: Ilya Kuprov (Weizmann Institute of Science)

17:10 → 18:10 Oral contributions: Plenary Session 2 - Chair: Ewoud Vaneeckhaute

17:10 1H-NMR metabolomics of cocoa beans and derived cocoa liquors and chocolates after spontaneous or starter culture-initiated cocoa fermentation

Speaker: Emmy Tuenter (Universiteit Antwerpen)

17:30 Integrating NMR and dielectric spectroscopy in a single multi-diagnostic probe-head for the investigation of nanoconfined water

Speaker: Alysson F. Morais (NMRCoRe, KU Leuven)

17:50 Monte Carlo study of high-field transverse relaxation induced by iron oxide nanoparticles coated by a slow water diffusion layer

Speaker: Éléonore Martin (UMONS)

18:30 → 19:00 Break / General Assembly

19:00 → 22:00 Reception and Networking – followed by dinner

Friday 7 November

09:00 → 09:55 Tutorials: Educational Session 2 - Chair: Anthony Morena

09:00 Tutorial: Understanding quadrupolar nuclei in solid-state NMR: from theory to practical aspects

Laurent Delevoye

Speaker: Laurent Delevoye (Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide)

09:55 → 10:15 Oral contributions: Chair: Anthony Morena

09:55 Cracking MOF secrets with NMR crystallography: Isoreticular Expansion in Porous Al(III) and Ga(III) Phosphonates: Synthesis, Structure, and Properties

Speaker: Jennifer Theissen (UHasselt-KULeuven)

10:15 → 11:45 Posters: Poster Session 2 - All posters - Coffee Break

11:45 → 13:05 Oral contributions: Plenary Session 3 - Chair: Yoanes Maria Vianney

11:45 Hyperpolarized Protic Solvents as General Resource for Polarization Transfer

Speaker: Ewoud Vaneeckhaute (NMRCoRe, NMR/X-Ray platform for Convergence Research)

12:05 Silica-Based Nanotubes and Nanospheres: Versatile Materials from Micellization Studies to Greener Pathways

Speaker: Vittorio Marsala (University of Namur)

12:25 Unlocking homonuclear geminal couplings for conformational analysis of flexible molecules

Speaker: Elisa Norzagaray

12:45 Multi-harmonic EPR detection of melanin in skin melanomas: from mice to men

Speaker: Mohammad Wehbi (UCLouvain/LDRI/REMA)

13:05 → 14:30 Lunch + Group Photo

14:30 → 15:20 Plenary lecture: Plenary Session 4 - Chair: Peter Adriaensens

14:30 Plenary lecture: structure–activity relationships in catalysts with advanced solid-state NMR of quadrupolar nuclei

Speaker: Laurent Delevoye (Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide)

15:20 → 16:20 Oral contributions: Plenary Session 4 - Chair: Peter Adriaensens

15:20 Unravelling competitive adsorption in zeolites with solid-state NMR

Speaker: Sambhu Radhakrishnan (NMRCoRe KU Leuven)

15:40 Mapping Cancer’s Metabolic Footprint: Plasma NMR for Early NSCLC Diagnosis

Speaker: Jill Meynen (Hasselt University)

16:00 Solution-state NMR spectroscopic characterization of metal-organic assemblies

Speaker: Roy Lavendomme (Université libre de Bruxelles)

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 17:10 Awards and Closure