NMR centre with spectrometers opens at Brno's CEITEC

Brno, Jan 23 (CTK) - The Czech National Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Centre of Josef Dadok, equipped with high-resolution spectrometers, was officially opened at the Centre European Institute of Technology (CEITEC) of Brno's Masaryk University Wednesday.

The opening was attended by Dadok, a Czech scientist focusing on NMR and based in the United States from the late 1960s. Dadok developed a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer that was the world's most powerful one for eight years.

Dadok said the centre at CEITEC had excellent equipment.

The Czech National NMR Centre will start fully operating in 2014. It will study biomolecular structure and dynamics in unique high resolution. The laboratories in Brno will be used by researchers from other countries, too.

Vladimir Sklenar, coordinator of the research programme, said the general objective of structural biology is to understand the functioning of systems.

"We need to know the details to understand what interactions control these processes," he said.

Sklenar said the NMR Centre cost 300 million crowns.