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Author:: Uppalapati, Maruti Chandra Mouli Varma
Title:: CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY OF MICROTUBULES AND MANIPULATION OF KINESIN DRIVEN MICROTUBULE MOTION
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: protein patterning
microfabrication
AC electrokinetics
microtubule
kinesin
mitosis
File:: Download MarutiPhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Ryan S Clement, Committee Member

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Author:: Li, Peng
Title:: Femtosecond Optical Engineering
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: ultrafast optics
supercontinuum
optical tweezers
scattering
beam shaping
terahertz
File:: Download Dissertation_Femtosecond_Optical_Engineering.pdf
Committee Members:: Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

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Author:: Yu, Qianru
Title:: Multimodal microspectroscopy for noninvasive, quantitative, and multiscale studies of biological systems
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: two-photon
FLIM
mitochondria
microscopy
FCS
File:: Download masterThesis_yu.pdf
Committee Members:: Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Gullapalli, Ramachandra Rao
Title:: Integrated experimental, computational and theoretical methods to study the molecular dynamics of lipid membranes.
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
lipid membranes
molecular dynamics
lipid diffusion
File:: Download Rama_Dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melik C Demirel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

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Author:: Khankal, Reza
Title:: STUDYING AND IMPROVING XYLOSE UPTAKE AND UTILIZATION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: XYLOSE UPTAKE
ESCHERICHIA COLI
XYLITOL PRODUCTION
XYLE
XYLFGH
POLYOLS
File:: Download Reza_Khankal_thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Michael Cirino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick C Cirino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhuo, Rui
Title:: Contact Activation of Human Plasma Coagulation
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: coagulation
FXII
Thrombin
Blood
File:: Download Rui_Zhuo_Thesis_Dec_2006-8.pdf
Committee Members:: Erwin A Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

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Author:: Shastry, Shankar Narayan Rajagopalan
Title:: INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL DETERMINANTS OF KINESIN PROCESSIVITY
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: FRET
TIRF
Processivity
Kinesins
Front and rear head gating
File:: Download SShastryThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Sheereen Majdzarringhalamaraghy, Committee Member
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member

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Author:: D'Onofrio, Terrence
Title:: MANIPULATING AND MEASURING THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND LOCAL STRUCTURE OF BIOMEMBRANES
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: fluorescence microscopy
microtubule degradation
membrane mechanics
biophysics
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: William O Hancock, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member
Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Aravamuthan, Vidhya
Title:: In Vitro Assembly of Artificial Mitotic Spindles Using Dielectrophoresis
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Artificial spindles
dielectrophoresis
File:: Download AravamuthanV_Thesis_Aug08.pdf
Committee Members:: William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Cyr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Verma, Vivek
Title:: Approaches to Hybrid Synthetic Devices
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Kinesin
Microtubules
Casein
Lithography
Hybrid synthetic devices
Cellulose
File:: Download Vivek_Verma_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

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