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Author:: Ramamurthy, Bhagavathi
Title:: Glycation as a post-translational modification of myosin structure and function; Role of Glutathione; Glycation and aging
Graduate Program:: Physiology
Keywords:: aging
glutathione
myosin
glycation
File:: Download ramamurthy_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter Farrell, Committee Member
Sally Johnson, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Charles H Lang, Committee Member
Lars Larsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Pedersen, Christian
Title:: THE RESPONSE OF ARCTIC VEGETATION TO CLIMATE WARMING IN AN UNGULATE GRAZING SYSTEM
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: climate change
herbivory
phenology
ungulates
arctic
vegetation
grazing
reproduction
flowering
File:: Download Chr_Pedersen_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric S Post, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Duane R Diefenbach, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Christopher Uhl, Committee Member

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Author:: Ramrakhyani, Deepak Shyamlal
Title:: Morphing Aricraft Structures using Tendon Actuated Compliant Cellular Truss
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: Morphing structures
active structures
shape change
compliant joint
bird wing
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Committee Members:: George A Lesieutre, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Farhan S Gandhi, Committee Member

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Author:: Savtchouk, Iaroslav
Title:: Reciprocal interactions between synaptic AMPA receptors and action potential firing in cerebellar stellate cells
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: AMPAR
cerebellum
stellate cell
GluR2
synaptic plasticity
File:: Download Savtchouk_Dissertation_uc2_2011.pdf
Committee Members:: Bernhard Luscher, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard Luscher, Committee Member
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Matthew Whim, Committee Member
S June Liu, Committee Member

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Author:: Flores, Jason Francisco
Title:: SULFIDE ACQUISITION BY DEEP SEA HYDROTHERMAL VENT TUBEWORM HEMOGLOBINS
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: physiology
marine biology
hydrogen sulfide
respiration
File:: Download Flores_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Member
Juliette Lecomte, Committee Member
A Daniel Jones, Committee Member
François Lallier, Committee Member
William Royer, Committee Member

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Author:: Freytag, John Karl
Title:: Ecological Physiology and Biochemistry of Sulfide Acquisition by Two Hydrocarbon Seep Vestimentiferans, Lamellibrachia luymesi and Seepiophila jonesi
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: sulfide
vestimentiferan
hemoglobin
Riftia
Lamellibrachia
Seepiophila
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Roger Tai Koide, Committee Member
Michael Allan Arthur, Committee Member
James J Childress, Committee Member

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Author:: Lelito, Jonathan Peter
Title:: The Mating Systems of the Emerald Ash Borer and Related Buprestid Beetles
Graduate Program:: Entomology
Keywords:: invasive insect
mating system
Fraxinus
Agrilus
ash
Buprestidae
File:: Download Lelito_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Thomas Charles Baker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Charles Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Lewis Frazier, Committee Member
James Homer Tumlinson Iii, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member

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Author:: Vandegrift, Kurt Jason
Title:: A POTENTIAL ROLE FOR GUT MACROPARASITES IN THE POPULATION DYNAMICS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA WHITE-FOOTED MICE PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: periodical cicadas
paradox of enrichment
predator
Peromyscus
population dynamics
macroparasite
food addition
population destabilization
File:: Download KurtVandegrift2008thesisFINAL2.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter John Hudson, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ottar N Bjornstad, Committee Member
Eric Thomas Harvill, Committee Member
Bryan Grenfell, Committee Member

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Author:: Darlington, Mark Burton
Title:: SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE SPOTTED CUCUMBER BEETLE, DIABROTICA UNDECIMPUNCTATA HOWARDI (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE): MALE TRAITS FAVORED BY CRYPTIC FEMALE CHOICE.
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: sexual selection
cryptic female choice
mating display rate
File:: Download Darlington_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: James Harold Marden, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
Shelby Jay Fleischer, Committee Member
Mark C Mescher, Committee Member
Douglas Cavener, Committee Member

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Author:: Rai, Nitin Devdas
Title:: Human use, reproductive ecology, and life history of Garcinia gummi-gatta, a non timber forest product, in the Western Ghats, India
Graduate Program:: Biology
Keywords:: Garcinia gummi-gatta
Western Ghats
non-timber forest products
dieocy
fruiting ecology
seedling establishment
seed dispersal
population matrix models
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Uhl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew George Stephenson, Committee Member
James Harold Marden, Committee Member
Stephen Michael Smith, Committee Member

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