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Author:: Latulippe, David
Title:: Purification of Plasmid DNA Therapeutics: New Opportunities for Membrane Processes
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering
Keywords:: radius of gyration
sieving coefficient
DNA elongation
open-circular
supercoiled
plasmid DNA
partition coefficient
File:: Download DRL_Ph.D._Thesis_R5.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Zydney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Zydney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

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Author:: Muthukrishnan, Gayatri
Title:: EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF KINESIN-2 MECHANOCHEMISTRY
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: stochastic simulation
run length
ATP hydrolysis
optical tweezers
quantum dots
biophysics
kinesin
microtubules
File:: Download FinalThesis_041408.pdf
Committee Members:: William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Mary Elizabeth Willilams, Committee Member

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Author:: Muddana, Hari Shankar
Title:: Molecular scale spectroscopy and simulation of stressed lipid bilayers
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: lipid bilayers
molecular dynamics
fluorescence spectroscopy
membranes
File:: Download Muddana_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member

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Author:: Ambrose, Jonathan Christian
Title:: The Roles of Molecular Motors and Microtubule Dynamics in Assembly and Function of the Higher Plant Mitotic Spindle
Graduate Program:: Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:: mitosis
kinesin
molecular motor
cytoskeleton
microtubule
spindle
cell
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Committee Members:: Richard Cyr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hong Ma, Committee Member
Simon Gilroy, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

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Author:: Dangaria, Jhanvi H.
Title:: MECHANISMS OF SHEAR-INDUCED ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: mechanotransduction
particle tracking
viscoelasticity
atherosclerosis
cell mechanics
File:: Download Dangaria_JH_PhD_2008.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member

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Author:: Heetderks, Julia J.
Title:: Lipid Bilayer Membrane Organization
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: FRET
membrane
bilayer
lipid
fluorescent
File:: Download JJH_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Ewing, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Anne M Andrews, Committee Member

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Author:: Malcos, Jennelle Leigh
Title:: UNDERSTANDING NOVEL PROTEIN FUNCTION FROM PROTEIN DOMAINS IN THE PLANT KINESIN SUPERFAMILY
Graduate Program:: Plant Physiology
Keywords:: kinesins
preprophase band
File:: Download Malcos-Dissertationpdf.pdf
Committee Members:: Richard Cyr, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Cyr, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Webb Colby Miller, Committee Member
Hong Ma, Committee Member

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Author:: Chatterjee, Kaushik
Title:: SURFACE-MEDIATED MOLECULAR EVENTS IN MATERIAL-INDUCED BLOOD-PLASMA COAGULATION
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: blood coagulation
contact activation
protein adsorption
intrinsic coagulation cascade
factor XII
plasma proteases
File:: Download thesis_kaushik_chatterjee.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Alan J Stenger, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member

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Author:: Slattery, Margaret June
Title:: Neutrophil-mediated Melanoma Adhesion and Migration in Shear Flow
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: polymorphonuclear leukocytes
cancer
beta2-integrin
ICAM-1
interleukin-8
File:: Download SlatteryMJ_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Andrew Thomas Henderson, Committee Member

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Author:: Long, Michael Scott
Title:: Dynamic and Asymmetric Protein Microcompartmentation in Aqueous Two-Phase Vesicles
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: microcompartmentation
aqueous two-phase system
giant vesicle
File:: Download ScottThesis101005.pdf
Committee Members:: Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Ewing, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

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