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Author:

Gentile, Kayla

Title:

Transport and Assembly in Active Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

micropumps
fluid motion
catalysis
enzymes
protein aggregation

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Committee Members:

Thomas Mallouk, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
James Adair, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xu, Jiansong

Title:

Reconsidering the czcD (NiCo) riboswitch as iron (II) riboswitch

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Irving-William series
metalloregulation
RNA
iron
metal selectivity
riboswitch
metal sensor
czcD riboswitch
NiCo riboswitch
metal overload

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Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Veenis, Andrew

Title:

Towards a Better Understanding of the Influence of Noncovalent Interactions on RNA Catalysis and the Properties of RNA Moieties

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
Ribozyme
pKa
Cheminformatics
Bioinformatics
Molecular Dynamics

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Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Song Tan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bui, Pho

Title:

Nonadditive Effects of Cosolvent Mixtures on Protein Stability in Aqueous Solutions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

nonadditivity
ion specific effects
ion-pairing
cosolvent
protein stability
complex solutions
vibrational spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Noid, Major Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Judd, Kenneth Duane

Title:

Investigating Specific Cation Interactions with Anionic Surfactant Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface Using Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Thermodynamics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

ion pairing
ion specific effects
monolayers
spectroscopy
nonlinear optics
vibrational spectroscopy
thermodynamics
surfactants

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Maroncelli, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Dey, Madhuri

Title:

Reconstituting the 3D Breast Cancer Microenvironment for Chemo and Immunotherapy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Breast cancer
3D tumor models
Chemotherapy
Immunotherapy
MAIT-MR1
3D bioprinting
Perfusion
Tumor Angiogenesis
Cancer Invasion

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
James Connor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Christine Keating, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Ibrahim Ozbolat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Crowe, Charles

Title:

Aqueous Phase Separation within Water-in-Oil Emulsions as Cellular Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

liquid-liquid phase separation
phase separation
microfluidics
neutral polymer phase separation
emulsion
water-in-oil
coacervation
bioinspired
artificial cell
microscopy
droplet

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Peter Butler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Tanygin, Vivian Sergei

Title:

Surface Chemistry of Transition Metal Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

nanoparticles
xps
epr
chalcogen
noble metal
nanomaterials
inorganic
electronic properties
esr
morphology
surface chemistry
nmr

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Chair & Major Field Represnt
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
Raymond Schaak, Committee Member & Major Field Represnt
John Golbeck, Committee Member & Related Areas Repres
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Di Monte, Kristin

Title:

Morphology Dependent Optical Properties of Mixed Organic/Inorganic Aerosol Particles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

Aerosol Particles
Aerosol
Optical Growth Factor
fRH
Hygroscopicity
Hygroscopicity Parameter
Water Soluble Organic Compounds
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy
CRDS
Multicomponent
Inorganic Salt

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Miriam Arak Freedman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Member
Eugene Edmund Clothiaux, Committee Member

Author:

Sheffield, Sarah

Title:

Using Single-Ion Conductors as Dielectrics in Organic Transistors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Organic Semiconductor
Organic Single Crystals
Single-Ion Conductors
Polymer Dielectric
Organic Transistor
Polymer Thin Films
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Rubrene
Nafion
Ionomers

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Elizabeth Elacqua, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Larry Cheng, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Liu, Chang

Title:

A Fluorescence-Based Investigation into the Mechanisms of Biomimetic-Membrane Component Translocation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

chemotaxis
lipid flip-flop
membrane component translocation
microfluidics
lipid bilayer

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
William Hancock, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Szukalo, Ryan

Title:

Predictive and Thermodynamically Transferable Coarse-Grained Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

coarse-graining
transferability
representability
local density

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Committee Members:

William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lasse Jensen, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meyer, Mc Cauley

Title:

Studies of RNA structure and function in prebiotically inspired peptide-rich droplets and extant in vitro conditions

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA Structure
DMS-MaP
Ribozymes

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Committee Members:

Christopher House, Outside Unit Member
Christine Keating, Outside Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Glaid, Andrew

Title:

Interesting Interface Interactions: The Synthesis of Metal Metalattices and the Binding of Ions to Lipid Membranes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Metalattice
Supercritical Fluid Deposition
Supported Lipid Bilayer
Ion Binding
Microfluidic Assay

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kenneth Knappenberger, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Featherston, Emily

Title:

Biochemical and structural factors governing metal selectivity in lanthanide-binding proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Lanthanide
Rare earth element
Protein
Protein structure
Luminescence

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Committee Members:

Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Scott Lindner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amie Boal, Major Field Member

Author:

Sieg, Jacob

Title:

Thermodynamic Corrections to RNA Folding Models in Cells

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

RNA
metabolites
Magnesium
Thermodynamics
Nearest neighbor model

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Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Outside Field Member
Paul Babitzke, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Beck-Horton, Cordelia

Title:

Photochemical C–H Heteroarylation of Unfunctionalized Aromatic N–Heterocycles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (MS)

Keywords:

Photochemistry
C-H functionalization
Heterobiaryl

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Committee Members:

Eric Nacsa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Kuo, Committee Member

Author:

Castonguay, Alexander

Title:

Tunable and Responsive Systems: From Direct Laser Writing to Active Emulsions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

direct laser writing
active matter
laser synthesis
gas sensing
active emulsions
emulsions

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Committee Members:

Benjamin Lear, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tackman, Emma

Title:

Advances in Measurements of the Properties of Aerosol Particles: Acidity, Phase State, and Surface Interactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

aerosol
microscopy
nanoparticle
acidity
transmission electron microscopy

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Committee Members:

Jose Fuentes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Miriam Freedman, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mc Gee, Shannon

Title:

A SINGLE-STEP LASER DIRECT WRITING METHOD FOR CATALYSIS APPLICATION

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

laser direct writing
water electrolysis
catalysis
oxygen evolution reaction
hydrogen evolution reaction
transition metal materials

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Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair