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Author:

Leamy, Kathleen Alyce

Title:

INVESTIGATING RNA FOLDING AND ADAPTATION IN CELLULAR CONDITIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA Folding
RNA Adaptation
RNA Thermodynamics
Cotranscriptional Foling

File:

Download Leamy_PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Alfred Cotruvo Jr., Committee Member
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Outside Member

Author:

Santoro, Leeann

Title:

PROTEIN AGGREGATION DETECTION USING BODIPY-BASED FLUORESCENT PROBES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

protein
aggregate
fluorophore
Alzheimer's
neurodegeneration
fluorescence
molecular rotor
Huntington's
ALS

File:

Download Thesis_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member

Author:

Zheng, Hongjun

Title:

ELECTRON DYNAMICS IN NANOSCALE METALS: FROM ATOMICALLY PRECISE CLUSTERS TO PLASMONIC NANOMATERIALS

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

transient absorption spectroscopy
2DES
monolayer protected clusters
MPCs
gold nanorod
carrier dynamics
spatially resolved spectroscopy

File:

Download Dissertation_of_Hongjun_Zheng_Final_Version.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Luther Knappenberger, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Bian, Yujia

Title:

Mixed Osmolyte Effects in Solution and Air/Water Interface

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

osmolyte
surface tension
simple toy model
protein folding

File:

Download Master_s_thesis_Yujia_final.pdf

Committee Members:

William George Noid, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kim, Shi Ho

Title:

Super-resolution Optical Lithography with DNA

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Super-resolution optical mircoscopy
DNA hairpin kinetics
Fluorescence resonance energy transfer
Nanoparticles
Nucleic acid structure
Fluorophores

File:

Download SHK_Final_Thesis_1.7_.pdf

Committee Members:

Tae-Hee Lee, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Xin Zhang, Committee Member
Seong Han Kim, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xiao, Weide

Title:

Investigating the Impact of Sugar Phosphate on Liquid-liquid Phase Separation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Liquid-liquid phase separation
RNA binding protein
sugar phosphates

File:

Download Master_Thesis-Weide_Xiao.pdf

Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tae-Hee Lee, Committee Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hoelzel, Conner

Title:

Controlling the Environmental Sensitivity of Small Molecule Fluorophores for Cellular Imaging

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

fluorescence
solvatochromism
brightness
excited state
non-radiative decay
internal conversion
external conversion
twisted intramolecular charge transfer
rhodamine
proteostasis
cell imaging
protein misfolding
aggregation
neurodegenerative disease
microscopy

File:

Download Hoelzel_Thesis-Final_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Xin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Xin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Emily E Weinert, Outside Member
Elizabeth A Elacqua, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair