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Author:: Vaish, Amit
Title:: DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SMALL-MOLECULE-FUNCTIONALIZED CAPTURE SURFACES
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Chemical Patterning
Capture Surfaces
Biosenosors
Self-Assembled Monolayers
Receptor Proteins
Small Molecules
File:: Download Amit_Vaish_Thesis_Final_Draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul S Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anne Andrews, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

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Author:: Agnihotri, Aashiish
Title:: MOLECULAR LEVEL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BLOOD COMPONENTS AND MODEL BIOMATERIALS STUDIED BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Biomaterials
Fibrinogen
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Blood Material Interactions
Integrins
File:: Download Agnihotri-PhD-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Bruce Ernest Logan, Committee Member

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Author:: Krishnan, Anandi
Title:: Protein Adsorption to Hydrophobic Surfaces
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Blood Proteins
Tensiometry
Adsorption
Self-Assembled Monolayers
Quartz Crystal Microbalance
File:: Download AnandiPhDThesis2005.pdf
Committee Members:: David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Kelly Brown, Committee Member

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Author:: Fuentes, Daniela E.
Title:: Dynamics Of Molecules And Membranes During The Early Stages Of Focal Adhesion Formation
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Mechanotransduction
endothelial cell
focal adhesion
membrane raft
adhesion
File:: Download Fuentes_Daniela_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, 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:: 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:: 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:: 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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