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Author:: Tash, Brian Richard
Title:: BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF TIGHT JUNCTION PROTEINS
Graduate Program:: Cell and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: ZO-1
tight junctions
occludin
File:: Download THESIS_REVISION_VERSION_2011-03-18.pdf
Committee Members:: John Michael Flanagan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Flanagan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Antonetti, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Anthony Edward Pegg, Committee Member

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Author:: Lewis, Candice
Title:: Characterization of O6-Alkylguanine-DNA Alkyltransferase Degradation and Labeling with Fluorophores
Graduate Program:: Genetics
Keywords:: DNA repair
AGT
O6-Benzylguanine
File:: Download CLewis-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Kristin Eckert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristin Eckert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Sreenivas Kanugula, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hui Ling Chiang, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Robert G Levenson, Committee Member

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Author:: De Cotiis, Daniel A
Title:: FROM PROTEIN TO SIGNALPLEX: THE ROLE OF CALCIUM BINDING AND MYRISTOYLATION IN NEURONAL CALCIUM SENSOR-1 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: neuronal calcium sensor 1
signalplex
myristoylation
dopaminergic signalling
File:: Download Final_ETD___De_Cotiis_.pdf
Committee Members:: John Michael Flanagan Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Michael Flanagan Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Maria Christine Bewley, Committee Member
Robert G Levenson, Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member

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Author:: Basehore, Heather Kenney
Title:: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EARLY INTERACTIONS ON THE FOLDING PATHWAY OF THE ILEAL LIPID-BINDING PROTEIN BY 19F-NMR
Graduate Program:: Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:: b-sheet proteins
19F-NMR
protein folding
File:: Download Thesis+revisions.pdf
Committee Members:: Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Michael Pishko, Committee Member
Cara Lynne Schengrund, Committee Member
Michael Verderame, Committee Member

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Author:: Purdy, John Gerard
Title:: To Assemble, or not to Assemble: The Initiation of Retroviral Capsid Assembly
Graduate Program:: Microbiology and Immunology
Keywords:: retroviruses
virus structure
electron microscopy
capsid assembly
nucleation
CA protein
File:: Download Purdy_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Rebecca C Craven, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Rebecca C Craven, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sarah Bronson, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
David Joseph Spector, Committee Member
John Warren Wills, Committee Member

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Author:: Bauer, James William
Title:: Influence of Surface Composition and Wettability upon Contact Activation of Blood Plasma
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: blood plasma coagulation
contact activation
factor XII
self assembled monolayers
File:: Download JamesBauer_Dissertation__Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Joseph Weiss, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Alan J Snyder, Committee Member

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Author:: Prothero, Katie Eva
Title:: Identification of a CTCF-independent insulator that delimits X-inactivated from expressed transcripts within the UBA1 gene
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: DNA methylation
X chromosome inactivation
epigenetics
File:: Download Prothero_Thesis_FINAL2.pdf
Committee Members:: Laura Carrel, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Laura Carrel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sergei A Grigoryev, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Jiyue Xhu, 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:: Blome, Matthew
Title:: CHARACTERIZATION OF RICIN BINDING TO MULTIVALENT BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN-BASED NEOGLYCOCONJUGATES
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: glycoconjugate
asialofetuin
surface plasmon resonance
asialo-GM1
ricin
bovine serum albumin
multivalent
File:: Download Final_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Cara Lynne Schengrund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Mark Kester, Committee Member
Michael Pishko, Committee Member

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Author:: Baird, Nicholas Lindsay
Title:: ACYL DETERMINANTS OF THE HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS TYPE 1 UL11 TEGUMENT PROTEIN REQUIRED FOR MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING AND VIRION ENVELOPMENT
Graduate Program:: Microbiology and Immunology
Keywords:: Lipid Rafts
Myristylation
Palmitylation
Tegument
UL11
Herpes
File:: Download Dissertation_-_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: John Warren Wills, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Warren Wills, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard James Courtney, Committee Member
David Joseph Spector, Committee Member
Leslie Joan Parent, Committee Member
Ira Joseph Ropson, Committee Member

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