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Author:: Foster, Charles
Title:: Leveraging the Kinetics of Metabolism and Microbial Growth for Metabolic Engineering and Scientific Discovery in Clostridia
Graduate Program:: Chemical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Clostridia
Clostridium thermocellum
Clostridium acetobutylicum
Clostridium ljungdahlii
kinetic modeling
metabolism
genome-scale reconstruction
microbial consortia
metabolic engineering
bioprocess engineering
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Committee Members:: Andrew Zydney, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Costas Maranas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Seong Han Kim, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Ali Borhan, Major Field Member

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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

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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

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Author:: Lawanprasert, Atip
Title:: Investigating the bioeffects of perfluoroalkyls towards advanced image-guided protein delivery technologies
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering (PHD)
Keywords:: Drug Delivery
Fluorine
Ultrasound
Protein
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Committee Members:: Scott Medina, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
William Hancock, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Outside Unit & Field Member

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Author:: Park, Jennifer
Title:: Development of genetically encoded fluorescent sensors for cellular manganese(II)
Graduate Program:: Chemistry (PHD)
Keywords:: genetically encoded FRET-based sensors
probing cellular manganese homeostasis
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Committee Members:: Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Amie Boal, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mark Hedglin, Major Field Member

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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

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Author:: Mattocks, Joseph
Title:: Characterization and Application of Lanthanide-Binding Proteins for Rare-Earth Separations
Graduate Program:: Chemistry (PHD)
Keywords:: Rare earth element
Lanthanide
Protein
Separation
Bioremediation
Extraction
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Committee Members:: Joseph Cotruvo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Lindner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Mcbride, Molly Jo
Title:: Structural Basis for Cofactor Assembly in the Novel Heme-Oxygenase-Like Diiron Oxygenase Superfamily
Graduate Program:: Chemistry (PHD)
Keywords:: diiron oxygenase
x-ray crystallography
cofactor instability
biochemistry
metalloenzymes
heme-oxygenase-like diiron oxygenases
HDOs
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Committee Members:: Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Amie Boal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carsten Krebs, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Co-Chair of Committee

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Author:: Jung, Kwan Ho
Title:: Fluorescence Imaging Methods to Probe Folding States of RNA-Binding Proteins with Prion-Like Domains in Nuclear Bodies
Graduate Program:: Chemistry (PHD)
Keywords:: TDP-43
FUS
TAF15
PML nuclear bodies
Nucleolus
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Molecular rotor
Solvatochromic fluorophore
SNAP-tag
BODIPY
File:: Download Kwan_Ho_Jung_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Xin Zhang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yong Wang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Patterson, Dayna
Title:: Characterization of a bifunctional globin coupled sensor protein
Graduate Program:: Chemistry (PHD)
Keywords:: heme
bacterial signalling
gas sensing
biochemistry
c-di-GMP
pGpG
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Committee Members:: Timothy Mcnellis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

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