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Author:

Chen, Baoyu

Title:

STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL STUDIES OF SIGMA54-DEPENDENT TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

small angle x-ray scattering
AAA+ ATPase
two-component signal transduction
enhancer binding protein
sigma54
SAXS
NtrC
transcription

File:

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Committee Members:

B Tracy Nixon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Arthur Mallay Lesk, Committee Member
Kathleen Postle, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

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:

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Mary Elizabeth Willilams, Committee Member

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

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

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

Author:

Li, Peng

Title:

Femtosecond Optical Engineering

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ultrafast optics
supercontinuum
optical tweezers
scattering
beam shaping
terahertz

File:

Download Dissertation_Femtosecond_Optical_Engineering.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Yu, Qianru

Title:

Multimodal microspectroscopy for noninvasive, quantitative, and multiscale studies of biological systems

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

two-photon
FLIM
mitochondria
microscopy
FCS

File:

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Committee Members:

Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Aravamuthan, Vidhya

Title:

In Vitro Assembly of Artificial Mitotic Spindles Using Dielectrophoresis

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Artificial spindles
dielectrophoresis

File:

Download AravamuthanV_Thesis_Aug08.pdf

Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Cyr, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Verma, Vivek

Title:

Approaches to Hybrid Synthetic Devices

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Kinesin
Microtubules
Casein
Lithography
Hybrid synthetic devices
Cellulose

File:

Download Vivek_Verma_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Ying-Ming

Title:

MICRO-SCALE HYBRID BIOLOGICAL-ENGINEERED DEVICES POWERED BY BIOMOLECULAR MOTORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Microtubule
Molecular motors
Microfabrication
Deep glass wet etching
Microfluidics
Protein patterning

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Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member