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Author:

Corrigan, Patrick

Title:

Oxygen Tolerance in the [FeFe] Hydrogenase from Clostridium beijerinckii CbHydA1

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Bioinorganic chemistry
hydrogenase

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Carsten Krebs, Major Field Member
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Alexey Silakov, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Golbeck, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Nova, Nabila Nabi

Title:

Study of nano and micro scale functional materials using high pressure and laser writing methods

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

High pressure chemical vapor deposition
Direct laser writing
Nanoscale semiconductors
Graphitic carbon
Nanomaterials
Micropatterning

File:

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
John Asbury, Major Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Piane, Jacob

Title:

New Catalytic Concepts for Electron-Transfer Promoted Reactions

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Catalysis
Electrochemistry
Electrocatalysis
Phenothiazine
Photoredox
Pyrylium
Dehydration
Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles
Electron Transfer
Acyl Substitution
Amidation
Oxidation
Dimerization
Esterification

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Committee Members:

Elizabeth Elacqua, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Nacsa, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Outside Unit & Field Member
Raymond Schaak, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Jonathan Kuo, Major Field Member

Author:

Winston, Dennis Sean

Title:

Investigating the Role of Conformational Dynamics in Allosteric Regulation

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Allostery
Conformational Dynamics
Poliovirus
Chorismate Mutase
Protein NMR

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Committee Members:

David Boehr, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Joyce Jose, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Schulze, Jessica

Title:

Investigation of organic materials in electrolyte solutions using reactive molecular dynamics with applications in hydrogels, cryo-EM, and planetary science

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

ReaxFF
MD
poly(vinyl alcohol)
Enceladus
cryo-EM
mechanical properties
water-electrolyte
computations
chemistry

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Committee Members:

C Okafor, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major & Minor Field Member
Susan Hafenstein, Outside Unit & Field Member
Adri van Duin, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Munro, Justin

Title:

Acetyl-CoA Production Inside and Outside of the Mitochondrion is Essential for Plasmodium falciparum During Asexual Red Blood Cell and Sexual Stage Development

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Plasmodium falciparum
Acetyl-CoA
Malaria
Metabolomics
HPLC/MS

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Committee Members:

Andrew Patterson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Manuel Llinas, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Balaj, Rebecca

Title:

Understanding interfacial transport, reactions, and phase behavior in emulsion systems

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Emulsions
Phase separation
Capsules
Alginate
Solubilization
Droplets
Complex droplets
Reconfiguration
Surfactants
Surfactant partitioning
Complex fluids
Liquid interfaces
Droplet stability
Polyelectrolyte capsule
Reactions in droplets
Reactions at fluid interfaces
Reconfigurable droplets

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Major Field Member
Igor Aronson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Lauren Zarzar, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Krist, Kathleen

Title:

Understanding the Thermodynamic Driving Forces for Nanoscale Chemotaxis

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Nanoscale chemotaxis
Irreversible thermodynamics
Catalytic motors
Onsager-Machlup Theory
Gradient flows
McMillan-Mayer Theory

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Igor Aronson, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Major Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Greenberger, Virginia

Title:

Microfluidic Monitoring of Copper Ion Binding to and Oxidation of Phospholipid Bilayers

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

Microfluidics
Lipid Bilayers
Transition Metals
Oxidation
Copper
Chemistry
Fluorescence

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
David Boehr, Major Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Joyce Jose, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mandalaparthy, Varun

Title:

The Influence of Cosolvent Interactions Upon Interfaces and Macromolecules

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

protein stability
polymers
proteins
osmolytes
thermodynamics
statistical mechanics
lattice models
protein folding
urea
tmao
simulations
theory
solute interactions
molecular dynamics
monte carlo

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
William Noid, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Edward O'Brien, Major Field Member
Xiantao Li, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair