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Author:

Chen, Niancao

Title:

Programmable Nanomaterials for Detoxification

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Aptamer
Nanoparticle
detoxification

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Niancao_Chen__12-10.pdf

Committee Members:

Yong Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yong Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jian Yang, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Committee Member

Author:

Govey, Peter Michael

Title:

Multiscale Anabolic Bone Responses to Fluid Flow and Post-irradiation Loading

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

bone
mechanical loading
fluid flow
bone adaptation
radiation
irradiation
stem cell
mechanotransduction
bone marrow

File:

Download Govey_final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Donahue, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Lee Brown, Committee Member
Gregory Stephen Lewis, Committee Member
Christopher Niyibizi, Committee Member
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Member

Author:

Kudlik, D'anne Elyse

Title:

A quantitative comparison of the constant shear stress model and the optimal transport network model in cerebral vasculature

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

transport network
blood flow
optimal transport network
blood flow modeling
cerebral vasculature
pial vasculature

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick James Drew, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ceneviva, Nicholas E

Title:

Protocol And Intitial Surface Analysis Of Explanted Blood Sacs For The Penn State Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

ventricular assist device
pediatric
cardiovascular device
PVAD
VAD
thrombosis
optical profilometry

File:

Download CenevivaMastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William Joseph Weiss, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moroney, George J

Title:

Characterization of Early Membrane Adhesion Activity with a Drift-corrected Optical Trap

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Focal adhesions
mechanotransduction
optical trap
drift correction

File:

Download Moroney_Master_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Butler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Quigley, Andrew Patrick

Title:

A Comparative Study of the Anatomy and Functional Morphology of the Mammalian Nasal Cavity

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

mammal
nasal airway
three-dimensional anatomy
reconstruction
morphometry
magnetic resonance imaging
respiration
olfaction

File:

Download Quigley_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Brent Craven, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael H Krane, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Deffenbaugh, Nathan C

Title:

Single-molecule microscopy step detection algorithms: kinesin motor proteins and the cellulose synthesis complex

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

single-molecule microscopy
step detection
kinesin
motor proteins
cellulose synthesis complex
hidden Markov models

File:

Download DeffenbaughNathan_MastersThesis_May2015_1.pdf

Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yeh, Yin-ting

Title:

A Microdevice For Virus Capture And detection

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

virus detection
point of care
microfabrication
carbon nanotube
microdevice

File:

Download Yin-Ting_Yeh_disseratation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Siyang Zheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Siyang Zheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Jian Yang, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Member
Huaguang Lu, Committee Member

Author:

Parkar, Anjum

Title:

Perturbation of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep for seizure control in rodent model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

seizure control
seizure prediction
epilepsy
closed loop stimulation
sleep/wake behaviour
trigeminal nerve stimulation

File:

Download Parkar-DissertationFinallinks.pdf

Committee Members:

Bruce Gluckman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steven Schiff, Committee Member
Thomas Neuberger, Committee Member
Kevin Douglas Alloway, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Yike

Title:

A signal-responsive hydrogel for controlled drug release

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

drug delivery
controlled protein release
signal responsive material
aptamer

File:

Download Yike_Huang_Master_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Yong Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor