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Author:

Blose, Joshua Matthew

Title:

ELUCIDATING THERMODYNAMIC RELATIONSHIPS IN THE RNA STRUCTURAL HIERARCHY: MOLECULAR ORIGINS OF STABILITY

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Cooperative Folding
Thermophilic Adaptation
Tetraloop
RNA
Nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann
NLPB
Electrostatics

File:

Download JMB_Dissertation_082009.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C. Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Committee Member
Tae Hee Lee, Committee Member
Kenneth Charles Keiler, Committee Member

Author:

Siegfried, Nathan A.

Title:

Folding Cooperativity and Its Influence on pKa Shifting in Nucleic Acids

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

pKa shift
RNA
DNA
nucleic acids
cooperativity
acid base catalysis

File:

Download Siegfried_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C. Bevilacqua, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Katsuhiko Murakami, Committee Member

Author:

Molden, Rosalynn Conniff

Title:

Enhancing RNA catalysis through compartmentalization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

model cell
aqueous two-phase systems
hammerhead ribozyme kinetics
RNA
cellular compartmentalization

File:

Download ThesisETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Reigh, Stephanie Ann

Title:

Syn Bases: Their Prevalence, Relevance, and Functional Utility in Functional RNA

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

RNA

File:

Download Reigh_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip C. Bevilacqua, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor