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Author:

Davey, Angel Marie

Title:

Molecular dynamics imaging of mast cell membrane nanostructure in immunoreceptor signaling

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

fluorescence lifetime
fluorescence anisotropy
IgE receptor
lipid domains
mast cells

File:

Download Angel_Davey_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Tae Hee Lee, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member

Author:

Bae, Chilman

Title:

ELECTRICAL, CHEMICAL, AND MECHANICAL MANIPULATION OF THE ENDOTHELIAL CELL SURFACE WITH A MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOPIPETTE

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

electroporation
mechanotransduction
micropipette
Cell membrane
endothelial cell

File:

Download Thesis_ChilmanBae.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Ryan Clement, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Berardi, Danielle Elizabeth

Title:

Effects of Simultaneous Wall Shear Stress and Circumferential Strain on Endothelial Cell Junctions

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

junctions
endothelial cells
circumferential strain
wall shear stress
stress phase angle

File:

Download dberardi_phd_2009.pdf

Committee Members:

John Michael Tarbell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter J Butler / John M Tarbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herbert Herling Lipowsky, Committee Member
David A Antonetti, Committee Member
Cheng Dong, Committee Member

Author:

Dominak, Lisa M

Title:

ENCAPSULATION EFFICIENCY AND DYNAMIC MICROCOMPARTMENTATION WITHIN GIANT LIPID VESICLES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

protein microcompartmentation
synthetic cells
macromolecular crowding
encapsulation efficiency
lipid vesicles
biomimetic chemistry

File:

Download LDominak_PhD_2009_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Anne M Andrews, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member

Author:

Gullapalli, Ramachandra Rao

Title:

Integrated experimental, computational and theoretical methods to study the molecular dynamics of lipid membranes.

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
lipid membranes
molecular dynamics
lipid diffusion

File:

Download Rama_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melik C Demirel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Tabouillot, Tristan

Title:

SHEAR STRESS ELICITS A TRANSIENT DOMAIN-DEPENDENT ALTERATION OF THE PLASMA MEMBRANE FLUIDITY IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

mechanotransduction
endothelial
fluorescence lifetime
fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
plasma membrane

File:

Download TT-dissertation2.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member
Herbert Herling Lipowsky, Committee Member