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Author:

Burgard, Anthony P.

Title:

OPTIMIZATION-BASED FRAMEWORKS FOR THE ANALYSIS AND REDESIGN OF METABOLIC NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

metabolic network
stoichiometric modeling
microbial strain design

File:

Download Thesis_Complete.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Zomorrodi, Ali Reza

Title:

OPTIMIZATION-DRIVEN DESIGN OF SYNTHETIC GENETIC CIRCUITS USING BIOBRICKS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Biobrick
MIT registry of standard biological parts
Synthetic genetic circuits
Integer linear programming

File:

Download MS_thesis_Ali_R_Zomorrodi_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Soundar Rajan Tirupatikumara, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Lehmann, Andreas

Title:

Molecular Design in Chemical and Biological Systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

quantum chemistry
molecular design
protein design
protein engineering

File:

Download andreas_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margaret K Duda, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member

Author:

Varshney, Amit

Title:

Optimization and control of multiscale process systems using model reduction: Application to thin-film growth

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Carleman Linearization
System Identification
Optimization
Dynamic Optimization
Modeling
Multiscale
Stochastic
Model Predictive Control
Receding Horizon Control
Thin film growth
Epitaxy

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Christensen, Claire Petra

Title:

INFERENCE, SIMULATION, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX NETWORKS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON COMPLEX NETWORKS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

systems biology
gene regulatory networks
graph theory
networks
disease dynamics
computational modeling

File:

Download Christensen_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Reka Z Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member

Author:

Vital-Lopez, Francisco Gamaliel

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID INTRACELLULAR/EXTRACELLULAR MODELS OF BRAIN TUMOR PROGRESSION AND MEDICATION STRATEGIES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Modeling
Brain tumor
Angiogenesis
Temozolomide
Chemotaxis
Simulation

File:

Download Vital-Lopez_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Khoury, George Adeeb

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TO SWITCH PROTEIN COFACTOR SPECIFICITY AND CREATE ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

evolution
protein design
protein engineering
computation
mutagenesis
cofactor

File:

Download thesisdraftfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Moore, Gregory Lee

Title:

Modeling and Optimization in Directed Evolution Protocols and Protein Engineering

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

directed evolution
protein engineering
optimization

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Stephen James Benkovic, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Hui

Title:

PROTEIN ENGINEERING OF STRUCTURALLY HOMOLOGOUS PROTEINS

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

protein evolution
protein engineering
purine biosynthetic pathway
domain swapping
(β/α)8 barrel protein

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen James Benkovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Ming Tien, Committee Member

Author:

Fazelinia, Hossein

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTEINS WITH NOVEL FUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

OptGraft
Protein engineering
Computational protein design
Enzyme cofactor alteration
IPRO

File:

Download Fazelinia_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Cirino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David D Boehr, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Jones, Joseph Francis

Title:

Examining Initial Bacterial Adhesion: Oriented Adhesion and Surface Nanodomains

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

bacterial adhesion
bacterial polarity
laser trap
orientation
adhesion
nanodomain

File:

Download 11-02-05_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Chin, Jonathan W

Title:

ENGINEERING AND ANALYSIS OF COFACTOR PARTITIONING FOR NADPH-DEPENDENT XYLITOL PRODUCTION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

xylitol
cofactor regneration
E. coli
metabolic engineering
biotransformation

File:

Download PS_Thesis_JWC_051810_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Patrick Cirino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick Cirino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Wayne Roger Curtis, Committee Member
Ali Demirci, Committee Member

Author:

Saraf, Manish Chandra

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR THE DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF COMBINATORIAL PROTEIN LIBRARIES

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

protein engineering
directed evolution
bioinformatics
protein library design
optimization

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Pishko, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Stephen James Benkovic, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Parent, Mary Elizabeth

Title:

From Bacterial Adhesion to Biofilm Formation: Impact of Humic Acid and Quorum Sensing

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

autoinduction
cell signaling
diffusion modeling
luminescence
population dependence

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Velegol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Michael Pishko, Committee Member
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Dasika, Madhukar S

Title:

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING BASED APPROACHES FOR BIOLOGICAL NETWORK INFERENCE, ANALYSIS AND REDESIGN

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

gene regulatory networks
signaling networks
Optimization
synthetic biology

File:

Download Dasika_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Patrick C Cirino, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member

Author:

Akinterinwa, Olubolaji

Title:

Improving The Efficiency of NADPH-dependent Xylitol Production in Engineered Escherichia coli

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

biocatalysis
Escherichia coli
metabolic engineering
xylitol
NADPH

File:

Download Olubolaji_Akinterinwa_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Michael Cirino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick C Cirino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Ashley Bryant, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Pharkya, Priti

Title:

Optimization based redesign of microbial production systems

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Metabolic engineering
Strain optimization
metabolic pathway modeling

File:

Download Thesispriti.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Michael Regan, Committee Member
Patrick Cirino, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Ravikirthi, Prabhasa

Title:

CONSTRUCTION OF A GENOME-SCALE ATOM MAPPING MODEL OF E.COLI FOR METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Cell and Developmental Biology

Keywords:

MFA
metabolic flux analysis
isotope mapping models

File:

Download Ravikirthi_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saha, Rajib

Title:

RECONSTRUCTION OF A GENOME-SCALE METABOLIC MODEL OF MAIZE METABOLISM

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

metabolic model
maize
Genome-scale

File:

Download Saha_MS_thesis_v2.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Khankal, Reza

Title:

STUDYING AND IMPROVING XYLOSE UPTAKE AND UTILIZATION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

XYLOSE UPTAKE
ESCHERICHIA COLI
XYLITOL PRODUCTION
XYLE
XYLFGH
POLYOLS

File:

Download Reza_Khankal_thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Andrew Michael Cirino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick C Cirino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

Author:

Ranganathan, Sridhar

Title:

Using Computations to Analyze and Redesign Metabolism

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

Metabolic Engineering
Optimization

File:

Download Thesis_sridhar_04_18.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Eric Thomas Harvill, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Committee Member
Cooduvalli S Shashikant, Committee Member

Author:

Pitchaiah, Sivakumar

Title:

Feedback control and optimization using adaptive reduced order models

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear control
Process control
Proper orthogonal decomposition
Partial differential equation
Model reduction

File:

Download SP-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Antonios Armaou, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Antonios Armaou, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Vinay

Title:

SYSTEMS BASED OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES TO ANALYZE AND IMPROVE METABOLIC NETWORKS

Graduate Program:

Industrial Engineering

Keywords:

Optimization
systems biology
metabolism
gaps

File:

Download dissertation_final_final_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Costas D Maranas/ Dr Soundar T Kumara, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Soundar T Kumara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Gregory Ferry, Committee Member
David Arthur Nembhard, Committee Member
Arunachalam Ravindran, Committee Member

Author:

Tiwary, Yogesh

Title:

PREDICTION AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC SELF ASSEMBLY IN Al(110) HOMOEPITAXY

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

aluminum
self assembly
directed assembly
homoepitaxy
kinetic monte carlo
first principles
quantum mechanical calculation
ab initio
transition state theory
nudged elastic band
atomic interaction
surface relaxation

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

Author:

Khanna, Payal

Title:

Role of CD82 tetraspanins in regulation of extracellular signals within the tumor microenvironment during transendothelial migration

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

tetraspanins
cytokines
melanoma
cadherins
cancer
endothelial

File:

Download Thesis_draft_July_3rd.pdf

Committee Members:

Cheng Dong, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Margaret June Slattery, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Special Member
Esther Winter Gomez, Special Member

Author:

Zomorrodi, Ali Reza

Title:

Computational tools for genome-scale synthetic lethality analysis and metabolic modeling of microbial communities

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Metabolic networks
Flux balance analysis
Metabolic Enginnering
Optimization
Systems biology

File:

Download AliRZomorrodi_PhD_Dissertation_Final_2012.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Grisewood, Matthew Jeffery

Title:

OptZyme: a computational tool for altering enzymatic specificity

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

beta-glucuronidase
enzyme
redesign
molecular mechanics
OptZyme
transition state analogue
specificity

File:

Download Grisewood_Masters_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael John Janik, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pantazes, Robert Jeffrey

Title:

The development of computational methods for designing antibodies and other proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

protein
antibody
complementarity determining regions
IPRO
MAPs
de novo protein design

File:

Download RPantazesThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Arthur Mallay Lesk, Special Member
Themis Matsoukas, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Committee Member

Author:

Islam, Mohammad Mazharul

Title:

Metabolic modeling of microbial communities

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

dynamic
microbial communities
modeling
d-OptCom
Uranium reduction
Auxotrophic mutants. metabolic modeling

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Mohammad_Mazharul_Islam.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Saha, Rajib

Title:

Reconstruction and analysis of genome-scale metabolic models of photosynthetic organisms

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Genome-scale model
Cyanobacteria
Zea mays
Cyanothece sp. ATCC51142
Synechocystis sp. PCC6803

File:

Download Saha_dissertation_0728_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Gifford, Nathanael Paul

Title:

Computational Redesign of Acyl-acp Thioesterases for Increased Substrate Specificity

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Thioesterase
IPRO
Computational
Protein Engineering
Chemical Engineering

File:

Download Masters_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael John Janik, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Farasat, Iman

Title:

Sequence-to-function models for efficient optimization of metabolic pathways and genetic circuits

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

metabolic pathway
genetic circuit
CRISPR
Cas9
modeling
combinatorial optimization
protein expression
optimization

File:

Download Farasat_PhD_dissertation.pdfDownload 1-Farasat_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Howard M Salis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Howard M Salis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Timothy Charles Meredith, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member

Author:

Tian, Tian

Title:

Coordination of Protein Expression and Autonomous Control of Biosynthesis Pathways

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

Protein expression optimization
Dynamic pathway control
Translational coupling
Bio-sensor identification

File:

Download eTD_Tian_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Howard M Salis, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Howard M Salis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey M Catchmark, Committee Member
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Outside Member
Thomas Keith Wood, Outside Member

Author:

Chowdhury, Anupam

Title:

Developing optimization-based algorithms for rational engineering of microbial strains

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

computational bioengineering
genome-scale metabolic model
strain-design algorithms
deterministic optimization protocols
kinetic models of metabolism
metabolic pathway prediction
metabolic engineering e coli & yeast

File:

Download thesis_doc_08_18_16.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D. Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Cooduvalli S Shashikant, Outside Member

Author:

Mueller, Thomas J

Title:

Modeling Metabolism and Regulation to Facilitate Strain Characterization and Design

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Optimization
Cyanobacteria
Systems Biology
Computational Biology
Metabolic Modeling

File:

Download Mueller_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
James Gregory Ferry, Outside Member

Author:

Hu, Nan

Title:

Stochastic Resource Allocation Strategies With Uncertain Information In Sensor Networks

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

stochastic resource allocation
markov decision process
uncertainty
sensor network

File:

Download Dec2016_NanHu_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas F Laporta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas F Laporta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Sencun Zhu, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Outside Member

Author:

Senftle, Margaret Naomi

Title:

Development and Application of Metabolic Models for Determining the Effect of Genetic and Environmental Perturbations on Maize

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Maize Metabolism
Genetic Perturbations
Genome-scale Metabolic Modelling
Environmental Perturbations

File:

Download MSenftle_Thesis_072817.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Mark Guiltinan, Outside Member

Author:

Grisewood, Matthew Jeffery

Title:

Development and Applications of Computational Enzyme Engineering Tools

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Iterative Protein Redesign and Optimization
IPRO
Computational
Enzyme
Redesign
Methyl-coenzyme M reductase
acyl-ACP thioesterase
Mcr
'TesA
OptZyme
Optimization
beta-glucuronidase
Protein engineering
Specificity
Activity

File:

Download MGrisewood_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Howard M Salis, Committee Member
James Gregory Ferry, Outside Member

Author:

Barnes, William

Title:

Functional Analyses of Cell Wall Synthesis and Modification in Arabidopsis thaliana

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

Arabidopsis thaliana
cell wall
cellulose
pectin
lignin

File:

Download W_Barnes_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Charles T Anderson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles T Anderson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gabriele Brigitte Monshausen, Committee Member
John Edward Carlson, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Outside Member

Author:

Gopalakrishnan, Saratram

Title:

Nonlinear optimization techniques for genome-scale flux elucidation and kinetic parameterization

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Metabolism
Metabolic modeling
Flux analysis
Kinetic models

File:

Download Dissertation_GOPALAKRISHNAN_SARAT_041719.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Phillip E Savage, Committee Member
Kristen Fichthorn, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Outside Member

Author:

Dash, Satyakam

Title:

METABOLIC MODELING OF CLOSTRIDIA FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Clostridium thermocellum
Clostridium acetobutylicum
Metabolic engineering
Genome scale metabolic model
Kinetic model
Thermodynamic analysis

File:

Download Dash_Satyakam_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Phillip E Savage, Outside Member

Author:

Chowdhury, Ratul

Title:

Computational Redesign Of Channel Proteins, Enzymes, and Antibodies

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Computational Protein Design
Channel Proteins
Enzyme Engineering
De novo Antibody Design
Integer Optimization
Molecular Mechanics

File:

Download RatulChowdhury_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Manish Kumar, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Lin

Title:

Computational methods for designing de novo metabolic pathways and genome-minimized chassis strains

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

de novo pathway
minimal genome
metabolic engineering
thermodynamics

File:

Download Dissertation_Lin_Wang.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Andrew David Patterson, Outside Member
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ghaffari, Soodabeh

Title:

COMPUTATIONAL REDESIGN OF EZYMES AND CHANNEL PROTEINS

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

computational protein designs
channel proteins
Rosetta
IPRO
enzyme engineering
optmization

File:

Download Soodabeh_Ghaffari_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Costas D Maranas, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Thomas Milner, Committee Member
Phillip Savage, Program Head/Chair
Esther Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Mc Lellan, James

Title:

Engineering a Neural Network-Like Genetic Circuit In Escherichia coli

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

CRISPRi
Genetic Circuits
Synthetic Biology

File:

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Committee Members:

Phillip Savage, Program Head/Chair
Howard M Salis, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member
Esther Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Pei

Title:

Study of fluorinated ether-based electrolyte for high-voltage lithium ion batteries and functional porous sulfur cathode for lithium sulfur batteries

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion battery
electrolyte
Lithium sulfur battery
Porous cathode
High voltage electrolyte

File:

Download Thesis-Pei_Shi.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Phillip E Savage, Program Head/Chair
Seong Han Kim, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member