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Author:

Gaskin, Byron Jerrod

Title:

Coupled biophysical simulations of cell-cell interaction and drug delivery microrobots

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

computational mechanics
personalized medicine
computational fluid dynamics
computational structural mechanics
biochemistry
fluid dynamics
solid mechanics
continuum mechanics
blood flow
blood cells
drug delivery
drug targeting
microrobotics
flowing bodies
hyperelasticity
rigid body motion

File:

Download BJG_PhD_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Robert Lee Campbell, Outside Member
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Special Member

Author:

Unsal, Hayreddin Said

Title:

Measuring Resting State Functional Connectivity in Awake Mouse’s Brain Using fMRI

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

functional connectivity
resting state fMRI
brain
mouse
awake animal

File:

Download HayreddinSaidUnsal_MastersThesis_FinalSubmission_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Nanyin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Yang, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Gangchea

Title:

Fabrication of Radio Frequency Resonators in High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Radio Frequency Coil

File:

Download Gangchea_Lee_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Neuberger, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Neuberger, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nanyin Zhang, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Saravanan, Pratima

Title:

THE EFFECT OF GEOMETRY, HEMODYNAMICS, AND TISSUE FACTOR ON CLOT FORMATION IN ANEURYSM MODELS

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

aneurysm
hemodynamics
tissue factor
thrombus
wall shear stress
poly (1
8 - octane diol citrate)

File:

Download Pratima_Saravanan_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Yang, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member

Author:

Turrigiano, Antonino Vincent

Title:

A QUANTIFIED METHOD OF DISTINGUISHING PATTERNS IN SESSILE DROPLETS OF WHOLE HUMAN BLOOD

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Sessile drop
Blood
Desiccation
Quantitative analysis
Medical
Diagnostic

File:

Download Final_Thesis.AVT.pdf

Committee Members:

Tak Sing Wong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Pak Kin Wong, Committee Member

Author:

Son, Seoyoung

Title:

THE ROLE OF THE MEMBRANE IN INTEGRIN-MEDIATED ADHESION OF CELLS TO SURFACES

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Integrin
Membrane mechanical Properties
Time-correlated single photon microscopy
Cell adhesion
Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
Optical trap

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Justin Lee Brown, Committee Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Outside Member
Esther Winter Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Roby, Alison C

Title:

The functional connectivity changes in the rat brain following acute and chronic nicotine administration

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

functional connectivity
nicotine addiction
individual difference
acute administration

File:

Download grad_template_final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Nanyin Zhang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
David John Vandenbergh, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Harvey S

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF CELL MORPHOLOGY ON NANOPARTICLE UPTAKE AND UPTAKE AT THE LEADING EDGE IN MC3T3 CELLS

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

cell
cell morphology
nanoparticles
endocytosis
immunostaining
live-cell imaging
MC3T3 cells
microcontact printing
y-27632

File:

Download MASTERS_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Lee Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Xiaojun Lian, Committee Member

Author:

Steltz, Austin E

Title:

THE EFFECT OF MICROFIBER MORPHOLOHY AND CELL DENSITY ON THE LOCALIZATION OF YAP PROTEIN IN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

mesenchymal stem cell
msc
mouse
YAP
Yes Associated Protein
Transduce
Mechanotransduction
biology
biomedical engineering
microfibers
fibers
flat
electrospinning
confluence
cell density

File:

Download Austin_Steltz_Thesis_Graduate_School.pdf

Committee Members:

Justin Lee Brown, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Yong Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Mickolajczyk, Keith Joseph

Title:

MECHANOCHEMICAL BASIS OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY IN THE KINESIN SUPERFAMILY

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Kinesin
iSCAT

File:

Download Thesis_KJM_Final_post_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr. William O. Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. William O. Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr. Justin Brown, Committee Member
Dr. Patrick Drew, Committee Member
Dr. Timothy Jegla, Outside Member