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Author:: McGraw, Adam Philip
Title:: Protein-RNA interactions involved in regulation of the tryptophan biosynthesis operon (trpEDCFBA) in Bacillus subtilis
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: protein-RNA interactions
mRNA stability
TRAP
RNA structure
File:: Download AM_thesis_FINAL-2-101008.pdf
Committee Members:: Paul Lee Babitzke, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Charles Keiler, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member

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Author:: Oh, Hyung Suk
Title:: INSIGHT INTO POLIOVIRUS GENOME REPLICATION AND ENCAPSIDATION REVEALED FROM MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF 3B-3C CLEAVAGE SITE MUTANTS
Graduate Program:: Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology
Keywords:: cleavage site mutant
polyprotein processing
replication
poliovirus
complementation
File:: Download Oh_Dissertation_111809.pdf
Committee Members:: Craig Eugene Cameron, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Craig Eugene Cameron, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth Charles Keiler, Committee Member
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Joseph C. Reese, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Schweiker, Katrina Lynn
Title:: Computational Design and Experimental Characterization of Proteins with Increased Stability and Solubility
Graduate Program:: Integrative Biosciences
Keywords:: protein stability
protein engineering
computational design
protein folding
File:: Download KLSfinal.pdf
Committee Members:: George Makhatadze, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George I Makhatadze, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Judith S Bond, Committee Member
Thomas E Spratt, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member

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Author:: Levine, Lauren Aimee
Title:: Demonstrating the versatility of the iDNA scaffold: New synthetic strategies and applications
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: artifical peptides
metal-binding
File:: Download LaurenFinalThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Mary Elizabeth Williams, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Elizabeth Williams, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
John H Golbeck, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Kumarasiri, Malika Dhananjaya
Title:: Anharmonic Effects of Small Clusters of Molecules and Ranking Activity of Protein Mutants
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Molecular Dynamics
Mutant Studies
File:: Download Thesis_mdk.pdf
Committee Members:: Prof Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Will Castleman, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
James David Kubicki, Committee Member

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Author:: Santillo, Michael
Title:: Microfluidic systems for high-throughput single-cell assays
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Microfluidics
lab-on-a-chip
confocal
fluorescence
cell assay
bioanalytical chemistry
computational fluid dynamics
CFD
PDMS
File:: Download mf_santillo_dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Andrew Ewing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Andrew Ewing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Rummel, Sheryl Ann
Title:: DESIGN, SYNTHESIS, AND EVALUATION OF SYNTHETIC MIMICS OF CELL SURFACE RECEPTORS
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: synthetic receptors
VEGF
calixarene
vancomycin
File:: Download SAR_ThesisMaster.pdf
Committee Members:: Blake R Peterson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott T Phillips, Committee Member
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Avery August, Committee Member

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