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Author:

Mercer, Jason Chance

Title:

3,5-BISTRIFLUOROMETHYL PYRAZOLE (BTP) COMPOUNDS AND REGULATION OF STORE-OPERATED CALCIUM CHANNELS BY THE ACTIN-BINDING PROTEIN DREBRIN

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

calcium
store-operated channel
CRAC
BTP
actin
cytoskeleton
drug

File:

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Committee Members:

Avery August, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pamela Hankey Giblin, Committee Member
Richard John Frisque, Committee Member
Andrew Thomas Henderson, Committee Member
Blake R Peterson, Committee Member

Author:

Cichon, Joseph Michael

Title:

Cofilin Rods And Neurodegeneration

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

cofilin
actin
LIM kinase
cytoskeleton
synapse

File:

Download JosephCichon-MastersThesis-2009-Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Gong Chen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gong Chen, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard Luscher, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yao, Jun

Title:

FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN ACTIN IN SYNAPSE MATURATION AND PLASTICITY

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

actin
activity
synaptic platicity
presynaptic
silent synapse
hippocampus

File:

Download Yao_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Gong Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard W Ordway, Committee Member
Zhi Chun Lai, Committee Member
Si Qiong Liu, Committee Member
Pamela J Mitchell, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Shengli

Title:

Regulation of serum response factor activation by the B cell antigen receptor

Graduate Program:

Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

BCR
NFAT
Ca2+
DAG
actin
IP3R
Lyn
Syk
Btk
PLCg
ERK
BCR signal
SRF

File:

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Committee Members:

Avery August, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Paulson, Committee Member
Andrew Thomas Henderson, Committee Member
Pamela Hankey Giblin, Committee Member
Sally Johnson, Committee Member

Author:

Jamis, Lina

Title:

A Silent Symphony: Unconventional Myosin 3a and Human Hereditary Hearing Loss

Graduate Program:

Anatomy

Keywords:

myosin
MYO3A
stereocilia
Espin1
filopodia
actin
switch I
G488E

File:

Download PSU_thesis_LJ_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Martin Yengo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alistair J Barber, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sarah Bronson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Pfaff, Sarah

Title:

Unraveling Plant Cell Wall Assembly: From Cellulose Synthesis and Xylan Patterning to Lignification

Graduate Program:

Plant Biology

Keywords:

plant cell wall
cellulose
xylan
lignin
microscopy
cryoEM
X-ray scattering
NMR
CBM
cellulose synthase
xylem vessels
primary cell wall
secondary cell wall
cryoET
microtubules
actin
golgi
protoplasts
FIB milling
tomography

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Committee Members:

Ying Gu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Daniel Cosgrove, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gabriele Monshausen, Major Field Member
Teh-Hui Kao, Program Head/Chair
B Nixon, Major Field Member

Author:

Cirilo, Joseph

Title:

The Role of Class III Myosins in Actin Protrusion Length Regulation

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

myosin
actin
actin cytoskeleton
actin protrusion
filopodia
stereocilia
molecular motor
MYO3A
cell biology

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Committee Members:

Thomas Spratt, Major Field Member
Christopher Yengo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maria Bewley, Outside Unit Member
Lisa Shantz, Program Head/Chair
Nikolay Dokholyan, Outside Field Member

Author:

Hylton, Ryan

Title:

Cofilactin Bundling in Neurodevelopment and Degeneration

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

cryo-EM
cryo-ET
tomography
growth cones
cofilin
actin
cofilactin
filopodia
fluorescence microscopy
cofilin-actin rods

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Committee Members:

David Degraff, Outside Unit & Field Member
Kirsteen Browning, Major Field Member
Kent Vrana, Co-Chair of Committee
Matthew Swulius, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christopher Yengo, Major Field Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair