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Author:

McManus, John B

Title:

Mechanistic Studies into Bacterial Cellulose Synthesis

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

cellulose
acetobacter
bacteria
enzymology
biochemistry
microbiology

File:

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Committee Members:

Ming Tien, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hemant P Yennawar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Franklin Lewis Dorman Jr., Committee Member
Squire J Booker, Outside Member

Author:

Dodson, Brittany Lee

Title:

IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS: EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF BACTERIA ON MOSQUITO-BORNE VIRUSES

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

mosquito
microbiome
bacteria
viruses
infectious diseases
wolbachia

File:

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Committee Members:

Jason Rasgon, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Rasgon, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Brian Thomas, Committee Member
Kelli Hoover, Committee Member
Marilyn J Roossinck, Outside Member

Author:

De Soto, John G

Title:

Etiology and Epidemiology: Interactions of Syzygites megalocarpus and Agaricus bisporus

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

Syzygites megalocarpus
Mucoromycotan
Agaricus bisporus
button mushroom
commercial Pennsylvania mushroom farm
fungicides
thermal death point
bacteria
Serratia marcescens
zygomycetes

File:

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Committee Members:

John Andrew Pecchia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mainello, Amanda

Title:

Determining the pathogens associated with blackleg and soft rot in select Pennsylvania potato fields

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

bacteria
plant pathogens
potatoes
plant disease
blackleg
soft rot
agriculture
bacterial isolation
bacterial identification
whole genome sequencing
multi-locus sequence analysis
shotgun metagenomics

File:

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Committee Members:

Beth Krueger Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carolee Theresa Bull, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul David Esker, Committee Member
Jasna Kovac, Committee Member
Maria Del Mar Jimenez Gasco, Committee Member
Carolee Theresa Bull, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zhou, Keren

Title:

machine learning-enhanced dynamic laser speckle imaging for rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Antibacterial susceptibility testing
phenotype
bacteria
laser speckle imaging
machine learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Jones, Asher

Title:

Microbe–Herbivore–Natural Enemy Multitrophic Interactions in Agroecosystems

Graduate Program:

Entomology

Keywords:

natural enemy
parasitoid
baculovirus
neonicotinoid
Lepidoptera
tritrophic
plant defenses
bacteria

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Felton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Felton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John Frazier Tooker, Committee Member
Jared Gregory Ali, Committee Member
Terrence Hugh Bell, Outside Member
Kelli Hoover, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kelli Hoover, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Felton, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pflumm, James

Title:

Lipidome comparison between planktonic and polyester-adhered microbes in municipal wastewater operations

Graduate Program:

Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Keywords:

bacteria
microbe
lipid
microplastic
plastic
polyester
PET
pollution
wastewater
sewage
lipidomic
omic

File:

Download 20210720_jspflumm_thesis_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey M Catchmark, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Heather Elise Preisendanz, Committee Member
Paul Heinz Heinemann, Program Head/Chair
Joshua J Kellogg, Committee Member
Naomi S Altman, Committee Member

Author:

De Priest, Miranda

Title:

The effect of environmental heterogeneity on bacteria within an agricultural soil community

Graduate Program:

Ecology

Keywords:

environmental heterogeneity
generalist
specialist
microbe
microbiome
biodiversity
bacteria
soil

File:

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Committee Members:

Terrence Hugh Bell, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Emily R Davenport, Committee Member
Jason Kaye, Program Head/Chair
Michela Centinari, Committee Member
Paul David Esker, Committee Member

Author:

Van Syoc, Emily

Title:

Modulating the gut microbiome in metabolic disease: towards a "whole microbiome" perspective

Graduate Program:

Integrative and Biomedical Physiology

Keywords:

microbiome
type 2 diabetes
metabolic syndrome
probiotics
metformin
mycobiome
fungi
bacteria
bioinformatics
computational biology
physiology

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Committee Members:

Donna Korzick, Program Head/Chair
Erika Ganda, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Connie Rogers, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Istvan Albert, Major Field Member
Laura Weyrich, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Potter, Jacob

Title:

Studying the Structure and Interactions of the Globin-Coupled Sensor in P. carotovorum

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Biochemistry
Microbiology
Molecular Biology
SAXS
Pectobacterium
PccGCS
Diguanylate cyclase
c-di-GMP
cryo-EM
globin
globin coupled sensor
oxygen sensing
structural biology
enzyme
oligomer
domain
signal transduction
bacteria
virulence
cross linking
spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Lorraine Santy, Major Field Member
Scott Showalter, Outside Unit & Field Member
Timothy Miyashiro, Major Field Member
Timothy Meredith, Major Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair
Emily Weinert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor