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Author:

Lazzaro, Brian Paul

Title:

A population and quantitative genetic analysis of the Drosophila melanogaster antibacterial immune response

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

Drosophila melanogaster
population genetics
quantitative genetics
innate immunity
antibacterial
SNP
association study
pathogen
bacteria

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephen Wade Schaeffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Whittam, Committee Member
Andrew Clark, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hiroshi Akashi, Committee Member
Diana Lynn Cox Foster, Committee Member

Author:

Wolfe, Daniel N.

Title:

Interactions Between Endemic Bordetella Species and Host Immunity

Graduate Program:

Pathobiology

Keywords:

infectious disease
bacteria
parapertussis
Bordetella
whooping cough

File:

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Committee Members:

Eric Thomas Harvill, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Avery August, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Biao He, Committee Member
Mary J Kennett, Committee Member

Author:

Lascano, Gustavo J.

Title:

OPTIMIZING NUTRIENT UTILIZATION OF A PRECISION FEEDING SYSTEM FOR DAIRY HEIFERS USING LOW AND HIGH FORAGE DIETS

Graduate Program:

Animal Science

Keywords:

Heifers
forage to concentrate ration
fiber
protein degradability
yeast
saccharomyces cerevisiae
slow release urea
starch
soluble fiber
bacteria
microbial protein synthesis

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_GJL.pdf

Committee Members:

Arlyn Judson Heinrichs, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jud Heinrichs, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kevin John Harvatine, Committee Member
Alexander Nikolov Hristov, Committee Member
Robert John Vansaun, Committee Member

Author:

Eigenbrode, Jennifer L

Title:

Late Archean Microbial Ecology: An Integration of Molecular, Isotopic, and Lithologic Studies

Graduate Program:

Earth Sciences

Keywords:

Precambrian
biomarkers
oxygen
bacteria
respiration
methylotrophy
carbon
Hamersley Province
hopanes
steranes
isoprenoids
sulfur
paleoenvironments
marine
anoxia

File:

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Committee Members:

Katherine Haines Freeman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Howard House, Committee Member
Robert David Minard, Committee Member
Mark E Patzkowsky, Committee Member
Roger E Summons, Committee Member

Author:

Gyrya, Vitaliy

Title:

Effective viscosity and dynamics of suspensions of micro-swimmers

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

Stokes
bacteria
microswimmers
effective viscosity
rheology
interactions
self-propulsion

File:

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Committee Members:

Leonid Berlyand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonid Berlyand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Timothy Reluga, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Rojas Alvarado, Claudia Macarena

Title:

Effect of vegetative reclamation on microbial diversity and iron biogeochemistry in acid mine drainage precipitates at a 50-yr-old barrens

Graduate Program:

Soil Science

Keywords:

acid mine drainage
iron oxides
soil microbiology
bacteria
fungi
microbial diversity

File:

Download Rojas_Dissertation_Oct1_2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Maryann Victoria Bruns, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carmen E Martínez, Committee Member
Patrick Joseph Drohan, Committee Member
Sridhar Komarneni, Committee Member
Rachel Alice Brennan, Committee Member

Author:

Closek, Collin John-erik

Title:

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing Reef Health and Coral Diseases through Associated Microbes and Host Response

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

coral reef health
transcriptomics
bacteria
disease dynamics
Caribbean
Central Pacific

File:

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Committee Members:

Monica Medina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Member
Moriah Louise Szpara, Committee Member

Author:

Dannenberg, Richard Pierce

Title:

Characterization and Oil Response of the Deep Sea Coral-associated Microbiome

Graduate Program:

Biology

Keywords:

oil exposure
deep-sea
Leiopathes glaberrima
microbiome
transcriptome
high-throughput sequencing
Illumina
bacteria

File:

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Committee Members:

Iliana Brigitta Baums, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Charles Raymond Fisher Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Feaga, Heather Ann

Title:

RIBOSOME RESCUE IS ESSENTIAL IN BACTERIA AND HUMAN CELLS

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

ribosome rescue
translation
trans-translation
bacteria
mitochondria
Caulobacter crescentus

File:

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Committee Members:

Kenneth Charles Keiler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenneth Charles Keiler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
B Tracy Nixon, Committee Member
Richard John Frisque, Committee Member
Kumble Sandeep Prabhu, Outside Member
Katsuhiko Murakami, Committee Member

Author:

Mazzone, Jennie Diehl

Title:

Responding to growers' needs: Evaluation of management strategies for onion center rot, caused by Pantoea ananatis and Pantoea agglomerans

Graduate Program:

Plant Pathology

Keywords:

onion
Pantoea ananatis
Pantoea agglomerans
center rot
cultivar
nitrogen
transplant
bactericide
management
integrated pest management
Allium cepa
bacteria
disease
Honduras
horticultural production guide
Rhizoctonia solani
tomato
tomato foliar blight
Pennsylvania

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr. Beth K. Gugino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr. María del Mar Jiménez Gasco, Committee Member
Dr. Kari A. Peter, Committee Member
Dr. William Lamont, Jr., Committee Member

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:

Download Dodson_Dissertation2018.pdf

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:

Download SyzygitesThesisJohndeSoto.pdf

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:

Download 20200408_Mainello_thesis.pdf

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:

Download Ms_kz_v3.pdf

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:

Download Asher_Jones_Final_Dissertation.pdf

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

Author:

Hoque, Nushrat

Title:

Allosteric regulation in globin coupled sensor proteins

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

bacteria
oxygen sensing
pectobacterium
signaling

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Committee Members:

Carolee Bull, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Amie Boal, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenneth Knappenberger, Program Head/Chair