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Author:

Ruebush, Shane Stanton

Title:

Biochemical Characterization of Membrane Proteins in Shewanella oneidensis involved in dissimilatory iron reduction

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

Shewanella oneidensis
membrane proteins
biochemistry
dissimilatory iron reduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Ming Tien, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Member
Jean Elnora Brenchley, Committee Member
Teh Hui Kao, Committee Member

Author:

Gaskin, Byron Jerrod

Title:

Coupled Flow-Biochemistry Simulations of Dynamic Systems of Blood Cells

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

computational fluid dynamics
CFD
stokes flow
blood cells
6DOF
six degrees-of-freedom
biochemistry

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Francis Kunz, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Brent Craven, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

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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:

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:

Blaszczyk, Anthony J

Title:

IN VITRO STUDIES OF CLASS B METHYLASES, AN ELUSIVE CLASS OF COBALAMIN-DEPENDENT RADICAL SAM ENZYMES

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

enzyme
cobalamin
s-adenosylmethionine
radical sam
protein purification
biochemistry
mechanistic enzymology
methylation
Class B methylase
TsrM
Fom3
PhpK

File:

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Committee Members:

Squire J Booker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Squire J Booker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Member

Author:

Usher, Emery

Title:

Examination of the many regulatory roles of intrinsically disordered proteins

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology (PHD)

Keywords:

intrinsically disordered proteins
nuclear magnetic resonance
NMR
thermodynamics
biochemistry
biophysics
transcription
regulation
phosphorylation
proteins

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Committee Members:

David Gilmour, Major Field Member
Scott Showalter, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Song Tan, Major Field Member
Scott Lindner, Outside Unit Member
Amie Boal, Outside Field Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Palowitch, Gavin

Title:

Structural basis for diverse metallocofactor usage in class I ribonucleotide reductases from bacterial pathogens

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

ribonucleotide reductase
RNR
metallocofactor
bacterial pathogens
biochemistry
bioinorganic chemistry
class I
iron
manganese
tyrosyl radical
radical chemistry
PCET

File:

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Committee Members:

Amie Kathleen Boal, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Amie Kathleen Boal, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph M Bollinger, Jr., Committee Member
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Manuel Llinas, Outside Member
Squire J Booker, Committee Member
Wendy Hanna-Rose, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mcbride, Molly Jo

Title:

Structural Basis for Cofactor Assembly in the Novel Heme-Oxygenase-Like Diiron Oxygenase Superfamily

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

diiron oxygenase
x-ray crystallography
cofactor instability
biochemistry
metalloenzymes
heme-oxygenase-like diiron oxygenases
HDOs

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Committee Members:

Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Amie Boal, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
C Okafor, Outside Unit & Field Member
Carsten Krebs, Major Field Member
Joseph Bollinger, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Zaniewski, Taylor

Title:

Chemomechanical Characterization of the Superprocessive Kinesin-3 KIF1A

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

kinesin
enzyme kinetics
single molecule
biochemistry
biophysics

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
William Hancock, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tae-Hee Lee, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Co-Chair of Committee
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Patterson, Dayna

Title:

Characterization of a bifunctional globin coupled sensor protein

Graduate Program:

Chemistry (PHD)

Keywords:

heme
bacterial signalling
gas sensing
biochemistry
c-di-GMP
pGpG

File:

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Committee Members:

Timothy Mcnellis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joseph Cotruvo, Major Field Member
Squire Booker, Major Field Member
Emily Weinert, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair