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Author:

Weiner, Alexis

Title:

Dendritic Microtubule Polarity is Maintained by Kinesin-2 Steering and Positioning of Nucleation Sites by Endosomal Wnt Signaling Proteins

Graduate Program:

Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Biosciences

Keywords:

neurons
microtubules
nucleation
APC2
gTub
dendrite

File:

Download Dissertation_AW.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melissa Rolls, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy J Jegla, Committee Member
Lorraine C Santy, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Outside Member
Melissa Rolls, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fleeman, Rebecca

Title:

Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Conveyed by Apolipoprotein E ε4: Immunometabolism and the Brain-Body Connection

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Sciences

Keywords:

immunometabolism
alzheimer's disease
APOE4
cytokine signaling
multivariate modeling
neurodegeneration
aging
astrocytes
neurons

File:

Download Fleeman_Dissertation_2023.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Mailman, Outside Field Member
Elizabeth Proctor, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yongsoo Kim, Major Field Member
Amy Arnold, Outside Unit Member
Ralph Keil, Program Head/Chair
Kent Vrana, Co-Chair of Committee

Author:

Govindarajan, Maalavika

Title:

Mechanisms that influence microtubule nucleation machinery localization in Drosophila melanogaster dendritic branchpoints

Graduate Program:

Neuroscience

Keywords:

microtubule
nucleation
Drosophila melanogaster
neurons
dendritic branchpoints
cytoskeleton
cell biology
confocal microscopy

File:

Download MS_Thesis-_PSU-Final-_Maalavika_Govindarajan.pdf

Committee Members:

Melissa Rolls, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aimin Liu, Committee Member
Sonia Cavigelli, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
William O Hancock, Committee Member