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Author:

Creek, John Aubrey

Title:

Nanoscale Self-Assembly of Starch: Phase Relations, Formation, and Structure

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

starch
amylose
phase separation
crystallization
spherulites
self-assembly

File:

Download JACThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

James Patrick Runt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gregory Ray Ziegler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Nicole Robitaille Brown, Committee Member

Author:

Mountain, Gregory

Title:

Diversifying Interaction Types in Multi-Compartment Models for Intracellular Organization

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Liquid-Liquid phase separation
phase separation
coacervate
complex coacervate
membraneless organelle
cellular condensate
phase
granule
liquid phase
polyelectrolyte
ITC
isothermal titration calorimetry
fluorescent labeling

File:

Download Final_Thesis_GMountain_March_27_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Scott Eugene Lindner, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Pir Cakmak, Fatma

Title:

UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSITION FROM NON-LIVING TO LIVING: CHARACTERIZATION OF PROTOCELL SYSTEMS BASED ON AQUEOUS PHASE COEXISTENCE

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

phase separation
coacervate
protocell
artificial cell models

File:

Download Thesis_March_10_Final-_fixed__.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Paul S Cremer, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Poitras, Haley

Title:

Measuring the water activity of ternary aerosol systems and generating phase diagrams for sub micron aerosol particles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Water activity
phase separation

File:

Download Poitras_Haley_Thesis_for_Submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Miriam Arak Freedman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Scott A Showalter, Committee Member
Kenneth James Davis, Committee Member

Author:

Graff, Erica

Title:

The Study of Protein and Polymer Phase Separation Kinetics and Thermodynamics Using Temperature Gradient Microfluidics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

phase separation
monoclonal antibodies
temperature gradient microfluidics
apparent activation energies

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Committee Members:

Paul Cremer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Philip Bevilacqua, Major Field Member
Alexey Silakov, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member
Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Lee, James

Title:

Mechanistic Study Of Methionine Related Genes And Their Regulation In Budding Yeast

Graduate Program:

Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology

Keywords:

phase separation
biomolecular condensates
3D genome organization
transcription factories
chromatin hubs
gene clusters

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Committee Members:

Joseph Reese, Major Field Member
Lu Bai, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Santhosh Girirajan, Program Head/Chair
Marina Feric, Major Field Member
Janine Kwapis, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jean-Paul Armache, Major Field Member

Author:

Crowe, Charles

Title:

Aqueous Phase Separation within Water-in-Oil Emulsions as Cellular Models

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

liquid-liquid phase separation
phase separation
microfluidics
neutral polymer phase separation
emulsion
water-in-oil
coacervation
bioinspired
artificial cell
microscopy
droplet

File:

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Committee Members:

Philip Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair
Paul Cremer, Major Field Member
Peter Butler, Outside Unit & Field Member
Scott Showalter, Major Field Member
Christine Keating, Chair & Dissertation Advisor