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Author:: Agnihotri, Aashiish
Title:: MOLECULAR LEVEL INTERACTIONS BETWEEN BLOOD COMPONENTS AND MODEL BIOMATERIALS STUDIED BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Biomaterials
Fibrinogen
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
Blood Material Interactions
Integrins
File:: Download Agnihotri-PhD-thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Christopher Alan Siedlecki, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
Erwin A Vogler, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Bruce Ernest Logan, Committee Member

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Author:: Kwang, Chong haw
Title:: CHEMOKINES FROM MELANOMA UPREGULATE MMP2 WITHIN THE TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: melanoma
MMP
File:: Download Chong_Haw_Kwang_Ms_Thesis_final_draft.pdf
Committee Members:: Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Berardi, Danielle Elizabeth
Title:: Effects of Simultaneous Wall Shear Stress and Circumferential Strain on Endothelial Cell Junctions
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: junctions
endothelial cells
circumferential strain
wall shear stress
stress phase angle
File:: Download dberardi_phd_2009.pdf
Committee Members:: John Michael Tarbell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter J Butler / John M Tarbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Herbert Herling Lipowsky, Committee Member
David A Antonetti, Committee Member
Cheng Dong, Committee Member

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Author:: Muddana, Hari Shankar
Title:: Molecular scale spectroscopy and simulation of stressed lipid bilayers
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: lipid bilayers
molecular dynamics
fluorescence spectroscopy
membranes
File:: Download Muddana_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member

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Author:: Peng, Hsin-Hsin
Title:: INTERCELLULAR AND INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING DURING LEUKOCYTE-MEDIATED MELANOMA CELL TRANSENDOTHELIAL MIGRATION
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: cancer
signaling
adherens junction
chemokine
extravasation
cytokine
File:: Download thesis_HHP.pdf
Committee Members:: Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Andrew Thomas Henderson, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Avery August, Committee Member

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Author:: Dangaria, Jhanvi H.
Title:: MECHANISMS OF SHEAR-INDUCED ADAPTIVE RHEOLOGY IN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: mechanotransduction
particle tracking
viscoelasticity
atherosclerosis
cell mechanics
File:: Download Dangaria_JH_PhD_2008.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Member

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Author:: Gao, Lujia
Title:: COMPOSITION OF THE ENDOTHELIAL GLYCOCALYX AND ITS EFFECT ON TRANSVASCULAR EXCHANGE OF SMALL SOLUTES
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: Glycocalyx
Inflammation
Glycosaminoglycan
File:: Download Dissertation_Lujia_Gao_2010.pdf
Committee Members:: Herbert Herling Lipowsky, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Herbert Herling Lipowsky, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Cheng Dong, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Andrew Zydney, Committee Member

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Author:: Hoskins, Meghan E
Title:: Development of a Computational Fluid Dynamics Tool to Explore the Interactions between Cancer Cells and Leukocytes
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: computational fluid dynamics
cell adhesion
neutrophils
melanoma
computational structural mechanics
File:: Download Hoskins-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Francis Kunz, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Keefe B Manning, Committee Member
Andrea Marie Mastro, Committee Member

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Author:: Slattery, Margaret June
Title:: Neutrophil-mediated Melanoma Adhesion and Migration in Shear Flow
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: polymorphonuclear leukocytes
cancer
beta2-integrin
ICAM-1
interleukin-8
File:: Download SlatteryMJ_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Cheng Dong, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Committee Member
Andrew Thomas Henderson, Committee Member

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Author:: Yu, Qianru
Title:: Multimodal microspectroscopy for noninvasive, quantitative, and multiscale studies of biological systems
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: two-photon
FLIM
mitochondria
microscopy
FCS
File:: Download masterThesis_yu.pdf
Committee Members:: Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ahmed A Heikal, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Cheng Dong, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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