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Chemistry Graduate Student Research

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Photophysical Characterization and Wavelength Tuning of Natural and Synthetic Oxobacteriochlorins and Biohybrids, Don Hood

Radiolabeled Nanohydroxyapatite as a Platform for the Development of New PET Imaging Agents, Stacy Lee Queern

Biosynthesis and Biological Activity of Nonribosomal Peptide Beta-Lactones, Jason Earl Schaffer

Tau monomer encodes Strains, Apurwa Sharma

Synthesis and Integration of Oligoviologens into Hydrogel Actuators, Kevin Liles

Building on Nature: Spectroscopic Studies of Photosynthesis-Inspired Pigments, Fused Light Harvesting Proteins, and Bacterial Reaction Center Mutants, Kaitlyn Faries

Spin Alignment Generated in Inelastic Nuclear Reactions, Daniel Hoff

An NMR Study of CO2 Dynamics and Structural Characterization of Porous Materials, Robert M. Marti

Instrumentation for Cryogenic Dynamic Nuclear Polarization and Electron Decoupling in Rotating Solids, Faith Joellen Scott

Polarizable Force Field Development, and Applications to Conformational Sampling and Free Energy Calculation, Zhi Wang

Development of LC-MS for the Identification and characterization of non-adjacent DNA Photoproduct Formation in G-quadruplex Forming Sequences, Claudia Posadas

Mapping Sterol Binding Sites in Integral Membrane Proteins using Mass Spectrometry, Melissa Marie Budelier

Defining Motor Neuron-Enriched microRNAs Reveals Novel Biomarkers and Genetic Causes of Motor Neuron Disease and Uncovers New Mechanisms of Glial Dysfunction in ALS, Mariah Lawler Hoye

Marburg Virus is Not Ebola Virus: Biochemical and Structural Insights into Mechanisms of Immune Evasion, Britney Johnson

Mass Spectrometry-based Strategies for Protein Characterization: Amyloid Formation, Protein-Ligand Interactions and Structures of Membrane Proteins in Live Cells, Ke Li

Effect of DNA Sequence Context, DNA structure, and Excitation Method on Cyclobutane Pyrimidine Dimer Formation, Chen Lu

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

New Ventures in Amidine-Based Catalyst Design, Nicholas Alan Ahlemeyer

Characterization of ZIP genes responsible for zinc homeostasis in C. elegans, Nicholas Dietrich

Redox Chemistry of Late Transition Metal Complexes, Kei Fuchigami

The Chemistry and Biology of Iron-Scavenging Natural Products from Pathogenic Acinetobacter baumannii, Justin Shapiro

Synthesis, characterization, and biological activity of spherical nucleic acid (SNA) constructs for cancer therapy and imaging, Colin Calabrese

MRI in Cancer: Improving Methodology for Measuring Vascular Properties and Assessing Radiation Treatment Effects in Brain, Chong Duan

Mass Spectrometry-based Structural Proteomics: Methodology and Application of Fast Photochemical Oxidation of Proteins (FPOP), Ben Niu

Novel Insights into Yersiniabactin Biosynthesis in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli, Shannon Ileen Ohlemacher

DNA Replication Challenges: Telomeres and R loops, Shankar Parajuli