Dissertations from 2023
Dissecting Ubiquitin Chain Editing Mechanisms of Deubiquitinating Enzymes Enabled by Linkage-Specific di-Ubiquitin Probes, Tomaya Carpenter
Development of Point-Of-Care Assays to Detect Biologically Relevant Analytes, Tianwei Jia
Quantum Chemical and QM/MM Calculations on Flavin and Flavin-Binding Fluorescent Proteins, Mohammad Pabel Kabir
Analyzing Undergraduate Problem Solving in Proton NMR: A Comprehensive Examination and Assessment Tool for Conceptual Understanding, Sujani Kariyawasam Gamage
Blackberry Consumption Protects Against E-Cigarette-Induced Vascular Oxidative Stress, Maureen Meister
Raspberry Polyphenols Target Molecular Pathways of Heart Failure, Rami Najjar
Rational Design and Synthesis of NIR Dyes for Biomedical Imaging, Md Shamim
Leveraging Chemical Tools for Improving Therapeutic Delivery of Carbon Monoxide and Potency of Anthraquinone-based MDM2 Inhibitors, Ravi Tripathi
Dissertations from 2022
Rational Design Of Small Bioprobes For Biomedical Applications, Emmanuel Ramsey Buabeng
Applications of Capillary Electrochromatography-mass spectrometry: Method Development and validation of Kynurenine Pathway Metabolites Analyses in Human Plasma and Characterization of Hydrophilic Interactions with Performance Evaluation in CEC Based Monolithic Stationary Phases, A S M Mojibur Rahaman Chawdhury
Revealing Plasmonic Coupling of Gold Nanoparticles on a Mirror Using Spectromicroscopy, Seth Filbrun
Chemical Biology Tools for Probing Protein Glycosylation and Ubiquitination Pathways, Xuan Fu
The Importance of Fitting In: Investigating the Role of Protein Dynamics in DNA Sequence Specificity, Kenneth Huang
Profiling Substrates of HECT and RBR Type E3 Ligases by Orthogonal Ubiquitin Transfer Cascade, Ruochuan Liu
Single Molecule Fluorescence Imaging of Nanoconfinement in Porous Materials, Nourhan Mansour
Water Use Patterns of a Riparian Forest in a Humid Subtropical Catchment in the Southeastern United States, Jeffrey Riley
Defining and Describing the Complex Nature of Undergraduates’ Chemistry-Specific Mindset Beliefs, Deborah L. Santos
Probing the Regulatory Role of Allostery via Protein Dynamics of Biological Systems, Michael G. Souffrant
Dissertations from 2021
Characterization of the Contributions of Hydration in Protein-DNA Specificity via Structurally Conserved ETS Family Transcription Factors PU.1 and Ets-1, Amanda V. Albrecht
Chemistry of a Dehydrogenase and Di-heme Enzyme Related to Tryptophan Oxidation, Christopher Ian Davis
Integration of Calcium Signaling by Dynamically Tuned Calcium Indicators and Calcium Sensing Receptor, Xiaonan Deng
Glycopeptide Preparation and Application for Alzheimer?s Diagnostics and Influenza Immunization, Christopher Gibbons
Characterizing Novel Filovirus Proteins and 3-Deazaneplanocin A Derivatives as Antivirals against Non-Segmented Negative Sense RNA Viruses, Joyce Sweeney Gibbons
Methods for Dynamical Analysis of Biomolecular Mechanisms in Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Ka Chun Ho
Development and Optimization of a Human Collagen-Targeted Protein-based MRI Contrast Agent for Early Detection of Chronic Human Diseases, Oluwatosin Ibhagui
Structural and Mechanistic Investigation of D-Arginine Dehydrogenase and L-Arginine Dehydrogenase from Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Archana Iyer
A reporter platform for characterizing transcription factor-DNA interactions in live cells, Hye Mi Kim
Kinetic Studies and Investigation of Active Site Loop Dynamics in a Flavin-Dependent Enzyme, D-Arginine Dehydrogenase, Daniel Ouedraogo
Improving Potency of Existing Drugs: From Developing Bacterial Sensitizers for Existing Antimicrobials Towards Multi-Drug Resistant Strains to Targeting Cancer Drugs to the Mitochondria, Manjusha Roy Choudhury
Structure And Function Of Viral RNA-Host Protein Interactions Among Flaviviruses, Jessica Siemer
The CD98 is a Potential Target for Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Treatments, Heliang Song
Utilizing Molecular Probes to Examine Protein Structure-Function Relationships, James Terrell
Dissertations from 2020
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver and Hepatocarcimona Attenuation by Specific CD98 Down-Regulation Via Nanovectors, Brandon S. Canup
Caging Carbon Monoxide For Therapeutic Applications And Carbonylation Reactions, Ladie Kimberly C. De La Cruz
Computational Investigations of Biomolecular Mechanisms in Genomic Replication, Repair and Transcription, Thomas Dodd
Characterization of self-regulatory mechanisms and internal dynamics of ETS transcription factor PU.1, Shingo Esaki
Student Understanding in Acid-Base Concepts in Chemistry: Conceptualization from General Chemistry II through Biochemistry, Nancy A. Kilpatrick
Development of Point-of-Care Assays for Different Biologically Relevant Analytes, Dandan Liu
Regulation Of Cardiovascular Homeostasis By Autophagy, Jing Mu
Unveiling the Polymerase Complex of Negative Stranded RNA Viruses, Chelsea Severin
Chemoenzymatic synthesis of glycoconjugates and their applications, Shuaishuai Wang
What Controls the Controller: Structure and Function Characterizations of Transcription Factor PU.1 Uncover Its Regulatory Mechanism, Suela Xhani Georgia State University
Development of Multiscale Spectro-microscopic Imaging System and Its Applications, Fei Zhao
Dissertations from 2019
Design and Synthesis of Anticancer Agents by Targeting p53 Degradation and Photodynamic Therapy, Abiodun Anifowose
From Discovery to Implementation of Organic Chemistry Learning Models in Secondary and Post-Secondary Classrooms, Joy Ballard
Binding Modes and Near Infrared Photo Cleavage of DNA by Pentamethine Bridged Phenanthridinium and Quinolinium Carbocyanine Dyes, Kanchan Basnet
Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorescent Silica Nanoparticles with Large Stokes Shifts for Multiplexed Assays and Imaging, Gala M. Chapman
Footprint of Calcium on Regulation of Extracellular Calcium-Sensing Receptor and Connexin26, Rakshya Gorkhali
Monitoring Subcellular Calcium by Designed Calcium Sensors and the Calcium Sensing Receptor Structure and Function, Cassandra Miller
Development of Organic Carbon Monoxide prodrugs, Zhixiang Pan
Effects Of Different Halide Salts On DNA Photocleavage By 9-aminomethylanthracene Dyes, Mohammad Sadegh Safiarian
Development of Chemokine Receptor 4 Targeted MRI Contrast Agent for the Precision MRI Imaging of Cancer and Metastasis, Shanshan Tan
From Macro to Micro: The Biophysical Importance of Nucleic Acids and Their Interactive Partners, Tam Vo
Fully Automated Enzymatic Synthesis of Glycans, Jiabin Zhang
Profiling Ubiquitin Chain Specificity and Topology Using Di-ubiquitin Probes, Han Zhou
Mass Spectrometry-based Glycoprotein Characterization, He Zhu
Dissertations from 2018
Mechanistic Studies on D-arginine Dehydrogenase and Functional Annotation of a Novel NADH:quinone Oxidoreductase (PA1024), Jacob A. Ball
Modeling And Experiments Of Electroosmotic Flow Effects On The Ion Transport In Nanopipettes, Warren D. Brown
Insights into the Association of Proteins and Small Molecules with the Minor Groove of DNA, Emma Kathleen Carter
Synthetic Glycans Analogues for the Precise Point-of-care Detection of Pathogens, Xikai Cui
Design and development of small molecule based biosensors for detection of pathogens, Amrita Das
Structure, Function and Potential Application Studies of Selenium Substituted Nucleic Acids, Ziyuan Fang
Structure-Function Relationships of the Nucleocapsid in Vesicular Stomatitis Virus, Ryan Gumpper
Understanding the Recognition of Mixed Sequence DNA through Minor Groove Binding Compounds, Narinder Kaur Harika
Small Molecule Inhibitors of G9A And HDAC for Targeted Cancer Therapy and DNA Encoded Glycan Library (DEGL) For Early Detection of Cancer, Shukkoor Muhammed kondengaden
Characterizing the Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Monolayer-Protected Noble Metal Nanoclusters, Jonathan W. Padelford
Late Quaternary East African Environmental Change based on Mineralogical and Geochemical Analysis of Outcrop and Core Material from the Southern Kenya Rift, Nathan Rabideaux
Integrating Protein Dynamics And Enhanced Conformational Ensembles To Better Understand Their Role In Biomolecular Function, Isela Rodriguez-Bussey
Development of Novel Collagen-targeted Protein-based MRI Contrast Agent for Imaging of Chronic Liver and Heart Diseases, Mani Salarian
Enzymatic Synthesis of Common Sugar Nucleotide and Therapeutic Oligosaccharides, Cong Xiao
Glycosylation: Function, Synthesis and Application, Hailiang Zhu
Dissertations from 2017
Using Different Analytical Techniques and Synthetically Tailored Silica Nanoparticles in Drug Separations and Hydrophobicity-Based Detection Applications, Walid Abdelwahab
Assessing Organic Chemistry Students? Understanding Of Chemical Bonding Concepts and their Perception of a Project-based Lab, Nikita L. Burrows
Heme Iron Catalysis: Contrast to Non-Heme Iron Enzymes, Kednerlin Dornevil
Characterization of Nucleic Acids and Nucleic Acid Binding Proteins Using NMR, Marina Evich
Synthesis, Development, and Exploration of Two Small Molecule Scaffolds Toward Discovery of Novel and Potent Inhibitors of the Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1 Pathway, Jalisa H. Ferguson
Design, Synthesis and Analysis of Small Molecule Heterocyclic Aromatic-Based CXCR4 Modulators, Theresa D. Gaines
Computational Investigations of Biomolecular Motions and Interactions in Genomic Maintenance and Regulation, Bradley R. Kossmann
Synthesis of Various Classes of Cyanine Fluorophores and Their Application In In Vivo Tissue Imaging, Andrew R. Levitz
Comprehensive Glycoproteomics and Glycomics Study of N-Linked Glycans and N-Glycoproteins, Xu Li