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Spring 2021
Splicing is an essential step in the post-transcriptional modification of pre-mRNAs in eukaryotes. This process is catalyzed by the spliceosome, a multi-megadalton nuclear protein-RNA enzyme which excises non-coding sequence from RNA transcripts prior to translation. Deficient or improper...
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Fall 2015
One of the major challenges of broadband cellular systems is delivering high data rates to the users, especially those at the cell edges. In this thesis, transceiver designs and scheduling algorithms for enhancing cell-edge user experience in emerging and future broadband wireless cellular...
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Fall 2014
The oil sands landscape in northern Alberta is interspersed with large tailings ponds that hold wastewater from bitumen mining and extraction processes. Recent monitoring results indicate that annually many thousands of birds, mostly migrating waterfowl, land on the ponds associated with this...
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Spring 2020
Calcium homeostasis is essential and central to a variety of cellular processes from cell life and death pathways to metabolism to muscle contraction. One component that is essential to intracellular calcium regulation is known as the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca-ATPase, or SERCA. SERCA...
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Fall 2021
Caspases are a family of enzymes that regulate biological processes, such as inflammation and programmed cell death, through proteolysis. For example, in the intrinsic pathway of apoptosis, cell death signaling involves cytochrome c release from the mitochondria, which leads to the activation of...
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Individual Life Histories in Long-Term Culture Change: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Northern Eurasia
2017-10-31
SSHRC PG awarded 2018: Although 99% of human history has been lived as foragers, little is known about the contributions and experiences of individuals in hunter-gatherer groups and their role in long-term patterns of culture diversity, change, stability and resilience. We will examine these...
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2016-06-22
Jia, Feng, Howlader, Md. Amran, Cairo, Christopher W.
Integrins are critical receptors in cell migration and adhesion. A number of mechanisms are known to regulate the function of integrins, including phosphorylation, conformational change, and cytoskeletal anchoring. We investigated whether native neuraminidase (Neu, or sialidase) enzymes which...
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Pyranopterin Coordination Controls Molybdenum Electrochemistry in Escherichia coli Nitrate Reductase
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Molybdenum is an essential trace element for most species on the earth. Molybdoenzymes (enzymes containing Molybdenum) play diverse roles in human health, global geochemical cycles, and bacterial metabolism. Interestingly, nitrate reductase (NarGHI) isolated from the common gut bacterium...