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- 2Gamal El-Din, Mohamed (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
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Biological Treatment of Naphthenic Acids and Other Organic Compounds in Oil Sands Process-Affected Waters
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The Alberta oil sands contain one of the world’s largest reserves of oil - over 169 billion barrels of bitumen are economically recoverable with current extraction technologies. Surface mining, whereby the ore is extricated from the earth and bitumen is obtained via a hot water extraction...
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Genotoxicity and Mutagenicity of Extractable Organics from Oil Sands Process-Affected Water
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Oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) is produced in the surface mining industry during the hot-water extraction of bitumen from oil-sands ore. Its acid extractable organic (AEO) fraction is known to be acutely toxic, but few studies have addressed its genotoxicity or mutagenicity. Here, the in...
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Fall 2018
Desmosomes are large, complex protein assemblies which, at the most fundamental level, facilitate cellular adhesion. On a grander scale, desmosomes, and more specifically desmosomal networks, are critical for the maintenance of tissue integrity. They link the cytoskeletons of adjacent cells...
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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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Turbidity Mitigation in an Oil Sands End Pit Lake through pH Reduction and Fresh Water Addition
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The remediation of oil sands wastes such as fluid fine tailings (FFT) and oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) are of increasing concern in the oil sands industry. End pit lakes are one remediation option currently being researched at commercial scale in Base Mine Lake (BML) operated by...
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Fall 2018
Chloride intracellular channel (CLIC) proteins comprise six members CLIC1–CLIC6 in mammals and mediate functions not fully known. Their founding member was isolated from bovine kidney using the chloride channel inhibitor indanyloxyacetic acid-94, so CLICs were assumed to be typical anion...
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Fall 2018
The continuing use of crude oil and development of the oil industry have resulted in complex hydrocarbon mixtures becoming common environmental contaminants. These contaminants, such as oil sands process affected water (OSPW) and crude oil, are especially of concern in aquatic ecosystems. OSPW...
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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...
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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 2018
Protein kinases are critical players in cell signaling processes and their activity leads to the phosphorylation of substrates, often regulating enzymatic activity. 518 protein kinases are encoded in the human genome, however, there are many features within the catalytic domain of these proteins...