This decommissioned ERA site remains active temporarily to support our final migration steps to https://ualberta.scholaris.ca, ERA's new home. All new collections and items, including Spring 2025 theses, are at that site. For assistance, please contact erahelp@ualberta.ca.
Search
Skip to Search Results- 1Ahmad,Nusrat
- 1Alizadeh, Saeid
- 1Curtis Pahara, Donna
- 1Gusnowski, E.M.
- 1Nguyen, Linh M
- 1Patel, Khushali
-
Spring 2023
The human placental surface is lined by a giant multinucleate epithelial cell – the syncytiotrophoblast (ST). The ST acts a maternal-fetal interface and aids in the exchange of gas, nutrient exchange, and acts as a transient endocrine organ. This ST layer is formed and maintained by the...
-
Fall 2022
To form tissue networks, animal cells migrate and interact through proteins protruding from their plasma membranes. Plant cells can do neither, yet plants form vein networks. How plants do so is unclear, but the prevailing hypothesis proposes that GNOM — a regulator of vesicle formation in...
-
Effect of adsorbate’s polarity, steric hindrance, aromaticity, and boiling point on competitive adsorption in a multi-staged countercurrent fluidized bed reactor using activated carbon and zeolite
DownloadFall 2022
Understanding the multi-component adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is of essential importance for real-world engineering applications. Various properties of VOCs can affect their competitive adsorption when there is a mixture of these compounds in the process stream. This thesis...
-
Evolution of the sponge body plan: Wnt and the development of polarity in freshwater sponges
DownloadSpring 2014
Body polarity is a fundamental aspect of all multicellular organisms. Metazoans – animals – are monophyletic, but is body polarity homologous among all phyla? Sponges are considered to have branched off first from other animals and therefore studies of polarity formation in the simple sponge body...
-
Mapping and characterization of mel-43(sb41), a gene required for early embryonic viability in C. elegans
DownloadSpring 2010
A genetic screen for dominant, temperature-sensitive, maternal-effect embryonic lethal mutations identified mel-43(sb41), a gene required for early embryonic viability (Mitenko et al., 1997). Linkage mapping placed mel-43 within a small region on chromosome IV. Genetic analyses suggested that...
-
Spring 2022
Owing to a large number of applications, starting from pharmaceutical packaging to advancement in nanotechnology and microfluidic devices, wetting characteristics has always been regarded as an essential prerequisite for many phenomenal processes. In the present time, the term ‘wetting’ is not...
-
Visualization of dynein-dependent microtubule gliding at the cell cortex: implications for spindle positioning
Download2011
Dynein motors move along the microtubule (MT) lattice in a processive “walking” manner. In the one-cell Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, dynein is required for spindle-pulling forces during mitosis. Posteriorly directed spindle-pulling forces are higher than anteriorly directed forces, and this...