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Fall 2022
Biofouling is a serious problem in the medical, marine, and several other industrial fields as it poses significant health risks and financial losses. Therefore, there is a great need to endow surfaces with antifouling and antimicrobial properties to mitigate biofouling. For long-term biofouling...
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Characterization of the Type VI Secretion System in the Bacterial Pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections are a mounting concern for healthcare systems globally. Multidrug resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii has emerged as a common cause of nosocomial infections, and some isolates are now pandrug resistant. These infections can...
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Characterizing the Mesolimbic Dopamine Reward Pathway in a Magel2-null Mouse, a Model of Prader-Willi Syndrome
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Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) is a genetic disorder characterized by extreme hyperphagia that can lead to severe obesity. The abnormal motivation to eat in PWS suggests a disruption in the hedonic feeding pathway, which is feeding based on reward as opposed to physiological need. Hedonic feeding is...
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Corynebacterium glutamicum: A Platform For Studying Actinobacterial Protein-O-Mannosylation And High-Yield Heterologous Protein Production
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Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032 is a generally regarded as safe (GRAS) soil actinobacterium that is widely utilized in industry and was originally used for the large-scale production of amino acids. Through both genetic and metabolic engineering, the organism has been developed into a...
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Designed zinc finger proteins as novel therapeutics inhibiting the transcription of hepatitis B and duck hepatitis B viruses
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The Hepatitis B virus (HBV) chronically infects 350 million individuals worldwide, leading to mortality by end-stage liver disease, liver cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. The vaccine to prevent HBV infection is highly effective but is not extensively available in endemic areas, resulting...
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Fall 2019
Cilia are microtubule-based structures that project from nearly every cell in the vertebrate body. While cilia in different contexts can have either sensory or motile functions, all cilia rely upon a core set of genes. When these genes are mutated either singly or in various combinations, a...
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Fall 2009
The computational ability of principal neurons and interneurons in the brain and their ability to work together in concert are thought to underlie higher order cognitive processes such as learning, memory, and attention. Dendrites play a very important role in neuronal information processing...
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Narrating Identity: The impact of literary reading on storied autobiographical memory development
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This dissertation describes the development and validation of a questionnaire (Narrating Identity Questionnaire; NIQ) that captures the differential contribution of expressive and integrative forms of literary reading on narrating identity development (storied autobiographical memory – Goldie,...