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Directed Evolution Approaches for Improved Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Calcium Ion and Voltage Indicators
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Fluorescent proteins (FP) have revolutionized our imaging technologies and facilitated visualization of biochemical and physiological processes occurring in complex biological systems, which has opened up a new and unprecedented era in cell biology. Although FPs mainly serve as passive...
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Discovering Protein-Glycolipid Interactions Using Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
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This thesis focuses on the development and application of electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) based techniques to detect and quantify proteins interactions with carbohydrates or glycolipids in model membranes. In Chapter 2, the native ESI-MS based direct/competitive binding assay...
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Spring 2013
This thesis investigates electrophoretic separation of DNA molecules in different types of separation media formed by silica nanoparticles. Particle arrays within microfluidic chips are fabricated using evaporation induced colloidal self-assembly. Methods to adjust pore size and the order of the...
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Domino Azide-Metallocarbene Coupling and Nucleophilic Trapping: Synthetic Applications and Mechanistic Studies.
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Metallocarbenes are a class of reactive intermediates used in many strategic and complementary carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond forming reactions. The Stevens [1,2]-rearrangement of ammonium ylides is an example of a transformation typically involving metallocarbenes. The replacement of...
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Spring 2020
In the past few decades, surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been evolving as a powerful analytical technique for the detection of a wide of chemical and biological molecules. The technique can reach a sensitivity of single molecule detection, which triggered plenty of ongoing research....
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Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Hydride Complexes for Dehydrocoupling and Hydrosilylation Catalysis
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The research presented in this thesis details the synthesis of transition metal hydride complexes, with the focus on utilising these complexes for (a) the dehydrocoupling of amine-borane adducts, and (b) the hydrosilylation and hydroboration of unsaturated organic moieties. In both instances,...