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Summer 2010 Issue May, 2010
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Recognition of Graduates in PhD Programs
Ugur Demirok Chemistry PhD
"Functional Nanostructures: Applications in Nanobarcoding, Autonomous Motion, and Biosensing"
Mentor: Neal Woodbury		 Teresa Gerrity Biochemistry PhD
"Investigations in Readlength Improvements for DNA Sequencing by Synthesis"
Mentor: Peter Williams
James Hutchings Chemistry PhD
"Cloud Processing of Organic Compounds: Secondary Organic Aerosol and Nitrosamine Formation"
Mentor: Pierre Herckes		 Janelle Jenkins Chemistry PhD
"Solid-State NMR Elucidation of Molecular Structure in Spider Dragline Silk Proteins"
Mentor: Jeffery Yarger, Gregory Holland
Michelle Meighan Chemistry PhD
"Novel Electrophoretic Techniques for Bioanalysis"
Mentor: Mark Hayes 		 Erin Oelker Chemistry PhD
"High-Pressure Studies of Phase Transitions in Tetrahedral Network Amorphous Systems"
Mentor: Jeffery Yarger
Linda Stearns Chemistry PhD
"Discovery and Application of Peptides that Bind to Proteins and Solid State Inorganic Materials"
Mentor: William Petuskey, John Chaput		 Aaron Tufts Biochemistry PhD
"Investigation of Non-Native Metals Bound to Reaction Centers From Rhodobacter sphaeroides: Manganese Binding and Zinc-Substituted Cofactors" Mentor: James Allen
Nabin Upadhyay Chemistry PhD
"Quantification of Trace Elements and Speciation of Iron in Atmospheric Particulate Matter"
Mentor: Pierre Herckes		 Change Weng Chemistry PhD
"Group IV semiconductors and dielectrics: A combined theoretical and experimental study"
Mentor: John Kouvetakis
Berea Williams Chemistry PhD
"Designing Recognition Elements based on DNA Scaffolds"
Mentor: John Chaput		 Todd Windman Chemistry PhD
"Organic Compounds in Hydrothermal Fluids: Linking Observations, Sources, and Thermodynamics" Mentor: Everett Shock
Mingyi Xie Biochemistry PhD
"Exploring the Telomeric Repeat Addition Processivity by Vertebrate Telomerase"
Mentor: Jullian Chen		 Jinglei Zhang Biochemistry PhD
"Development of Functional Peptides Using mRNA Display"
Mentor: John Chaput
Recognition of Graduates in MS Programs
Rachel Giroux Biochemistry MS (MedChem) "Characterization of Bleomycin Cleavage Sites in Strongly Bound Hairpin DNAs"
Mentor: Sidney Hecht		 Jason GreyslakBiochemistry MS (MedChem)
"Isolation & Purification of Photosystem I, II and the soluble membrane protein Cytochrome C6 from the red algae Galdieria sulphuraria"
Mentor: Petra Fromme
James Jursich Biochemistry MS
"ME1 studies: A library of novel heme binding membrane proteins"
Mentor: Giovanna Ghirlanda		 Peter Laughlin Biochemistry MS (MedChem)
"Developing Cyanovirin Mutants through Directed Evolution"
Mentor: Giovanna Ghirlanda
Rui Liu Biochemistry MS
"Transforming Literature Peptides into High Affinity Protein Capture Reagents"
Mentor: John Chaput		 Brian Woodrum Biochemistry MS (MedChem)
"Nested Cyanovirin-N: A Designed Covalent Dimer of Cyanovirin-N Exploring the Effects of Multivalency on gp120 Binding and Anti-HIV Activity" Mentor: Giovanna Ghirlanda
 

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