Theses/Dissertations from 2024
INVESTIGATION OF FANCD2 FUNCTION UTILIZING A MULTI-OMIC APPROACH, Justin Blaize
ALTERED TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION IS AN EARLY DRIVER OF DISEASE IN AN IN VITRO MODEL OF C9ORF72 ALS/FTD, Michelle Jean Gregoire
DEFINING THE PEPTIDYL TRANSFERASE ACTIVE SITE OF THE RIBOSOME, Erin Killeavy
IDENTIFICATION OF CELLULOSE SYNTHASE STRUCTURAL FEATURES INVOLVED IN CELLULOSE SYNTHESIS COMPLEX FORMATION, Jamie Lamkin
INVESTIGATING A MAJOR 16S rRNA FOLDING EVENT IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THE 30S RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT, Brenna Levesque
INVESTIGATION OF SERUM RESISTANCE IN HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE, Morgan J. McPartland
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF FANCD2 IN NEUROGENESIS, Bahaa M. Noori
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
ANTIBIOTIC TOLERANCE IN QUIESCENT UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI, Daniel Alexander Banas
DEFINING THE ESSENTIAL GENOME OF HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE AND CONDITIONALLY ESSENTIAL GENES REQUIRED FOR ITS SURVIVAL IN BIOFILMS AND SERUM COMPLEMENT, Thaís Harder de Palma
BIOCHEMICAL AND GENETIC MECHANISMS UNDERPINNING ESCHERICHIA COLI CELL CYCLE AND GROWTH TRANSITIONS, Josiah Morrison
Cell Stress, protein quality control, and activation of toxin antitoxin systems in Escherichia coli, Benjamin Piraino
EXAMINING THE REGULATION OF THE BS21 HOMOLOGS IN FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS, Sierra Schmidt
Heterogeneous ribosomes and bS21: An investigation of impacts and mechanisms of altered translation in Francisella tularensis, Hannah Trautmann
DEVELOPMENT OF TARGETED DRUG COMBINATIONS BLOCKING MULTI-DRIVER ONCOGENESIS, Alexander Yonchak
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE CORYNEBACTERIUM MATRUCHOTII HAS WITHIN SUPRAGINGIVAL PLAQUE SPATIAL ORGANIZATION AND ITS RESPONSE TO ORAL STREPTOCOCCI AND SALIVA, Eric Ganeto Almeida
Seasonal hypoxia impacts nutrient fluxes and microbial communities in Narragansett Bay sediments, Katherine Elizabeth Bell
UNDERSTANDING THE ROLES OF HETEROGENOUS SWI/SNF COMPLEXES IN REGULATION OF DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION, Tomali Chakravarty
BACTERIAL COMMUNITY DYNAMICS IN RHODE ISLAND COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS, Zachary Pimentel
DECIPHERING BIOGENIC SILICA PRODUCTION TRENDS IN PICOPLANKTON OF THE SUBARCTIC NORTH PACIFIC USING NOVEL DNA BARCODING METHODS, Andrew Presley
PROBIOTICS FOR EASTERN OYSTER HATCHERIES: COMMERCIAL FORMULATIONS AND EFFECT ON MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES, Evelyn Takyi
REGULATION OF COMPOSITION AND FUNCTIONS OF SWI/SNF CHROMATIN REMODELING COMPLEX, Kathleen Diep Tran
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS RE22 TYPE VI SECRETION SYSTEMS CONTRIBUTE TO TEMPERATE CORAL LYSIS AND ENDOSYMBIONT DEATH, Nathaniel Awkerman
TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION OF SOX5 AND WWOX BY FANCD2, Kathryn Henrikson
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN US17 IN 30S RIBOSOMAL SUBUNIT ASSEMBLY, Kelly McManus
MECHANISMS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE AND STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS, Dasith Perera
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF VIRULENCE IN VIBRIO CORALLIILYTICUS RE22 AND PROBIOTIC MECHANISMS OF PHAEOBACTER INHIBENS S4, Christian W. Schuttert
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
INVESTIGATING THE INHIBITORY PROPERTIES OF CANDIDATE PROBIOTICS TOWARDS VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS, Jacqueline Hilary Camm
CELL CYCLE-REGULATION OF THE FANCD2 PROTEIN VIA CDK-MEDIATED S592 PHOSPHORYLATION, Juan A. Cantres-Velez
REGULATING QUIESCENCE AND DIVISION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI, Eric Charles DiBiasio
FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY OF METABOLIC NETWORKS, Keith Dufault-Thompson
DETERMINING IMPACTS OF IRON LIMITATION ON DIATOM CHLOROPLAST METABOLISM AND PHYSIOLOGY, Kristofer Gomes
THE BIOGEOGRAPHY OF ANTARCTIC MARINE DIATOMS AND THEIR RESPONSE TO VARIED IRON CONCENTRATIONS, Laura Z. Holland
THE DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TRANSGENIC SORGHUM LINES FOR CONFERRED PHENOTYPES, Jiayin Liu
MODULATION OF RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN KINASE 1 (RIPK1) SIGNALING DURING DENGUE VIRUS INFECTION, Darshika Jeewanthi Udawatte
INVESTIGATING THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF A NOVEL ANTI-VIRULENCE FACTOR, Jamie Wandzilak
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
MECHANISMS OF DIVISION SITE SELECTION AND ROLE OF THE ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASE CLPXP IN MIND REGULATION AND PROTEOSTASIS IN E. COLI, Christopher James LaBreck
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
CHARACTERIZING THE FUNCTIONAL ROLE AND REGULATED ASSEMBLY OF PROTEIN POLYMERS MIND AND FTSA DURING ESCHERICHIA COLI CELL DIVISION, Joseph Jake Conti
Isolation and Identification of Probiotic Bacteria for the Management of Epizootic Shell Disease, Grace Underwood
THALASSIOSIROID DIATOM RESPONSES TO SILICON STRESS AND OCEAN ACIDIFICATION, Joselynn Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
High Throughput and Mechanistic Analysis of the HRD Motif of Src Protein Tyrosine Kinase, Yixin Cui
Biocontrol of Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND), Jason LaPorte
Characterization of a H4K20ME2 Methyl-Binding Domain in the Fanconi Anemia Protein FANCD2, Karissa Lynn Paquin
The Effects of TCA Cycle Mutations on the Virulence of Vibrio Aguillarum Strains M93SM and NB10SM, Edward Spinard
Insights Into Chromatin Modification and FANCD2 Phosphorylation in DNA Damage Repair, David Vierra II
Direct Substrate Recognition by the ATP-Dependent Chaperone Protease CLPXP and Roles in Proteostasis, Marissa Grace Viola
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Development and Validation of Immunoinformatics Tools for Swine Vaccine Development, Andres H. Guiérrez Núñez
Characterizing Alternative Polyadenylation in Male Germ Cells Using Poly(A)-seq, Holly Tran
Characterization of the Role of the Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog, PTEN, in DNA Crosslink Repair, Elizabeth Ann Vuono
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Further Insights Into the Regulation of the Fanconi Anemia FANCD2 Protein, Rebecca Anne Boisvert
Characterization of Biofilm Formation, Chemotaxis, and the Genome of Aliiroseovarius crassostreae, Linda Kessner
An Investigation of the Interactions Between Escherichia coli and the Intestinal Microbiota In Vivo and In Vitro, Matthew E. Mokszycki
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
DELETION OF ANTIBODY ENCODED TOLEROGENIC SIGNALS TO IMPROVE A DENDRITIC CELL TARGETED VACCINE DELIVERY PLATFORM SYSTEM, Danielle Aguirre
INVESTIGATION OF GENES CONTRIBUTING TO WHOLE PLANT SENESCENCE IN SOYBEAN (GLYCINE MAX), Robert Almeida
IDENTIFICATION OF NOVEL FANCD2 INTERACTING PROTEINS VIA IMMUNOPRECIPITATION AND MASS SPECTROMETRY, Paul A. Azzinaro
Novel Strategies for the Purification and Inhibition of Protein-Tyrosine Kinases, Alexander Brown IV
ELUCIDATING THE MOLECULAR RESPONSE OF MICROBIAL NITROGEN FIXATION IN ESTUARINE SEDIMENTS TO HYPOXIA, Andraya Louise Ehrlich
DEVELOPING AND OPTIMIZING A METHOD TO ANALYZE SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY OF TYROSINE KINASES, Ralph Kfoury
STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND EVOLUTION OF PHOSPHOPROTEIN P0 AND ITS UNIQUE INSERT IN TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA, Giovanni Pagano
FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE CELLULOSE SYNTHASE CLASS SPECIFIC REGION IN PHYSCOMITRELLA PATENS, Tess Scavuzzo-Duggan
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE PROBIOTIC MECHANISM OF PHAEOBACTER GALLAECIENSIS S4 AGAINST BACTERIAL PATHOGENS, Wenjing Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
MODIFICATION OF THE ESCHERICHIA coli NISSLE 1917 envZ GENE TO IMPROVE ITS PROBIOTIC POTENTIAL, Jimmy Adediran
Identification of Salivary Antigens from the Deer Tick Ixodes Scapularis as Novel Vaccine Candidates, Martin Becker
EFFECTS OF POSITION AND ORIENTATION ON PAX6 UPSTREAM ENHANCERS IN CIONA INTESTINALIS, Thomas Andrew Bregnard
Using Molecular Tools to Elucidate Controls on Microbes Driving the Nitrogen Cycle in Marine Sediments, Shelley Marie Brown
GLUCONEOGENESIS AND COLONIZATION OF THE MOUSE INTESTINE BY E. COLI EDL933 AND E. COLI NISSLE 1917, Silvia Anna Christina Schinner
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
SYNTHESIS AND BIOASSAY OF NOVEL HYBRID ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES (AMPS), DESIGNED TO INCREASE THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY AND DECREASE HEMOLYSIS, David E. Ryder
Characterization of Maize Sex-Determination Gene Orthologs in Rice (Oryza Sativa L. Japonica Cv. Nipponbare), John Ventura
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Regulation of cra, A Regulatory Gene of Glycolytic and Gluconeogenic Pathways in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, James H. Allen
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Molecular Genetic Analysis of Senescence and the Reversal of Senescence in Soybean Cotyledons [Glycine max (L.) Bass], Normand Edouard Allaire
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Some Aspects of the Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution on Microbal Sediment Populations, Steven Arcidiacono
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
The Monitoring of Clostridium perfringens Spore Density in Bottom Sediments and It's Applications, David J. Emerson
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Correlation of In Vitro Chemotaxis with In Vitro Virulence of Bacteroides Fragilis Products, Stephen Atsekhagbo Adamu
Theses/Dissertations from 1954
VI Typhoid Flagellar and Heterophile Antibodies in Serums of Children, Peter Paul Antosia