Past Thesis Projects

A sampling of the student thesis projects carried out by Biological Chemistry majors in the last two years is shown below:

• Probing the Function of Patellin1, an Arabadopsis thaliana Protein, with Yeast Models (Hiliare Leavitt, ’06 in the Peterman lab)

• Characterization of the Pharmacokinetics of a Novel Monoclonal Antibody CHO 31.1 and its Implication on the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer (Boryana
  Mihaylova, ’06, in the Webb lab)

• Progress Towards the Preparation of a Vancomycin Derivative Containint a Septanose Residue at the Vancosamine Position (Meghan Hogan, ’06, in the Snyder Lee lab)

• Interactions of Buyforin II with Lipid Bilayers:  Using Large Uniamellar Vesicles as Models of Cell Membranes (Rachel Nelson, ’06 in the Elmore lab)

• The Synthesis of Histidine Analogs:  A Chemical Approach to the Treatment of Diabetes (Rebecca Rouch, ’06, in the Haines lab)

• Morphologic and Biochemical Analysis of Rat Cardiac Tissue Continuously Treated with the b-Adrenergic Agonist Isoproterenol: Factors Contributing to Heart Failure (Magda Stumpfova . ’05, in the Smith lab)

• Acid stress response of the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 (Jing Chan, ’05, in the Allen lab)

• Investigating Phototropin Mediated Blue Light Signal Transduction Pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana (Daiva Nevidomskyte, ’05 in the Harris lab)

• Investigating the role of Clb2 subcellular localization in cell cycle regulation (Courtney Boulton, ’05 in the Hood-DeGrenier lab)

• Effects of Altered Chloroplast Morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana on Both Chloroplast Movement and Recovery from Light Stress (Joy Delamaide, ’05, in the Koniger lab)

• Flexible loop of thime oligopeptidase:  Effect of Glycine to Alanine mutations (Laura Stadelman, ’05, in the Wolfson lab)

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