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Title: Assessment of Methods and Environmental Influence on the Nematostella Vectensis Microbiome
Author: Krueger, Quinton
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Description: Cnidarians are a diverse clade of marine invertebrates that inhabit a variety of environments. The conditions of these habitats are becoming more extreme with the progression of time. These organisms associate with bacteria, which are composed of ...

Title: CHARACTERIZATION OF THE BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAY OF CAPSULAR POLYSACCHARIDE A IN BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS
Author: Sharma, Sunita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology
Description: Capsular Polysaccharide A (CPSA) is a polymer of a tetrasaccharide unit found on the surface of the symbiotic gut bacteria Bacteroides fragilis. It has been suggested that CPSA is vital for maintaining a normal balance between the levels of Th1 an...

Title: Calibrating slope-dependent errors in profilometry
Author: Zhou, Yue
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: Optical profilometers, such as scanning white light interferometers and confocal microscopes, provide high resolution measurements and are widely utilized in many fields for measuring surface topography. The techniques are capable of high-speed su...

Title: Chemical Tools for Biology
Author: Fessler, Adam
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Reagents for biotinylation that are innately water-soluble and can be tracked by both UV-vis spectroscopy and fluorescence (330nm/420nm) have been developed. These reagents are based on the isatoic anhydride platform, which gives rise to their val...

Title: Comparative analysis of Nitrosococcus genomes; isolation, physiological and genomic characterization of the new ammonia-oxidizing species Nitrosococcus wardiae, strain D1FHST; and molecular studies towards a better understanding of ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy
Author: Wang, Lin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Molecular biology, Biology, Genetics
Description: Obligate aerobic chemolithoautotrophic ammonia-oxidzing bacteria (AOB) derive energy and reductant needed for growth solely from the oxidation of ammonia to nitrite thereby facilitating the process of nitritation. A strain of an ammonia-oxidizing ...

Title: Design and Modulation of Novel Chemical Probes for RNA SHAPE Analysis: Water Soluble Isatoic Anhydrides and Nicotinic Acid Imidazolides
Author: Fessler, Adam
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biology
Description: The growing interest in RNA biology, along with an expansion in computational capabilities, throughput, and sensitivity has provided researchers new tools to probe RNA. RNA selective 2′-hydroxy acylation analyzed by primer extension (SHAPE) utiliz...

Title: Detrimental brain inflammation and the role of the interleukin 10 family members
Author: Burmeister, Amanda
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Biology
Description: Resident brain cells recognize pathogens and can initiate and/or regulate inflammation. Indeed, we have shown that stimulated glial cells rapidly produce inflammatory mediators, followed by the late production of anti-inflammatory cytokines such a...

Title: Genetic Structure and Gene Expression Profile of Plasmodium vivax in East Africa
Author: Kepple, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Molecular biology, Cytology
Description: Plasmodium vivax malaria is a neglected tropical disease, despite being more geographically widespread than any other form of malaria. P. vivax was previously thought to be rare or absent in Africa because people of African descent often lack the ...

Title: IMPROVEMENTS IN MICROBE RECOVERY AND DETECTION IN WATER SAMPLES: MULTIPLE APPROACHES TO METHOD OPTIMIZATION
Author: Kimble, Gina
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Environmental engineering, Environmental sciences
Description: The accurate recovery and detection of microbes from water samples is important for the protection of public health. However, not all microbes behave similarly, not all water samples have comparable physical properties, and the constituents presen...

Title: INCORPORATION OF FLUORESCENT ANALOGUES IN ISOPRENOID PATHWAYS IN ESCHERICHIA COLI
Author: George, Chelsea
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Biochemistry
Description: Bacterial glycans and glycoconjugates have wide diversity compared to their eukaryotic counterparts. While methods have been developed to monitor and track glycans in eukaryotic systems with some success, there are limited methods with which to do...

Title: Intracellular Subsurface Imaging Using a Hybrid Shear-Force Feedback/ Scanning Quantitative Phase Microscopy Technique
Author: Edward, Kert
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM) allows for the imaging of translucent or transparent biological specimens without the need for exogenous contrast agents. This technique is usually applied towards the investigation of simple cells such as red b...

Title: Introducing clean delivery kits to improve knowledge of clean birth practices in Haiti.
Author: Ostan, Grace
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nursing
Description: Maternal and infant mortality rates in developing countries are significantly higher than rates in developed countries with sepsis contributing to mortality. Cleanliness at birth has been identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a key ...

Title: MICROBIAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO DISEASE PHENOTYPES
Author: McCafferty, Jonathan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: The unseen world of microbes has a profound affect on everyday life. Complex microbial communities play a role in everything from climate regulation to human health and disease pathogenesis. Advancements in the field of Metagenomics are providing ...

Title: On Whole Genome Classifier Perforamnce in Relation to 16S Classifiers
Author: Johnson, James
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics
Description: There is little consensus in the literature as to which approach for classification of Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS) sequences is most accurate unlike 16S classifiers that have had more time to mature. In this dissertation, two of the most popular cl...

Title: Stability, resistance and change in mammalian microbiota and their associations with host health
Author: Spencer, Melanie
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Biology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics
Description: What is the nature of a complex organism? Metagenomic research and its insights into biosystem function have fundamentally altered the answer to this question. High-throughput sequencing technology has revealed the multitude of microbes that live ...

Title: Synthesis and Reactivity of Benzodiazepine-Derived Heterocyclic Thiones and Selones
Author: Clinkscales, Alexander
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Inorganic, Chemistry, Organic, Analytical chemistry
Description: This thesis outlines the synthesis, characterization and coordination chemistry of new N-heterocylic benzodiazepine thione (NHT) and selone (NHSe) ligands. This new family of ligands, SBzDzArE (Ar = Xy, Mes, Dipp; E = S, Se), contain various bulky...

Title: THE ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMATION OF THE TRANSITION PROBABILITY FOR THE RANDOM WALKS WITH HEAVY TAILS.
Author: Agbor, Andu
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Statistics, Mathematics
Description: The main result of this dissertation concerns the asymptotics, uniform in t and x, of the probability distribution of a random walk with heavy tails. The random walk is a Markov process and thus can be characterized in terms of their generators. W...

Title: The endangered red wolf (Canis rufus): spatial ecology of a critically imperiled species in a human-dominated landscape
Author: Karlin, Melissa
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Wildlife conservation, Wildlife management
Description: The purpose of this dissertation research was to analyze the ecology of thereintroduced red wolf (Canis rufus) population on the Albemarle Peninsula, NC and determine variables such as intraspecific interactions among red wolves, and how the speci...

Title: The influence of wastewater treatment on community dynamics among antibiotic-resistant bacteria during treatment, stream release, and biosolids land application.
Author: Sorgen, Alicia
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Microbiology, Bioinformatics, Ecology
Description: Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) are a key link between anthropogenic activity and the environment, facilitating the development and horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance among populations of commensal environmental microorganisms and cli...