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MASTERS DEGREES AWARDED, 2006

LIST OF Ph.D. Graduates plus advisor and thesis titles

(The photographer tried to get pictures of everyone, but unfortunately missed a few due to technical problems.The photographer apologizes to those who are not up here.)

 

Mohamad Abbani (Robert Clubb, Advisor)
Structural Studies of Recombination Directionality Factors in Lambda Prohage Recombination and Tn916 Transposition

 

 

Michael Bedard-Hearn (Benjamin Schwartz, Advisor)
Understanding Classical and Quantum Solvation Dynamics in the Weakly Polar Solvent Tetrahydrofuran (THF) Using Projections of Molecular Motions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

 

 

Daniel Boutz (Todd Yeates, Advisor)
Structural Studies of Intracellular Disulfide Bond Abundance as a Novel Stabilizing Mechanism in Thermophilic Microbes

 

 

Adam Braunschweig (J. Fraser Stoddart, Advisor)
Structural Control of Molecular Machines

 

Luis Campos (Miguel Garcia-Garibay and Kendall Houk, Advisors) Light-Induced Processes in Organic Chemistry: Decarbonylations in Crystals, Quantum Tunneling, and Solar Cells

 

Pep Charusanti (Joseph DiStefano III and Daniel Neuhauser, Advisors) "Math Models of Gleevec Effects on Cellular-Level and Molecular-Level Signaling Events in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia"

 

Omar Farha (M. Frederick Hawthorne, Advisor)
Synthesis of Novel Polyhedral Borane and Carborane Derivatives with Applications in Materials Science and Medicine

 

Melissa Gulmezian (Catherine Clarke, Advisor)
Investigation of PAD1/ubiX Function, and Complex of Polypeptides Involved in Coenzyme Q Biosythesis

 

 

Sandra Hick (Richard Kaner, Advisor) Rapid Synthesis of Ternary Silicon Nitrides, Phosphors, Intercalation Compounds, and Refractory Carbides (hooded by M.Fredrick Hawthorne)

 

 

David Ho (Michael Jung, Advisor) A New Method to Synthesize Highly Hindered Cyclohexene Systems and Its Utility Toward the Synthesis of Haterumaimides E (being hooded by Miguel Garcia-Garibay)

 

 

Thoi Nguyen (Jeffrey Zink, Advisor) Amalgamation of Supramolecules and Sol-Gel Materials to Form Hybrid Materials That Function as Molecular Valves

 

 

Keith Niedfeldt (Emily Carter, Advisor)
First Principles Predictions of Electron Tunneling Rates Between Atoms and Molecules and Crystalline Surfaces

 

Brian Northrop (Kendall Houk and J. Fraser Stoddart, Advisors)
I: Quantum Mechanical Investigations of Reactions Involved in Natural Products and Organic Materials Formation.
II: Synthetic and Theoretical Studies of the Formation and Dynamic Properties of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules

 

Joseph Norton (Kendall Houk, Advisor)
Electronic Structures and Reactions of Organic Materials for Electronic and Optical Applications

 

Michael Page (M. Frederick Hawthorne, Advisor)
Rational Design and Synthesis of Serine Protease Inhibitors Containing Hydrophobic Carborane Pharmacophores

 

 

 

 

Andrew Pelling (James Gimzewski, Advisor) Observation of Dynamic Nano-Architectonics and Mechanics in Single Cells, Social Swarms and Whole Organisms

 

Rosemarie Pilpa (Robert Clubb, Advisor)
Structural and Biochemical Studies of the First NEAT Domain of IsdH: The Human Hemoglobin Receptor of Staphylococcus Aurues

 

 

Tanya Porras-Yakushi (Steven Clarke, Advisor)
Identification of Novel Methyltransferases in Translation

 

Soshanna Potter (Joan Valentine, Advisor) Direct Biophysical Comparisons of Yeast and Human Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutases: Dissecting The Roles of Metal Binding In The Protein Maturation Pathway

 

Robert Ramirez (J. Fraser Stoddart, Advisor)
Noncovalent Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

 

 

 

Eugene Rozumov (Yves Rubin, Advisor)
Polymers, Macrocycles, and Solar Cells

 

 

Shilpa Sambashivan (David Eisenberg, Advisor) Structural Studies of Amyloid/Amyloid-like Fibrils From Ribonuclease A, Abeta and Tau

 

James Tsay (Shimon Weiss, Advisor)
Synthesis and Photophysics of Visible and Near Infrared-Emitting Biologically Compatible Semiconductor Nanocrystals