Browsing by Author "Carl Johnson"
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Bairley, Robin Christine Brooks (2011-09-02)Department: Biological SciencesThis project explores the synthesis of heterogeneous G1-3T yeast telomere sequences by the enzyme telomerase. I demonstrate that a mutant in the essential N-terminal TEN domain of Est2p (telomerase reverse transciptase), ...
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Flynt, Alex Sutton (2007-12-04)Department: Biological SciencesIn recent years it has become apparent that microRNAs (miRNAs) are common feature of eukaryotic genomes. The functional products of these non-canonical genes are small, ~22nt RNAs that negatively regulate translation. ...
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Ma, Peijun (2014-09-24)Department: Biological SciencesCircadian clocks are the endogenous timing mechanisms that facilitate organisms to adapt to the daily cycles on the earth. Previous studies have demonstrated that cyanobacterial circadian clock enhances fitness under cyclic ...
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Mecklenborg, Jill Christine (2011-08-15)Department: Biomedical EngineeringWith the world’s increasing energy demands, there exists a tremendous need for the development and industrialization of energy-dense biofuels. Metabolically engineered cyanobacteria provide a promising means, as the utility ...
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Dai, Heng (2018-04-04)Department: Biological SciencesThe initial steps of vision - the transduction and encoding of physical light stimuli into neural signals - occur in the retina, a multi-layered sheet of neurons that lines the back of the eye. Retinal dopamine (DA) acts ...
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Chavez, Diana Andrea (2018-06-26)Department: Biological SciencesDuring DNA replication, a moving replication fork can encounter various sources of replication stress that can lead the moving fork to stall. Organisms have developed various DNA damage response pathways that recruit and ...
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Carnahan Jr., Robert Herschel (2003-11-10)Department: Cell and Developmental BiologyCytokinetic actomyosin ring formation (CAR) in S. pombe requires two independent actin nucleation pathways, one dependent on the Arp2/3 complex and another involving the formin Cdc12p. Here we investigate the role of the ...