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Author:

Lingafelt, Colin Mark

Title:

Determining the Effect of Kinesin-5 Inhibitors on the Nucleation Rates of Microtubules in vitro and Synthesizing, Characterizing, and Purifying Fluorescently Labeled Nucleotides

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

kinesins
microtubules
fluorescent nucleotides
binding rates
synthesis
Eg5
nucleation
tubulin
critical concentration

File:

Download thesis_ColinLingafelt_04102017_final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Justin Lee Brown, Faculty Reader
Herbert Herling Lipowsky, Faculty Reader

Author:

Mueser, Ashlyn S

Title:

RELATIONSHIP OF PLATELET ADHESION WITH SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY IN THE PENN STATE PEDIATRIC VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

PVAD
Platelet Adhesion
Surface Topography
Pediatric Ventricular Assist Devices

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Keefe B Manning, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

McKellar, Brian U

Title:

VISUALIZATION AND QUANTITATION OF STEM CELL MEDIATED MINERALIZATION OF A DEMINERALIZED COLLAGEN SAFFOLD IN A TISSUE ENGINEERING MODEL

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Tissue Engineering
Bone
Biomineralization
Osteogenic differentiation
Stem cell

File:

Download McKellar_EpiBone_Thesis_FinalSchreyer_links.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Justin Lee Brown, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Erdman, Marcus Orion

Title:

The impact of genetic variants on kinesin motor proteins and the link to neurological disorders

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

kinesin
neurological disorder
mutation
genomics

File:

Download Thesis_final_Marcus_Erdman.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Peter J Butler, Faculty Reader
Dr. Justin Lee Brown, Faculty Reader

Author:

Gallagher, Maureen Brenna

Title:

A Study of the Effect of Hematocrit on Weaning in the 12 cc Penn State Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

PVAD
artificial heart
hematocrit
weaning
fluid dynamics

File:

Download Gallagher_Schreyer_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Keefe B Manning, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Keefe B Manning, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Faculty Reader
Dr. William O Hancock, Faculty Reader

Author:

Cook, Alexander Philip

Title:

Design, construction, and testing of a pneumatic vibrotactile stimulus system for use with awake, behaving mice

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Neurovascular coupling
Electrophysiology
Passive touch
Pneumatic system
Vibrotactile stimulus

File:

Download Cook_Alexander_PneumaticSystem.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Patrick James Drew, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Nanyin Zhang, Faculty Reader

Author:

Kessler, Joshua C

Title:

Pulsatile Assessment Of The FDA Computational Study Of Fluid Flow In Biomedical Devices

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

FDA
Turbulence
Computational Fluid Dynamics
CFD
LDV
Benchmark Nozzle Model
Critical Path Initiative
Pulsatile Flow

File:

Download Thesisv_schreyer.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Keefe B Manning, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Pak Kin Wong, Faculty Reader

Author:

Hagenah, Kristen E

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF THROMBI THROUGH MRI AND HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF ERYTHROCYTE GHOST CLOTS

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Ghost Cells
Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping
Left Ventricular Thrombus

File:

Download Hagenah_Kristen_Schreyer_Thesis_Final_.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Keefe B Manning, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Fadel, John Elias

Title:

CALCIUM DOPED CITRATE BOUND BIOMATERIALS FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL ORTHOPEDIC TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

Bone
orthopedics
orthopedic engineering
tissue engineering
bone implant
polymer
polymer engineering
characterization
materials

File:

Download Final_Thesis_Draft_FADEL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Jian Yang, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Justin Lee Brown, Faculty Reader

Author:

Jankowska, Maya Ann-Marie

Title:

A CONTROL STUDY USING DNA TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SHEAR STRESS ON VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

von willebrand factor
vwf
optical trap
fluid shear
LVADS
plasmid
fluid mechanics
optical tweezers
shear stress
acquired von willebrand syndrome

File:

Download vWF_Thesis_wTemplate_Maya2.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Keefe B Manning, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Jethva, Janak Prakashchandra

Title:

Nano-scale Simulation of Gold Nanoparticle Tracking of Kinesin-1

Area of Honors:

Biomedical Engineering

Keywords:

kinesin
motor protein
computational modelling
simulation
MATLAB

File:

Download Thesis_for_SHC__final_-_Janak_Jethva.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Peter J Butler, Faculty Reader

Author:

Cramer, Samuel Reed

Title:

EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF BINGE ALCOHOL DRINKING IN THE RAT

Area of Honors:

Interdisciplinary in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience

Keywords:

ethanol
alcohol
resting state fmri
fmri
functional connectivity
binge
retrosplenial cortex
amygdala
hippocampus
zona incerta

File:

Download OFFICIAL_honors_thesis_template_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Nanyin Zhang, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. William O Hancock, Thesis Honors Advisor
Ping Li, Thesis Honors Advisor