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2001 I.S. Titles

Chemistry Majors | Biochemistry Majors

 

CHEMISTRY MAJORS

Jennifer E. Becker

(T. R. Williams)

Use of Infrared Spectroscopy to Detect Disease

Eric S. Bodle

(R. H. Bromund)

The Determination of Atrazine in Surface Waters of Eastern Wayne County, Ohio

Christopher J. Brubaker

(D. L. Powell)

The Tools of the Second Chemical Revolution: Instrumental History and Design

Christine M. English

(V. B. Pett)

The Expression, Purification, and Oligomerization of Mustant sHSP 18-9 CTrl from Zea mays

Anne E. Fischer

(V. B. Pett)

Coenzyme B12: Finding the Smoking Gun

Ashley A. Fisher

(P. L. Gaus)

The Synthesis of Mixed-Multidentate Cobalt(III) Complexes

Christopher G. Gulgas

(P. L. Gaus)

The Characterization and Reduction of Methyl_(2-Nitrobenzylidene)-acetoacetate to Syntheseze 2-Methyl-3-carbomethoxyquinoline

Michael Kuschnir

(D. L. Powell)

Acomputational Analysis of Cycloheptane and Its Derivatives

Candace E. Lovejoy

(P. L. Gaus)

The Synthesis and Characterization of a Di-Substituted Quinoline Derivative Using an Iron Hydride Reagent

Meris A. Mandernach

(D. L. Powell)

Bulky Molecules: A Computational Investigation of Halogenated Natural Products

Khadijah Mumtaz

(V. B. Pett)

Globally Friendly Chemistry, Globally

 

Jeffrey M. Munnn

(T. R. Williams)

Protien Determination of Maize inbred Lines by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

 

Eric W. Resnis

(R. H. Bromund)

The Use of Solid Phase Microextracion for the Determination of Organochlorine Compounds in Soil Gas from the South Water Well Field of Wooster, Ohio

 

Amanda L. Smeigh

(R. H. Bromund)

Determining the Presence of Petroleum Based Hydrocarbons in the Wooster Water Pollution Control Plant "Vacuator" Effluent

Adam Wegner

(P. L. Edmiston)

Understanding the Role of Structural Arginines: Determination of Secondary and Tertiary Structure Changes in R134 Creatine Kinase Mutants by FT-IR Spectroscopy

 

 

BIOCHEMISTRY MAJORS

Julia M. Cox

(P. L. Edmiston)

Synthesis of an Active Monomer of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase Using Site-Directed Mutagenesis

Joseph B. Davis

(R. H. Bromund)

St. John's Wort: Determination of Antidepressant Efficacy of Commercial Hypericum perforatum Extracts Using a Learned Helplessness Paradigm

Paul R. Geiss

(C. L. Borders)

Kinetic Analysis of Active Site-Arginine Mutants of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase and of Glycocyamine as an Alternative Substrate for the Native Enzyme

Nizar P. Hallak

(D. Fraga)

Cholesterol Conjugated Antisense Oligonucleotide Uptake in Paramecium Tetraurelia

Andrea D. Jorjorian

(C. L. Borders)

The Preparation of a Catalytically Active Monomer of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase by Site-Directed Mutagenesis and Gel Filtration Chromatography

Guy B. Mulligan

(C. L. Borders)

ATPase Activities of Recombinant Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase and its N285A, N285D, and N285Q Mutants

Karen A. Robbins

(V. B. Pett)

Expression and Purification of a SeMetHSP 18-9, a Selenomethionine-Substituted Small Heat-Shock Protein from Zea mays

Joshua W. Schaeffer

(P. L. Edmiston)

The Synthesis of 1-(4-Mercaptophenyl)-1,1-di-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethane (MDHE) Template Molecule for the Develepment of a Molecularly Imprinted Sol-Gel-Based Chemical Sensor for the Quantitation of DDT (1,1-Bis(4-chlorophenyl)-2,2,2-trichloroethane)

Heather Lynn Schieda

(P. L. Edmiston)

Measurement of Testosterone an pH as Biochemical Indicators of Stuttering

Sandra L. Tecklenburg

(C. L. Borders)

Using Differential Scanning Calorimetery to Investigate a possible Role for Arginine 214 of Rabbit Muscle Creatine Kinase as a Structural Arginine

David Terrano

(C. L. Borders)

The Use of Fluorescence Quenching to Determine the Binding Affinity of MgADP and MgATP for Native Rabbit Creatine Kinase and Its R129K and R129A Mutants

Updated: August 18, 2003 · psmith@wooster.edu