Ellis, Donald Christian(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
An unmet and paramount need in the field of cancer research is to rapidly translate basic biological findings to clinically relevant therapeutics for cancer patients. Recent technological advances have generated many ...
Kaplan, Maxwell Bernard(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Coral reefs are biodiverse ecosystems that are at risk of degradation as a result of environmental changes. Reefs are constantly in a state of flux: the resident species assemblages vary considerably in space and time. ...
Bors, Eleanor Kathleen(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Every genome tells a story. This dissertation contains four such stories, focused on shared themes of marine population dynamics and rapid change, with an emphasis on invasive marine species. Biological invasions are often ...
Peterson, Alexis W(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Here, I describe the process of generating single-domain antibodies which bind to splice variants of fibronectin containing EIIIA or EIIIB. Alpacas were immunized with either purified antigen cocktails, or from the ECM of ...
Van der Hoop, Julie M(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Animal movement is motivated in part by energetic constraints, where fitness is maximized by minimizing energy consumption. The energetic cost of movement depends on the resistive forces acting on an animal; changes in ...