Understanding how phenotypes evolve through natural selection is a fundamental question of biology. Microbial evolution studies provide the rare opportunity to experimentally elucidate the changes that allow an organism ...

Small non-coding RNAs play an important role in a wide range of cellular events. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of small RNAs that post-transcriptionally repress expression of their target genes. Since miRNA ...

An ever increasing amount of evidence is demonstrating that structural plasticity is a diverse and ongoing feature that contributes to plasticity in the adult brain. It was previously shown that dendritic arbors of inhibitory ...

Interactions among proteins of the BCL-2 family regulate apoptosis - the process of programmed cell death. This thesis focuses on interactions between anti-apoptotic BCL-2 proteins and BH3 peptides derived from pro-apoptotic ...

Human [gamma]D crystallin (H[gamma]D-Crys) is a monomeric, two domain, primarily P-sheet protein found in high concentrations in the human eye lens. H[gamma]D-Crys and other crystallins are found in insoluble protein ...

Trade-offs between filtration rate and swimming performance among several salp species with distinct morphologies and swimming styles were compared. Small-scale particle encounter at the salp filtering apparatus was also ...