by Tessa Altair Morris | Jan 22, 2020 | Abstracts
Title: Investigating Novel Gene Function and Mechanotransduction in Vertebrate Tendon Development Abstract: Cells regularly experience physical stressors such as mechanical force and respond to them using a variety of biological processes and signaling pathways. How...
by Tessa Altair Morris | Jan 9, 2020 | Abstracts
Title: Personalized Medicine and Immune Checkpoint Therapy Abstract: Traditional methods of cancer treatment, still widely practiced, are based on tumor histology/morphology. However, they often result in poor treatment outcome. At most cancer centers, there is a...
by Tessa Altair Morris | Dec 10, 2019 | Abstracts
Title: Local and Global Network Structure of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks Abstract: No protein is an island unto itself, because its function is intimately tied to its set of interaction partners. Since proteins come from genes, and closely-related species...
by Tessa Altair Morris | Dec 3, 2019 | Abstracts
Title: Intermediate Binding States, Motor Length, and Rigidness Affect Intracellular Transport Abstract: Organelles, vesicles, and other cargoes are transported throughout the eukaryotic cell. One type of transport is by motor proteins in the kinesin and dynein...
by Tessa Altair Morris | Nov 12, 2019 | Abstracts
Title: Scaffolding, Multisite Phosphorylation and Other Mechanisms of Signal Transduction Regulation Abstract: Protein activity is often regulated by ligand binding or by post-translational modifications such as phosphorylation. Moreover, proteins that are regulated...
