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| Year | Title | Link | Type | First | Last | Last Known Employment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Enhancement of Somatic Embryogenesis in Theobroma caca using Phtyocyanin-like-1 Arabinogalactan (PLA) Protein Domains | Online | M.S. | Tina | Lai | N/A |
| 2015 | Improving process efficiency of algae-based biofuel and bioproduct production using metabolism-based pH control | Online | PhD. | Jun | Wang | alGene, startup at DOE/ASU AzCATI, Mesa, AZ |
| 2015 | Improving plant propagation through the manipulation of the genetic and physical environment | Online | PhD. | Sergio | Florez | Paragon Bioservices, Baltimore, MD |
| 2015 | Methods for enhancing somatic embryogenesis in Theobroma cacao | Online | UG Honors | Rachel | Erwin | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY |
| 2015 | Development of biological platform for the autotrophic production of biofuels | Online | PhD. | Nymul | Khan | Aquaponics in Bangladesh |
| 2014 | Advancing Rhodobacter sphaeroides for Functional Expression of Medically and Industrially Relevant Membrane Proteins | Online | PhD. | Mustafa | Erbakan | Bozok Universitesi, Turkey |
| 2014 | The Process Design and Economic Analysis of a Farm-scale System for Producing Ethanol and Hydrocarbon (botryococcene) Fuels from a Lignocellulosic Substrate | Online | UG Honors | Patrick | Hillery | |
| 2014 | Application of two different fungal species for biological pretreatment in an integrated lignocellulosic biofuels paradigm | Online | UG Honors | Taylor | Maher | |
| 2014 | Engineering a microbial consortium for lignocellulosic biofuel production | Online | PhD. | Trevor | Zuroff | Shell Oil |
| 2014 | A Medium Throughput Screening Device With Online Growth Data Collection of Multiple Small Volume Gas Phase Bioreactors | Online | UG Honors | John 'Reed' | Taylor | Regeneron |
| 2013 | Development of optimization procedure for the expression of the membrane protein Aquaporin in Rhodobacter sphaeroides | Online | UG Honors | Manuel SE | Espinoza | |
| 2013 | The scaled-up process design and economic analysis of an electrofuels platform for producing botryococcene as an alternative transportation fuel | Online | UG Honors | John | Myers | |
| 2013 | Establishment and Maintenance of Axenic Botryococcus braunii race B Algae Culture | Online | UG Honors | Justin | Yoo | UCSB PhD Candidate, NSF Fellowship |
| 2013 | A continuous bioreactor to study the persistence of extracellular biofuel candidate molecules in a non-axenic algae culture | Online | UG Honors | Christine | Taylor | |
| 2013 | Cloning of insecticidal BT genes for application to protection of mushrooms from fungus gnats | Online | UG Honors | Matt | Curtis | Cal Tech, PhD Candidate |
| 2013 | Novel temporary immersion bioreactor allows the manipulation of headspace composition to improve plant tissue propagation | Online | UG Honors | Matt | Curtis | CalTech PhD. Candidate |
| 2012 | An improved temporary immersion bioreactor design for plant tissue culture propagation | Online | UG Honors | Sydney | Shaw | Sanofi (Genzyme) Cambridge, MA |
| 2012 | Achieving pH control through stoichiometrically balanced media in algal photobioreactors | Online | M.S. | Megerle | Scherholz | |
| 2011 | An assessment of photosynthetic biofuels and electrofuels technologies under rate-limited conditions | Online | M.S. | Amalie | Tuerk | U. Delaware, PhD Candidate, NSF Fellow |
| 2011 | Development of Agaricus bisporus as a platform for heterologous expression of biopharmaceuticals | Online | UG Honors | Ben | Woolston | MIT, PhD Candidate |
| 2011 | Engineering high-level transient expression of heterologous proteins in plant cell suspensions and hairy roots | Online | PhD. | Jeffrey | Larsen | DOWpont |
| 2011 | Development of Rhodobacter for the production of functional membrane proteins | Online | UG Honors | Brandon | Curtis | UC-Berkley, PhD Candidate |
| 2010 | A bioprocessing comparision of high-density Botryococcus braunii and CHlorella vulgaris verifying light-limited growth | Online | M.S. | Lisa | Grady | |
| 2010 | Photobioreactor control algorithms in labview utilizing algae bag reactors | Online | UG Honors | Adam | Nebzydoski | Veterinary School |
| 2009 | Kinetics of Geobacter growth with different electron acceptors | Online | UG Honors | Christopher | Justin | |
| 2006 | Agrobacterium-mediated transient protein expression in plant cell suspension and root cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Jason | Collens | |
| 2005 | Transient expression of therapeutic proteins and oxygen transport limitations in plant tissue culture | Online | UG Honors | Amalie | Tuerk | |
| 2005 | The cumulative and sublethal effects of turbulence on erythrocytes in a stirred-tank model | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Brian | Werner | UVA Orthopedics |
| 2005 | Phosphate-related colonization of root cultures by the arbuscular fungus Glomus intraradices | PSU CAT | PhD. | Benjamin | Wong | |
| 2005 | M.S. | Kristin | O'Neill | Merck | ||
| 2004 | Application of Metabolic Flux Analysis toward resource allocation in germinating seeds | PSU CAT | UG Honors | John | Mendenhall | |
| 2004 | Growth of transgenic tobacco cell cultures for calf vaccination against pathogenic Escherichia coli | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Anne Marie | Schilthuis | |
| 2003 | Modeling drug extraction using triblock copolymer solvents | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Stephen | Guepet | |
| 2003 | Development and characterization of agrobacteria auxotrophs using suicide vector mutagenesis | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Amy | Seeman | |
| 2003 | Development of transgenic plants and plant tissue via agrobacterium | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Jennifer | Stick | |
| 2003 | Therapeutic protein expressions system in transgenic N. glutinosa tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Laura | Sailer | |
| 2003 | Expression of virus replication genes in Transgenic N. benthamiana tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Greg | Thurber | |
| 2003 | Gene gun genetic transformation | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Julie | Fisher | |
| 2002 | Bioreactor design for nutraceutical production from germiniating seeds | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Christopher | Hildebrand | |
| 2002 | Construction of a GUS-intron gene for transient protein expression studies in plant tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Karen | Jerardi | |
| 2002 | Influence of root culture morphology on liquid holdup and trickle-bed bioreactor design | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Wigoda | Christopher | |
| 2001 | Use of green fluorescent protein as a reporter of induced biochemical production in Hyoscyamus muticus root cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Colleen | Merritt | |
| 2001 | Design principles for a root culture bubble column bioreactor | PSU CAT | PhD. | Lia | Tescione | |
| 2001 | Tri-blocl co-polymers as an extraction phase for plant secondary metabolites | PhD. | Bernice | Perez-Corchado | ||
| 2000 | Disruption of red blood cells due to turbulence | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Sara | Leister | |
| 2000 | Modeling carbon dioxide gas transport dynamics in cell culture to predict oxygen mass transfer | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Kenneth | Urish | |
| 2000 | Physiological effects of auxin transport inhibitiors on root hair development to reduce bioreactor flow resistance | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Dai | Shen | |
| 2000 | Sub-lethal effects of turbulence on red blood cells | PSU CAT | PhD. | Abdulhameed | Aziz | |
| 1999 | Giving hairy roots the blues: cloning the GUS reporter gene into hairy roots | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Casey | Anderson | |
| 1999 | The effect of elicitation on respiration and growth of plant root cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Edgard Bacic de | Carvalho | |
| 1999 | Continuous flow reactor design for the study of red blood cell disruption | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Amy | Hsiao | |
| 1998 | Calcium phosphate-mediated transient transfection in Hyoscyamus muticus | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Heather | Young | Merck |
| 1998 | The development and validation of new sterilization methods for bioreactors | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Tracy | Hsiao | |
| 1997 | Determination of the effect of relative humidity on root respiration rates in arabidopsis columbia using fluorescent microscopy | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Brindle | Ross | |
| 1997 | A study of the effects of pore diffusion on reaction rate within bidens pilosus cell aggregates | PSU CAT | UG Honors | David | Henninger | |
| 1997 | Growth of silverleaf nightshade cultures for the biological control of silverleaf nightshade using Orrina phyllobia | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Jonathan | Miller | |
| 1997 | Design principles for large-scale growth of root cultures in bioreactors | PSU CAT | PhD. | Divakar | Ramakrishnan | Eli Lilly |
| 1997 | Development and calibration of Shikonin analysis | UG Honors | Albert | Shung | ||
| 1996 | Nutrient diffusion and uptake from plant tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Michelle | Brincat | |
| 1995 | Fungal elicitation of plant root cultures application to bioreactor dosage | PhD. | Gurmeet | Singh | ||
| 1995 | In situ extraction of secondary metabolites using surfactant mesophases | UG Honors | Keith | Welp | ||
| 1995 | ungal elicitation of plant root cultures: application to bioreactor dosage | PSU CAT | PhD. | Gurmeet | Singh | |
| 1994 | Image and fractal analysis of bioreactor root cultures | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Beth | Pearsall | |
| 1994 | Design and scale up of ebb-and-flow bioreactor (EFBR) for "hairy root" cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Joel | Cuello | |
| 1993 | Sugar utilization of plant cell and root tissue cultures; carbohydrate utilization by plant root cultures | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Leah | Sullivan | |
| 1993 | Growth inhibition of Hyoscyamus muticus "Hairy Roots" caused by the production of allelochemicals from beet, potato and trichosanthes kirilowii "Hairy Roots" | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Melissa | Baron | |
| 1993 | Hydraulic permeability of packed beds of roots | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Sean | Holihan | |
| 1992 | Effect of bioreactor design on growth in Agrobacterium transformed "hairy root" cultures of Hyoscyamus muticus | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Scott | McKelvey | |
| 1991 | In situ extraction of secondary metabolites from Hyoscyamus muticus in a continuous bioreactor | PSU CAT | UG Honors | James | Corry | |
| 1991 | Reduction of abnormalities in somatic embryos using phosphate limitation; reduction of abnormalities in somatic embryo's using phosphate limitation | UG Honors | Sharon | Warmbrodt | ||
| 1990 | Optimization of secondary metabolite production in plant tissue culture | M.S. | James | Newell | ||
| 1990 | Study of liquid circulation in loop air-lift bioreactors | M.S. | Nicholas | Zaharis | ||
| 1990 | Combined effects of phosphate limitation and fungal elicitation of sesquiterpene production in Agrobacterium transformed "hairy root" cultures of Hyoscyamus muticus | UG Honors | David | Dunlop | ||
| 1988 | Kinetics of phosphate limited growth of poppy plant suspension cultures | Purdue Library | PhD. | Wayne | Curtis | PSU! |
| 1984 | A mathematical model for a vapor deposition reactor | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Wayne | Curtis | |
| Trickle-bed bioreactors for plant root culture | PhD. | Jeffrey | Hrivnak |
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