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| 2020 | First Principles Airlift Photobioreactor for the Energy Balance of Microalgae for Biofuels Applications | UG Honors | Lucas | Nugent | Mars | UG-58 | |
| 2020 | Automating the Regulation of Critical Equipment through the Application of Sensors | UG Honors | Michael | Cover | UG-57 | ||
| 2019 | Temporary Immersion Bioreactors: Developments toward yam propagation and African food security | Trauger thesis | UG Honors | Marena | Trauger | Merck | UG-56 |
| 2019 | Hydrocarbon Production of Botryococcus braunii Race B under Varying Culture Conditions | Lind Online | UG Honors | Michael | Lind | Kimberly Clark | UG-55 |
| 2018 | Development & Comparison of Potential HIV-Transmission Prevention Proteins Native to Freshwater Cyanobacteria | Jones thesis | UG Honors | Ryan | Jones | ExxonMobil | UG-54 |
| 2017 | atATAD Heat Accumulation in Countercurrent Flow, Continuous Phase Sludge Treatment Process to Class A Fertilizer | PhD. | Sarah Jean | Johnson | MS-08 | ||
| 2016 | Improving Membrane Protein Expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides | Vinogradova thesis | UG Honors | Olga | Vinagradova | PhD, Carnegie Mellon | UG-53 |
| 2016 | Enhancement of Somatic Embryogenesis in Theobroma caca using Phtyocyanin-like-1 Arabinogalactan (PLA) Protein Domains | Online | M.S. | Tina | Lai | N/A | MS-07 |
| 2016 | Development of the Marine Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002 as a Low-Cost Photoautotrophic Protein Production Platform | Erik thesis | UG Honors | Erik | Curtis | Merck | UG-52 |
| 2016 | Rice Embryogenic Protein Production and Distribution | Legenski thesis | UG Honors | Katie | Legenski | Janssen | UG-51 |
| 2016 | Development of an Inducible Suicide Vector for the Control of Agrobacterium tumefaciens | Hamaker thesis | UG Honors | Nate | Hamaker | PhD, U. Delaware | UG-50 |
| 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 | PhD-18 |
| 2015 | Improving plant propagation through the manipulation of the genetic and physical environment | Online | PhD. | Sergio | Florez | Ginkgo Biosciences | PhD-17 |
| 2015 | Methods for enhancing somatic embryogenesis in Theobroma cacao | Online | UG Honors | Rachel | Erwin | Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY | UG-49 |
| 2015 | Development of biological platform for the autotrophic production of biofuels | Online | PhD. | Nymul | Khan | Aquaponics in Bangladesh | PhD-16 |
| 2014 | Advancing Rhodobacter sphaeroides for Functional Expression of Medically and Industrially Relevant Membrane Proteins | Online | PhD. | Mustafa | Erbakan | Bozok Universitesi, Turkey | PhD-15 |
| 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 | UG-48 | |
| 2014 | Application of two different fungal species for biological pretreatment in an integrated lignocellulosic biofuels paradigm | Online | UG Honors | Taylor | Maher | UG-47 | |
| 2014 | Engineering a microbial consortium for lignocellulosic biofuel production | Online | PhD. | Trevor | Zuroff | Shell Oil | PhD-14 |
| 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 | UG-46 |
| 2013 | Development of optimization procedure for the expression of the membrane protein Aquaporin in Rhodobacter sphaeroides | Online | UG Honors | Manuel SE | Espinoza | Merck | UG-45 |
| 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 | UG-44 | |
| 2013 | Establishment and Maintenance of Axenic Botryococcus braunii race B Algae Culture | Online | UG Honors | Justin | Yoo | UCSB PhD Candidate, NSF Fellowship | UG-43 |
| 2013 | A continuous bioreactor to study the persistence of extracellular biofuel candidate molecules in a non-axenic algae culture | Online | UG Honors | Christine | Taylor | UG-42 | |
| 2013 | Cloning of insecticidal BT genes for application to protection of mushrooms from fungus gnats | Online | UG Honors | Matt | Curtis | Cal Tech, PhD Candidate | UG-41 |
| 2013 | Novel temporary immersion bioreactor allows the manipulation of headspace composition to improve plant tissue propagation | Online | UG Honors | Matt | Curtis | CalTech PhD. Candidate | UG-40 |
| 2012 | An improved temporary immersion bioreactor design for plant tissue culture propagation | Online | UG Honors | Sydney | Shaw | Sanofi (Genzyme) Cambridge, MA | UG-39 |
| 2012 | Achieving pH control through stoichiometrically balanced media in algal photobioreactors | Online | M.S. | Megerle | Scherholz | MS-06 | |
| 2011 | An assessment of photosynthetic biofuels and electrofuels technologies under rate-limited conditions | Online | M.S. | Amalie | Tuerk | U. Delaware, PhD Candidate, NSF Fellow | MS-05 |
| 2011 | Development of Agaricus bisporus as a platform for heterologous expression of biopharmaceuticals | Online | UG Honors | Ben | Woolston | MIT, PhD Candidate | UG-38 |
| 2011 | Engineering high-level transient expression of heterologous proteins in plant cell suspensions and hairy roots | Online | PhD. | Jeffrey | Larsen | DOWpont | PhD-13 |
| 2011 | Development of Rhodobacter for the production of functional membrane proteins | Online | UG Honors | Brandon | Curtis | Radar Relay | UG-37 |
| 2010 | A bioprocessing comparision of high-density Botryococcus braunii and CHlorella vulgaris verifying light-limited growth | Online | M.S. | Lisa | Grady | MS-04 | |
| 2010 | Photobioreactor control algorithms in labview utilizing algae bag reactors | Online | UG Honors | Adam | Nebzydoski | Veterinary School | UG-36 |
| 2009 | Kinetics of Geobacter growth with different electron acceptors | Online | UG Honors | Christopher | Justin | UG-35 | |
| 2006 | Agrobacterium-mediated transient protein expression in plant cell suspension and root cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Jason | Collens | PhD-12 | |
| 2005 | Transient expression of therapeutic proteins and oxygen transport limitations in plant tissue culture | Online | UG Honors | Amalie | Tuerk | UG-34 | |
| 2005 | The cumulative and sublethal effects of turbulence on erythrocytes in a stirred-tank model | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Brian | Werner | UVA Orthopedics | UG-33 |
| 2005 | Phosphate-related colonization of root cultures by the arbuscular fungus Glomus intraradices | PSU CAT | PhD. | Benjamin | Wong | PhD-11 | |
| 2005 | M.S. | Kristin | O'Neill | Merck | MS-03 | ||
| 2004 | Application of Metabolic Flux Analysis toward resource allocation in germinating seeds | PSU CAT | UG Honors | John | Mendenhall | UG-32 | |
| 2004 | Growth of transgenic tobacco cell cultures for calf vaccination against pathogenic Escherichia coli | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Anne Marie | Schilthuis | UG-31 | |
| 2003 | Modeling drug extraction using triblock copolymer solvents | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Stephen | Guepet | UG-30 | |
| 2003 | Development and characterization of agrobacteria auxotrophs using suicide vector mutagenesis | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Amy | Seeman | UG-29 | |
| 2003 | Development of transgenic plants and plant tissue via agrobacterium | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Jennifer | Stick | UG-28 | |
| 2003 | Therapeutic protein expressions system in transgenic N. glutinosa tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Laura | Sailer | UG-27 | |
| 2003 | Expression of virus replication genes in Transgenic N. benthamiana tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Greg | Thurber | UG-26 | |
| 2003 | Gene gun genetic transformation | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Julie | Fisher | UG-25 | |
| 2002 | Bioreactor design for nutraceutical production from germiniating seeds | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Christopher | Hildebrand | UG-24 | |
| 2002 | Construction of a GUS-intron gene for transient protein expression studies in plant tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Karen | Jerardi | UG-23 | |
| 2002 | Influence of root culture morphology on liquid holdup and trickle-bed bioreactor design | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Wigoda | Christopher | UG-22 | |
| 2001 | Use of green fluorescent protein as a reporter of induced biochemical production in Hyoscyamus muticus root cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Colleen | Merritt | PhD-10 | |
| 2001 | Design principles for a root culture bubble column bioreactor | PSU CAT | PhD. | Lia | Tescione | PhD-09 | |
| 2001 | Tri-blocl co-polymers as an extraction phase for plant secondary metabolites | PhD. | Bernice | Perez-Corchado | PhD-08 | ||
| 2000 | Disruption of red blood cells due to turbulence | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Sara | Leister | UG-21 | |
| 2000 | Modeling carbon dioxide gas transport dynamics in cell culture to predict oxygen mass transfer | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Kenneth | Urish | UG-20 | |
| 2000 | Physiological effects of auxin transport inhibitiors on root hair development to reduce bioreactor flow resistance | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Dai | Shen | UG-19 | |
| 2000 | Sub-lethal effects of turbulence on red blood cells | PSU CAT | PhD. | Abdulhameed | Aziz | PhD-07 | |
| 1999 | Giving hairy roots the blues: cloning the GUS reporter gene into hairy roots | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Casey | Anderson | UG-18 | |
| 1999 | The effect of elicitation on respiration and growth of plant root cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Edgard Bacic de | Carvalho | PhD-06 | |
| 1999 | Continuous flow reactor design for the study of red blood cell disruption | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Amy | Hsiao | UG-17 | |
| 1998 | Calcium phosphate-mediated transient transfection in Hyoscyamus muticus | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Heather | Young | Merck | UG-16 |
| 1998 | The development and validation of new sterilization methods for bioreactors | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Tracy | Hsiao | UG-15 | |
| 1997 | Determination of the effect of relative humidity on root respiration rates in arabidopsis columbia using fluorescent microscopy | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Brindle | Ross | UG-14 | |
| 1997 | A study of the effects of pore diffusion on reaction rate within bidens pilosus cell aggregates | PSU CAT | UG Honors | David | Henninger | UG-13 | |
| 1997 | Growth of silverleaf nightshade cultures for the biological control of silverleaf nightshade using Orrina phyllobia | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Jonathan | Miller | UG-12 | |
| 1997 | Design principles for large-scale growth of root cultures in bioreactors | PSU CAT | PhD. | Divakar | Ramakrishnan | Eli Lilly | PhD-05 |
| 1997 | Development and calibration of Shikonin analysis | UG Honors | Albert | Shung | UG-11 | ||
| 1996 | Nutrient diffusion and uptake from plant tissue culture | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Michelle | Brincat | 2018 ... raised 3 boys !!! | UG-10 |
| 1995 | Fungal elicitation of plant root cultures application to bioreactor dosage | PhD. | Gurmeet | Singh | PhD-04 | ||
| 1995 | In situ extraction of secondary metabolites using surfactant mesophases | UG Honors | Keith | Welp | UG-09 | ||
| 1995 | ungal elicitation of plant root cultures: application to bioreactor dosage | PSU CAT | PhD. | Gurmeet | Singh | PhD-3 | |
| 1994 | Image and fractal analysis of bioreactor root cultures | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Beth | Pearsall | UG-08 | |
| 1994 | Design and scale up of ebb-and-flow bioreactor (EFBR) for "hairy root" cultures | PSU CAT | PhD. | Joel | Cuello | PhD-02 | |
| 1993 | Sugar utilization of plant cell and root tissue cultures; carbohydrate utilization by plant root cultures | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Leah | Sullivan | UG-07 | |
| 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 | UG-06 | |
| 1993 | Hydraulic permeability of packed beds of roots | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Sean | Holihan | UG-05 | |
| 1992 | Trickle-bed bioreactors for plant root culture | PhD. | Jeffrey | Hrivnak | PhD-1 | ||
| 1992 | Effect of bioreactor design on growth in Agrobacterium transformed "hairy root" cultures of Hyoscyamus muticus | PSU CAT | UG Honors | Scott | McKelvey | UG-04 | |
| 1991 | In situ extraction of secondary metabolites from Hyoscyamus muticus in a continuous bioreactor | PSU CAT | UG Honors | James | Corry | UG-03 | |
| 1991 | Reduction of abnormalities in somatic embryos using phosphate limitation; reduction of abnormalities in somatic embryo's using phosphate limitation | UG Honors | Sharon | Warmbrodt | UG-02 | ||
| 1990 | Optimization of secondary metabolite production in plant tissue culture | M.S. | James | Newell | MS-02 | ||
| 1990 | Study of liquid circulation in loop air-lift bioreactors | M.S. | Nicholas | Zaharis | MS-01 | ||
| 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 | UG-01 | ||
| 1988 | Kinetics of phosphate limited growth of poppy plant suspension cultures | Purdue Library | PhD. | Wayne | Curtis | PSU! | PhD-0 |
| 1984 | A mathematical model for a vapor deposition reactor | WRC PSU '84 UG | UG Honors | Wayne | Curtis | UG-0 |
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