Peter Reilly’s Alumni

MASTER’S THESES DIRECTED

Iowa State University

2007
T. C. Shilling. Cloning, expression, purification and characterization of a glycoside hydrolase family 44 cellulase from Clostridium acetobutylicum in Escherichia coli.

2003
C. L. Aikens. Automated docking of phospholipids to the phospholipase D active site: Insight into the catalytic mechanism.

2001
C. Mulakala. Understanding protein structure-function relationships in Family 47 a-1,2-man­nosidases through computational docking of ligands.
P.-H. Feng. Production, purification, and characterization of a glucoamylase from Thermoan­aerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum.

1999
Z. Fan. Characterization of the thermostability and kinetics of Acremonium strictum glucooligo­saccharide oxidase.

1997
R. J. Fink-Winter. High performance liquid chromatography for separation of sugar phosphates and oligomers of immunoglobulin A (M.E. Creative Component)

1996
A. Joshi. Conformational analysis and molecular dynamics of mannosylated peptides.
A. Sivasothy. Low molecular weight organic composition of acid waters from vegetable oil soap­ stocks.

1994
S. L. Johansen. Low molecular weight organic composition of alkali-washed oilseed extracts from canola, corn, cottonseed, peanut, soybean, and sunflower (M.E. Creative Component)

1993
N. M. Flory. Isolation and characterization of Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase mutants with altered thermostability (jointly supervised with Prof. C. Ford).
P. M. Coutinho. Computational studies of glucoamylase structure.

1990
J. Zeng. Computation of conformations and energies of a-D-glucosyl disaccharides by molecular modeling.

1987
S. Pestlin. Condensation reactions catalyzed by Aspergillus niger glucoamylase: Kinetics, equil­ibria, and product analyses for two-monosaccharide systems.

1985
E. J.-M. Selosse. Gas chromatography of trisaccharides and kinetics of glucoamylase-catalyzed disaccharide hydrolysis.

1984
M. M. Meagher. Purification and chromatography of xylooligosaccharides and determination of kinetic parameters for an endo-xylanase.

1983
Z. L. Nikolov. Glucoamylase-catalyzed production, chromatographic analysis, and anomeric properties of disaccharides.

1979
R. Fournier A. The purification and characterization of an endo-xylanase from Aspergillus niger.

1978
H. Kaboli. Properties of soluble and immobilized dextransucrase.

1975
U. Gündüz. The properties of xylanase from Aspergillus niger.

 

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1975
R. C. Eliason. Hydrolysis of sucrose by invertase covalently bound to the walls of hollow cellu­lose fibers (jointly supervised with Prof. R. E. Gilbert)

1973
R. J. Williams. Sucrose hydrolysis by invertase immobilized in hollow fibers (jointly supervised with Prof. R. E. Gilbert).

1972
S. Goto. Growth of the blue-green alga Microcystis aeruginosa under defined conditions.

1971
I. R. Kothari. Growth of single cells of Schizosaccharomyces pombe under nutrient limitation (jointly supervised with Prof. J. M. Eakman).
C.-C. Chao. Symbiotic growth of Acetobacter suboxydans and Saccharomyces carlsbergensis in a chemostat.

1970
S. K. Khinvasara. The catonic resin catalyzed esterification of choline in glacial acetic acid.

 

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED

Iowa State University

2010
C. D. Warner. Structures, kinetics, and modeling of glycoside hydrolase family 44 endoglucan­ases from Clostridium acetobutylicum and Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1.
L. Petersen. Catalytic strategies of glycoside hydrolases.

2009
K. A. Vander Velden. Modeling biochemical networks (jointly supervised with Prof. V. G. Hon­avar).

2008
B. Mertz. Computational analysis of the phylogeny and thermodynamics of glycoside hydro­lases.

2006
A. D. Hill. Computational methods in the study of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-active enzymes.

2005
C. Mulakala. Force calculations in automated docking.

2003
A. Laederach. Protein-carbohydrate and protein-protein interactions: Using models to better understand and predict specific molecular recognition (Research Excellence Award and Zaffarano Prize) (jointly supervised with Prof. A. Andreotti).

1998
H.-L. Liu. Mutational analysis of Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase selectivity to improve glu­cose yield (jointly supervised with Prof. C. Ford).

1996
P. M. Coutinho. Computational studies of glucoamylase selectivity (Research Excellence Award and Zaffarano Prize).

1993
H.-M. Chen. Site-directed mutagenesis to enhance thermostability of Aspergillus awamori gluco­amylase expressed in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (jointly supervised with Prof. C. Ford).
U. Bakir. Tailoring the pH dependence of Aspergillus awamori glucoamylase by mutagenesis (jointly supervised with Prof. C. Ford).

1988
M. R. Sierks. Mutagenesis of the active site of glucoamylase from Aspergillus awamori (jointly supervised with Prof. C. Ford) (Research Excellence Award).
B. Y. Tao. Characterization of subsite binding and catalytic mechanisms of an endoxylanase, amylosucrase, and porcine pancreatic alpha-amylase (jointly supervised with Prof. J. F. Robyt).

1987
M. M. Meagher. Characterization, kinetics, and subsite mapping of Aspergillus niger glucoamy­lases I and II, and partial purification and characterization of a Chainia endo-xylanase.

1986
Z. Nikolov. Reversion reactions catalyzed by glucoamylases I and II from Aspergillus niger: Product analysis, kinetics, equilibria, and modeling.

1985
A. R. Fratzke, Jr. Kinetic analysis of the dimerization and disproportionation of aqueous glyoxal.

1979
G. B. Oguntimein. Purification, characterization, and immobilization of b-xylosidase.

1978
G. K. Lee. The effect of slow substrate diffusion on the activity, stability, and selectivity of immobilized enzymes: A theoretical and experimental study.
D. D. Lee. Pilot plant production of glucose with glucoamylase immobilized to porous silica.