Dervan, Peter B.

Advisor — 85 thesises

• Urbach, Adam Robert — 1:1 Motif for DNA Recognition by β-Alanine Linked Polyamides (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Iverson, Brent Lee — 1. Nonenzymatic Cleavage of Single-Stranded DNA to Nucleotide Resolution. 2. Novel Base Specific DNA Cleavage Reactions (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Herndier, Brian — Activation of Cell Function: Pharmacological Agents Which Degranulate Mast Cells and Cause Skeletal Muscle to Contract (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kurmis, Alexis Anna — Activity of Py-Im Polyamides in Anti-Androgen Resistant Prostate Cancer Models (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singleton, Jennifer Wales — Affinity Cleavage of Double-Stranded DNA Directed by a RecA Nucleoprotein Filament Containing an Oligonucleotide-EDTA•Fe(II) (1994, Master's thesis)
• Nguyen Hackley, Doan Hanh — Allosteric Inhibition of Zinc Finger Proteins by DNA Binding Polyamides (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Sherry Mon-Yue — Alpha-Diaminobutyric Acid-Linked Hairpin Polyamide-Alklylator Conjugates (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Fei — Antitumor Activity of Py-lm Polyamides (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takacs, James Michael — Approaches to Asymmetric Synthesis. The Diastereoselective Alkylations of Chiral Propionamide Enolates (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dussault, Patrick H. — Approaches to the Total Synthesis of Aplysiatoxin (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kelly, James J. — Binding site size limitations of imidazole-pyrrole polyamides for recognition in the minor groove of DNA (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phillips, John Wilson — Biological Activity of a Py-Im Polyamide Androgen Receptor Antagonist (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szablowski, Jerzy Olgierd — Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides in vivo (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Iverson, Sheila Anne — Blue Copper Proteins: Gene Synthesis and Expression (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mendel, David — Chemical and Enzymatic Footprinting of Quinoxaline Antibiotics on DNA (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hsu, Carey Frank — Completion of a Programmable DNA-Binding Small Molecule Library (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Krauss, Eric Martin — Conformation and Function of Gramicidin S, a Peptide Antibiotic which Mediates Phase Transfer of Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Graham, Kenneth Scott — Design and chemical synthesis of a sequence-specific DNA-cleaving metalloprotein: NI (II) GGH-γδ(141-183) (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mack, David Phillip — Design and chemical synthesis of sequence specific DNA cleaving metalloproteins (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Greenberg, William Anthony — Design and synthesis of ligands for recognition of the major and minor grooves of DNA (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cho, Junhyeong — Design of cyclic polyamides for sequence-specific recognition of the minor groove of DNA (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trauger, John Wesley — Design of DNA-binding polyamides for regulation of gene expression (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Szewczyk, Jason W. — Design of ligands for sequence-specific recognition of the minor-major grooves of DNA (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koh, Jong Sung — Design of novel bases for recognition of GC base pairs by oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mrksich, Milan — Design of peptides for sequence-specific recognition of the minor groove of DNA (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stafford, Ryan Leonard — Design of Protein-DNA Dimerizers (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fechter, Eric James — Design of Sequence-Specific DNA Intercalators (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sluka, James P. — Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Sequence Specific DNA Cleaving Agents (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oakley, Martha G. — Design, synthesis and characterization of sequence-specific DNA-cleaving metalloproteins (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McGee, Dennis Emmett — Diol Dehydratase: Purification, Structural Characterization, and Mechanism of Action (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jain, Rakesh — Direct Observation and Reactions of Organic Biradicals Generated from Novel Bicyclic Azoalkanes (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Poulin-Kerstien, Adam Thomas — DNA-Templated Dimerizations of Minor Groove-Binding Polyamides (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Najdzionek, Jan Stanley — Electrochemistry of Some Rhodium(I) Complexes (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nickols, Nicholas George — Endogenous Gene Regulation by DNA Binding Polyamides (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown-Wensley, Katherine Ann — Formation of Bonds to Carbon at Transition Metal Centers (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Casewit, Carla Jutta — I. Electrophilic Reactions of p-Toluenesulfonyl Azide. II. ¹⁵N and ¹³C Nuclear Magnetic Studies of Aryldiazonium Compounds Effect of Substituent, Solvent and 18-Crown-6 (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanson, James Edward — I. Matrix Isolation of 1,1-Diazenes. II. Distance, Temperature, and Dynamic Solvent Effects on Electron Transfer Reactions (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brittain, William Joseph — I. Rearrangement of Cyclopropyldiphenylmethyllithium and 4,4-Diphenyl-3-Buten-1-Yllithium. II. Deuterium Isotopic Perturbation of the Cyclopropylmethyl-Cyclobutyl Carbocation (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montgomery, David Church — Improving the Biological Activity of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Martinez, Thomas Farid — Investigations of Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamide Effects on DNA Replication (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Best, Timothy Patrick — Localization of DNA-Binding Polyamides in Living Cells (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Puckett, James William — Microarray and Genome-wide Sequencing Approaches to Characterizing DNA Binding Molecules (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adler, George — NMR Studies of Cooperativity in Hemoglobin (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Edelson, Benjamin S. — Nuclear Localization of Polyamide-Fluorescein Conjugates in Cell Culture (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Povsic, Thomas J. — Oligonucleotide directed sequence specific recognition and alkylation of double helical DNA by triple helix formation (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffin, Linda Chu-Li — Oligonucleotide-Directed Cleavage of Single- and Double-Stranded DNA by Double and Triple Helix Formation (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Joran, Alvin David — Photochemical Electron Transfer at Fixed Distance: A Synthetic Model of the Photosynthetic Primary Process (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Leland, Burton Alan — Photoinduced Electron Transfer: Synthetic Models of the Primary Processes in Photosynthesis (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Doss, Raymond Michael — Programmable Oligomers for DNA Recognition (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cohen, Justin Delgado — Programming Protein Patterns on DNA Nanostructures with Pyrrole-Imidazole Polyamides (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Beal, Peter A. — Recognition of double helical DNA by purine oligonucleotides via triple helix formation (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muzikar, Katy Ann — Repression of DNA-Binding-Dependent Glucocorticoid Receptor-Mediated Gene Expression (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Best, George C. — Sequence composition and mismatch effects on triple helix formation (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baker, Brenda Faye — Sequence Specific Cleavage of Double Helical DNA N-Bromoacetyldistamycin (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wade, Warren Stanfield — Sequence Specific Complexation of B DNA at Sites Containing G,C Base Pairs (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liberles, David Alan — Sequence specific DNA recognition and bending (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luebke, Kevin J. — Sequence specific nonenzymatic ligation of single- and double-stranded DNA by triple helix formation (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Youngquist, Robert Scott — Sequence Specific Recognition and Cleavage of DNA by Synthetic Molecules (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Clay Chia Chun — Sequence Specific Trapping of Topoisomerase I by Camptothecin Polyamide Conjugates (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Carter, Scott Reynolds — Sequence-specific minor groove binding polyamides : DNA recognition and applications (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Parks, Michelle E. — Sequence-specific recognition of DNA by pyrrole-imidazole hairpin polyamides (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Foister, Shane — Shape Selective Recognition of the DNA Minor Groove by Hairpin Polyamides (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Strobel, Scott A. — Site specific cleavage of genomic DNA mediated by triple helix formation (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jacobs, Claire Sigrid — Structural Modifications to DNA-Binding Polyamides for Improved Biological Activity in Cell Culture (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farkas, Michelle Elizabeth — Structural Variations on the Turn Unit of DNA-Binding Hairpin Py-Im Polyamides (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griffin, John Hampton — Structure-, stereochemistry-, and metal-regulated DNA binding/cleaving molecules (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hardy, Richard Randolph — Studies of the Specificities and Function of Immunoglobulins: I. Relationship Between Structures and Specificity in Dinitrophenyl-Binding Mouse Myeloma Immunoglobulins. II. Effector Function Triggering in Immunoglobulins (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Han, Hogyu — Study of RNA structure by affinity cleaving (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Benjamin Chun Yeung — Synthesis and Biological Studies of DNA-binding Cyclic Py-Im Polyamides (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Straus, Daniel Albert — Synthesis and Reactivity of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanacyclobutanes and Ketene Complexes of Bis(cyclopentadienyl)titanium and Bis(cyclopentadienyl)zirconium (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chenoweth, David Michael — Synthesis and Structural Studies of Cyclic Py-Im Polyamides (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Santilli, Don S. — Synthesis and Thermal Decomposition of CIS-3,4,5,6-Tetrahydropyridazine-3,4-d₂ (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kang, JeenJoo Sophia — Targeting DNA Repeat Sequences with Py-Im Polyamides (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Drew, Horace Rainsford, III — The High Resolution Structure of DNA by Single-Crystal X-Ray Methods (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marques, Michael Anthony — The Molecular Recognition of DNA by Novel Heterocycles (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, Carol Ruth — The Syntheses and Thermal Decompositions of Six-Membered Cyclic Diacyl Peroxides (1979, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hinsberg, William Dinan, III — The Synthesis, Spectroscopic Observation and Chemical Reactivity of N-(2,2,6,6-Tetramethylpiperidyl)Ni trene (1980, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Singleton, Scott F. — The thermodynamics of oligonucleotide-directed triple helix formation at single DNA sites (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Taber, Terry Ray — The Total Synthesis of A-23187 and Related Enantioselective Aldol Condensations (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Daub, John Powell — The Total Synthesis of Macrolide Antibiotics (1983, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hacia, Joseph Gerard — The use of modified oligonucleotides to investigate biological applications for triple helix formation (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McElwee-White, Lisa Ann — Theoretical and Experimental Assessment of the Viability of 1,4,6,9-Spiro[4.4]Nonatetrayl as a Reactive Intermediate (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hawke, David Harry — Thermal Decomposition of (Presumed) Bismethylene Diazene (1977, Master's thesis)
• Shippey, Michael Allen — Trimethylsilyl Anions: Stereospecific Deoxygenation of Epoxides and Trimethylsilyldehalogenation of Aryl Halides (1978, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koelsch, Peter Martin — Use of Masked Quinones in Organic Synthesis: Efforts Directed Towards the Synthesis of Tropolonoid Natural Products (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))