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Douglas Murphy |
Cell Biology |
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Draw a typical epithelial layer. |
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How do molecules get across epithelial
layers? |
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How could you determine the rates of
passage through/between epithelial cells? |
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What equation(s) are relevant to
molecules diffusing between cells? |
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How could you image this? |
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What are relative advantages and
disadvantages of optical vs. electron microscopy for imaging this
situation? |
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Howard Fairbrother |
MaterialsSci |
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What's the difference between metal,
semiconductor, and polymer surfaces? |
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What is surface relaxation. Why does it
happen? What are relative amounts of relaxatin on polymer,
semiconductor, and metal. Why? |
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Why are some oxide layers stable?
Do oxides surface relax more or less than plain metal? |
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Where is the weak point in a metal
covered with a metal oxide? Why? How does this cracking
between oxide and plain aluminum cause an airplane to fail?
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What are the different types of depth
profiling? What do they help you see?
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Why is imaging XPS resolution poor? |
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Why is Augier surface sensititve? |
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Christopher Chen |
BME |
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Draw an amino acid. |
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Draw a protein molecule and explain how
the amino acids form this. |
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How long is a typical Carbon-carbon bond? |
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Using 4 angstroms as a typical C-C bond,
estimate the volume of a 30kD
protein. |
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How does a cell get out of a blood
vessel? |
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Why is elastin elastic? Why is it
different in tension vs compression? |
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What are the basic components of a
typical heart valve. (this built off my previous valve design research) |
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Why is the valve made out of these
things? |
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Why does a mechanical valve fail before a
physiological valve? |
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Why does "fixed" porcine valve fail
before living valve? |
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Would cells invade a "fixed" valve? If
so, how? |
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What happens during fixation? |
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Andrew Douglas |
MechE |
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Develop model for populations of gazelles
and cheetahs if there is unlimited food for the gazelles. Is this model
linear? ODE or PDE? |
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What's the difference between on ODE and
a PDE? |
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Graph out the course that the 2
populations (cheetah and gazelles) would take. Find equilibrium point
using dimensional analysis. |
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How could you solve this type of equation
numerically? |
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What is the significance of time steps in
numerical solutions? How does the equation determine appropriate time
steps? |
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What is the diffusion equation? |
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How do you get from the diffusion
equation to a characteristic diffusion length? |
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Mark Soloski |
Immunology |
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How does T cell antigen recognition
take place? Explain and draw relevant molecules. How is the antigen
processed? |
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How does T cell internal receptor
signaling work? |
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What is the composition of the T cell
receptor? |
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What is the basic structure of an MHC
gene product molecule? |
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Which parts of the T cell receptor and
the MHC molecule are variable? |
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Where does antigen bind the MHC
molecule? Describe the structure of this binding cleft? |
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How could you detect the protein
contents of a single cell? (This built off my research project.) |
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