Ministry research project (D. Min.)--Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 187-192).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity International University, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-227).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Lombard, Ill., 1998. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 359-368).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity International University, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-227).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, 2006. / Abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-155).

Thesis (M.A.R.)--Emmanuel School of Religion, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-76).

Proefschrift Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. / Met lit.opg. - Met samenvatting in het Nederlands.

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 262-284).

New memories are labile, but over time some of them are stabilized. This thesis investigates the network mechanisms in the brain underlying the gradual consolidation of memory representations. Specifically, I performed a causal test of the long-standing hypothesis that the offline reactivation of new, memory-representing cell assemblies supports memory consolidation by stabilizing those assemblies and increasing the likelihood of their later reinstatement - and therefore presumably of memory recall. I performed multi-unit extracellular recordings in the dorsal CA1 region of behaving mice, from which I detected short-timescale (25 ms) co-activation patterns of principal neurons during exploration of open-field enclosures. These cell assembly patterns appeared to represent space as their expression was spatially tuned and environment specific; and these patterns were preferentially reactivated during sharp wave-ripples (SWRs) in subsequent sleep. Importantly, after exposure to a novel - but not a familiar - enclosure, the strength with which an assembly pattern was reactivated predicted its later reinstatement strength during context re-exposure. Moreover, optogenetic silencing of hippocampal pyramidal neurons during on-the-fly detected SWRs during the sleep following exposure to a novel - but again not a familiar - enclosure impaired subsequent assembly pattern reinstatement. These results are direct evidence for a causal role of SWR-associated reactivation in the stability of new hippocampal cell assemblies. Surprisingly, offline reactivation was only important for the stability of a subset of the assembly patterns expressed in a novel enclosure. Optogenetic SWR silencing only impaired the reinstatement of "gradually strengthened" patterns that had had a significant increasing trend in their expression strength throughout the initial exposure session. Consistent with this result, a positive correlation between reactivation and subsequent reinstatement was only found for these gradually strengthened patterns and not for the other, "early stabilized" patterns. An interesting interpretation is that the properties of the gradually strengthened patterns are all consistent with the Hebbian postulate of "fire together, wire together". To enable investigation of the relation between interneurons and principal cell assembly patterns from extracellular recordings, as a final contribution this thesis describes a statistical framework for the unsupervised classification of interneurons based on their firing properties alone.

Les chaperonines sont des chaperonnes moléculaires indispensables pour le repliement de certaines protéines dans les cellules. La taille et la complexité de ces machineries biologiques rendent complexes l'étude de leurs propriétés structurales et fonctionnelles. La spectroscopie RMN permet de suivre des changements structuraux et dynamiques en temps réel avec une résolution atomique. Cependant, l'étude par RMN de protéines ou de complexes de haut poids moléculaires a été un challenge pendant de nombreuses années. Dans la première partie de cette thèse, il a été montré que la combinaison de marquage spécifique des groupements méthyles, d'expériences RMN optimisées et de microscopie électronique peut être utilisée pour suivre différents états du cycle fonctionnel d'une chaperonine de 1 MDa. Pour étudier ce mécanisme, la chaperonine native a été reconstituée avec un marquage des groupements méthyles des méthionines et valines. Les résidus méthionines ont pu être utilisés comme des sondes pour identifier les spectres RMN correspondant aux états intermédiaires et aux espèces actives du cycle fonctionnel. Grâce à ces sondes il a été possible de suivre en temps réel les réarrangements structuraux correspondant aux différentes conformations de la chaperonine durant son cycle fonctionnel. La seconde partie traite de la caractérisation de l'interaction de la chaperonine avec une protéine cliente dépliée. L'observation de la stabilisation de l'état déplié de la protéine par la chaperonine a permis de mettre en évidence une activité de "holdase" de la chaperonine. En utilisant une combinaison astucieuse de différents marquages de groupements méthyles et d'expériences RMN optimisés pour des assemblages de haut poids moléculaire, il a été possible d'observer le repliement de cette protéine par la chaperonine et les effets de la présence d'une protéine dépliée sur le cycle fonctionnel de la chaperonine en action. / Chaperonins are essential molecular chaperons for the refolding of proteins in the cells. Size and complexity of these biological machineries make complex the study of their structural and functional properties. NMR spectroscopy offers an unique ability to monitor structural and dynamic changes in real-time and at atomic resolution. However, the NMR studies of large proteins and complexes has been a real challenge for a long time. In the first part of this thesis, it has been shown that the combination of methyl specific labeling, optimized NMR spectroscopy for large assemblies and electron microscopy can be used to monitor the different states of the functional cycle of a 1 MDa chaperonin. To study this mechanism, the native chaperonin was reconstituted with a labeling of the methionines and valines methyl groups. Methionines residues have been used as probes to identify the NMR spectra corresponding to intermediates states and active species of the functional cycle. Thanks to theses probes, it has been possible to follow in real time the structural rearrangements corresponding to the different conformations of the chaperonin during its functional cycle. The second part deals with the characterization of the interaction between the chaperonin and an unfolded protein. Observation of the stabilization of the unfolded protein by the chaperonin allowed to identify the holdase activity of the chaperonin. Using a clever combination of a differential methyl labeling and optimized NMR spectroscopy for large assemblies, it has been possible to follow the refolding of the unfolded protein by the chaperonin and the effects of the unfolded protein on the functional cycle of the chaperonin in action.