ii To my wife, Dr. Nah-Young Shin & my son, Edward Won Cho, who ...

To my wife, Dr. Nah-Young Shin & my son, Edward Won Cho,
who gave me lessons of life with smile, crying and love.
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AKNOWLEDGEMENT
I am deeply thankful to my advisor Dr. Michael P. Stone for his guidance
with a great patience during this journey. He made me growing through this
voyage. I was affected and encouraged by him. I am also grateful to my
committee members: Drs. Carmelo J. Rizzo, Terry Lybrand, Sandra J. Rosenthal,
and Chuck Sanders. They supported me with valuable questions and suggestions
in our regular committee meetings. It was my honor to have many people who
helped and taught me through the project. Drs. Thomas and Connie Harris, and
their lab members helped me from the sample preparation and to many
discussions. NMR was the main tool that I used for this journey, and there were
Dr. Jason Jacob and Mr. Markus Voehler. They were my NMR gurus. I also
would like to thank Dr. Hye-Young Kim who helped me in the beginning in
Stone lab. Another help came from Dr. R. Stephen Lloyd and his group members
who shared many biological studies about adducts with me and many questions
during our meetings. I enjoyed the time with two senior members in Stone lab:
Drs. Tandace Scholdberg and Keith W. Merrit. They were more than just friends.
I deeply appreciate their good wishes on me. I cannot forget my other colleagues
Drs. Kristina Furse and Angela Goodenough for their help and friendship. I also
would like to appreciate my lab friends: Dr. Feng Wang, Mr. Kyle Brown, Dr.
Hai Huang, Ms. Wen Xu, Dr. Ganesh Shanmugam, Dr. Yazhen Wang, Ms.
Heather Day and Ms. Sarrah Musser who provided me a cozy lab environment
with their pleasant smiles. Especially, Sarrah helped me for proofreading this
dissertation. There were Korean friends who were with me during this journey.
Dr. Young-Tae Lee was a special friend whom I met here. Along with Dr. Hak-
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Jun Kim, we played tennis together and loved NMR. I was fortunate to have our
neighbors, Dr. Ji-Woong Han and Ms. Iran No. Dr-to-be Min-Suk Kang became
one of beloved friends while we were sharing graduate life. Drs. James McAfee
and Iren Zegar were the people who encouraged me to start this journey from
Pittsburg to here. And, my special thanks to Dr. Robert E. Venturella (Dr. Bob)
should be addressed. He is my supporter and kept encouraging me from the
beginning. Without his encouragement, it was impossible for such a shy Korean
came to USA for doing his study.
My Nashville life was joyful. When we were suffered, there was a shelter,
NKP church. It was good to have good people around us. I apologize if I missed
anyone to express my thanks on this page.
Needless to say, my Ph. D could not be achieved without sacrifice of many
people. I am so much in debt to my family: my parents, parents-in-laws, brother,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, grandmother, and late grandfather. They were
always in my heart and made me strong. Especially, I wish to thank my wife,
Nah-Young Shin and my son, Edward (Won). They joined my journey and they
were always with me. They helped and feeded me so much with great loves. I
hope that this journey was worthy of their sacrifice for me.
And finally, I thank God.
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