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Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Forest and the Factory: Debt, Development, and Community in the Amazon Delta, Matthew Abel
Investigation of Metabolic and Molecular Pathways that Promote Gastric Parietal Cell Regeneration, Mahliyah Lenore Adkins-Threats
Grasping Type Affects Configural Encoding in Visual Working Memory, Shinhae Ahn
Combining Simulations and Single Molecule Spectroscopy To Understand SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein-RNA Interactions, Jhullian Jamille Alston
Solo Dance in Greek and Roman Comedy, Marleigh Anderson
Plutarch on Marriage for Its Own Sake: What Makes Marriage Good and What Marriage is Good for in the Coniugalia Praecepta, Patrick Andrews
Three Essays on Public Attitudes toward Federal Agencies, Zoe Ang
Modeling X-Linked Dystonia Parkinsonism (XDP) in Patient-Derived Medium Spiny Neurons, Shivani Aryal
Bioinformatic tools to alleviate the annotation bottleneck within precision oncology, Erica Kay Barnell
A Thesis on Phosphatidylserine as a Key Signaling Moiety During Adipocyte Differentiation, Brady Jeffrey Barron
The “Dread Sex Cases:” Community, Citizenship, and the Regulation of Adult Theaters in the 1970s, Erin Barry
The “Dread Sex Cases:” Community, Citizenship, and the Regulation of Adult Theaters in the 1970s, Erin Barry
Maternal-Fetal Circadian Communication during Pregnancy, Keenan Bates
Understanding the Spectrum of DNMT3A Mutations in Neurodevelopmental Disease, Diana Christian Beard
Mechanisms and Consequences of Microtubule-Based Symmetry Breaking in Plant Roots, Natasha Anriel Bilkey
Three Models of Border Stability and Integrity, Afiq bin Oslan
Investigating the role of DciA during the cell cycle in Mycobacterium, Helen Catherine Blaine
Antibiotic Resistance at Sequence, Population, and Global Scales, Kevin Blake
Roles of Type I Interferon Signaling in Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection, Suhas Bobba
Inflammation and Reward-related Neural and Behavioral Phenotypes, Erin Bondy
Wide-field optical imaging of neurological disorders and sleep in mice, Lindsey M. Brier
Multi-Scalar Contributions to Sex Differences in Brain Tumor Incidence and Outcome, Lauren Broestl
The Dual-Task Costs of Audiovisual Speech Processing Across Levels of Background Noise and Semantic Constraint, Violet Aurora Brown
Inhibiting Notch Signaling in miNs Improves Neurite Extension & Investigating the Epigenome of Alzheimer’s Disease, Kyle Foster Burbach
The Queer Imaginary in French Literature and Opera: Undressing Gender, Sexuality, and Difference, Keenan Burton
Dissecting Tau Isoform Control and Modeling Tauopathies in Directly-Reprogrammed Neurons, Lucia Capano
Constraining Subtleties of General Relativity and Quantum Phenomena of Gravitational Radiation with Gravitational-Wave Observations, Matthew Fowler Carney
Identifying the Molecular Fate Logic Underlying Direct Neuronal Conversion, Kitra Cates
UvrD1 Helicase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that can be Activated by Multiple Unique Mechanisms, Ankita Chadda
Investigating the relationship between smoking, genomics, and brain imaging, Yoonhoo Chang
Investigation of the Deubiquitinating Enzyme USP7 in the Brain, Hao Chen
The role of the neurodevelopmental disorder gene Myt1l in mammalian brain development, Jiayang Chen
The role of the neurodevelopmental disorder gene Myt1l in mammalian brain development, Jiayang Chen
Assessment of Cross-protective Responses to Emerging Variant Viruses, Rita Elaine Chen
An Evolving View of Host-Microbiome Co-Development in Healthy and Undernourished Children, Robert Yuzen Chen
Pastoralism as Institutions: Modeling the Pastoral Landscape in Tibet in the Second and First Millennium BC, Xinzhou Chen
Restoring the Mechanoresponsiveness of Aged Bone to Mechanical Loading, Christopher John Chermside-Scabbo
Investigating how sterol transport affects survival of the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans in host-like conditions, Hau Lam Choy
Application of Advanced Mathematical Approaches to the Interpretation of Remote Sensing Observations of the Surface of Mars, John Randall Christian
IL-15 and IFN-g regulation in murine NK cells, Maria Cimpean
“I am this Map, a History”: Walking, Memory, and Writing the Troubles in Contemporary Northern Irish Literature, Ian David Clark
On the Origin of AIDS: CARD8’s Role in Pathogenesis and Cure, Kolin Clark
Putting Attentional Control on the Map: An Investigation of Meaningful Boundaries and Context-Specific Control, Jackson Stuart Colvett
ZFP36 Family-Mediated Post-Transcriptional and Bhlhe40-Mediated Transcriptional Regulation of T Cell Responses, Melissa Erin Cook
Leveraging protein dynamics to drug filovirus protein-nucleic acid interactions using simulations and experiments, Matthew Alberto Cruz
Leveraging protein dynamics to drug filovirus protein-nucleic acid interactions using simulations and experiments, Matthew Alberto Cruz
Single-molecule Spectroscopy of the SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid Protein, Jasmine Cubuk
Transdiagnostic Predictors Of Everyday Functioning: Examining The Relationships Of Depression And Reinforcement Learning, Nada Dalloul