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Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Medicine on the March: Military Institutions, Medical Networks, and the Qing Empire, 1644-1800, Chang Xu
Sleep Restores an Optimal Computational Regime in Cortical Networks, Yifan Xu
Essays in Economic Theory, Kohei YAMAGATA
Essays on Censorship and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Regimes, Zirui Yang
Neuroepigenetic Mechanisms of Brain Development: From Technology to Biological Insights, Allen Yen
Next-Generation Compositional and Chronological Sample Analysis of Lunar Low-Ti Basalts and Volcanic Glasses, Christopher Yen
Lineage tracing of twins and families using massively parallel sequencing, Christopher Jongsoo Yoon
Inferring Mind Wandering from Perceptual Decision Making, Cathy Zhang
Mechanisms of Electrical Substrate Reprogramming after Cardiac Radiotherapy, David Meng Zhang
Likelihood Ratio Test for Markov Switching Parameters, Li Zhang
Recollective Features in the Natural Language Used to Justify Memory Decisions, Xinran Zhang and Ian G. Dobbins
Leveraging arginine catabolism to treat metabolic complications, Yiming Zhang
Flavor Equilibration in Neutron Star Mergers, Ziyuan Zhang
Investigating the Role of Circular RNAs in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Progression, Sidi Zhao
Transcriptional precision in photoreceptor development and diseases - Lessons from the retinal transcription factor CRX, Yiqiao Zheng
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Experimental Investigation of Non-Hermiticity in Quantum Systems, Maryam Abbasi
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