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Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Expanding the druggable proteome by integrating deep learning with molecular simulations to predict cryptic pockets, Artur Meller
Mechanisms of MLL-rearranged Infant Leukemogenesis, Jonny Mendoza-Castrejon
Telling Melodies: Musical Agency in Narrative Film, Eric Meyer
The Arowana, Ariel Miller
Selective Binding of Amino Acids by Clay Minerals and Altered Rocks in Prebiotic Systems, Emily Millman
Industry Structure and the Macroeconomy, Filip Milosavljevic
On Appreciating Evidence, Auke Alesander Montesano Montessori
Poets Against History: American Lyric and Historiography after 1945, Alex William Mouw
Witch Aesthetics in Film Music & Sound, 1927-2024: A Queer Feminist Analysis, Lisa Pollock Mumme
Engineering Dendritic Cells with a Chimeric Antigen Receptor for Enhanced Antitumor Function, Shelby Namen
Investigating the Roles of SOX10 and ETV4 in Melanocyte and Melanoma Development, Catherine Marie Newsom-Stewart
Single-cell and spatial immunogenomics to dissect immune mechanisms in inflammatory bowel diseases and the central nervous system, Khai Mac Nguyen
Effects of Surprisal and Prediction Uncertainty on Detailed and Gist Aspects of Memory, Thanh Tan Nguyen
Afflicted Epistemology: Knowledge, Illness, and New Media After “Truth”, Annika Nilsson
Echoes of the Dead: The Ancestral Motif in Pindar's Victory Odes, Bryan Norton
Unveiling Mysteries of the Universe: Axions, Sterile neutrinos, and Curvatons, Takuya Okawa
Predicting, culturing, and characterizing beneficial and detrimental strains associated with plant phenotypes., Anastasiia Onyshchenko
Mechanism of unconventional IL-33 release in airway disease, Omar Osorio
Elucidating the Role of PBAF Chromatin Remodeling Subunit Arid2 in B Cell Development, Rachel Paolini
Understanding Outer Membrane Vesicle Biogenesis in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, Evan J. Pardue
Understanding Loss of Beta-cell Identity and Progression of Diabetes in Polygenic Mouse Models of T2DM, Sumitkumar Patel
The Effects of Electoral Outcomes and Cross-party Relationships on Affective Polarization, Jenna Pedersen
Reliability of Longitudinal Sleep Monitoring in Amyloid-Negative and Amyloid-Positive Older Adults., Taylor Pedersen
Passage, Amy Peltz
Private Space, Public Self: Studios of the Avant-Garde in Fin-de-Siècle France, Allison Perelman
The response of mitochondrial position to glucose stimulation in the MIN6 model system, Luis Perez
The Impact of Blood-Based Biomarkers and Disease-Modifying Medications on Anticipated Reactions of Learning Alzheimer Disease Risk Information, Matthew Charles Picchiello
Localized Impacts of International Interventions, Annamaria Francesca Prati
Leveraging Biomolecules to Illuminate the Landscape of RNA in Cells and Tissues, Alexandria Quillin
Associations between Prenatal Inflammation and Dimensions of Depressive Symptoms across the Perinatal Period, Margaret M. Redic
Fields Under the Hoof: characterizing plant cultivation of agropastoralists in Bronze and Iron Age Inner Asia (3000 BCE - 1000 CE), Melissa Ritchey
A Case of Racialized Organizations: Black-Owned Vegan Restaurants in St. Louis, Missouri, Antonia M. Roach
Sex Differences in the Risk of Developing Alzheimer Disease, Cognitive Trajectories, and Relationships between Cognition and Pathological Burden, Carling G. Robinson
X-ray Polarization of Accreting Stellar-Mass Black Holes through Accretion States, Nicole Rodriguez Cavero
The role of the poly-N repeat in the Plasmodium falciparum histone acetyltransferase protein, PfGCN5, Kely Johana Rubiano Cardona
Investigating the Dietary, Demographic, and Environmental Correlates of Gut Microbial Community Composition in Emperor (Tamarinus imperator) and Saddleback (Leontocebus weddelli) Tamarins, Alexandra Josephine Sacco
Characterization of Long-Noncoding RNAs in Prostate and Pancreatic Cancer Through Single Cell Transcriptomics, Debanjan Saha
Exploring the Thermal Physiology Evolution Across Mountain Slopes, Jhan Carlos Salazar Salazar
The Indoorsman, Fernando Sanjenis Gutierrez
Robust Embeddings of Genetics, Anatomy, and State Decoded from a Neuron’s Activity, Aidan Schneider
From Desegregation to BLM: Racial Threat, Discourse, and Consolidation of Power in a Missouri Public School District, Molly A. Schneider
An Enzyme-Coupled Isotope Dilution Mass Spectrometry Assay for Non-adjacent DNA Photoproducts as Intrinsic Probes for G-quadruplexes in vitro, Savannah Sharee Scruggs
Optimizing Massively Parallel Reporter Assays for In Vivo Neurogenomics: Tools to Decode Enhancer Function in the Brain, Din Selmanovic
Mechanisms of ssDNA Gap Resection in BRCA1-proficient and -deficient Cells, Isabelle Seppa
ACLY Is Required for NK Cell Effector Function by Regulating the Epigenome, Stacey Sohn
Essays on Macroeconomic Growth in an Open Economy, Min Young Song
Entanglement-Enhanced Metrology With Superconducting Circuits, Xingrui Song