This collection compiles theses and dissertations from all schools and departments at Washington University in St. Louis. Public access policies vary by school.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2026

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Structural Insights into Host-Pathogen Interactions of Coronaviruses and Alphaviruses, Lucas Adams

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Inside 'n Out: ETV2 Specification of Hemangiogenic Lineages from FLK1+ Mesoderm, Dereck Antonio Shakeel Alleyne

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Genetic Mechanisms of Urinary Tract Infection Pathogenesis by Escherichia coli, Jesus Bazan Villicana

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Neuromodulation in Olfactory Networks: Inferring Circuit Motifs and Predicting Behavioral Outcomes from Neural Response Changes, Yelyzaveta Bessonova

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From Natural Barrier to National Symbol: Technologies, State-Building, and the Remaking of the Yangzi River, 1843-1937, Ruochen Chen

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Analysis of Oscillating Flow Over a 2-D Airfoil with Flow Reversal, Colter Couillard-Rodak

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Development of Cell-Free DNA and Immune Cell Liquid Biopsies to Stratify Risk of Disease Progression and Treatment Toxicity, Noah Earland

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Retinal Circuits for Pupil Control: Neural Mechanisms, Visual Functions, and Capacity for Plasticity, Michael John Fitzpatrick

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Adaptive Component Expansion in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization: Theory and Applications, Youdong Guo

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Elucidating the Coordinated Role of Histone Modifications on the Establishment and Regulation of a Neuronal-specific Methylome, Nicole Hamagami

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Interpretable, Scalable, Unsupervised Machine Learning for Large Neuroimaging Data, Sung Min Ha

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Interfacial Engineering of Electrodes and Solid-State Electrolytes for High-Performance Lithium-Ion and Sodium-Ion Batteries, Ahmad Helaley

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Voltage-Sensor–Targeting Modulators of IKs: Identifying Critical Functional Groups of C28 via Electrophysiology and SAR Modeling, JIACHENG HUANG

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Ribosomal Stress in the Pathogenesis and Treatment of T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Kimberly Bridget Johansson

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The Role of Autophagy in Intestinal Infection in Mice and C. elegans, Gowri Kalugotla

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Targeting the DNMT3B-ABAT Axis in Osteoarthritis Using RNA-peptide Nanoparticles Reveals GABAB Signaling as a Critical Mediator of Articular Chondrocyte Homeostasis, Amir Kucharski

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Essays on Empirical Search and Matching, Jiangheng Lin

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Macroevolutionary Innovation and the Genomic Basis of Convergent Adaptation in Anolis Lizards, Aryeh Hershel Miller

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Uncovering Hidden Features of Copyback Viral Genomes, Sarah Pye

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Understanding p53 Regulation on Transposable Elements in Cancer, Xuan Qu

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Multiplex Functional Assessment of Variant Effect in the Retinal Transcription Factor CRX, James Lewis Shepherdson

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Side-to-Side Differences in Three-Dimensional Femoral Head Coverage Associated with Initial Symptom Development in Patients with Bilateral Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip, Jiayi Sun

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Unraveling Metabolic Determinants of Isoniazid Susceptibility in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Erin Rilu Wang

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Energetic Heterogeneity in Retinal Ganglion Cells: Role of Neuronal Activity and Implications for Resilience, Zelun Wang

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Understanding the Biological Functions of Dual-Localized Mitochondrial Phosphatase PPTC7, Lianjie Wei

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Towards Understanding Robust Neural Coding Through Representational Geometry, Zeyuan Ye

Theses/Dissertations from 2025

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Montane β-diversity: Biodiversity through Space and Time in Earth’s Most Biodiverse Regions, Ethan Ray Abercrombie

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Studies in Algebraic Cycles: Hodge Theory of Degenerations, Regulators, and Cluster Varieties, Ricardo Jaime Acuna

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Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity, Eva M. Agüero

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A Neuroimmune Circuit Mediates Chemo Brain Pathology, Daniel Ahmadi

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Top-down Control and Bottom-up Salience Guide Attention During Visual Search, Christopher Ahn

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Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Regulates ITAM-Dependent Platelet Activation, Jehiel Abigail Ajanel Gomez

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Exploring DDR2’s role in CAF extracellular matrix production and tumor progression, Favour Ayomide Akinjiyan

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Defining B cell responses to emerging viral pathogens, Wafaa Al Soussi

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Defining B cell responses to emerging viral pathogens, Wafaa Al Soussi

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Soft, Adhesive Dry Electrodes for Improved Electrophysiological Signal Acquisition with Motion Tolerance and Long-Term-Recoverability, Ryan Andersen

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In the Field of Nothingness, Ameen Animashaun

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Staging Suffering: Depictions of the Family Space in German Naturalist Drama, Kimberly Annas

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Essays in Monetary Economics and Financial Frictions, Martin Arazi

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Multimodal Characterization of Systems-Level Robustness in the Cellular Organelle Network, Aline Arra

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Adaptive Noise Estimation and Denoising with Deep Learning for NMR Spectroscopy, Naveen Asokan

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Lines of Thought: The Cartoon as a Phenomenological Object and a Philosophical Tool, Thomas Attwood

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Froggy People: Anthropomorphism and Slice-of-Life in Autobiographical Comics, Maddie Baker

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Trust and Learning in Early Childhood, Anjuii Barrett

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Bias Regulation Strategy Selection in Daily Life: Using Daily Diary Methodology to Study Personal Bias Regulation Strategies, Jennifer Frances Beatty

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Reducing Measurement Error in Three-Point Bend Test Using Linear Gradient Correction Model, Juan J. Becerra-Garcia

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A Subset of Senescent Myofibroblasts Orchestrates Immunosuppression in Pancreatic Cancer., Jad Belle

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Multi-Layer Support for Component-Based Cyber-Physical Systems Applications, Oren Bell

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Transmutation, Sam Berger

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Exploring the Structure, Dynamics, and Pharmacology of Opioid Receptors, Sarah Maria Bernhard