Abstracts: College of Arts & Sciences
Modeling the Spread of Amyloid in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
Yuanqing Jin
Department: Mathematics
The Separation of Powers and Significant Policy Change following United States Supreme Court Decisions
Nicole Jordan
Department: Political Science
The Relationship of Telomere Length and Stressful Life Events in a Population of Children Enriched for Depression
Samatha Kahn
Department: Psychological and Brain SciencesDepartment: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Effects of Race on Children's Reasoning about Peer-Based Social Exclusion
Ariela Kaiser
Department: Psychological and Brain SciencesDepartment: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Financial Development and Economic Growth at Different Income Levels
Cody Kallen
Department: Economics
Dual Process Model of Political Judgment
Geena Kandel
Department: Psychological and Brain SciencesDepartment: Psychological and Brain Sciences
The Market-Related Determinants of Being Unbanked: How Do Characteristics of Local Banking Markets Influence Account Ownership Rates?
Evan M. Karson
Department: Economics
Money Can't Buy You Happiness, but It Can Buy You Your Identity
Jenny Yeon Jae Kim
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–PsychologyDepartment: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
Investigating the Role of the Gut Microbiota and Chloramphenicol in Aplastic Anemia
Amber Loren Ong King
Department: Biology
Contextualizing Transgender Health Care: Meanings, Experiences, and Future Hopes of Trans Adults in the St. Louis, MO Region
Cameron Kinker
Department: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kagayaiteiru, "The Glimmering Girl": Contextually Trans(lating) Eriko in Cross-Cultural Kitchens
Katarina Lacy Klafka
Department: East Asian Languages and Cultures
A Fluorescent Polarization Assay to Detect Pan-Viral Replication Inhibitors
Meredith Klashman
Department: Biology
The Jester and the King: Understanding the Role of the Nabokvian Textual Commentator
Cassandra Klosterman
Department: Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities
Generation of Chimeric AMPA/kainate Receptor Subunits to Investigate the Structural Basis of Modulation by Docosahexaenoic Acid
Rahul Kumar
Department: Biology
Assessing PML-RARα Induced Sumoylation of CTCF and Consequent Dysregulation of the DLK-DIO3 Locus
Iris Kuo
Department: Biology
The Role of Inflammation in Brain Volume Decline in Older Adults
Stephanie Langella
Department: Psychological and Brain SciencesDepartment: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Signs of Consciousness: State-of-the-Art Methods for Detecting Awareness in Behaviorally Unresponsive Patients
Ben Lazaroff
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–PsychologyDepartment: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
LacO Repeat-Induced Chromatin Silencing in Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
Michael Lee
Department: Biology
Care-Seeking Habits and Alternative Medicine for Pediatric Malaria in Namutumba District
Yang Jae Lee
Department: International and Area Studies
Lateral and Facies-Dependent δ34Scas and δ34Spyr Variability Measured in Carbonate Strata from West Texas and Southern New Mexico
Zoe Lefebvre
Department: Earth and Planetary Sciences
"Wine and Cheese": History, Culture, and Drought in California Agriculture
Serena Lekawa
Department: Anthropology
Snail Herbivory Has Strong Effects on Seedling Establishment and Abundance Patterns in a Temperate Forest
Anna Liang
Department: Biology
Crx TVRM65 Mutation Has Dominant-Negative Effects on Photoreceptor Development and Maintenance
Courtney Linne
Department: Biology
Differential Effects of Working Memory Load and Affective Interference o P300 and N170 Modulation
Jenny Liu
Department: Biology
Intravascular Localization of Tissue-Resident and Conventional Natural Killer Cells
Vicky Li
Department: Biology
Improving the Enzymatic Function of PLA26G6 in Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy
Joanna E. Luo
Department: Biology
Menstrual Dignity in Uganda
Marina Mai
Department: Anthropology
The King's African Rifles in the Valley of Death: Combat Fatigue and Colonial Psychiatry in the Second World War
Lauren Maly
Department: History
Restricted Behavior and Brain Functional Connectivity in Infants and Toddlers at Risk for Developing Autism Spectrum Disorder
Claire Janine McKinnon
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–PsychologyDepartment: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
Influencing the Influencers: Does Funding from Foreign Governments Affect American Think Tank Research?
Aryeh Mellman
Department: Political Science
Race and Property Value Appreciation: A St. Louis Case Study
Peter Metz
Department: Economics
Investigating the Mechanisms by Which MAPT Mutations Result in Tauopathies
Vidhya Meyyappa
Department: Biology
Aligning Incentives: Distance, Technology, and Migrants' Willingness to Remit
Ryan Mikkelsen
Department: International and Area Studies
The Origins of Lunfardo: A Quantitative Analysis of the Lexicon
Lia Mitchell
Department: Linguistics
Acceptable Losses: Bubonic Plague in San Francisco
Eli Morris
Department: History
Russian Revelation: Legitimacy and Coding in the Art of Andrey Avinoff
Diya Nagaraj
Department: Art History and Archaeology
Twins, Doubles, and Counterfeits in Early Modern Literature
Kate Needham
Department: English
Intersectionality, Religion, and Politics: Morisca Women in the Inquisition
Mara Nelson
Department: Jewish, Islamic and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Mechanisms of T-Cell Development and Leukemogenesis Regulated by DNMT3A
John N. Nikitas
Department: Biology
Favela at the Forefront: Design, Dynamics, and Development Aggression within Informal Urbanism
Nicholas Okafor
Department: International and Area Studies
(Im)possible Spaces: Invisible Cities in an Age of Urban Crisis
Libby Perold
Department: Comparative Arts
Investigating the Expansion of the D. biarmipes Muller F Element
Thomas Pranzatelli
Department: Biology
Pif1A is Required for Actin Cone Movement during Spermatid Individualization in Drosophila melanogaster
Harrison Pravder
Department: Biology
Gelişme Kimin Için? (Development for Whom?): Provincial Growth and Ethnicity in Republican Turkey, 1927-2014
Cameron Pulley
Department: International and Area Studies
Melancholera: On Living with Ulcerative Colitis
Deren Pulley
Department: International and Area Studies
The mRNA Entry Tunnel of the Ribosome is Critical for Frame Maintenance on Inhibitory Codons in Yeast
Jessia K. Qiu
Department: Biology
A Forward Genetic Screen in Zebrafish Uncovers New Regulators of Myelinating Glial Cell Development
Christopher Raciti
Department: Biology
Examining Pictorial Art in Individuals with Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease to Understand Human Neurogenesis
Adi Radhakrishnan
Department: Philosophy–Neuroscience–PsychologyDepartment: Philosophy–Neuroscience–Psychology
St. Louis Delivers: Women's Perspectives on Hospital Birth
Apoorva Ram
Department: Anthropology
The Role of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and RET Signaling in Urothelial Biology
Michelle Alexandra Recto
Department: Biology