Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Ecology of Ixodes scapularis Say: Experimental and Observational Studies with Social Perspectives on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, Kaitlin M. McDonald
BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL EFFECTS OF DISTRIBUTING VISUAL ATTENTION ACROSS LOCATION AND FEATURE SPACE, Mert Özkan
Polarimetric Capture and Differentiable Rendering, Katherine Anne Salesin
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Hierarchal single-cell lineage tracing reveals differential fate commitment of CD8 T-cell clones in response to acute infection., Leena Abdullah
On Pattern Avoidance and Dynamical Algebraic Combinatorics, Benjamin Adenbaum
Bridging the Gap Between Molecular Components and Functional Electronic Chemical Sensing Devices with 2D Layered, Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks, Emma Katherine Ambrogi
Targeting Cholinergic Signaling in Glioblastoma, Sumyuktha Vijay Anand
Inflammaging in the Alzheimer’s Brain and Beyond: Insights from a Transgenic Mouse Model on the Sex-specific Pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s Disease, Alicia Jeanne Barber
Wee1 and Cell Size Control in Fission Yeast by the Protein Kinase Cdr2, Rachel Berg-Murante
BIOGENESIS AND FUNCTION OF MICROGLIAL EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES IN NEUROINFLAMMATION AND PARKINSON’S DISEASE, Karl E. Biggs
Social Interactions and Spatial Structure Drive Community Assembly of Bacterial Biofilm, Matthew C. Bond
MODELS OF LOW MASS STARS AS PHYSICAL LABRATORIES, Emily M. Boudreaux
ROBUST AND GENERALIZABLE REPRESENTATIONS IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS, Hung-Tu Chen
CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTIBODY REPERTOIRES DEVELOPED FROM NAIVE AND RECALL RESPONSES, Nicholas C. Curtis
ADVANCING OMNIMODALITY: EXPANDING HUMAN CREATIVITY THROUGH ADAPTABLE AND ACCESSIBLE MULTIMODAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS, Joshua Urban Davis
Chromatin regulation by SWI/SNF remodelers in somatic stem cell maintenance and transformation, Luke Thomas Deary
Development of Novel Radiotherapy Treatment Monitoring and Quantitative Cherenkov Surface Dosimetry for Diverse Populations, Savannah M. Decker
Mitochondrial Quality Control by Tail-Anchored Proteins, Jose M. Delgado
Causes and Consequences of Mitotic Chromosome Missegregation in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Chenhui Deng
TOWARD ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SENSING SURGICAL DRILL FOR TISSUE BOUNDARY DETECTION, Harshavardhan Devaraj
Evolution and Adaptation to Temperature in Thermotogota, Anne Amelia Farrell
Near-Infrared Paired-Agent Imaging for In Vivo Quantification of Receptor Occupancy in Tumor, YICHEN FENG
On generating bijections for permutations and inversion sequences, Melanie J. Ferreri
The Influence of Sediment-Supply on River Recovery from Reach to Watershed-Scales, Jordan Fields
Investigating the mechanisms of surface sensing using motility appendages by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14, Christopher James Geiger
Exploring Group Behavior through Evolutionary Game Theory: Disease Dynamics, Cooperation, and Reputation, Alina Glaubitz
Leveraging Uncertainty to Understand the Causes and Consequences of Observed Climate Change, Alexander Reid Gottlieb
Advances in Computational and Statistical Inverse Problems, Dylan Green
Towards Trustworthy LLMs: Understanding the Security and Privacy Risks of Large Language Models, Kang Gu
Machine Learning for Graph Algorithms and Representations, Allison Gunby-Mann
Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing Well-being in the Digital Age, Xiaobo Guo
Targeting Aspergillus fumigatus hypoxia response pathways for novel antifungal drug development., Cecilia Gutierrez Perez
Liquid Metal Printing of Ultrathin Conductive Metal Oxides, Andrew B. Hamlin
Formation of new cohesive linkages and regulation of cohesion rejuvenation during meiotic prophase in Drosophila oocytes, Muhammad Abdul Haseeb
Gaze in Context: Individual and Group Differences in Real-World Visual Attention, Amanda J. Haskins
Psychophysical and Pharmacological Models of Visual Hallucination, Nathan H. Heller
Methods, Analyses, and Applications of Multilayer Temporal Link Prediction in Networks, Xie He
Efficacy and Mechanism of Action of CD40 Ligand and Interleukin-12 Plasmid Electroporation Intratumoral Immunotherapy, Gregory W. Ho
Scalable Fabrication Methods for Energy Devices, Julia Elizabeth Huddy
Targeting the Cholesterol Storage Enzyme ACAT1/SOAT1 in Brain Cells and Mouse Model: A Novel Approach to Address Aging and APOE4-Related Neuroinflammation, Thao Nguyen Phuong Huynh Krumeich
Regulation and therapeutic targeting of virus-specific resident memory T cells, Jordan Fredriksen Isaacs
Cytokine activity estimation and receptor abundance approximation with multimodal scRNA-seq/CITE-seq data., Azka Javaid
DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES FOR CANCER PROGNOSIS PREDICTION USING HISTOPATHOLOGICAL, OMICS, AND CLINICAL DATA, Shuai Jiang
Efficient and Effective Learning of Foundational Large Multi-Modal Models, Yiren Jian
INTEGRATING HIGHER-ORDER COGNITION WITH SENSORY EXPERIENCE: INSIGHTS FROM CUE-BASED EXPECTATIONS ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS, Heejung Jung
Targeting pyruvate metabolism leads to distinct CD8+ T cell responses to virus infection and cancer, Taewook Kang
Empowering Vaccine Development: Integrating systems serology, machine learning and antibody engineering to tackle resilient pathogens, Natasha S. Kelkar
Structure-based targeting of the NEMO:IKK interaction for canonical NF-κB inhibition, Amy Kennedy
UNDERSTANDING THE NON-CANONICAL REGULATION OF SREBP IN ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS, Muhammad Abubakar Khan
Terrestrial Exchange of Atmospheric Metals: Insights from Fallout Radionuclides, Joshua D. Landis
Misery's Company: Modeling the Public and Private Faces of Suicidal Thought and Behavior in the Digital Era, Damien Lekkas
Towards scalable autonomous underwater construction with free-floating robots, Samuel Eric Lensgraf
Penney’s game for permutations, Yixin Lin
Identifying Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors of Diseases in Case-control Studies, Siting Li
SIMULATING CROSS-SCALE SOLID-FLUID INTERACTION PHENOMENA, Jinyuan Liu
Aligning Language Models with the Human World, RUIBO LIU
Germanium-Tin on Silicon for Integrated Photonics and Integrated Quantum Materials, Shang Liu
GOVERNING DYNAMIC WATERSHEDS UNDER STATIC INSTITUTIONS – EXAMINING HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS RESPOND TO FLOODS AND DROUGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES, Jonathon R. Loos
Target Selection and Enhancement During Attentional Tracking, Marvin R. Maechler
Khovanov Homology and Legendrian Simple Knots, Ryan J. Maguire
Mechanistic Insights on Positive Regulation of the Pyrin Inflammasome in Macrophages, Haleema Sadia Malik
Scalable Methods for Resource-Constrained Adaptive Sampling, Kizito Masaba
Mitigating Safety Issues in Pre-trained Language Models: A Model-Centric Approach Leveraging Interpretation Methods, Weicheng Ma
COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING AND DESIGN OF ANTIBODIES: BENEFITS FROM ANALYSIS OF THEIR UNIQUE STRUCTURAL MOTIFS, Katherine M. McCoy
Consistent Monte Carlo methods for non-linear applications in light transport, Zackary T. Misso
Patterned Magnetic And Plasmonic Nanostructures In Microfluidics For Extracellular Vesicle Screening And Drug Loading, John H. Molinski
Novel adaptations in iron regulation acquired during chronic fungal CF infections, Daniel R. Murante
Sounding the alarm: Local cues that drive functional specialization of brain resident memory T cells, Shawn Christopher Musial Jr.
Analysis, Optimization, and Design of Small-Scale Hybrid-Core Inductor Designs that Achieve High Energy Densities and Low Loss, Andrew B. Nadler
Toward the Integration of Behavioral Sensing and Artificial Intelligence, Subigya K. Nepal
QUANTITATIVE PROTEOMIC STRATEGIES TO DETERMINE SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITIES OF PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES, Hieu Trung Nguyen
De novo Synthetic Studies on Tetracyclic Triterpenoid Systems: Stereoselective Preparation, Biological Evaluation and Total Syntheses of Euphol and Tirucallol, Joshua Nicholson
Role of SDS-22/PP1 phosphatase in polarizing the germplasm of Caenorhabditis elegans embryo, Aparna Nurni Ravi
The Impacts of Impurities and Stress State on Polycrystalline Ice Deformation and Investigations into the Densification of Polar Firn, Ayobami Oladapo Ogunmolasuyi
Microglial Dynamics and Mechanisms Underlying the Phagocytosis of Dying Oligodendrocytes, Genaro E. Olveda
Energy and Empowerment in the High Arctic, Alyssa Pantaleo
FleQ and Gac/Rsm-Mediated Regulation of Biofilm Formation and Swarming Motility in Pseudomonas fluorescens, Alexander Benito Pastora
The Large-scale Environments of Active Galactic Nuclei, Grayson C. Petter
EXPLORING THE ROLES OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY IN NOVEL SIGNAL EVOLUTION, Mia E. Phillips
Computational Drug Repositioning and 3D Skin-Like Tissues Identify Anti-Fibrotic Targets for Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Dillon Popovich
LEVERAGING PASSIVELY-COLLECTED WEARABLE ACCELEROMETRY DATA COUPLED WITH MACHINE LEARNING TO LONGITUDINALLY DETECT AND PREDICT MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, George D. Price
Exploiting DNA damage repair for the treatment of pediatric tumors that arise in Fanconi anemia, Laura M. Price
MEASURING SPONTANEOUS NEUROTRANSMISSION USING GENETICALLY ENCODED FLUORESCENT INDICATORS, Amelia Jane Ralowicz
Investigating the mechanisms for priming and maintaining tumor Ag specific CD8+ T cell responses in the context of CD4-depletion, Delaney E. Ramirez
Young Atmospheres Spiriting Away, Keighley Elizabeth Rockcliffe
Estrogen Receptor (ER) Alpha Regulatory Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies in ER+ Breast Cancer, Bianca A. Romo
3-D Reconstruction for Underwater Robots with a Monocular Camera and Lights, Monika Roznere
Thermal Phase Fluctuations in Narrow Superfluid Rings, Parth Sabharwal
HETEROGENEITY AND PLASTICITY OF THE NAÏVE CD4+ T CELL COMPARTMENT, Alia Sajani
BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL EVIDENCE FOR PERCEPTUAL INFERENCE OF POSITION, Sharif Saleki
Host-Microbe Interactions and the Developing Gut Microbiome in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis, Paige E. Salerno
Random Walk Methods for Geometry Representation Agnostic Transport, Dario R. Seyb
Surgical Navigation in Image-Guided Transoral Robotic Surgery, Yuan Shi
Regulation and Function of PP2A-B56delta and its Pathological Variants, Kali A. Smolen
Design, Analysis, and Drop Assembly of Interlocking Rigid Bodies, Amy K. Sniffen
Studies in Natural Product-Inspired Complex Molecule Synthesis: Synthesis of 26-Norpentacyclic Triterpenoids and Anhydroryanodol, Zachary D. Stempel
On adaptivity and randomness for streaming algorithms, Manuel Stoeckl
