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Theses/Dissertations from 2024

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Hierarchal single-cell lineage tracing reveals differential fate commitment of CD8 T-cell clones in response to acute infection., Leena Abdullah

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On Pattern Avoidance and Dynamical Algebraic Combinatorics, Benjamin Adenbaum

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Bridging the Gap Between Molecular Components and Functional Electronic Chemical Sensing Devices with 2D Layered, Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks, Emma Katherine Ambrogi

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Targeting Cholinergic Signaling in Glioblastoma, Sumyuktha Vijay Anand

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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

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Social Interactions and Spatial Structure Drive Community Assembly of Bacterial Biofilm, Matthew C. Bond

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MODELS OF LOW MASS STARS AS PHYSICAL LABRATORIES, Emily M. Boudreaux

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ADVANCING OMNIMODALITY: EXPANDING HUMAN CREATIVITY THROUGH ADAPTABLE AND ACCESSIBLE MULTIMODAL COMPUTING SYSTEMS, Joshua Urban Davis

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Development of Novel Radiotherapy Treatment Monitoring and Quantitative Cherenkov Surface Dosimetry for Diverse Populations, Savannah M. Decker

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Mitochondrial Quality Control by Tail-Anchored Proteins, Jose M. Delgado

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TOWARD ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE SENSING SURGICAL DRILL FOR TISSUE BOUNDARY DETECTION, Harshavardhan Devaraj

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On generating bijections for permutations and inversion sequences, Melanie J. Ferreri

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The Influence of Sediment-Supply on River Recovery from Reach to Watershed-Scales, Jordan Fields

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Investigating the mechanisms of surface sensing using motility appendages by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14, Christopher James Geiger

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Exploring Group Behavior through Evolutionary Game Theory: Disease Dynamics, Cooperation, and Reputation, Alina Glaubitz

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Advances in Computational and Statistical Inverse Problems, Dylan Green

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Towards Trustworthy LLMs: Understanding the Security and Privacy Risks of Large Language Models, Kang Gu

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Machine Learning for Graph Algorithms and Representations, Allison Gunby-Mann

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Liquid Metal Printing of Ultrathin Conductive Metal Oxides, Andrew B. Hamlin

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Formation of new cohesive linkages and regulation of cohesion rejuvenation during meiotic prophase in Drosophila oocytes, Muhammad Abdul Haseeb

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Methods, Analyses, and Applications of Multilayer Temporal Link Prediction in Networks, Xie He

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Scalable Fabrication Methods for Energy Devices, Julia Elizabeth Huddy

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Regulation and therapeutic targeting of virus-specific resident memory T cells, Jordan Fredriksen Isaacs

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Cytokine activity estimation and receptor abundance approximation with multimodal scRNA-seq/CITE-seq data., Azka Javaid

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DEEP LEARNING APPROACHES FOR CANCER PROGNOSIS PREDICTION USING HISTOPATHOLOGICAL, OMICS, AND CLINICAL DATA, Shuai Jiang

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Efficient and Effective Learning of Foundational Large Multi-Modal Models, Yiren Jian

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INTEGRATING HIGHER-ORDER COGNITION WITH SENSORY EXPERIENCE: INSIGHTS FROM CUE-BASED EXPECTATIONS ACROSS DIVERSE DOMAINS, Heejung Jung

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Structure-based targeting of the NEMO:IKK interaction for canonical NF-κB inhibition, Amy Kennedy

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UNDERSTANDING THE NON-CANONICAL REGULATION OF SREBP IN ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS, Muhammad Abubakar Khan

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Terrestrial Exchange of Atmospheric Metals: Insights from Fallout Radionuclides, Joshua D. Landis

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Towards scalable autonomous underwater construction with free-floating robots, Samuel Eric Lensgraf

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Penney’s game for permutations, Yixin Lin

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Identifying Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors of Diseases in Case-control Studies, Siting Li

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SIMULATING CROSS-SCALE SOLID-FLUID INTERACTION PHENOMENA, Jinyuan Liu

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Aligning Language Models with the Human World, RUIBO LIU

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Germanium-Tin on Silicon for Integrated Photonics and Integrated Quantum Materials, Shang Liu

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GOVERNING DYNAMIC WATERSHEDS UNDER STATIC INSTITUTIONS – EXAMINING HOW LOCAL GOVERNMENTS RESPOND TO FLOODS AND DROUGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES, Jonathon R. Loos

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Target Selection and Enhancement During Attentional Tracking, Marvin R. Maechler

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Khovanov Homology and Legendrian Simple Knots, Ryan J. Maguire

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Mechanistic Insights on Positive Regulation of the Pyrin Inflammasome in Macrophages, Haleema Sadia Malik

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Mitigating Safety Issues in Pre-trained Language Models: A Model-Centric Approach Leveraging Interpretation Methods, Weicheng Ma

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Consistent Monte Carlo methods for non-linear applications in light transport, Zackary T. Misso

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Patterned Magnetic And Plasmonic Nanostructures In Microfluidics For Extracellular Vesicle Screening And Drug Loading, John H. Molinski

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Toward the Integration of Behavioral Sensing and Artificial Intelligence, Subigya K. Nepal

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HeartFEV1: A MOBILE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM BASED SYSTEM FOR INFERRING FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME IN ONE SECOND FROM PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE, Maria Nyamukuru

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Microglial Dynamics and Mechanisms Underlying the Phagocytosis of Dying Oligodendrocytes, Genaro E. Olveda

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Energy and Empowerment in the High Arctic, Alyssa Pantaleo

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FleQ and Gac/Rsm-Mediated Regulation of Biofilm Formation and Swarming Motility in Pseudomonas fluorescens, Alexander Benito Pastora

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LEVERAGING PASSIVELY-COLLECTED WEARABLE ACCELEROMETRY DATA COUPLED WITH MACHINE LEARNING TO LONGITUDINALLY DETECT AND PREDICT MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, George D. Price

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MEASURING SPONTANEOUS NEUROTRANSMISSION USING GENETICALLY ENCODED FLUORESCENT INDICATORS, Amelia Jane Ralowicz

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Estrogen Receptor (ER) Alpha Regulatory Mechanisms and Therapeutic Strategies in ER+ Breast Cancer, Bianca A. Romo

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3-D Reconstruction for Underwater Robots with a Monocular Camera and Lights, Monika Roznere

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HETEROGENEITY AND PLASTICITY OF THE NAÏVE CD4+ T CELL COMPARTMENT, Alia Sajani

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Random Walk Methods for Geometry Representation Agnostic Transport, Dario R. Seyb

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Surgical Navigation in Image-Guided Transoral Robotic Surgery, Yuan Shi

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Regulation and Function of PP2A-B56delta and its Pathological Variants, Kali A. Smolen

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Design, Analysis, and Drop Assembly of Interlocking Rigid Bodies, Amy K. Sniffen

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On adaptivity and randomness for streaming algorithms, Manuel Stoeckl

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IDENTIFICATION AND THERAPEUTIC TARGETING OF METABOLIC ALTERATIONS IN ESTROGEN RECEPTOR-POSITIVE BREAST CANCER, Steven Tau

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Establishment of Bacteroides in the gut and its role in the cystic fibrosis gut-lung axis, Rebecca A. Valls

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ADVANCING MOBILE SENSING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS, Weichen Wang

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PLASMA PER-AND POLYFLUOROALKYL SUBSTANCE (PFAS) MIXTURES AND MATERNAL CARDIOMETABOLIC HEALTH, Yuting Wang

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Elucidating Neuroinflammation in Multiple Sclerosis by Network Analysis, Nora C. Welsh

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PROBING CENTRAL SPIN DECOHERENCE DYNAMICS OF ELECTRONIC POINT DEFECTS IN DIAMOND AND SILICON, Ethan Que Williams

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Disentangling Cyclic Causality: An Instance-based Framework for Causal Discovery, Chase A. Yakaboski

Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Probing and enhancing the reliance of Transformer models on poetic information, Almas Abdibayev

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Multi-Omic and Single-cell Characterization of a 3D Skin-Like Tissue Model of Systemic Sclerosis with a Focus on Epigenetics, Tamar R. Abel

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EQUILIBRIUM AND QUENCH-DYNAMICAL STUDIES OF ULTRACOLD FERMIONS IN RING-SHAPED OPTICAL TRAPS, Daniel Gordon Allman

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Extending the Wavelength Response of Photon-Counting Image Sensors, Kaitlin M. Anagnost

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Mapping the Malleable Self: How Self-Views are Represented and Learned Within the Social Brain, Sasha Carmela Brietzke

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Jones Polynomial Obstructions for Positivity of Knots, Lizzie Buchanan

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Quantifying the Economic Costs of Global Warming, Christopher W. Callahan

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Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of P-P and P-C Bonds, Sarah T. Chachula

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High Throughput Cellular Screening Technologies for Engineering Enhanced-Solubility and Deimmunized Biologics, Andrew Y. Chang

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OLIGODENDROCYTE 2PHATAL REVEALS DYNAMICS OF MYELIN DEGENERATION AND REPAIR, Timothy W. Chapman

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Enabling the Integration of Sustainable Design Methodological Frameworks and Computational Life Cycle Assessment Tools into Product Development Practice, Tejaswini Chatty

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Anillin and Dunk: The Conserved and Non-conserved Players Regulating Myosin Dynamics in Drosophila Cleavage, Jiayang Chen

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GENOME-SCALE METHYLATION ANALYSIS IN BLOOD AND TUMOR IDENTIFIES IMMUNE PROFILE, AGE ACCELERATION, AND DNA METHYLATION ALTERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH BLADDER CANCER OUTCOMES, Ji-Qing Chen

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Fermion encodings and algorithms for quantum simulation, Riley W. Chien

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Oh the Places Snow Blows: Observations and Impacts of Snow Redistribution on Arctic Sea Ice, David Clemens-Sewall

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PIEZOELECTRIC AND CONDUCTIVE POLYMER BASED FLEXIBLE DEVICES ENABLING CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH SENSING AND ENERGY HARVESTING, Andrew Closson

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DEEP LEARNING METHODS FOR PREDICTION OF AND ESCAPE FROM PROTEIN RECOGNITION, Bowen Dai

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Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms of Serotonin Modulation of Impulsivity and Reward, Stephanie S. Desrochers

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Novel mechanistic insight into ciliary regulation: old pathways yield new mechanisms, Larissa L. Dougherty

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Triangular modular curves of low genus and geometric quadratic Chabauty, Juanita Duque Rosero

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Developing Strategies for the Integration of Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) into E-Textiles for Chemical Sensing, Filtration, and Detoxification, Aileen Mary Eagleton

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Encoding permanent records of transcription in the genome, Francesco Ettore Emiliani

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Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Margin of North America, Karol Faehnrich

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Rough Numbers and Variations on the Erdős--Kac Theorem, Kai Fan

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Mycorrhizal fungi mediate aboveground – belowground interactions in forest ecosystems, Amelia A. Fitch

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Effective Non-Hermiticity and Topology in Markovian Quadratic Bosonic Dynamics, Vincent Paul Flynn

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IDENTIFYING SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY IN AND POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF RIVER THERMAL ENVIRONMENTS, Keith Jeffrey Fritschie

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The Discovery, Characterization, and Engineering of Autolytic Enzymes as Antimicrobials, Jacob M. Furlon

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Inhibition of CAL PDZ domain via non-canonical and allosteric interactions reveals new targeting sites and strategies, Nicholas Paul Gill

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Epistemic Mentalizing and Causal Cognition Across Agents and Objects, Bryan S. Gonzalez

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Brill--Noether theory via K3 surfaces, Richard Haburcak

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Intraoperative Quantification of Bone Perfusion in Lower Extremity Injury Surgery, Xinyue Han

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The Molecular and Cellular Response to ACAT1/SOAT1 Inhibition, Taylor C. Harned

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PROTEOMIC APPROACHES TO IDENTIFY UNIQUE AND SHARED SUBSTRATES AMONG KINASE FAMILY MEMBERS, Charles Lincoln Howarth

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ZINC OXIDE BASED NANOMATERIALS AND DEVICE DESIGNS - FOR BIOENERGY HARVESTING, SENSING AND WATER PURIFICATION, Congran Jin