Theses/Dissertations from 2025
Bridging Bench to Bedside: Developing Sup2-IL-33 armored CAR T cells for translational immunotherapy, Shannon Lynn Ferry
Characterization of the Erv41-Erv46 complex as a retrograde receptor for misfolded secretory proteins, John Andrew Fuesler
Hydrazone-Based Switches: Communication, Recognition, Transport, and Environmental Effects, Heyifei Fu
Advances Towards a Robotic Management Vehicle Suited to Nurse Row Crops to More Efficient Outcomes, Adam MK Gronewold
CHARACTERIZING THE PRODUCTION OF LIPID AND ISOTOPE BIOSIGNATURES BY EXTREMOPHILIC ARCHAEA IN LAB EXPERIMENTS AND TERRESTRIAL HOT SPRINGS, Carolynn Harris
Antibody and protein engineering for cancer immunotherapy: advancing targeted and immune modulation therapies, Colin J. Hartman
Neural patterns reflect semantic representation in novice sign language learners, Megan E. Hillis
Basal autophagy promotes accurate chromosome segregation in Drosophila oocytes and declines during oocyte aging, Diana C. Hilpert
Modal Building Blocks Across Species and Development, Catherine Holland
Understanding firn dynamics: modeling and microstructure from East Antarctica, Ilyse Horlings
MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING TO ENHANCE PATIENT PROGNOSIS & MANAGEMENT IN CANCER CARE, Peiying Hua PhD
Determinants of reactive oxygen species-induced conidial cell death in Aspergillus fumigatus, Matthew Robert James
A Comprehensive Pipeline for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Navigation in Challenging Aquatic Environments, Mingi Jeong
Novel combination therapies for estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer driven by rational molecular mechanisms, Anneka Lila Johnson
Quantum Control and Simulation Using Hamiltonian Engineering in Solid-State NMR, Linta Joseph
OBSERVATIONS OF SEA ICE THERMAL STRAIN AND MOTION AT GEOPHYSICALLY RELEVANT SCALES, Larson M. Kaidel
INVESTIGATING THE HUMAN FACE PROCESSING NETWORK: INSIGHTS FROM ACQUIRED PROSOPAGNOSIA AND HYPERFAMILIARITY FOR FACES, Marie-Luise Kieseler
The Role of Polo-like Kinase in Polarizing Germline Determinants in the C. elegans Zygote, Amelia J. Kim
Optimal Hypergraph Connectivity with CUT Queries, Hang Liao
Property Testing AI: An Efficient Frontier, Paul Sopher Lintilhac
Macrophage Heterogeneity and Function in the Lung, Xin Li
Pseudo-Soft-Switching Switched-Capacitor Drive Circuits for Small-Scale Dielectric Actuators, Yanqiao Li
A Realizability Approach to Constructing Higher Types via Classifiers, Benjamin Carrick Logsdon
Hybrid DC-DC Converters for Soft Charging Capacitive Actuators: Modeling, Analysis and Design, Bahlakoana Mabetha
Proteomic-based strategies to determine aberrant signaling in cancer, Natasha Chipman Mariano
Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveal the Heterogeneous Landscape of Epithelial Identity During Zebrafish Pancreatic Tumorigenesis, Somer Mary Matar
Ecology of Ixodes scapularis Say: Experimental and Observational Studies with Social Perspectives on Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases, Kaitlin M. McDonald
PROTEOMIC APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATE PP2A-B55 SUBSTRATES AND CELLULAR FUNCTION, Brennan C. McEwan
From Trauma to Treatment: Chronic Neurobehavioral Consequences and Emerging Treatments, Moriah E. McGuier
MECHANISMS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO AGE-DEPENDENT SEGREGATION ERRORS IN DROSOPHILA OOCYTES, Zihan Meng
Functional Morphology of the Primate Knee and its Implications for Hominin Bipedal Mechanics, Catherine K. Miller
Evolutionary Dynamics of Artificial Agents: Exploration and Learning in Games, Brian Mintz
Viability and Generalizability of Canonical Oscillation-based Theories in the Rodent Ventral Striatum and Hippocampus, Manish Mohapatra
Mechanisms of Macrophage Metabolic Activation and Paracrine WNT Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Sclerosis, Emily Ann Morris
Biochemical and Structural Insights into the Yersinia Effector YopM and its Negative Regulation of the Pyrin Inflammasome, Bethany Wairimu Mwaura
The LC3-interacting region of NBR1 is a protein interaction hub enabling optimal flux, Brian Joseph North
BEHAVIORAL AND NEURAL EFFECTS OF DISTRIBUTING VISUAL ATTENTION ACROSS LOCATION AND FEATURE SPACE, Mert Özkan
Engineering the Microenvironment of the Human Heart to Mature Human Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes, Ji Yoon Park
Old, Flat, and Slow: Interior Greenland Snow and Ice Dynamics Revealed with GNSS, Derek James Pickell
Leveraging epigenomics and transcriptomics to develop high-dimensional biomarkers of neuroinflammation, Steven C. Pike
Advances in Indole Chemistry: Regiodivergent Annulations and Bridged Azacycle Synthesis, Zachary Tihomir Protich
DESIGNING FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS INTEGRATING LIQUID METALS AND LIQUID-METAL DERIVED SURFACE OXIDES, Md Saifur Rahman
How’s it growing? Tools for observing snow and sea ice in a changing Arctic Ocean, Ian Alexander Raphael
Data-driven Dynamic Decision-making Using Discrete Optimization and Supervised Machine Learning, Navid Rashedi
Multi-spectral paired-agent imaging for dynamic visualization and quantification of the PDL1 axis, Divya Ravi
Role of Axial Ligation in the Conformational and Redox Properties of Cytochromes, Morgan Elisabeth Reik
Neutrophil Inflammatory Death Regulation by Bacterial Type III Secreted Effectors, Arianna D. Reuven
ENTANGLEMENT-ASSISTED METROLOGY UNDER SPATIOTEMPORALLY CORRELATED QUANTUM NOISE, Francisco U. Riberi
Polarimetric Capture and Differentiable Rendering, Katherine Anne Salesin
ENGINEERING EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES (EVs) TO COMBAT INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS, Sharanya Sarkar
Hierarchical lineage tracing to unravel mechanisms of cancer treatment resistance, Rachel Danielle Saxe
The Influence of Oncology Outreach on Cancer Care Delivery in the United States, Bruno T. Scodari
Advancing novel contrast agents for applications in fluorescence-guided neurosurgery using fluorescence cryotomography, Augustino Vittorio Scorzo
Enhanced Particle Interactions in Highly Curved Spacetime, Bradley Shapiro
METABOLITE ANALYSIS TO UNDERSTAND FACTORS LIMITING MICROBIAL FERMENTATION AT HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATIONS, Bishal D. Sharma
Exploration of inhibition and modulation of an epoxide hydrolase by nanobodies., Adam R. Simard
Strategies to improve antibody-mediated protection against herpes simplex virus infections, Matthew D. Slein
Developing Real-time, Online Beam Control of UHDR Irradiators to Facilitate FLASH Translational Investigations, Austin M. Sloop
Application-Driven Materials Development of Solid-State Conductive Composites of Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene, Peder Solberg
Advancing The Functional Diversity of Hydrazone Photoswithces, Daniil Sosnin
Emergence of Heterogeneity in Bacteria During Antibiotic Exposures, Mirjana Stevanovic
Mechanistic Insights into the FLASH Effect: The Role of Oxygen and Radiation Chemistry in Ultra-High Dose Rate Radiation Therapy, Jacob Pierce Sunnerberg
Wear of High Entropy Alloys: Understanding Effects of Cryogenic Temperatures and Surface Nitriding on Wear Behavior, Aubrey Yu Tang
STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL LESSONS LEARNED ABOUT REGULATION OF ENTEROTOXIGENIC E. coli VIRULENCE REGULATORY FACTOR, RNS, Jessica Dianne Tolbert
Behavioral and Neural Microstructures of Dynamic Cue-Motivated Responses, Erica Townsend
Current Continuity in Auroral System Science, Jules van Irsel
ENABLING LITHIUM-BASED BATTERIES WITH WIDE-RANGING TEMPERATURE OPERABILITY, Peiyu Wang
EXISTING IN CONTEXT: THE EFFECT OF THE SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT ON INDIVIDUALS' FRIENDSHIPS, BELIEFS, AND WELL-BEING, Christopher Welker
Rewriting the Record: A Base Editing Framework for Scalable Lineage Tracing, Evan Winter
From Test Coverage to Non-Corruption Exploits: Rethinking Fuzzing for Software Vulnerability Discovery, Wei-Cheng Wu
Design and Comparison of Air-core Miniaturized Magnetics, Yue Wu
Cell Competition Eliminates Aneuploid Human Pluripotent Stem Cells, Amanda I. Ya
Properties and Interactions of the CcoP Subunit of Cytochrome cbb3 Oxidase, Jia Yang
Monte Carlo Stellar Evolution Models and Their Application on Globular Clusters, Jiaqi Ying
Reconstructing Neoproterozoic rift basins in Laurentia through sedimentology, stratigraphy and subsidence analyses, Tianran Zhang
Crystallinity and Topology in Organic Materials: From Crystalline Frameworks to Polymer Networks, Yunjia Zhang
Design and Manufacturing of Multifunctional Piezoelectric Composites, Huan Zhao
Soft Modular Robots: From Modular Tensegrity Structures to Bioinspired Sea Robots, Luyang Zhao
3D MRI-GUIDED NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC TOMOGRAPHY FOR IMAGING BREAST CANCER, Mengyang Zhao
Multi-scale Simulations Reveal the Effects of Entanglement on Polymer Crystallization, Lingyi Zou
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
