Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Optimizing Mn-Al permanent magnet performance through control of the phase transformation, ternary element addition, and advanced processing, Thomas R. Keller
Airborne Sound and Substrate-borne Vibration in Orthopteran Communication, Ciara E. Kernan
Molecular mechanisms governing the generation of tissue resident memory CD8 T cells in the setting of cancer, nikhil khatwani
Tracing Evolution of Gene Transfer Agents Using Comparative Genomics, Roman Kogay
A Framework and Approach for Leveraging Unsteady Response in Turbocompressor Flowfields, Eric M. Krivitzky
LIGNOCELLULOSE CONVERSION VIA CONSOLIDATED BIOPROCESSING: HIGH SOLID LOADINGS, BIOREACTOR DEVELOPMENT, AND TECHNOECONOMIC ANALYSIS, Matthew R. Kubis
Characterization of cell type-specific molecular heterogeneity in cancer using multi-omic approaches, Min Kyung Lee
Complement system in multiple sclerosis: its role in disease course and potential as a therapeutic target, Michael R. Linzey
MITOCHONDRIAL DIVISION: SYNERGIZING IN MITOCHONDRIAL DIVISOME, Ao Liu
The immune modulation on innate immunity, from pathogen recognition to fungal clearance., Ko-Wei Liu
AN ADAPTIVE MULTIPLE-OBJECT TRACKING ARCHITECTURE FOR LONG-DURATION VIDEOS WITH VARIABLE TARGET DENSITY, Joachim Lohn-Jaramillo
Design and Synthesis of Chiral, Conformationally Constrained Fatty Acid Mimetics, Lauren Elizabeth Markham Ph.D.
Interactomics and targeted protein degradation for kinase substrate discovery, Juan C. Mercado del Valle
UNDERSTANDING THE IMPLICATIONS OF LINEAGE PLASTICITY IN BREAST CANCER EVOLUTION AND CHEMOTHERAPY RESPONSE, Gadisti Aisha Mohamed
Counting elliptic curves with a cyclic m-isogeny over Q, Grant S. Molnar
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF LASR MUTANT SELECTION IN PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA POPULATIONS, Dallas L. Mould
TOWARDS SCALABLE MENTAL HEALTH: LEVERAGING DIGITAL TOOLS IN COMBINATION WITH COMPUTATIONAL MODELING TO AID IN TREATMENT AND ASSESSMENT OF MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, Matthew D. Nemesure
Population-based estimates of children with congenital heart disease and quantifying their burden of care, Devin M. Parker
Measuring how kinetochore-microtubule detachment contributes to chromosome movement and the correction of attachment errors, Melissa K. Parks
Self-Supervised Pretraining and Transfer Learning on fMRI Data with Transformers, Sean Paulsen
ADVANCED TOOLS FOR TIME-RESOLVED IMAGING OF TISSUE METABOLISM, Arthur Petusseau
Design of Next-Generation Neural Interfaces for Decoding the Brain, Yi Qiang
How plants cope with stress, Nabila Riaz
New Physics in the Age of Precision Cosmology, Vivian I. Sabla
Cell-Typing and Interaction Analysis of the Immune Compartment of the Tumor Microenvironment using High-Resolution Omics Modalities, Courtney Taylor Schiebout
Design of ASIC Based Electrical Impedance Tomography Microendoscopic System for Prostate Cancer Surgical Marginal Assessment, Mohsen Shahghasemi
Role of Peripheral Contacts in Structure and Function of c-Type Cytochromes, Dong Woo Shin
Stranger IgGs: Beneficial and Detrimental Sides of Immunoglobulin G Subclasses, Sweta Shrestha
Uncovering the Role of Fat-Infiltrated Axillary Lymph Nodes in Obesity-Related Diseases with Statistical and Machine Learning Analyses, Qingyuan Song
Regulation of the Wnt/Wingless receptor LRP6/Arrow by the deubiquitylating complex Usp46, Zachary T. Spencer
Accelerated Forgetting in People with Epilepsy: Pathologic Memory Loss, Its Neural Basis, and Potential Therapies, Sarah Ashley Steimel PhD
Do species matter? Examining the niche of white ash (Fraxinus americana L.) and estimating potential subcanopy effects of its loss in north-temperate forests, Elizabeth Anne Studer
Urban Public Transportation Planning with Endogenous Passenger Demand, Yifei Sun
Supramolecular design of 3D-printable hydrogels for functional materials, Miao Tang
What Makes Conversation Good? How Responsivity, Topics, and Insider Language Predict Feelings of Connection, Emma M. Templeton
The American Multi-modal Energy System: Model Development with Structural and Behavioral Analysis using Hetero-functional Graph Theory, Dakota John Thompson
Combating Fake News: A Gravity Well Simulation to Model Echo Chamber Formation In Social Media, Jeremy E. Thompson
Synthetic, Catalytic, and Mechanistic Studies of Supermesityl Phosphiranes and Phosphines, Ryan M. Tipker
Cosmological Vector Fields and Constraining the Neutrino Masses, Avery J. Tishue
GABAergic interneurons and prenatal ethanol exposure: from development to aging, Adelaide R. Tousley
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Prometaphase and Metaphase States for Faithful Chromosome Segregation, Sarah Yvette Valles
Molecular Mechanisms of Wild-type and Mutant Prion Formation, Daniel J. Walsh
The Extremes of Galaxy Formation & Evolution, Kelly E. Whalen
The Multiset Partition Algebra: Diagram-Like Bases and Representations, Alexander N. Wilson
Spectral Sequences and Khovanov Homology, Zachary J. Winkeler
Sensitive and Makeable Computational Materials for the Creation of Smart Everyday Objects, Te-yen Wu Mr
Machine Learning for Electronic and Atomistic Simulations, Jun Yang
Exploring Communication in Healthcare Through Decision-Making Interventions and a Novel Measure of Clinician Spoken Plain Language, Renata W. Yen
DESIGN OF A BURST MODE ULTRA HIGH-SPEED LOW-NOISE CMOS IMAGE SENSOR, Xin Yue
Development of Single-Crystalline and 3D-Printable Porous Organic Materials, Mingshi Zhang
Electrolyte Synthesis and Engineering for Alkali Metal Batteries, Yiwen Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Protecting Systems From Exploits Using Language-Theoretic Security, Prashant Anantharaman
Links between electrophilic stress and antifungal resistance in pathogenic Candida species, Amy R. Biermann
Novel functions for Arp2/3 complex-mediated actin networks discovered in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Brae M. Bigge
Correlations and Reuse for Fast and Accurate Physically Based Light Transport, Benedikt Bitterli
Communicating Clinic Visit Information to Family Caregivers, Reed WR Bratches
DECIPHERING PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE SIGNALING NETWORKS USING PROTEOMICS APPROACHES, Brooke Brauer
THE ROLES OF EPITHELIAL–MESENCHYMAL PLASTICITY IN TUMOR HETEROGENEITY, METASTASIS, AND PATIENT SURVIVAL IN BREAST CANCER, Meredith Septer Brown
Advancing fluorescent contrast agent recovery methods for surgical guidance applications, Brook Kennedy Byrd
Genetic Heterogeneity in Schizophrenia And Contribution of Context to Vowel Recognition, Eva Childers
Engineering Order-Disorder Transitions for High-Performance Thermoelectric Fe2VAl Heusler Alloys, Cory T. Cline
Ecology and Evolution of Social Information Use, Clare T. M. Doherty
MECHANISMS AND ROLES OF DYNAMIC ACTIN ASSEMBLY AROUND DYSFUNCTIONAL MITOCHONDRIA, Tak Shun Fung
On the Thom Isomorphism for Groupoid-Equivariant Representable K-Theory, Zachary J. Garvey
Space-Efficient Algorithms and Verification Schemes for Graph Streams, Prantar Ghosh
Regulation of Tissue Mechanics and Adherens Junctions by Small GTPase RhoA during Drosophila Embryogenesis, Hanqing Guo
Between Two Rivers: Environmental Justice and the Politics of Ecological Improvement in Puget Sound, Grant M. Gutierrez
Profiling durable anti-tumor memory T cell responses in long-term melanoma survivors, Jichang Han
Information Provenance for Mobile Health Data, Taylor A. Hardin
Multimodal Ultrasound Imaging for Improved Metastatic Lymph Node Detection, Sidhartha Jandhyala
Approaching Quantum-limited Electrometry in the Single-photon Regime, Sisira Kanhirathingal
Microbial Sociality in Biofilms, Swetha Kasetty
The role of L-alanine signaling in Aspergillus fumigatus biofilm adherence, carbon catabolism, and echinocandin susceptibility., Joshua D. Kerkaert
Impacts of Population Level Environmental Contaminants, Sex Hormones, and Fibroblast Cell Subsets on Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), Noelle N. Kosarek
Spatial Representation in Postrhinal Cortex, Patrick Lachance
Atg23 Dimerization Drives Membrane Tethering in Yeast Autophagy, Kelsie A. Leary
In situ vaccination using plant viral particles as a novel approach for cancer immunotherapy, Chenkai Mao
Cysteine Metallochemistry and Metal Binding: Quantification of the Thermodynamic Foundations of Cellular Homeostasis, Matthew R. Mehlenbacher
Metallacycle-Mediated Cross-Coupling as an Enabling Tool for Studies in Carbocycle Synthesis and Functionalization, Adam Barry Millham
THE THREE-WAY INTERPLAY AMONG EARLY LIFE EXPOSURES, THE GUT MICROBIOME, AND OUTCOMES IN INFANCY, Yuka Moroishi
Deciphering Taxa-function Relationships in Population-level Studies of Human Gut Microbiomes, Quang P. Nguyen
RESPONSE AND MOLECULAR CONTROL OF CD8 T CELLS DURING INFECTION AND CANCER, Nicholas K. Preiss Dr.
BEYOND HOMOGENOUS DECISION-MAKING MODELS: ROLE OF BRAIN AREAS INTERACTION AND HETEROGENEITY, Mohsen Rakhshan
Phase-changing Nanodroplets as Nanotheranostic Platform for Combination Cancer Therapy, Catalina-Paula Spatarelu
Visual ecology: sensing the social world, Elliott P. Steele
Advancing combined radiological and optical scanning for breast-conserving surgery margin guidance, Samuel Stewart Streeter
Disentangling mTOR complexes underlying PTEN-loss-associated Autism Spectrum Disorder, Kamran Tariq
THE DESIGN OF CMOS FRONT-END AMPLIFIERS FOR ELECTRICAL IMPEDANCE APPLICATIONS, Yueh-Ching Teng
The Cavity-Embedded Cooper Pair Transistor as a Charge Detector Operating in the Nonlinear Regime, Bhargava Thyagarajan
Relieving Immune Suppression in the Melanoma Tumor Microenvironment, Gretel Torres Santiesteban
Information Entropic Content of Astrophysical Spectra: Applications to Cosmology and Astrobiology, Sara Vannah
Efforts towards the Asymmetric de novo Synthesis of Lanostanes and Euphanes, Htoo Tint Wai
Consequences of biofilm architecture on Vibrio cholerae ecology and life history, Benjamin Ray Wucher