Autumn 2020

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Kathleen Rose Beilsmith
Ecology and Evolution
Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Colonization of Arabidopsis thaliana by Native Bacterial Communities and Pathogens
10.6082/uchicago.2752

Arjun Appanna Biddanda
Human Genetics
Theory and Methods for Investigating the Spatio-temporal Structure of Human Genetic Diversity
10.6082/uchicago.2749

Marta Teresa Borowska
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
Molecular Insights into Unconventional Immune Recognition: A Case of Commensal Superantigens, Polyreactive Antibodies and Butyrophilin Signaling
10.6082/uchicago.2767

Reem Elorbany
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Investigating the Dynamics of Gene Regulation during Cardiomyocyte Differentiation Using Bulk and Single Cell RNA Sequencing
10.6082/uchicago.2713

Ittai Ethan Eres
Human Genetics
Interrogating the 3D Structure of Primate Genomes
10.6082/uchicago.2733

Blake Alan Flood
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Immunology
Tumor Cell-Intrinsic Defects in STING Pathway Signaling and Type I Interferon Expression
10.6082/uchicago.2728

Katharine W Henderson
Integrative Biology
Exploring the Sensory Innervation of the Larval Zebrafish Pectoral Fin
10.6082/uchicago.2714

Alexandria Simone Hoffman
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Metabolically Activated Adipose Tissue Macrophages and Insulin Resistance
10.6082/uchicago.2726

Molly Kathleen Imgruet
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Cancer Biology
The Role of CUX1 in Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms
10.6082/uchicago.2723

William Jeffrey Johnston
Computational Neuroscience
Reliable and Context-Dependent Computation in the Brain
10.6082/uchicago.2720

Amelia Christine Joslin
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Insights Into Gene Regulation and Disease at Obesity GWAS Loci
10.6082/uchicago.2746

Jacqueline K Lungmus
Integrative Biology
Forelimb Shape, Disparity, and Functional Morphology in the Deep Evolutionary History of Synapsida
10.6082/uchicago.2724

Kevin Matthew Magnaye
Human Genetics
Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms Underlying Maternal Transmission of Asthma Risk
10.6082/uchicago.2704

Joseph Henry Marcus
Human Genetics
Inferring Interpretable Representations of Population Structure
10.6082/uchicago.2712

Kaitlin Christina McLean
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
The Role of GAGA Motif Domains in Chromatin Remodeling of Igk during B Cell Development
10.6082/uchicago.2725

Robert Sayoc Nocon
Public Health Sciences
Understanding the Effects of Medicaid Managed Care
IR: No

Michael K Okoreeh
Immunology
CXCR4 Regulates B Cell Receptor Editing
10.6082/uchicago.2719

Victoria Temitope Okuneye
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Computational Neuroscience
Investigating the Relationship of Delusions in Psychosis with the Functional Integration of Prediction Error Neural Networks
10.6082/uchicago.2721

Natalia Piland
Evolutionary Biology
People, Cities, and Birds in Latin America
10.6082/uchicago.2739

Mathew Ryan Schnorenberg
Interdisciplinary Scientist Training Program: Molecular Engineering
Targeted Delivery of Therapeutic Peptides Using Supramolecular Nanomaterials to Drug Intracellular Protein-Protein Interactions in Cancer
10.6082/uchicago.2722

Jordan Williams Strober
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Fructose Metabolism in FVB/N Mice: Differential Effects of Long- and Short-Term Feeding
10.6082/uchicago.2751

Ayse Catherine Tenger-Trolander
Ecology and Evolution
Maintenance and Loss of Migration and Migration-Associated Phenotypes in Monarch Butterflies
10.6082/uchicago.2717

Jeremy M White
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Association of Metabolic Improvements Following Sleeve Gastrectomy with Circadian Rhythm Alterations
10.6082/uchicago.2757

Yi Zeng
Cell and Molecular Biology
The Life and Death of Lariat RNAs: Insights into Co-transcriptional Splicing and mRNA Export
10.6082/uchicago.2716

Division of the Humanities

Matthew Boulette
English Language and Literature
Appetite for Ecstasy: Chronic Dispossession and Biochemical Governance in America, 1870-1920
10.6082/uchicago.2745

Madison Dickinson Hendren
Romance Languages and Literatures
Playing an Epic Game: Games and Genre in Boccaccio's Teseida delle Nozze d’Emilia
10.6082/uchicago.2756

Division of the Physical Sciences

Takintayo Akinbiyi
Statistics
Equal Local Levels: A Global Testing Approach with Application to Trans EQTL Detection
10.6082/uchicago.2706

Piyush Arya
Chemistry
Strategies Toward the Total Synthesis of (+)-Waihoensene
10.6082/uchicago.2766

Francisc Bozgan
Mathematics
Local Well-Posedness of the Modified Kadomtsev-Petviashvili I Equations
10.6082/uchicago.2769

Paul Bradley Calio
Chemistry
Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of Proton Transport in Aqueous Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2755

Yi Ding
Computer Science
Learning Structure for Computer Systems Management
10.6082/uchicago.2735

Daniel Phillip Dutcher
Physics
A Measurement of the E-mode Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPT-3G
10.6082/uchicago.2727

Anne Marie Farrell
Computer Science
Integrating Machine Learning into Storage Performance Solutions
10.6082/uchicago.2707

Kavon Far Farvardin
Computer Science
A Compiler-based Online Adaptive Optimizer
10.6082/uchicago.2709

Pranav Gokhale
Computer Science
Full-Stack, Cross-Layer Optimizations for Quantum Computing
10.6082/uchicago.2754

Mingzhe Hao
Computer Science
Fast and Stable Data and Storage Systems in Milli/Micro-second Era
10.6082/uchicago.2734

Adam Holmes
Computer Science
Quantum and Classical Algorithms and Optimizations Enabling Practical Quantum Computation
10.6082/uchicago.2737

Lesya Horyn
Physics
A Search for Displaced Leptons in the ATLAS Detector
10.6082/uchicago.2761

Huan Ke
Computer Science
Data Survival Under Catastrophic Failures
10.6082/uchicago.2762

Hailu Kong
Geophysical Sciences
Time-dependent Response of the Global Ocean Circulation to Changes in Southern Ocean Surface Wind Stress
10.6082/uchicago.2729

James Edwin Lasker
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Determination of the Volumetric Type Ia Supernova Rate Using the Full 5-Year Dark Energy Survey Photometrically Classified Sample
10.6082/uchicago.2744

Guangpu Li
Computer Science
Detecting and Fixing Concurrency Bugs in Cloud System
10.6082/uchicago.2748

He Ma
Chemistry
Electronic Structure of Molecules and Materials from Quantum Simulations
10.6082/uchicago.2763

Andrew John McNeece
Chemistry
Secondary Sphere Effects on the Reactivity of Transition Metal Complexes
10.6082/uchicago.2715

Caitlin Ana Meadows
Geophysical Sciences
Community-Level Biotic Response to Increasing Climate Variability During the Last 150 Years: Steady and Warming Conditions on the Continental Shelf of the Pacific Arctic
10.6082/uchicago.2760

Aaron Jeremy Mowitz
Physics
Finite Curved Creases in Infinite Isometric Sheets
10.6082/uchicago.2765

Andriy Neshchadin
Chemistry
Structure-Property Relationships of Organic Fused Conjugated Polymers
10.6082/uchicago.2708

Tung Tho Nguyen
Mathematics
Special Values of L-Functions over Global Fields
10.6082/uchicago.2731

Zhaodi Pan
Physics
A Measurement of Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background Using SPT-3G
10.6082/uchicago.2742

Samuel Charles Passaglia
Astronomy and Astrophysics
The Black Hole Window on Cosmic Inflation
10.6082/uchicago.2710

Curtis William Peterson
Chemistry
Electrodynamic Properties, Structure, and Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Optical Matter Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2771

Karthik Ramanathan
Physics
Particles Taking Selfies: Investigations into Light Dark Matter Using Silicon Charge Coupled Devices
10.6082/uchicago.2738

Yunong Shi
Physics
Compilation, Optimization and Verification of Near-Term Quantum Computing
10.6082/uchicago.2741

Evan Ray Shockley
Physics
Study of Excess Electronic Recoil Events in XENON1T
10.6082/uchicago.2743

Dixin Tang
Computer Science
Thrifty Query Processing
10.6082/uchicago.2736

Ruyi Wang
Chemistry
Developing Polymeric Materials for Immunoengineering
10.6082/uchicago.2732

Tong Wu
Chemistry
Chemical Approaches to Decipher Transcription and RNA Metabolism
10.6082/uchicago.2718

Min Xu
Computer Science
Towards Better Data Privacy and Utility in the Untrusted Cloud
10.6082/uchicago.2750

Division of the Social Sciences

Anjali Anand
Political Science
Capitalists and Companies: Making States in India, 1700-1800
10.6082/uchicago.2705

Casey Hall
Psychology
Gesture as a Bridge Between Non-Declarative and Declarative Knowledge
10.6082/uchicago.2759

Charles Wilbur Hartley III
Anthropology
Community, Pottery, and Political Culture: Crafting the State in the Luoyang Basin, North China, 3000-1500 BCE
10.6082/uchicago.2701

Ann Kathleen Heffernan
Political Science
Disability: A Democratic Dilemma
10.6082/uchicago.2747

Miao Jenny Hua
Anthropology
Staging Efficacy: Cancer Treatment in Contemporary China
10.6082/uchicago.2753

Mallory Gibson James
Anthropology
Burning the Future: Australian Carbon and Energy Engineering
10.6082/uchicago.2764

Chenxin Jiang
Social Thought
An Ethics of Transition through Translation: Germany and China, 1898-1933
IR: No

Tung Le
Economics
Essays on Economics of Immigration
10.6082/uchicago.2770

Linzhuo Li
Sociology
The Tail Wagging the Dog: Uncertainty and Organization in the Fashion Production Market
10.6082/uchicago.2703

Rachel Noll
Political Science and Anthropology
Jail Refrains: Queer Relations Within and Beyond Necessity
IR: No

Andrey Alexander Shlyakhter
History
Smuggler States: Poland, Latvia, Estonia, and Contraband Trade Across the Soviet Frontier, 1919-1924
10.6082/uchicago.2768

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Hongfan Chen
Essays on Revenue Management: Platform Economy and Optimization under Uncertainty
10.6082/uchicago.2702

Samuel David Hirshman
Three Essays on Financial Decision-Making
10.6082/uchicago.2740

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Division of the Social Sciences

Anirudh Tiwathia
Business and Psychology
Political Cognition in a Liberal Democracy: The Effects of Election Outcomes on Perceived Corruption, Perceived Legitimacy, and Voluntary Compliance with the Law
10.6082/uchicago.2711

The Divinity School

Kelli Anne Gardner
The Figure and Figuration of Woman in the Hebrew Bible: Female Body and Voice in Song of Songs, Proverbs 1–9, 31, and Lamentations 1–2
10.6082/uchicago.2730

Elena M. Lloyd-Sidle
Toxic Whiteness: Imprints on Theological Method
IR: No

The Law School

Adi Grinapell
The Determinants of Dual-Class Stock Structures at Innovative Firms: Evidence and Implications
10.6082/uchicago.2758

The School of Social Service Administration

Bikki Tran Smith
The Power of Place: An Examination of the Socio-spatial Context in Addiction Treatment Service Access in the Era of Healthcare Reform
IR: No