Winter 2016
Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2016)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Bandlamudi, Chaitanya
Genetics
DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL SOMATIC AND WIDESPREAD INHERITED POLYMORPHIC FUSION GENES IN HUMANS
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773441
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M11N7Z72
Best, Matthew Davis
Computational Neuroscience
The Involvement of Premotor Cortex in Executing Reach to Grasp Movements
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773451
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1HT2M73
Brown, Michael Scott
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
The architecture of Rad51 and Dmc1 in meiotic recombination complexes
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773433
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1B8562Z
Feehley, Taylor
Immunology
Commensal Bacteria and Their Metabolites Prevent Sensitization to Food Antigens
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773436
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1K935F7
Leventhal, Daniel
Cancer Biology
ELUCIDATING THE BIOLOGY OF TUMOR-ASSOCIATED REGULATORY T CELLS
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773442
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1BZ63ZN
MacQueen, Alice Hannah
Ecology and Evolution
Natural Variation in Sequence, Disease Resistance, and Fitness in the R-Gene Family of Arabidopsis thaliana
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773428
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1Q23X5K
Marcus, Benjamin
Neurobiology
Optimizing a Human Model of the Amphetamine Conditioned Place Preference Paradigm
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773427
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1DR2SNX
Nicolaescu, Vlad
Developmental Biology
THE EFFECTS OF POLYCOMB REGULATION ON THE PRODUCTION OF PLANT CALLUS IN TISSUE CULTURE
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773434
Institutional Repository: No
Ostmeyer, Jared Lee
Computational Neuroscience
Inactivation at the Selectivity Filter of a Potassium Channel
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773447
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1NK3BZD
Perisin, Matthew Anthony
Microbiology
The Dynamics of Bacterial Communities Associated with Arabidopsis thaliana
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773431
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1R49NQQ
Singhal, Hari
Cancer Biology
Genomic Agonism and Phenotypic Antagonism between Estrogen and Progesterone Receptors Inform Breast Cancer Prognosis and Therapies
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773440
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M15D8PXX
Vaidya, Mukta
Computational Neuroscience
POPULATION DYNAMICS IN PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX DURING COORDINATED REACH TO GRASP
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773453
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1WW7FRR
van de Geijn, Bryce Myers
Genetics
Genomic Tools for Robust Quantitative Trait Locus Discovery and Interpretation
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773457
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1639MPJ
Wolfman, Shannon Lee
Neurobiology
Neural Substrates of the Aversive Effects of Nicotine
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773452
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1765C7N
Division of the Humanities
Larison, Kristine Marie
Art History
Mount Sinai and the Monastery of St. Catherine: Place and Space in Pilgrimage Art
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773446
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M19021XW
Nemiroff, James
Romance Languages and Literatures
Comedias Judaizantes: Performing Judaism in Lope de Vega's Toledan Plays (1590-1615)
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773437
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1XW4GQW
Porthé, Rainbow Aline
Art History
Planctus Provinciae: Arts of Mourning in Fifteenth-Century Provence
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773445
Institutional Repository: No
Radding, Jonah
Classics: Classical Languages and Literatures
Politics and Poetics: Tradition, Genre, and Poetic Innovation in Euripidean Tragedy
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773455
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M19G5JRT
Tusler, Megan
English Language and Literature
American Snapshot: Urban Realism from New Deal to Great Society
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773443
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1FJ2DQH
Division of the Physical Sciences
Heaps, Charles William
Chemistry
Pseudospectral Sampling of Gaussian Basis Sets as a New Avenue to High-Dimensional Quantum Dynamics
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773448
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M19W0CDH
LAU, KA CHEONG
Chemistry
Reactivity of Metal Alkyl Complexes with Carbon Dioxide
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773456
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M11J97NG
Potiron, Yoann
Statistics
Estimating the Integrated Parameter of the Locally Parametric Model in High-Frequency Data
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773460
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1SB43P4
Rubin, Nicholas Charles
Chemistry
THE VARIATIONAL TWO-ELECTRON REDUCED-DENSITY-MATRIX METHOD FOR EXTENDED SYSTEMS
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773458
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1D21VHP
Yang, Hao
Chemistry
Engineering Artificial Metalloenzyme for Selective Catalysis
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773444
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M10Z715S
Division of the Social Sciences
Balandran-Castillo, Maria
History
After the Braceros: Mexican and American Immigration Politics, 1964-1986
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773450
Institutional Repository: No
Hammond, Nancy Anne
Economics
Improved Child Mortality and the Decline in Fertility in Britain: 1841-2005
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773424
Institutional Repository: No
Jagesic, Sanja
Sociology
Effects of Academic Match on Student Outcomes in College
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773429
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1G15XSW
Jones, Kamaya
Comparative Human Development
TEACHING 'NEKA: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS AT ONE HIGH-ACHIEVING URBAN PUBLIC SCHOOL
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773439
Institutional Repository: No
Murphy, Tessa
History
The Creole Archipelago: Colonization, Experimentation, and Community in the Southern Caribbean, c.1700-1796
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773425
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1930R8B
Pugliese, Maude
Sociology
Socio-Economic Disparities in Portfolio Composition: Their Historical Causes and Their Consequences for Inequality in America
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773432
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M18G8HMF
Swyngedouw, Eva
Sociology
Intersecting Governmentalities: Turning Newcomers into Citizens in the Divided City of Brussels
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773438
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1GQ6VP0
Zandvakil, Rasool
Economics and Business
Financial Shocks, Cyclicality of Labor Productivity and the Great Moderation
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773454
Institutional Repository: No
The Divinity School
Hiller, Timothy
Justification and Moral Value: Martin Luther on Good, Evil, and the Moral Self
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773435
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1MG7MDQ
Hoskins, Richard J.
Reinhold Niebuhr and International Society: The Concord of Christian Realism and the English School of International Relations Theory
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773459
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1T43R0W
Rader, Kyle
Learning to Love: A Constructive Theology of Ascetic Reading from I John to Ernst Troeltsch
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773449
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1Z60KZ5
The Institute for Molecular Engineering
Klimov, Paul Victor
Quantum Information Processing with Electronic and Nuclear Spins in Semiconductors
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773430
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M15718Z1
The School of Social Service Administration
Isarowong, Nucha
Raising Toddlers: A Naturalistic, Longitudinal Examination of African American Parental Socialization Messages and Practices with Toddlers in High-risk Environments
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773426
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1GH9FVB