Winter 2017

Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2017)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Chang, Alan Lee
Cancer Biology
The CCL2 Chemokine Axis Recruits Regulatory T Cells and Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in Glioblastoma Multiforme
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1RN35ZZ

Ishizuka, Isabel Emiko
Immunology
Stages and Transcriptional Regulation of Innate Lymphoid Cell Development
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M17M060P

Kwan, Chun Wai
Organismal Biology and Anatomy
Functional Evolution of a Morphogenetic Gradient
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1H41PH7

Michaux, Jonathan
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology
Dynamic control of pulsed contractions in the early C. elegans embryo
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1674

Rangaraj, Vittobai Rashika
Molecular Metabolism and Nutrition
Role of Chronotype in Type 2 Diabetes Risk
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1ZP449M

Santos, Alicja
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Motility of Unconventional Myosin Motors Reconstituted on Dynamic Actin Networks
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1668

Tabot, Gregg
Computational Neuroscience
Natural Proprioception and Artificial Touch
Institutional Repository: No

Division of the Humanities

Bandurski, Karolina
Romance Languages and Literatures
Representations of Monstrosity, Metamorphoses and Physical Deformity in Italian Renaissance Literature
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M13T9F9V

Bastermajian, Harry
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Emergence of the Global Armenian in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1666

Bates, Tristan Heather
Comparative Literature
Spatializing the Neoliberal Turn: Turkish Novels of the Long 1980s
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1671

Berry, Brian John Dominguez
Comparative Literature
The Divided Skeptic: Samuel Beckett's Parody and Stanley Cavell's Interpretation of Philosophical Skepticism
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1J38QMM

Cohen, Jennifer R.
Art History
Surrealism and the Art of Consumption
Institutional Repository: No

Jagannathan, Dhananjay
Philosophy
The Labors of Wisdom
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1DB7ZWW

Lorenz, Megaera Callisto
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Role of Male Royal Offspring in 18th Dynasty Egypt
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1WD3XNV

O'Malley, Austin M
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Poetry and Pedagogy: The Homiletic Verse of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭâr
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1669

Sarvé-Tarr, Marin
Art History
Seizing the Everyday: Lettrist Film and the French Postwar Avant-Garde, 1946-1954
Institutional Repository: No

Taylor, Suzanne
English Language and Literature
In and Out of Character: Moral Action in the Eighteenth Century
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1667

Division of the Physical Sciences

Adams, Jonathan David
Chemistry
Product Branching in the Photodissociation of Chloroacetaldehyde and the Incorporation of Angular Momentum in Statistical Predictions of Product Branching
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M14T6GDS

Antipov, Sergey
Physics
Fast Transverse Beam Instability Caused by Electron Cloud Trapped in Combined Function Magnets
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1MW2F7N

Deng, Zhiyou
Chemistry
Colloidal Mercury Chalcogenide Quantum Dots, Intraband Transitions and Infrared Detection
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1SN071V

Hoerner, Marie
Geophysical Sciences
The Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Species Introductions and Environmental Change: From East African Cichlids to the Great American Biotic Interchange
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1670

Jumper, John Michael
Chemistry
New Methods Using Rigorous Machine Learning for Coarse-Grained Protein Folding and Dynamics
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1BZ647N

Krizka, Karol
Physics
Searches for Sub-TeV Hadronic Resonances with the ATLAS Detector
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M18K774H

Langlois, Grant Gregory
Chemistry
Time-Resolved Surface Dynamics: Directed Reactivity, Extraterrestrial Ices, and Nerve Agent Simulants
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1G44NBD

Li, Bing
Physics
Aspects of MSSM Associated with Electroweak Baryogenesis
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1765CH7

Malachosky, Edward William
Chemistry
Solution and Substrate Assembly of Noble Metal Nanoparticles
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1S46Q1R

Olechnowicz, Frank
Chemistry
Synthesis and Reactivity of Low Coordinate Nickel Sulfide Complexes
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1NC5Z8K

Orlova, Tatiana
Computer Science
Solvation Signature in Hydrogen Bond Geometry of Protein Helices
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M13F4MSH

Sumaria, Chintan Shantilal
Chemistry
Cycloaddition Reactions of 1,2-Diazines and Siloxy Alkynes; The Development and Application of Chiral Deltic Ureas and Thiosquaramides as Dual Hydrogen-Bond Donor Catalysts
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1673

Wu, Miles Anthony King-Ting
Physics
Measurement of Collinear W Boson Emission from High Transverse Momenta Jets Using the ATLAS Detector
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1CC0XR2

Zhai, Feng
Chemistry
Synthesis and Reactivity of Group 10 Metal Olefin Polymerization Catalysts Bearing α-Diimine Ancillary Ligands
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1HM56J7

Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Ramirez San Juan, Guillermina
Biophysical Sciences
Cell migration, a multiscale integration process: Understanding the sub-cellular mechanisms of directed cell migration during contact guidance and elucidating the role of tissue scale migration in Drosophila egg chambers.
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1QN64TK

Division of the Social Sciences

Cost, Jay Phillip
Political Science
One Great American System: Madison, Hamilton, and the Problem of Republican Nationalism
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/uchicago.1672

Romeo, Emily Claire Kolmodin
History
The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1125QQT

Yokota, Ryan Masaaki
History
Okinawan Postwar Nationalism(s): Independence, Autonomy, and Indigenousness, 1945-2008
Institutional Repository: No

Social Sciences & Humanities

Mayer, Tamar
Social Thought and Art History
Consequences of Drawing: Self and History in Jacques-Louis David's Preparatory Practices
Institutional Repository: No

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Stern, Matthew
Dynamic Learning in Strategic Games and Duality in Infinite Dimensional Optimization
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1057D05

Zhou, Shuang
Disclosure Dynamics and Investor Learning
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1KW5D38

The Divinity School

Reinsch, Andrew
Recogimiento and the Memory of God
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1NV9GB1

The Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

Feng, Junchen
Essays on Learning Through Practice
Institutional Repository: 10.6082/M1VD6WJX

Sun, Yi
Technological Progress, Performance Gaps and Fuel Consumption Policy in the Chinese Automobile Market
Institutional Repository: No