Winter 2021
Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2021)
Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Zhongyang Cao
Cancer Biology
Erythropoiesis Is Controlled by External Stimuli through Covalent Epigenetic Modifications and Chromatin Looping
10.6082/uchicago.2843
Kate Elizabeth Cavanaugh
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
RhoA Mediates Adaptive Junction Mechanics and Contractile Asymmetry
10.6082/uchicago.2815
Chang Cui
Cancer Biology
Leveraging Macrophages to Develop Cancer Therapeutics
10.6082/uchicago.2817
Julian Day-Cooney
Neurobiology
Perceptual Weighting of Mouse V1 Spikes Revealed by Optogenetic White Noise Stimulation
10.6082/uchicago.2805
Jessica Lynn Fessler
Cancer Biology
The Gut Microbiome Shapes the Tumor Microenvironment by Tuning Innate Immunity
10.6082/uchicago.2823
Nicholas Wilson Knoblauch
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
On Estimating the Genetic Basis of Complex Traits and Their Molecular Intermediates
10.6082/uchicago.2802
Younan Li
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Existing Actin Filaments Orient New Filament Growth to Provide Structural Memory of Filament Alignment during Cytokinesis 10.6082/uchicago.2834
Tiffany Marie Marchell
Immunology
Engineering Antibody Glyco-adjuvant Conjugates to Treat Established Cold Tumors
10.6082/uchicago.2809
Daniel Clark Moline
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology
Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Prostate Samples Yields Candidate Factors Necessary for Prostate Regeneration
10.6082/uchicago.2807
Arvind Sreekumar Pillai
Ecology and Evolution
Evolutionary Origins of Molecular Complexity in Hemoglobin
10.6082/uchicago.2842
Katherine Louise Rhodes
Human Genetics
Investigating the Dynamic Regulation of Gene Expression during Cellular Differentiation
10.6082/uchicago.2839
William Frank Richter Jr.
Cell and Molecular Biology
The Role of H3K79me2 in Leukemia and Alternative Splicing
10.6082/uchicago.2831
Marcus Makina Soliai
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
Regulatory and Functional Genomics Studies of Complex Respiratory Diseases
10.6082/uchicago.2806
Gabrielle Watkins
Neurobiology
SK2 Channel and Metabotropic Receptor Mediated Regulation of Intrinsic Excitability in Purkinje Cells and Implications for Cerebellar Learning
10.6082/uchicago.2828
Chudong Wu
Genetics, Genomics, and Systems Biology
The ETS Factors Pnt and Yan Regulate Distinct Cell Fates in Drosophila
10.6082/uchicago.2810
Division of the Humanities
Anatole Upart
Art History
Ruthenians in Early Modern Rome: Art and Architecture of a Uniate Community, 1596 – 1750
10.6082/uchicago.2803
Division of the Physical Sciences
Mohammad Ahmad Awais
Chemistry
Developing Semi-Ladder Polymer Systems for Light-Emitting Transistor Applications
10.6082/uchicago.2837
Xiaodong Chen
Mathematics
Applications of Continuous-Time Stochastic Control in Portfolio Optimization
10.6082/uchicago.2827
Aleksander Evren Paetzold Durumeric
Chemistry
Adversarial Analysis and Molecular Coarse-Graining
10.6082/uchicago.2818
Chi-Jui Feng
Chemistry
Protein Conformational Variation Studied by Amide I Infrared Spectroscopy and Computational Spectroscopy
10.6082/uchicago.2830
Timothy Paul Grabnic
Chemistry
Visualizing Reactions at Surfaces: Exploring Reactive Surface Dynamics Utilizing a Novel Combination of Supersonic Molecular Beams and Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
10.6082/uchicago.2804
Wenbo Han
Chemistry
Self-Assembled Hybrid Nanomaterials for Synergistic Chemotherapy, Chemoimmunotherapy, and Photodynamic Therapy of Cancers
10.6082/uchicago.2841
Samuel Holo
Geophysical Sciences
Impact Crater Statistics and the History of Rivers on Mars
10.6082/uchicago.2814
Anthony LaTorre
Physics
Searching for Dark Matter with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
10.6082/uchicago.2820
Vladislav G. Lisnyak
Chemistry
The Development of Strategies, Reactions, and Tactics for the Total Syntheses of Chilocorine C and Dankasterone B
10.6082/uchicago.2829
Nidhi Pashine
Physics
Mechanical Metamaterials from Disorder
10.6082/uchicago.2835
Anand Saminathan
Chemistry
Development of DNA Based Voltage Sensors for Intracelullar Organelles
10.6082/uchicago.2819
Sean Shangguan
Chemistry
A Synthetic Miniprotein Platform Targeting Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors
10.6082/uchicago.2825
Jiangbo Wei
Chemistry
Context-Dependent RNA Demethylation by Fat Mass and Obesity-Associated (FTO) Protein
10.6082/uchicago.2821
Xin-Chuan Wu
Computer Science
Design, Optimization, and Simulation of Scalable Quantum Computing Systems
10.6082/uchicago.2840
Division of the Physical Sciences and the Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine
Christopher Thomas Boughter
Biophysical Sciences
A Dynamical and Quantitative Approach to Characterize Non-canonical Immune Recognition Events
10.6082/uchicago.2833
Division of the Social Sciences
Megan Edwards Alvarez
Anthropology
Transforming the Irish Spirit: Colonialism through the Commodification of ‘Drinkways’ in Early Modern Ireland, c.1540-1660
10.6082/uchicago.2824
Elyzabeth Leigh Gaumer
Sociology
Residential Context and Well-Being: An Experimental Study of Affordable Housing in New York City
10.6082/uchicago.2836
Devin Susanne Yagel Gouvêa
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
Essentially Dynamic Concepts and the Case of "Homology"
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Sonia Alexandrine Porelle Grant
Anthropology
Patchwork: Land, Law, and Extraction in the Greater Chaco
10.6082/uchicago.2832
Jalisha Braxton Jenifer
Psychology
Calculated Avoidance: The Role of Effort-Based Valuations in the Relation between Math Anxiety and Math Avoidance
10.6082/uchicago.2812
Hongcen Wei
Economics
The Effects of Financial Deregulation on Wage Inequality
10.6082/uchicago.2801
William Peter Wood
Social Thought
Nietzsche's Argument for the Philosophical Life: An Interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil
10.6082/uchicago.2822
The Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Elizabeth Michiko Ashley
The Use of Block-Copolymer Nanolithography to Fabricate Ultrafine Phononic Crystals and Phononic Crystal-Enhanced Devices
10.6082/uchicago.2838
Alexandre Bourassa
Control of Spin Qubits in a Classical Electronics Material
10.6082/uchicago.2813
Hung-Shen Chang
Remote Entanglement via Adiabatic Passage Using a Tunably Dissipative Quantum Communication System
10.6082/uchicago.2816
Lea Maillat
Lymphatic Transport of Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer Metastasis
10.6082/uchicago.2811
Siqi Meng
Solid-Liquid Transition in Polyelectrolyte Complexes
10.6082/uchicago.2826
Elyse Andrea Watkins
Antibody Targeting of Antigen to Endogenous Immune Surveillance Pathways for the Induction of Tolerance
10.6082/uchicago.2808