Winter 2019

Winter Quarter Dissertations (March 2019)

Division of the Biological Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine

Erin Alana Thorpe Boyle Anderson
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
The Role of the Tbx5 Paralogues during Pectoral Fin Development in Zebrafish
10.6082/uchicago.1716

Christopher Daniel Katanski
(Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics)
Mechanisms of Remodeling Translation during Stress
10.6082/uchicago.1709

Sangman Michael Kim
(Immunology)
Tissue Stress and Posttranslational Modifications of Gluten Drive the Development of Tissue Destruction in Celiac Disease
10.6082/uchicago.1693

Elizabeth Erin Lailei Lee
(Neurobiology)
Novel Methods and Techniques to Investigate Voltage Sensitive Proteins
10.6082/uchicago.1696

SangWook Lee
(Computational Neuroscience)
Corticocortical Connections between the Primary Motor and Somatosensory Cortices in the Macaque
10.6082/uchicago.1711

Lindsey Megan Fong Mao
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
TBX5A Functions in Anterior Lateral Plate Mesoderm Specification and Migration in Zebrafish Embryos
10.6082/uchicago.1717

Mohammad Siddiq
(Ecology and Evolution)
The Role of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Evolution in Alcohol Adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster
10.6082/uchicago.1722

Claire Stedden
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
Semaphorin Signaling Coordinates the Collective Migration of Epithelial Cells in the Drosophila Egg Chamber
10.6082/uchicago.1718

Andy Vo
(Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology)
Genetic Modifiers of Muscular Dystrophy
ProQuest: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.uchicago.edu/docview/2203352357?accountid=14657
IR: No

Ali Ekrem Yesilkanal
(Cancer Biology)
Discovery of Anti-metastatic Therapies Guided by the Physiological Suppressor Raf Kinase Inhibitory Protein
10.6082/uchicago.1725

Division of the Humanities

Nadia Chana
(Music)
To Listen on Indigenous Land: Method, Context, Crisis
10.6082/uchicago.1694

Nicholas Mahood Lambrecht
(East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
New Arrivals: Returnee Identity and the Memory of Repatriation in Japanese Literature
ProQuest: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.uchicago.edu/docview/2202894084?accountid=14657
IR: No

Solveig Nelson
(Art History)
The Whole World Is (Still) Watching: The Televisual, Early Video, Nonviolent Direct Action, 1930s-1970s
ProQuest: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.uchicago.edu/docview/2203442314?accountid=14657
IR: No

Natalie L Trevino
(Classics)
Inspiration and Narrative in the Homeric Odyssey
10.6082/uchicago.1703

Division of the Physical Sciences

Mary Terese Burkey
(Physics)
Searching for Tensor Currents in the Weak Interaction Using Lithium-8 β Decay
10.6082/uchicago.1697

Hillary Lyn Child
(Physics)
Cosmology through Large-Scale Structure: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Bispectrum and Evolution of Halo Profiles
10.6082/uchicago.1712

Nathan Don Earnest
(Physics)
Engineering Light-Matter Interactions with Metastable States in a Heavy Fluxonium
10.6082/uchicago.1705

William Foreman
(Physics)
A Demonstration of Light-Augmented Calorimetry for Low-Energy Electrons in Liquid Argon
10.6082/uchicago.1699

Nicole M James
(Chemistry)
The Role of Surface Chemistry in the Shear Jamming of Dense Suspensions
10.6082/uchicago.1707

Nelson Leung
(Physics)
Quantum Computing with Distributed Modules
10.6082/uchicago.1700

Joseph Nathanael Mastron
(Chemistry)
Fluorescence-Encoded Infrared Vibrational Spectroscopies
10.6082/uchicago.1719

Jonathan Raybin
(Chemistry)
Defects and Dynamics in Block Copolymer Thin Films: A Study of Polymer Pattern Evolution with Environmentally-Controlled Atomic Force Microscopy
10.6082/uchicago.1720

Guohua Shen
(Chemistry)
Synthesis of Mercury Chalcogenide Colloidal Quantum Dots and Core Shells
10.6082/uchicago.1713

Nolan Miller Shepherd
(Chemistry)
Manipulating Electromagnetic Fields in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticle Systems
10.6082/uchicago.1692

Vishal Hasmukh Soni
(Physics)
Geometry of Colloidal Materials
10.6082/uchicago.1726

Shareefa Thekkan
(Chemistry)
cHOClate: A DNA-Based Fluorescent Probe to Quantitatively Map Subcellular HOCl
10.6082/uchicago.1704

Zongan Wang
(Chemistry)
Fast, Atomic-Level Simulations of the Forced Unfolding of Proteins Using a New Membrane Burial Potential
10.6082/uchicago.1708

Benjamin Weissman
(Chemistry)
Analysis of Self-Cleaving Ribozyme Transition States
10.6082/uchicago.1695

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

Ryan Lee Mork
(Biophysical Sciences)
Staphylococcus aureus Acquisition, Persistence, and Infection Dynamics in the Household
10.6082/uchicago.1715

Division of the Social Sciences

Marcel Sebastian Anduiza Pimentel
(History)
From Pacific Gateway to Tourist City: Mobility, Revolution, and the Development of the Mexican Seaside, Acapulco, Mexico, 1849-1970
10.6082/uchicago.1701

Mohamad Ballan
(History)
The Scribe of the Alhambra: Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb, Sovereignty and History in Nasrid Granada
10.6082/uchicago.1702

Amy Michelle Genova
(History)
Strategies of Resistance: Cretan Archaeology and Political Networks during the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
10.6082/uchicago.1698

Alfredo Gonzalez
(Political Science)
Other Than Honorable: The Rise and Decline of Citizenship-for-Service, 1918-1965
10.6082/uchicago.1706

Mary Denise Robertson
(Anthropology)
Selling Aspiration, Recognizing Difference: Race, Class, and the Politics of Advertising in South Africa
10.6082/uchicago.1721

Christopher Patrick Todd
(History)
The Slaves' Money: Bondage, Freedom and Social Change in Jamaica, 1776-1832
ProQuest: https://search-proquest-com.proxy.uchicago.edu/docview/2202998130?accountid=14657
IR: No

Division of the Social Sciences and the Division of the Humanities

Luke Harry Parker
(Social Thought and Classics)
Listening to Logos: A Prose Poetics in Heraclitus
10.6082/uchicago.1710

The Divinity School

James Robert Covington
The Poetics of Translation in Greek Genesis and the Virtuous Plot
10.6082/uchicago.1714

The Institute for Molecular Engineering

Youpeng Zhong
Violating Bell’s Inequality with Remotely-Connected Superconducting Qubits
10.6082/uchicago.1723

The Law School

Marco Segatti
The Point of Equal Access to Justice: On the Duty to, at Times and Provisionally, Pause, Cool Down and Listen
Library Catalog: http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11940645
10.6082/uchicago.1724