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Theses/Dissertations from 2019
An Information Theory Model for Optimizing Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Acquisitions, Drew Mitchell
Commissioning of Micro-Cube Thermoluminescent Dosimeters for Small Field Dosimetry Quality Assurance in Radiotherapy, Brandon Luckett
COMPUTATIONAL GENOMIC MODELS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL INVESTIGATION OF EARLY LUNG CANCER PATHOLOGY, Smruthy Sivakumar
Cross-presentation Is A Source of Tumor Antigens For Multiple Myeloma Immunotherapy, Alexander A. Perakis
Current Practices and Perspectives of Genetic Counselors and Reproductive Endocrinologists Regarding Transfer of Mosaic Embryos, Angelica Starnes
Development of a High-Throughput System for Screening of Anti-Prion Molecules, Katherine Do
DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATED RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING FOR CERVICAL AND BREAST CANCER FOR RESOURCE-CONSTRAINED CLINICS, Kelly Kisling
Exploring Experiences & Expectations of Prenatal Healthcare and Genetic Counseling/Testing in Immigrant Latinas, Georgiann Garza
EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL YIELD OF PRENATAL TESTING BY EVALUATING A POSTNATAL POPULATION WITH STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES, Peyton Busby
GENETIC COUNSELOR UTILIZATION AND INTERPRETATION OF SOMATIC TUMOR TESTING IN EVALUATION FOR LYNCH SYNDROME, Danielle Williams
Hsp70-mediated regulation of Hsf1 transcriptional activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Sara Peffer
Hypoglycemia in Mitochondrial Disorders, Allison Moats
Identifying Interest in and Barriers to Psychiatric Genetic Counseling, Samantha Montgomery
Identifying Pathogenic Variants in Hereditary Cancer Syndrome Genes via Tumor Molecular Profiling, Carol Nowlen
IL-6/JAK1 DRIVES PD-L1 PHOSPHORYLATION AND GLYCOSYLATION TO PROMOTE CANCER IMMUNE EVASION, Li-Chuan Chan
INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF THE P63 ISOFORM ΔNP63 IN LUNG STEM CELL POPULATIONS AND LUNG CANCER, Sarah J. Wu
IPSC BASED GENE CORRECTION AND DISEASE MODEL OF A NEW CLASS OF LGMD DUE TO POGLUT1 MUTATION, Jose Ortiz-Vitali
Metabolic Control, Quality of Life, and Body Image in Patients with Glycogen Storage Disease Type Ia, Alexa Bream
Modeling Proton Relative Biological Effectiveness Using Monte Carlo Simulations of Microdosimetry, Mark A. Newpower
MULTIMODALITY SOMATOSTATIN ANALOG FOR FLUORESCENCE-GUIDED SURGERY IN CANCER, Servando Hernandez Vargas
Oxidative Phosphorylation: A Critical Feature and Novel Therapeutic Target in Melanoma Brain Metastases, Grant Fischer
PLATISCITY OF C. ELEGANS GERMLINE STEM CELLS UNDER NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC STRESS, Kenneth Trimmer
QUANTITATIVE IMAGING FOR PRECISION MEDICINE IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER PATIENTS, Rachel Ger
Rejuvenation of the Epigenetic Landscape of the Aged Brain Through Manipulation of Circulating Factors, Edward Koellhoffer
ROLE OF c-MET and EGFR IN ACQUIRED RESISTANCE TO PARP INHIBITORS IN TRIPLE-NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER, Clinton Yam
Sequence-Specific Gene Correction of Cystic Fibrosis Airway Basal Cells, Varada Anirudhan
Termination for Fetal Anomaly: What is The Impact of Genetic Counseling on Coping?, Cayleen Smith
THE CHARACTERIZATION OF T-CELL MANUFACTURING FOR ADOPTIVE T-CELL THERAPIES, amir ALPERT
THE GSK-3β-FBXL21 AXIS REGULATES TCAP VIA UBIQUITIN-MEDIATED PROTEASOMAL PATHWAY IN THE CYTOPLASM, Jiah Yang
The impacts of insurance and billing considerations on the practice and attitudes of genetic counselors, Emily Krosschell
THE ROLE OF GENE EXPRESSION NOISE IN MAMMALIAN CELL SURVIVAL, Kevin Farquhar
Thiol-based Misfolding: Linking Redox Balance to Cytosolic Proteostasis, Ford Amy
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
3D SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR QUENCHING CHARACTERIZATION FOR SCANNING PROTON BEAMS, Fahed Alsanea
A Compressed Sensing Approach to Detect Immobilized Nanoparticles Using Superparamagnetic Relaxometry, Sara Thrower
ADENYLYL CYCLASE TYPE 9: REGULATION AND CARDIAC FUNCTION, Tanya A. Baldwin and Tanya A. Baldwin
Aging Exacerbates Neutrophil Pathogenicity in Ischemic Stroke, Meaghan Roy-O'Reilly
A ROLE FOR EPAC1 AND EPAC2 IN NOCICEPTOR HYPEREXCITABILITY AND CHRONIC PAIN AFTER SPINAL CORD INJURY, Samantha Berkey
ASSEMBLY AND DISPLAY OF SURFACE PROTEINS IN ACTINOMYCES ORIS, Sara Siegel
Attitudes Toward Updated Genetic Testing Among Patients with Unexplained Mismatch Repair Deficiency, Jessica Omark
AUTO-DELINEATION OF OROPHARYNGEAL CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES USING DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES, Carlos Eduardo Cardenas
Bayesian Designs for Early Phase Clinical Trials with Novel Target Agents, Heng Zhou
BAYESIAN INTEGRATIVE ANALYSIS OF OMICS DATA, Youyi Zhang
BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS, INFLAMMATION, AND MULTIORGAN DAMAGE IN SICKLE CELL DISEASE, Morayo Adebiyi
CHANGES IN THE TESTES FOLLOWING SPINAL CORD INJURY AND THE ATTENUATING EFFECTS OF LICOFELONE, Ryan Fortune
CHARACTERISTICS OF INDIVIDUALS UNDERGOING PANEL GENETIC TESTING FOR PRIMARY BRAIN TUMORS, Sarah Azam
CHARACTERIZATION OF METRONIDAZOLE- AND VANCOMYCIN-RESISTANT CLINICAL ISOLATES OF CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE, Chioma Odo
Characterizing the recognition motif and novel substrates of CARM1, Sitaram gayatri
Cholinergic Control of Cortical Circuit Activity, Rajan Dasgupta
Computational insights into the generation of chromosomal copy number changes, Yihua Liu
CURRENT GENETIC COUNSELING PRACTICE FOLLOWING POSITIVE NON-INVASIVE PRENATAL TESTING FOR SEX CHROMOSOME ABNORMALITIES, Lauren Fleddermann
Design, Fabrication, and Validation of 3D Printed, Patient-Specific Compensators for Postmastectomy Radiation Therapy, Daniel Craft
Development and Characterization of a Bi-specific Antibody Targeting HLA-A2/PR1, Amanda Herrmann
Development and Commissioning of an Independent Peer Review System for a Small Animal Irradiator, Mary Peters
DEVELOPMENT OF 3D-PRINTED PATIENT SPECIFIC BOLUS FOR CLINICAL USE IN TOTAL SCALP IRRADIATION, Garrett Baltz
Discovery and effects of pharmacological inhibition of the E3 ligase Skp2 by small molecule protein-protein interaction disruptors, John K. Morrow
DISSECTING THE MOLECULAR MECHANISM OF EARLY TUMOR DISSEMINATION IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, Xingtong Liu
ENHANCING RADIATION SENSITIVITY IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER, Yifan Wang
EPITHELIAL TO MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION AS A PREDICTOR OF RESPONSE TO POLO-LIKE KINASE 1 INHIBITION-INDUCED APOPTOSIS IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA, Pavitra Viswanath
EQUIPMENT TO ADDRESS INFRASTRUCTURE AND HUMAN RESOURCE CHALLENGES FOR RADIOTHERAPY IN LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS, Rachel McCarroll
EVALUATION OF PRESAGE® AS A 3D DOSE VERIFICATION TOOL IN PROTON BEAMS, Mitchell Carroll
EVOLUTION VIA GENE DUPLICATION AND ALTERNATIVE SPLICING IN THE EUKARYOTIC SKI7 AND HBS1 GENES, Alexandra Marshall
EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GENETIC COUNSELORS’ IMPLICIT ATTITUDES TOWARD DISABILITY AND THEIR PRACTICE METHODS, Helen W. Gould
FUNCTIONAL HETEROGENEITY OF FIBROBLASTS IN DERMAL WOUND HEALING, Ehsan Ehsanipour
Functional Similarity of PRD-Containing Virulence Regulators in Bacillus anthracis, Malik Raynor
GENETIC EVOLUTION AND PROGNOSTIC DETERMINANTS OF PANCREATIC CANCER ON LONGITUDINAL LIQUID BIOPSIES, Vincent Bernard
GENOMIC AND TRANSCRIPTOMIC LANDSCAPE OF COLORECTAL PREMALIGNANCY, Kyle Chang
Genomic Evolution of Chemoresistance in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Delineated by Single Cell Sequencing, Charissa Kim
HEME PEROXIDASE HPX-2 PROTECTS CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS FROM PATHOGENS, Yi Liu
HYPOTHALAMIC CIRCUITS IN THE CONTROL OF FEEDING AND EMOTIONAL BEHAVIORS, Leandra Mangieri
IDENTIFICATION AND UTILITY OF DNA IN EXOSOMES, Paul Kurywchak
Identification of Intracranial Lesions with Dual-Energy Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Phase Imaging, Megan C. Jacobsen
IDENTIFICATION OF TISSUE AND CIRCULATING BIOMARKERS FOR PREMALIGNANT AND MALIGNANT LESIONS, SHU-HONG LIN
IDENTIFYING MOLECULAR TARGETS AND VALIDATING NOVEL THERAPIES FOR OVARIAN CANCER, Alejandro Villar-Prados
Identifying Subunit Organization and Function of the Nuclear RNA Exosome Machinery, Jillian Losh
IL-1α BLOCKADE REDUCES IMMUNE SUPPRESSION IN THE EARLY TUMOR MICRO-ENVIRONMENT, Brenda Melendez
Improved Target Coverage of Spinal Metastases Through the Use of Flattening Filter Free Beams, Laura Bennett
Improving dbNSFP, Mingyao Lu
INSIGHTS INTO THE REACTIVATION, REGULATION AND ESSENTIALITY OF OXIDATIVE PROTEIN FOLDING PATHWAYS IN ACTINOBACTERIA, Belkys Sanchez
INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS APPROACHES TO ELUCIDATING PROSTATE CANCER CELL HETEROGENEITY, PLASTICITY, AND TREATMENT RESPONSE, Hsueh-Ping Chao
Intratumoral STING Activation Sensitizes Poorly Immunogenic Cancers to Checkpoint Blockade Immunotherapy, Casey Ager
INVESTIGATING INVASION IN DUCTAL CARCINOMA IN SITU WITH TOPOGRAPHICAL SINGLE CELL GENOME SEQUENCING, Anna Casasent and Anna Casasent
INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF INTRAGENIC DNA METHYLATION ON GENE EXPRESSION, AND THE CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS ON TUMOR CELLS AND ASSOCIATED STROMA, Michael McGuire
INVESTIGATING THE ROLES OF TAP63 AND TAP73 IN CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA AND LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA, Andrew J. Davis
INVESTIGATING THE SINGLE CELL HETEROGENEITY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPACT OF MISTRANSLATION, Christopher Evans
Investigation of Novel Virulence Mechanisms in Candida albicans, Elisa Marie Tafoya Vesely
INVOLVEMENT OF GDAP1 IN THE REGULATION OF MTORC1 ACTIVITY IN A DROSOPHILA MLIV MODEL, Kristen Clemons
ISCHEMIC STROKE DAMAGE IS REDUCED BY INHIBITION OF IL-6 SIGNALING WITH TOCILIZUMAB, Jacob Hudobenko
Mechanism of Incorporation and Repair of Uracil at Highly Transcribed Genes In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, Norah Auma Owiti
MECHANISMS AND TARGETING OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL REGULATOR REST IN MEDULLOBLASTOMA DISSEMINATION, Keri Callegari
MICRORNA FUNCTIONS IN UV-INDUCED CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA, Tran Nguyen
miR-484 Functions as an Onco-miR in Triple Negative Breast Cancer, Nashwa Kabil
Nanoscale Organization of the Small GTPase Rac1, Kelsey Maxwell
Omics Approaches to Uncover Germline and Somatic Variation Underlying Inherited Sarcomagenesis, Justin Wong
Outcomes of Genetic Testing in a Genitourinary Genetics Clinic, Annelise Pace