Student Theses and Dissertations
The Rockefeller University has awarded over one thousand Ph.D’s since 1959. This collection contains theses beginning with the graduating class of 2006. Earlier theses are added by request or as permission to digitize is received. For more information visit the FAQ page.
2023
A Gain-of-Function Role of Apolipoprotein E2 in Melanoma Progression, Nneoma Adaku
The Search for Regulatory Mutations in Gitelman Syndrome, Renan Eduardo Aparicio
Replaying Life's Tape With Intraclonal Germinal Center Evolution, Tatsuya Araki
Development of Improved Genetic Methods for Enterococcus Faecium, Victor Chen
Interrogation and Manipulation of the IGG FC Glycan, Aaron Keshav Gupta
Transgenic Tools in Ants and the Representation of Alarm Pheromones in the Ant Antennial Lobe, Taylor Eco Hart
Cortical Control of Naturalistic Facial Expression Production in Primates, Geena Rose Ianni
Neural Control of Sickness Behavior, Anoj Ilanges
Antibody-Effector Functions in Antiviral Response, Kevin Shuolong Kao
Using Chemical Probes to Examine Cellular Activities, Megan Elizabeth Kelley
Rarely Acquired Type II-A CRISPR-Cas Spacers Mediate Anti-Viral Immunity Through the Targeting of a Non-Canonical PAM Sequence, Claire T. Kenney
Sex Differences and the Evolution of Gene Expression, Samuel Khodursky
Neotelomere Formation by Telomerase in Human Cells, Charles Gunnar Kinzig
Multiplexed Mapping of the Interactome of G Protein-Coupled Receptors and Receptor Activity-Modifying Proteins, Ilana Beth Kotliar
Structures, Functions, and Druggability of the SARS-CoV-2 Replication–Transcription Complex, Brandon F. Malone
On the High-Dimensional Geometry of Neuronal Population Dynamics, Jason M. Manley
Bioorthogonal Tethering of Drug Fragments to Engineered G Protein-Coupled Receptors, Jordan M. Mattheisen
Mechanical Manipulation of Eukaryotic Chromatin by DNA-Binding Proteins, Tuan Nguyen
Structural and Functional Analysis of Substrate Recognition and Inhibition of the Multidrug Transporters MRP1 and MRP2, Harlan Linver Pietz
Converting an Allocentric Goal Direction into an Egocentric Steering Signal in Drosophila, Peter Mussells Pires
Dissecting Host-Viral Interactons Through Focused or Unbiased High-Throughput Genetic Approaches, Daniel Poston
A Chemical-Genetic Map of Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, Nicholas Poulton
Deep Molecular Characterization of Human Cortical Cell-Types, Christina Pressl
Inter-Organellar Nucleic Acid Communication by a Mitochondrial tRNA Regulates Nuclear Transcription, Christopher Rouya
Life on the Edge: Insights into the Neural and Behavioral Algorithms of Plume Tracking, Andrew Siliciano
The Internal Orchestration of a Courtship Ritual in Drosophila, Tom Anton Hindmarsh Sten
Anteromedial Thalamus Gates the Selection & Stabilization of Long-Term Memories, Andrew Toader
Life on a Ball: Multi-Week Tethered Behavior in Drosophila, Jazz Weisman
Enrichment and Transcriptome Analysis of CD4+ T Cell Clones Harboring Intact HIV-1 Proviruses, Georg Hartmut Johannes Weymar
On the Origins of Genetic Novelty in Drosophila, Eric Bo Zheng
2022
Human Antibody Response to Flaviviruses and SARS-Coronavirus-2, Marianna Elizabeth Agudelo
The Effect of Early Dietary Intervention on Alzheimer's Disease-Related Pathology and Cognitive Function in Mice, Anna Amelianchik
The Genetic and Neural Basis of Sexual Dimorphism in Mosquito Behavior, Nipun Basrur
B Cell Receptor Signalng in Germinal Centers, Spencer T. Chen
Uncovering Regulators of Whole-Body Metabolism by Chemoproteomic Profiling of the Adipocyte Secretome, Chan Hee J Choi
Novel Optical Tools to Investigate Presenilin Control of Neurotransmission, Ryan J. Farrell
Songbird Brain Organization and its Molecular Convergence with Humans for Vocal Imitation Learning, Gregory Gedman
Non-Canonical Odor Coding Ensures Robust Mosquito Attraction to Humans, Margaret Herre
Biased Constitutive Activity in the Uveal Melanoma Oncogene CYSLTR2 is Unique in CYSLTR2 Germline and Pan-Cancer Human Variome, Mizuho Horioka-Duplix
Integration Sites in the Persistence of Latent HIV-1, Amy S. Huang
New Roles for the Integrated Stress Response in Cancer and Proteostasis, Brian Hurwitz
DNA Methylation and DNA Methyltransferases in the Clonal Raider Ant, Ooceraea biroi, Ivasyk Iryna
Sign-Inverting Vectors Underlie a Coordinate Transformation in the Drosophila Central Brain, Itzel Gonzalez Ishida
Structure and Mechanism of PCAT1, a Polypeptide Processing and Secretion Transporter, Virapat Kieuvongngam
Nonlinear Representation of Auditory Stimuli Across the Auditory Cortex, Frank Tejera Leon
Intestinal CD4+T Cell Responses to Food, Ainsley Lockhart
Building an Allocentric Traveling-Direction Signal Via Vector Computation, Cheng Lyu
Restriction-Modification and CRISPR-Cas Systems: Cooperation Between Innate and Adaptive Immunity in Prokaryotes, Pascal Maguin
Peptidergic Signaling Controls the Dynamics of Sickness Behavior in Caenorhabditis Elegans, Javier Marquina-Solis
Multi-Modal Regualtion of Actin Networks, Lin Mei
Structural Studies of the Nucleolar Stages of Ribosome Biogenesis in Yeast, Linamarie Miller
53BP1/Shieldin Counteract DSB Resection Through Fill-In Synthesis, Zachary Kenneth Mirman
Tumor Suppression by a TRNA Synthetase, Maria Passarelli
A Developmental Pathway for Epithelial-to-Motoneuron Transformation in C. Elegans, Alina Rashid
Modulation of Prefrontal Cortex activity and sociability by local interneurons expressing corticotropi-releasing hormone, Michael Riad
Sensory and Neuromodulatory Entrainment of Foraging States in C. Elegans, Elias Scheer
Characterization of a Novel Sensing Mechanism Governing Antigenic Variation in P. Falciparum, Victoria M. Schneider
Transcriptomic and Proteomic Studies of Intercellular Communication Between Melanocytes and Keratinocytes in Human Skin, Gabriella Stephanne Spitz-Becker
Reproductive Resilience of Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes, Krithika Venkataraman
Reproductive Resilience of Aedes Aegypti Mosquitoes, Krithika Venkataraman
Endogenous Neurosteroid Hormone Production and Early Oligodendricyte Development, Paige Winokur
Ultra-Fast and Multi-Dimensional Face Processing in a New Face Area, Zetian Yang
Mechanistic Understanding of the Role of TRF1 in Telomere Replication, Zhe Yang
Ras Drives Malignancy Through Stem Cell Crosstalk with the Microenvironment, Shaopeng Yuan
2021
Metabolic Coordination of Stem Cell Fate Controls Tumor Initiation and Tissue Repair, Sanjeethan C. Baksh
Restriction of Food Intake by Dorsomedial Hypothalamus, Caner Caglar
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Causing Beta-Amyloid Variants Have Altered Effects on the Clotting System, Steven Cajamarca
Mechanisms for the Evolution of Superorganismality in Ants, Vikram Chandra
Non-Canonical Axonal Insulin Receptor signaling Drives Aversive Olfactory Learning, Du Cheng
Unraveling the Interaction Between Beige Adipocytes and the Sympathetic Nervous System, Jingyi Chi
Linker Histone Medicated Regulation of Mitotic Chromosome Compaction and Individualization, Pavan Choppakatla
Brochemical Studies of Peptidoglycan Hydrolases from Commensal and Pathogenic Bacteria, Juliel Espinosa
Finding Common Ground: The Common Marmoset as a Model to Accessing and Providing Insight into the Social Brain, Margaret Fabiszak
Tension Propagation Along Tip-Link Cadherins: Regulation and Implications for the Auditory System, Daniel M. Firester
Deciphering Cancer Metabolic Dependencies in the Tumor Microenvironment, Xiphias Ge Zhu
The Role of DNA Methylation in Defining the Vocal Learning Transcriptome of the Zebra Finch, Caitlin Sun Gilbert
The Role of Nutrient Availability in Therapeutic Response of Leukemia, Rohiverth Guarecuco Jr
Not Black and White: BMP Signaling Drives Melanocyte Differentiation Down Stream of Stem Cell Activation, Nicole Rai Infarinato
The Taste of Blood, Veronica Jove
Single-Molecule Investigation of Chromatin-Associated Factors in Genome Organization and Epigenetic Maintenance, Rachel Leicher
Pathogenic Characterization and Therapeutic Development for Fiblrolamellar Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Solomon N. Levin
A Role for ACSBG1 in Obesity-Accelerated Breast, Olivia Maguire
Interactions Between Microbial, Neuronal, and Immune Cells in the Digestive System, Fanny Matheis
Genome-Wide Human-Specific RNA Regulatory Elements in the Brain, Elisabeth A. Murphy
Characterizing Inflammatory Mechanisms in Hidradenitis Suppurativa, Kristina Navrazhina
Noggin Transport in a Model Human Epiblast, Tiên Phan-Everson
Accessory Nucleases Provide Robust Antiparasite Immunity for Type III CRISPR-Cas Systems, Jakob Træland Rostøl
A Proteomic Approach to Elucidating the Function of Picornavirus 2A Protease, Artem Serganov
A Translational Approach to Modeling Unique Aspects of Germ Cell Development During Self-Organization of the Primate Embryo, Rohan R. Soman
Developmental Dynamics of 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine and its Role in the Terminal Differentiation of Neurons, Elitsa Stoyanova
A-to-I RNA Editing in Human Cells, Tony Sun
Chemical Tools for Exploring Metabolite Interactions with Nuclear Receptors and Beyond, Taku Tsukidate
The Identification of a Leptin Dependent Neural Pathway Regulating Adipose Tissue Innervation, Putianqi Wang
The Role of Compartmentalized Metabolism in Cellular Metal Homeostasis, Ross A. Weber
Transcriptional Regulation of the Metabolic Response to Therapy in Leukemia, Robert Thomas Williams
2020
The Role of Adipocytes in the Tumor Microenvironment in Obesity-Driven Breast Cancer Progression, Sarah Ackerman
Blood-Derived Plasminogen Modulates the Neuroimmune Response in Both Alzheimer's Disease and Systemic Infection Models, Sarah K. Baker
Characterizing the RNA Editing Specificityof ADAR Isoforms and Deaminase Domains In Vitro, Mariel Therese Bartley