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All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This collection compiles theses and dissertations from all schools and departments at Washington University in St. Louis. Public access policies vary by school.

Theses/Dissertations from 2026 2026

Epigenetic Regulators MLL3 and MLL4 Sustain Hematopoietic Stem Cell Multipotency, Helen Chenwei Wang

GABAergic ventral pallidum neurons drive hedonic feeding and are required for obesity, Justin Guang Wang

Chitinase variants establish environmental inflammatory lung conditioning, Yilin Wang

Energetic Heterogeneity in Retinal Ganglion Cells: Role of Neuronal Activity and Implications for Resilience, Zelun Wang

Cloud-Deployed RNA-Seq Analytics for Identifying Imaging and Therapeutic Targets in Chemotherapy-Induced Toxicities, Zhimu Wang

Age, income, and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards: The roles of financial resources and attribute salience, Haoran Wan

Understanding the Biological Functions of Dual-Localized Mitochondrial Phosphatase PPTC7, Lianjie Wei

Transient activation of potent progenitor cells is required for spinal cord regeneration, Chase Alexander Weinholtz

Care as Method: Sound, Duration, Relation in Contemporary Art Practice, Violet L. White

The Physiological and Behavioural Responses of Mountain Gorillas (Gorilla beringei beringei) to Social and Anthropogenic Stressors, Lauren Marilyn Wiseman-Jones

Investigating the Global Volatile Cycle with Heavy Noble Gases, Kelsey Woody

Quantitative HAADF-STEM Enabled Detection of Antisites in Multiferroic h-LuFeO₃, Jianan Wu

Essays in Human and Machine Biases in Financial Markets, Jimmy Wu

Legal Protection of Private Equity Investors in Chinese Limited Partnership: A Comparative Analysis of Regulatory Deficiencies and Reform Approaches, Keying Wu

Astrocytic α7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Signaling and its Contribution to Behavior, Yifan Wu

Characterization of New Particle Formation and Aerosol In-cloud Scavenging in the Marine Atmosphere, Qian Xiao

Biodegradable and Recyclable PLA-based Polyurethanes with Tunable Crystallinity and Mechanical Properties, Mo Xiaotian

Dynamic Individualized Latent Trait (DILT) Model: Bridging Nomothetic and Idiographic Psychometrics, Muchen Xi

Aversive Olfactory Conditioning and Locomotive Modulation in Locust, Quanchen Xu

Children of the State: Coming-of-Age Narratives in the Third Reich and the Cultural Revolution, Shinan Xu

Quiet Change, Close Attention, Tianqing Xu

The Role of Perivascular Adipose Tissue Phenotype in Vascular Remodeling, Yujun Xu

Progenitor Response during Zebrafish Spinal Cord Regeneration, Yuxiao Xu

Temporal Logic Planning in Semantic Maps of Unknown Environments using TL-RRT, Dongrui Yang

Dissecting Tumor Evolution and Immune Composition in PRC2 Loss (H3K27me3 Loss) vs Retained MPNST, Kuangying Yang

Temperature and environmental implications on Ti_{3C_{2Cl_{2 MXene degradation process}}}, Yang Yang

Towards Understanding Robust Neural Coding Through Representational Geometry, Zeyuan Ye

Narrating Power: How Organizations Can Shape Power Holders’ Perceptions and Behaviors Through Promotion Narratives, Hyun Jung Yoon

Genetic and Mechanistic Dissection of Missing-Self Killing by Natural Killer Cells, Jeesang Yoon

Collagen Remodeling in Depth-sensing and Memory of Epithelial Mechano-response, Hongsheng Yu

Graph-AI Frameworks for Integrative Multi-Omics Data Analysis, Heming Zhang

Multidimensional MRI Maps Histology-Defined Phosphorylated Tau Burden in Alzheimer’s Disease, Hongyi Zhang

Transport and Interfacial Dynamics of Electrochemical Formation Processes in Li-Based Batteries, penghao zhang

If life were only as our first encounter, Yixiao Zhang

Data-Driven Decision Making in Digital Platforms, Zhiqi Zhang

Characterization of Ebola Virus VP24-Host Protein Interactions, Junjie Zhao

Study of Complex Biological Systems through AI-Empowered Metabolomic Analysis and Modeling, Runyu Zhao

Multifunctional Self-Healing and Shape-Adaptive Soft Electronics Based on Immiscible Dynamic Polymers, Sirui Zhao

On the Origin of Coherent Gigahertz Two-Level States in Electron-on-Neon Systems, Kaiwen Zheng

Dietary Manipulations of the Undernourished Infant Microbiome, Cyrus Zhou

Efficient Estimation of Volatility in the Presence of Infinite Variation Jumps, Tianwei Zhou

Data-Driven Multimodal MRI Representation Learning for Subtype Discovery and Disease Progression Modeling in Parkinson’s Disease, zihan zhou

Circuit and Cytokine Regulation of Effort Allocation in Acute and Chronic Sickness States, Xiaoyue Zhu

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-Based Performance Prediction of Transcatheter Microvascular Plugs in Single-Ventricle Patients, Zhuhuan Zou

Theses/Dissertations from 2025 2025

Montane β-diversity: Biodiversity through Space and Time in Earth’s Most Biodiverse Regions, Ethan Ray Abercrombie

Studies in Algebraic Cycles: Hodge Theory of Degenerations, Regulators, and Cluster Varieties, Ricardo Jaime Acuna

Unmeasured, detached, and isolated: The legitimation of a domesticated identity, Eva M. Agüero

A Neuroimmune Circuit Mediates Chemo Brain Pathology, Daniel Ahmadi

Top-down Control and Bottom-up Salience Guide Attention During Visual Search, Christopher Ahn

Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter Regulates ITAM-Dependent Platelet Activation, Jehiel Abigail Ajanel Gomez