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  • Computational Approaches for Understanding Combinatorial Gene Regulation

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    Ansariola, Mitra
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    Gene regulation is a complex mechanism that controls the spatial and temporal expression of genes in a living cell. My dissertation studies focus on two problems. First, tissue-specific gene expression prediction from DNA sequence and chromatin state, and second, the accurate discovery of small over-represented regulatory circuits in gene regulatory...
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    a complex process. In this disser- tation, I introduce a generalizable machine learning method to

  • Investigating Transcriptional Control of Specialized Gene Expression in Plants

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    Fraser, Valerie N.
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    Specialized or secondary metabolism is a collection of pathways and small molecules that, while beneficial to an organism, are not strictly necessary for survival. Plants use secondary metabolites to, among other things, attract pollinators, defend against biotic and abiotic stressors, and form symbioses. Natural products from plants have seen an...
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    work, my collaborators and I work to address some of the larger challenges that come from this

  • Investigating the Mechanisms for the Effects of Nitrate Treatment on Exercise Performance and Energy Metabolism

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    Keller, Rosa M.
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    Dietary nitrate (NO3-), consumed primarily from leafy green and root vegetables, lowers blood pressure, improves vascular function and aerobic exercise performance. This performance-enhancing effect of nitrate supplementation is largely attributed to the increased bioavailability of the signaling molecule, nitric oxide (NO). Nitric oxide is a ubiquitous free radical signaling molecule...
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    liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC- MS/MS)- based untargeted metabolomics, I

  • “We Don’t Stop ‘til We Get There”: Reframing the Hip Hop Ill-literacies of Latinx Youth

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    Cole, Matthew C.
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    The experiences of Latinx youth are well-studied in U.S. schools, yet, few studies have focused on their experiences in Community Based Educational Spaces (CBES). CBES continue to be on the periphery of Education research despite the potential affordances of youth-led work in such out-of-school spaces (Baldridge, 2020). At the same...
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    ______________________________________________________________________________ Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation will become part of the permanent

  • Turnover, Memory, Persistence: Four Decades of Ecological Community at Lost Valley

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    Bruno, Mark P.
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    This study is an ethnographic investigation of residential turnover, organizational memory, and the persistence of Lost Valley, an Oregon ecovillage founded in 1989. Literature on organizational turnover, memory, and persistence is reviewed and integrated with scholarship on intentional communities and ecovillages, generating a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis....
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  • Machine Learning for Precision Medicine: Application to Cancer Chemotherapy Response Prediction and Wound Healing Status Assessment

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    Wei, Qi
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    Ph.D. candidate Qi Wei's thesis consists of two projects: Chemotherapy Project: a study based on the research paper "Predicting chemotherapy response of various cancer types using a variational auto-encoder approach" submitted to the bioRxiv preprint archive and accepted by the BMC bioinformatics; and Wound Monitor Project: implementing and assessing analytics...
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    Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my dissertation

  • Paleoseismic Record of Peninsula Segment Earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault near San Francisco, CA and possible NSAF linkage to Cascadia

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    Goldfinger, Chris
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    Lake Merced results have established the lake as a viable paleoseismic site on the northern San Francisco peninsula. The lake records ~ 2300 years of event beds, 17 in total. Prior to that the lake was open to the ocean and contains marine shells consistent with an estuarine environment. The...
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    Technical Report
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    ). Significance to NEHRP This project directly addresses Elements I and II of the national ERP. Element I deals