Selected titles of Undergraduate honors thesis written prior to 2012 can be found in Special Collections.
Theses from 2024
Evaluating Tissue Morphology in the Context of Varied Initial Fabrication Conditions, Cassidy Caffin
The Effect of Vitamin B12 on Breast Tumor Innervation, Hailey Hoog
Validation and Optimization of Aerosolized Particle Delivery in a Nasal Airway-on-Chip Model, Abigail Lakey, Amanda Walls, and Kartik Balachandran
Detection of Hypoxia via RGB Imaging, Nathania Nischal
Transcriptomic Profiling of Engineered Human Gene Integration in The Mouse Genome Following In Vitro Gene Editing, Ethan Potts, Made Harumi Padmaswari, and Christopher Nelson
Dorsal Root Ganglia Neurite Outgrowth Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury Repair: A Review, Adrienne Vaughan
Theses from 2023
Optimizing Three-Dimensional Bioengineered Co-Cultures for the Study of Fibrotic Spinal Cord Injury, Sarah Aly
Correlation of Intracellular Metabolites with Optical Metabolic Imaging in Polarized Macrophages as Indicators of Metabolic Reprogramming, Abby Claire Denison and Shelby Bess
Exploring the Effects of Microarchitecture on Astrocyte Behavior and Vascular Remodeling in Spinal Cord Injury, Devin Gerber
Automated Segmentation of Autofluorescence Lifetime Images Using a Convolutional Neural Network, Nicole Hooten
Comprehensive long- and short- read sequencing approaches to screen the mutational landscape after therapeutic CRISPR-editing for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Mary Jia, Made Harumi Padmaswari, Landon Burcham, Shilpi Agrawal, Alexis Ivy, Abbey Bryan, and Christopher E. Nelson
Investigating the Impact of International Education on Cultural Understanding, Health Disparities and Collaboration through Project-Based Learning, Breanna Kilgore
Phenotypic and Quality Assessments of Continuously Expanded Human Bone Marrow-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Multiple Donors, Vitali Maldonado
A Wheelchair-Bed Transfer Device for Patients with Limited Mobility, Malachie Nichols
Effects of Mechanosensitivity In Regulating Phenotypic Characteristics of Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells, Neel H. Patel
Investigating the Effect of Pancreatic Cancer Tumor-Derived Extracellular Vesicles on Schwann Cell Activation, Isabel Powers
Theses from 2022
Hydrogel Drug Delivery Platform Integrity and Utilization Analysis, Joshua Carson Adams
Characterizing the expression pattern and function of Tartan during Drosophila development, Alaina Baggett
Pulse Rate Variability Analysis During Hemorrhage in an Experimental Porcine Model, Gabbie Bonvillain, Lauren Crimmins, Md Abul Hayat, Adria Abella Villafranca, Sam Stephens, Hanna K. Jensen, Joseph A. Sanford, Jingxian Wu, Kevin W. Sexton, and Morten Jensen
The Effects of Microgravity on Human Endothelial Cells in Relation to Deep Vein Thrombosis, Allie Burgess
Surface Laser Texturing of CoCrMo Alloys, Gabriel Dharwadker
Erythrocyte Deformability in Response to Glucose Using Liquid Crystals, Jayden Goff
Alternative Fixation of Venous Valves for Bioprosthetic Applications, Makenzie Kapales
Investigating the Impact of Hypoxia on Reactive Oxygen Species Generation within Murine Breast Cancer Cells, Jared McPeake
The influence of MMP14 on angiogenesis in chemotherapy-treated tumors, Abdussaboor Muhammad
Sequential Illumination in a Tomographic Microendoscopic Probe for Imaging Tumor Microvasculature, Zachariah Neumeier
Clot Analogs for the Development of Improved Treatment Methods In Ischemic Stroke, Charles A. Rieth
Modifications of a Machine to Produce Clinically-Sized Angioplasty Balloons for Bifurcations, Natalie Smith
3D volumetric mapping of tissue properties via a catheter-scale microendoscope imaging system, Andrew Stark
The Interaction of Angiotensin I and II on Calcified Aortic Valve Cells, Fah Sysavanh
Determination of tissue-level changes in tumors that are indicative of metastasis using optical spectroscopy, Sanidhya D. Tripathi
Virtual Reality as an Education Tool in Biomedical Engineering, Megan Wilkerson
Localized Intra-Arterial Drug Delivery Device for Stroke Treatment, Benjamin Yip
Theses from 2021
New Force Transducer for Mitral Valve Chordae Tendinea, Joseph Berryman
Effects of IL-10 On Local Cell Populations and Functional Recovery Following VML Injury, Zain Blackwell
Quantifying mucosal hemodynamics in a murine model of Ulcerative Colitis with diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, Elizabeth A. Bullard, Ariel I. Mundo, Shelby N. Bess, and Kathryn P. Miller
Monitoring FGF1-Treated Skin Wounds with Label-Free Multiphoton Microscopy, Gianna Busch
Involvement of the INO80 chromatin remodeling complex in cell division and genomic stability, Ethan Chen
The Linear and Non-Linear Relationships between Peripheral Venous Pressure, Arterial Circulation, and Patient Factors, Lauren Crimmins
Development of a SolidWorks Simulation Toolkit for a Sophomore Level Biomedical Engineering Course, Jordan Crosby
Metabolic Profiling of Radiation Resistance in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Natalie Curry
Developing Aligned Nerve Scaffolds in a 3D Type-I Collagen Gel, Gabriel David
Quantifying Blood Flow Patterns in the Pediatric Heart Using Blood Speckle Imaging, Harrison Dean
Guide RNAs preparation for in-vitro CRISPR-Cas9 complex delivery targeting genes that affect wound healing., Prashant Khatiwada
Static Force Analysis of a Porcine Mitral Valve to Determine Self-Supporting Capabilities of the Leaflets, Jacob Paris
