SURF 2021 Presenters

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Michael Abrahams | INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL SUBSTRATE OF LYSINE METHYLTRANSFERASE SET5 | Dr. Sabeen Ikram | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Olorunjuwon Ajayi | MODEL OF ELECTRIFIED ETHANE DEHYDROGENATION REACTOR | Dr. Zewei Chen | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Achalefac Akem, Simeon Nelson | EFFECTS OF APPL MUTATION GENE ON MALE DROSOPHILA’S RESPONSE TO ODOR | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Mickayla Bacorn | BIOINFORMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE ACTIVE SITE DIVERSITY FOR SARS-COV-2 AND OTHER CORONAVIRUSES | Dr. Stephen K. Burley | Bioinformatics – Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Brian Beach | DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF PHYSIOLOGICAL SYNCHRONY ON MENTAL STATES AND PERFORMANCE DURING IN-SITU TRAINING | Dr. Andrea Kleinsmith | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Eden Beyene, Maya Tondravi | EXAMINING FACTORS THAT MOTIVATE LEARNING USING CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE AND AVERSION PARADIGMS | Dr. Tara LeGates | Psychology / Neuroscience / Social Sciences | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Evan Carlyle | SYNTHESIS OF FLEX-REMDESIVIR ANALOGUES AS POTENTIAL ANTIVIRAL THERAPEUTICS | Dr. Katherine Seley-Radtke | Chemistry | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Deepanjali Chowdhury | CHARLIE: A CHATBOT THAT ANALYZES DAILY ACTIVITY TO DETERMINE EFFICIENT DIETS AND FITNESS PLANS | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

 

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Justin Damon | DEVELOPING A FULLY SYNTHETIC NON-DEGRADABLE HYDROGEL WITH TUNABLE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES TO GUIDE NEURAL STEM CELL MIGRATION AND DIFFERENTIATION | Dr. Erin Lavik | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Christina Dee, Simon Ishanathan Guteng | CELL MEMBRANE FORCE BALANCE MATHEMATICAL MODEL | Dr. Bradford Peercy | Mathematics and Statistics – Physics | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Sergio Diaz | EXPRESSING THE DYNAMICS OF A QUANTUM SZILARD ENGINE USING QUANTUM INFORMATION | Dr. Jean-Francois Van Huele | Mathematics and Statistics – Physics | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Juvet A. Ebai Jr., Kaiya Meggett | THE AGE-SPECIFIC EFFECT OF COFILIN2 GENE EXPRESSION ON BACTERIAL CLEARANCE ABILITY IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. | Dr. Jeff Leips | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Nna-Emeka Ejimogu | INVESTIGATING MECHANISTIC DETAILS OF THE SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE ARGINYL-TRNA TRANSFERASE (ScATE1) ACTIVE AND REGULATORY SITES USING SITE-DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS | Dr. Aaron Smith | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Sofia Encarnacion | DIVISIBILITY OF DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORM MATRICES | Dr. Kasso Okoudjou | Mathematics and Statistics – Physics | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Kelvin Fadojutimi | CHARACTERIZING OF THE PROTEIN-PROTEIN, PROTEIN-RNA, AND PROTEIN-MEMBRANE, INTERACTIONS THAT NUCLEATE  HIV-1 VIRAL ASSEMBLY | Dr. Pengfei Ding | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Theodore Fechtmeyer, Antonio Jones | MODIFYING A GENOME SCALE MODEL TO SIMULATE VIRAL INFECTION OF HEK-293 CELLS | Dr. Michael Betenbaugh | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Lily Fritz | EXAMING THE POTENTIAL FOR CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII AS AN ALTERNATIVE PLATFORM TO EXPRESS INSULIN  | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Caitlyn Gantert | INVESTIGATING SUGAR CONCENTRATION AND CONSUMPTION IN THE FUNGAL SPECIES RHODOTORULA GLUTINIS  | Dr. Michael Betenbaugh | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Kevin Gibbons | IDENTIFYING NOVEL DEUBIQUITINATING ENZYMES THAT REGULATE MUTANT p53 LEVELS IN OVARIAN CANCER CELLS | Dr. Achuth Padmanabhan | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Brian Hanson, Jr. | FABRICATION OF A GLUCOSE SENSING LASER-INDUCED GRAPHENE BIOSENSOR | Dr. Gymama Slaughter | Biotechnology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Areli Morales Hernandez | MODERN RESPONSIVE WEB APPLICATION | Dr. Joshua Dehlinger | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Joana Hernandez, Zainab Bharmal | ASSESSING THE FUNCTION OF HUMAN AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN AND ITS FLY HOMOLOG APP-LIKE IN DROSOPHILA | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Mishelle Hernandez, Vandana Janeja, Mohammad Alodadi | MULTI-DOMAIN VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT | Dr. Vandana Janeja | Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Raunak Hota | VQA FOR POST-DISASTER DAMAGE ASSESSMENT | Dr. Maryam Rahnemoonfar | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Christopher Iheanacho, Taylor Scott, Rameesha Mustafa, Yassin Elalamy | THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HOLIN PROTEINS AND THE PHAGE MORPHOLOGICAL TYPE | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Matthew Ivler | SPECTEXTOR: DENSE AUTOMATED TEXT GENERATOR FOR SPORTS NEWS ARTICLES | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Nicole Johnson, Melanie James, Michael Conron, Ruhshana Bobojonova
| INVESTIGATING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO ENDOLYSINS ENCODED BY PHAGES IN CLUSTER BF | Dr. Steven Caruso | Bioinformatics – Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation


Antonio Jones, Theodore Fechtmeyer
| MODIFYING A GENOME SCALE MODEL TO SIMULATE VIRAL INFECTION OF HEK-293 CELLS | Dr. Phoebe Fechtmeyer | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Reyana Kaji | THE EFFECT OF CaMKI ON THE SOCIABILITY OF DROSOPHILA | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Arjun Kanjarpane | ELUCIDATING INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE HIV-1 RRE AND THE VIRAL PROTEINS REV AND GAG  | Dr. Michael Summers | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Polina Kassir | REVERSING METABOLIC ARREST: DOWNREGULATION AND RETURN OF Na+-K+ ATPase (NKA)  | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Zobia Khan | A RESOURCE EFFICIENT QUANTIZED FEDERATED LEARNING MODEL FOR BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Layanna Khaskia | DEVELOPING CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII AS A PRODUCTION PLATFORM FOR THE ENZYME CHITINASE | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Maheder Kore | DETECTION OF DIFFERENT CELL POPULATIONS WITHIN THE BREAST TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT | Dr. Nykia Walker | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Matthew Lee | SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION OF HEAD AND NECK TUMORS IN PET/CT IMAGES | Dr. Sanjay Purushotham | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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D’Juan Moreland | CONNECTIONS BETWEEN MOTOR ACTIVATED BRAIN REGIONS IN THE TELENCEPHALON OF MALE ZEBRA FINCH  | Dr. Matthew Davenport | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Fanny Morfin-Reyes | DIFFERENTIATING GENETIC MANIPULATIONS IN DROSOPHILA TO INVESTIGATE SYNAPTIC REFINEMENT | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Ivan Neto | UNSEEN TRAVEL MODE IDENTIFICATION USING TRANSFER LEARNING | Dr. Naima Khan | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Nhan Nguyen | STUDY OF DOMAIN ADAPTATION OPPORTUNITIES IN RESPIRATORY SYMPTOM DETECTION USING EARABLES | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Ellison Ober, Tami Akinde, Fikra Kelifa, Victor Manzi | CORRELATION BETWEEN MYOVIRUS TAIL CONTRACTION & INFECTION OF BACILLUS ANTHRACIS DELTA-STERNE | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Daniella Obidi | THE EFFECTS OF MODIFIED CARBON CONCENTRATING MECHANISM GENES ON CHLAMYDOMONAS GROWTH RATE | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Firekunmi Ojo | K-MEANS CLUSTERING OF FRACTION-SUBTRACTION DATA | Dr. Steven Andrew Culpepper | Mathematics and Statistics – Physics | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Chiad Onyeje | DETERMINING CLOTTING STRENGTH OF HEMOSTATIC NANOPARTICLE THROUGH A COAGULATION ASSAY | Dr. Erin Lavik | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Anita Osoh | RECREATING THE NEUROVASCULAR NICHE USING HYDROGELS | Dr. Erin Lavik | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Eriberto Osorio | POPULATION SURVEY OF INVASIVE NEST PREDATORS IN THE ANDROS ISLAND COMPLEX IN THE BAHAMAS | Dr. Kevin Omland | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Crystal Parry | CHARACTERIZING THE ACTIVITY OF THE UAS-roGFP-GRX1 SENSOR IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Tatiana Perez, Alejandro Catacora, Mac Luu, Jemima Sammanasu | COMPARISON OF SELECTION PRESSURES IN THE ARDA GENE WITH GENOME IN BF PHAGES | Dr. Steven Caruso | Bioinformatics – Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Jillian Perry | OPTIMIZING IN-VITRO CAPPING REACTION TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN eIF4E AND THE HIV-1 RNA GENOME | Dr. Michael Summers | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Caela Phillips | PACKAGING VIRAL RNA TO FORM THE HIV-1 VIRION: THE COMPLEX INTERACTION BETWEEN THE GAG PROTEIN AND THE CORE ENCAPSIDATION SIGNAL | Dr. Nele Hollmann | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

 

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Jeanelle Mae Quiambao | CHARACTERIZING THE ROLE OF A PATIENT DERIVED MUTATION ON HIV-1 PACKAGING | Dr. Michael Summers | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Antoinette Quiwonkpa | SUGAR PRODUCTION AND THE EFFECT DIFFERENT LIGTHS HAS ON IT | Dr. Jenna Wolfanger | Bioinformatics – Computational Biology | Dr. Fausto Reyher | Bioinformatics – Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

 

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Kierra Regis | ELUCIDATING THE 3D STRUCTURE OF THE HIV-1 5′ LEADER | Dr. Michael Summers | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Payton Schubel | DESIGNING A CONTACT TRACING ONTOLOGY TO HELP CONTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES | Dr. Zhiyuan Chen | Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Shefra Shah, Janae Gordon, Sean Starkloff, Naiyah Lewis | MODIFICATION AND SENSITIVITY OF OLFACTORY-GUIDED BEHAVIOR BY SECOND HAND EXPOSURE TO E-CIGARETTE AEROSOL | Dr. Weihong Lin | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Christopher Slaughter | TRAINING AND EVALUATING CLASSIFIERS OF MENTAL WORKLOAD USING FNIRS: THE IMPACT OF WINDOW SIZE AND FEATURE CHOICE | Dr. Michael Hughes | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Xavier Smith | REFOCUSING ANALOG ELECTRONIC PEDAGOGY TO EMPHASIZE PRACTICAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A PSOC ENVIRONMENT | Dr. Steven Leeb | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Diane Stonestreet | MANIPULATING MIX DESIGN AND SURFACE TEXTURE FOR ECO-FRIENDLY CONCRETE BIO-TILES | Dr. Sara Pezeshk | Mechanical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Aris Stovall | FROM BENCH TO BIOSOCIAL RESEARCH: APPROACHING SCIENCE AS AN EMBODIED RESEARCHER | Dr. Laundette Jones | Psychology –  Neuroscience – Social Sciences | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

 

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Raina Tam, Olivea Varlas, Naafia Thangalvadi, Protus Ukeomah | THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LENGTH OF TAPE MEASURE PROTEIN AND HOST RANGE | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Jenny Thomas | SYNTHESIS AND BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS TYPE-1 SPLICED RNA | Dr. Xinmei Dong | Chemistry | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Rajan Thummar, Kamilah Degraphenreed | IN PURSUIT OF PLEIOTROPY | Dr. Jeff Leips | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Meghan Tucker, Edgardo A. Hernandez | DEVELOPING SYNTHETIC ANTIBODY PROBES FOR RNA ANALYSIS INSIDE CELLS | Dr. Deepak Koirala | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

 

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Sharath Velliyamattam, Senali Dansou | COMPARING SOIL BACTERIOPHAGE BIODIVERSITY CHARACTERIZED BY MORPHOLOGY IN BACILLUS AND STREPTOMYCES HOSTS | Dr. Maria Cambraia | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Sharath Velliyamattam, Reda Bentahar, Zakarya Wahed | IN SILICO ANALYSIS OF VOLVOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS AND THEIR DEVELOPMENTAL EXPRESSION | Dr. Stephen Miller | Bioinformatics – Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Anya Viswanathan | NDRG1 PROTECTS THE KIDNEY FROM HYPOXIC INJURY | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Karis Weisgerber, Bukola Molake | 4D METABOLIC NETWORKS IN LIVING CELLS | Dr. Minjoung Kyoung | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Sarah Yoda | 3D PRINTING IODIXANOL-INFUSED BIORESORBABLE VASCULAR STENTS FOR ENHANCED CONTRAST PROPERTIES | Dr. Yonghui Ding | Biomedical engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation