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Anna Adelstein | DETERMINATION OF THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN NUCLEOCAPSID OF HIV-1 GAG POLYPROTEINS, NSC260594, AND THE HIV-1 VIRAL RNA | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Asiya Ahmed, Alvin Bett | USING MICROBIOLOGICAL DATA TO PREDICT A BACTERIOPHAGE’S MORPHOLOGY | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Fairine Ahmed | DESIGN OF A STABLE ANTIBODY: HIV-1 RNA COMPLEX SUITABLE FOR STRUCTURAL STUDIES | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Betelehem Akalu| EFFECT OF NITROGEN SOURCE ON TOLERANCE TO OXIDATIVE STRESS IN CHLAMYDOMONAS   | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ajeetha Arudchandran | INVESTIGATING THE MECHANISMS OF REVERSE HINGE POINTS DURING NEURAL FOLD FORMATION IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ike Ashiogwu | THE IMPORTANCE OF SECURE CODING AND TEACHING IT | Dr. Blair Taylor | Computer and Information Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Shibi Ayyanar | A FEDERATED LEARNING APPROACH TO CAMERA-BASED CONTACT-LESS HEART RATE MONITORING | Dr. Zahid Hasan | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Abdullah Bajwah | PTEN REACTIVATION IN A MOUSE MODEL OF PROSTATE CANCER | Dr. Charles Bieberich | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Eden Beyene | EXAMINING BRAIN REGIONS ACTIVE DURING ACUTE STRESS USING CONDITIONED AVERSION AND RESTRAINT | Dr. Tara LeGates | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Surabhi Bhat | STARVED AND SATIATED CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS ODR-3 MUTANTS RESPONSE TO ATTRACTIVE BACTERIAL ODORANTS | Dr. Maria Cambraia | CNMS |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Nelanne Bolima | COPPER-CATALYZED CO2 ELECTROREDUCTION UTILIZING ZEOLITE-TEMPLATED CARBON SUPPORTS | Dr. Justin Rosa-Rojas | Chemical Engineering |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Caylee Brown, Tiffany Frimpong, Jeannine Dizon | AROMATHERAPY OR TOXIC EXPOSURE: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS E-CIGARETTE EXPOSURE METHODS ON THE OLFACTORY SYSTEM OF AGING MICE | Dr. Weihong Lin | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Enya Caballero | Defining the Toll-Like Receptor Required for SARS-CoV-2 Activation of the Inflammasome | Dr. Angela Cox | Molecular Microbiology and Immunology |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ethan Chen, Cole Jirsa | ANALYZING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PHAGES ENZYMES TOOLS 2.0 (PET) USING STREPTOMYCES PHAGE DOXI13 AND RELATED SUBCLUSTERS | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ananya Choudhary| DEVELOPMENT OF A NOVEL OPSIN-CHIMERA TO EXPLORE THE G-PROTEIN SIGNALING OF MELANOPSIN | Dr. Phyllis Robinson | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Anne-Cecile Choutedjam | THE EFFECTS OF METAL SUPPLEMENT ON DROSOPHILA WITH MUTATIONS IN  ALZHEIMER’S GENE | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Zam Cing, Fuwaiz Khan | ANALYZING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIOUS ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AND BACTERIOPHAGE MORPHOTYPES | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Marc Conn | TEST AND EVALUATION OF TEXAS INSTRUMENTS MMWAVE RADAR | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Christina Dao | SELF-ORGANIZATION OF ASYMMETRIC WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS ENABLES MULTIPLE DEEP LEARNING ALGORITHMS TO RUN CONCURRENTLY | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Courtney DeLeon, Azariah Harris | THE COMPARISON OF PHAGE CHARACTERISTICS TO PREDICT THE CLUSTERS OF A PHAGE WITH THE HOST OF BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Kush Desai | STRUCTURAL BASIS AND MECHANISM OF HIV-1 GENOME PACKAGING | Dr. Brian Grossman | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Noah Diaz Cruz | BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BQSR, THE RESPONSE REGULATOR OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA’S TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEM, BQSR/S | Dr. Aaron Smith | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Taylor Drake | EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF N-LINKED AND O-LINKED GLYCOSYLATION ON MEMBRANE TRAFFICKING AND SIGNALING IN MELANOPSIN | Dr. Phyllis Robinson| Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Yassin El Alamy | EXPRESSION TESTING OF FEOD, A NOVEL SINGLE-PASS TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEIN OF THE FEO SYSTEM | Dr. Mark Lee | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Peace Ezeka, Taylor Scott | IDENTIFICATION OF A SPECIFIC LYSINE SITE METHYLATED BY SET 5 ON THE UBIQUITIN LIGASE CWC24 | Dr. Erin Green | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Kelvin Fadojutimi | STRUCTURAL AND BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES OF THE UNSPLICED HIV-1 5′-LEADERS | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Adam Goldstein | SENSEBOX V2.0: A ROBUST SMART HOME SYSTEM FOR ACTIVITY RECOGNITION AND BEHAVIORAL MONITORING | D. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Jesse Gordon, Diane Knauf, Zoe Shelby | DESALINATION OF LIMESTONE USING AGAROSE/ION-EXCHANGE RESIN HYDROGEL: AN ANALYSIS USING THE PROFILER NMR-MOUSE SPECTROMETER TO PRESERVE CULTURAL HERITAGE | Dr. Margaret MacDonald | Chemical Analysis & Physical Properties |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Dina Hadj-Mabrouk, Allison Argueta, Christina Shrestha | REPAIRING PARCHMENT USING HYDROGELS: INCORPORATING CROSS LINKERS TO INCREASE THE STRENGTH OF REPAIR AS MEASURED BY ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH (UTS) | Dr. Erin Lavik | Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Angel Harrison, Olushola Efuntoye, Adekemi Sobukunola | FOOD PREFERENCE IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS AFTER ETHANOL AND NICOTINE EXPOSURE IN WILD TYPE VS ADR-2 MUTANTS | Dr. Maria Cambraia | CNMS |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ryan Hoffman | NANOPARTICLE-BASED SENSOR FOR THE DETECTION OF LEAD IONS IN WATER | Dr. Marie Christine Daniel | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Titilope Ibiwoye, Fatimah Bah, Khang Tran, Naafia Thangalvadi | THE EFFECTS OF PRE-EXPOSURE TO NICOTINE IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS | Dr. Maria Cambraia | CNMS |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Chioma Iheacho | BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BQSS, THE IRON-SENSING HISTIDINE KINASE OF PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA’S TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEM, BQSR/S | Dr. Aaron Smith | Chemisry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Maeva Kalombo | THE ROLE OF RLS1 IN OXIDATIVE STRESS RESISTANCE BY THE GREEN ALGAE CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Arjun Kanjarpane, Kellie Boehlert, Tazia Burney | INVESTIGATING COMPETITION BETWEEN THE HIV-1 PROTEINS REV AND GAG FOR STEM 1 OF THE REV RESPONSE ELEMENT.  | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Polina Kassir | Recovering from hypoxia: The role of ndrg1a in recycling NKA | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Nadia Khanam | OPTIMIZATION OF AN IN VITRO CAPPING REACTION USING THE VACCINIA VIRUS CAPPING ENZYME | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Lillian Kidd, Aria Tauraso, Gabrielle Amalthea Trobare    | A NONINVASIVE COMPUTATIONAL DFT INVESTIGATION OF THE PHOTODEGRADATION OF VERMILION | Dr. Joseph Bennett | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Meghan Kwon, Julia Neylan | CREATING A 2D SIMULATION OF A CLUSTER OF CELLS MIGRATING IN THE DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER EGG CHAMBER | Dr. Bradford Peercy | Mathematics and Statistics |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Sophia Liberto | EXPLORATION OF GENETIC COMPENSATION IN ALGAL LIPID PRODUCTION GENES | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Kate Magante | LIGATION INDEPENDENT CLONING OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI NFEOB | Dr. Mark Lee | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Madison McLaren | PH DEPENDENCE OF BROWN CARBON ABSORBANCE IN CLOUD WATER | Dr. Christopher Hennigan | Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Frebruk Mikre, Emily Xing | EXPERIMENTATION AND MODELING OF ASPERGILLUS NIGER EFFICIENCY IN THE BIODEGRADATION OF HYDROCARBONS | Dr. Michael Betenbaugh | Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Emily Moffett, Hannah Housley, Arsany Doud | THE EFFECT OF ETHANOL PRE-EXPOSURE ON ETHANOL TOLERANCE IN CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS | Dr. Maria Cambraia | CNMS |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Caroline Moore, Olivia Paolucci | STIMULANT EXPOSURE SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTS FOOD PREFERENCE IN WILD-TYPE AND ODR-3 MUTANT CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS | Dr. Maria Cambraia | CNMS |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Amina Muhammad, Labibah Balogun | INVESTIGATING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN HOST RANGE AND GENOMIC CONTENT | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Nithya Navarathna, Joseph Clark, Anaise Gaillard, Justin Koe, Daniel Kelly | SEQUENCE MODELS FOR CLASSIFICATION OF COMPTON CAMERA IMAGING DATA FOR PROTON BEAM THERAPY | Dr. Matthias Gobbert | Mathematics and Statistics |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Joshua Ndiritu, Alexis Christian | COULD A BACTERIOPHAGE FOUND IN THE PHAGE HUNTERS PROGRAM HAVE ENDOLYSINS THAT CAN BE USED IN FUTURE PHAGE THERAPY? | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Julia Neylan, Meghan Kwon | USING IMARIS TO CREATE A 3D MODEL OF A DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER EGG CHAMBER | Dr. Bradford Peercy | Mathematics and Statistics |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Hannah Nguyen, Jorge López González, Theodore Chapman, Kathryn Chen, Logan Chambers | DETECTING ATMOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES WITH TRANSFER LEARNING | Dr. Jianwu Wang | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Arian Nyandjo | CHARACTERIZING THE DISTRIBUTION OF GADD45b, A CANIDATE MEDIATOR OF HYPOXIA-ADAPTATION | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Eric O’Leary | ROBUSTNESS OF UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION AGAINST ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS AND BLUR | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Zaria Oliver | UNDERSTANDING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF MODELING AND 3D PRINTING CUSTOMIZED ASISTIVE TECHNOLOGY | Dr. Foad Hamidi | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Obehi Oniha, Abby McGee | LATERAL GENE TRANSFER OF THE CAPSID MATURATION PROTEASE GENE BETWEEN PHAGE CLUSTERS A & CA | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Andrew Opincar, Zené Fourie | THE CONNECTION BETWEEN BACILLUS PHAGE CLUSTERING AND ISOLATION LOCALIZATION | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Gabriel Otubu | INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF NDRG1B ON BRAIN AND REGULATING EYE AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Jillian Perry | EXPLORING THE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN eIF4E AND HIV-1 RNA GENOME | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Caela Phillips | STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT OF A TERNARY HIV-1 GAG POLYPROTEIN, CYCLOPHILIN A, AND GENOMIC RNA COMPLEX | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Eduardo Santin | DEEP MULTI-MODAL TRANSFER LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR AUDIO ACTIVITY RECOGNITION | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Madison Santizo | HISTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TRANSGENIC HOXB13-MCR/TP53-NULL RATS | Dr. Charles Bieberich | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Shefra Shah, Bianca Lamptey-Mills | THE BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS IN THE OFFSPRING OF E-VAPOR EXPOSED PREGNANT MICE | Dr. Weihong Lin | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Christopher Slaughter | Automatic Glucose Monitoring System by Periplasmic Binding Protein-based Biosensor | Dr. Govin Rao | Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Viviana Smart | SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION OF FLEX AT-527 NUCLEOS(T)IDE ANALOGUE AS A POTENTIAL ANTIVIRAL THERAPEUTIC | Dr. Kathleen Seley-Radtke | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Avi Spector | MAXIMUM COVER DETECTION FOR AUTONOMOUS MANEUVERING IN A SIMULATED MILITARY-RELEVANT ENVIRONMENT | Dr. Jumman Hossain | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Eva Stanley, Francesca Burton | USING BEHAVIORAL ASSAYS TO STUDY GENES ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM IN DROSOPHILA FRUIT FLIES | Dr. Fernando Vonhoff | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Sean Starkloff | INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS DILUTIONS OF E-LIQUID AND E-VAPOR CONDENSATE ON OLFACTORY CELL MITOCHONDRIA IN MICE | Dr. Weihong Lin | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Niki Stonestreet, Shahreen Zannat | INVESITGATING HOW THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE HIV-1 5′-LEADER AFFECT BINDING OF THE CELLULAR CAP BINDING PROTEIN, EIF4E | Dr. Michael Summers | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Tamia Tabourn | CC PENTAMER CA-NC AND CES COMPLEX STRUCTURAL DETERMINATION OF HIV-1 VRNA AND GAG POLYPROTEIN COMPLEX | Dr. Nele Hollmann | Chemistry and Biochemistry |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Anjali Tangirala, Hikmatillahi Mohamed-Douglas, Julian Wilkins | DETERMINING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE HOST RANGE OF A BACTERIOPHAGE AND ITS RESTRICTION DIGEST PROFILE | Dr. Steven Caruso | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Valeria Ventura | Novel super-resolved SIM imaging and analysis of ryanodine receptors in rabbit sinoatrial node cells reveal emergent hierarchical organization of the receptor network in 3 dimensions. | Dr. Victor Maltzev | Biophysics |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Mikolaj Walczak | A SYNCHRONIZING MIDDLEWARE FOR HETEROGENEOUS MULTI-ROBOT SYSTEM WITH LOW LATENCY CO-SIMULATION | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Tim Yingling | ALTERING TARGET DOMAIN IMAGES ACROSS DIFFERENT LIGHTING CONDITIONS FOR UNSUPERVISED DOMAIN ADAPTATION | Dr. Nirmalya Roy | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Briana Young | EXPLORING THE ROLE OF GADD45B IN ADAPTIVE RESPONSES TO HYPOXIA | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biological Sciences |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Wanying Zhu | MAXIMUM-COVER FOLLOWING TRAJECTORY PLANNING IN UNSTRUCTURED OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTS WITH DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING | Dr. Jumman Hossain | Information Systems |UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation