SURF 2020 Undergraduate Presenters

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Susan Afolabi  |  CHARACTERIZING THE EFFECTS OF FERRITIN ON OVARIAN CELL MIGRATION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER   |  Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano  |  Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Achalefac Akem, Angela Kim, Emma Lorentz, Gloria Ogordi | CORRELATION BETWEEN MINOR TAIL PROTEIN OF BACTERIOPHAGES AND THE HOST |  Dr. Steven Caruso  |  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ashley Amundsen | MODELING THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CEMENT PASTE FOR OPTIMIZING 3D PRINTING APPLICATIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELS DEVELOPED IN COMSOL MULTIPHYSICS | Dr. Scott Jones | Mechanical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Tyler Autrey, Toni Martin, Grace Tugado, Sharath Velliyamattam  |  THE CLASSIFICATION AND GENE EXPRESSION OF HOLIN IN ​STREPTOMYCES PHAGE THIQQUMS   |   Dr. Steven Caruso  |  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Briah Barksdale  |  CHARACTERIZATION OF GENES INFLUENCING THE AGE-SPECIFIC CHANGES IN PHAGOCYTOSIS OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER, USING AN IN VIVO PHAGOCYTOSIS ASSAY  |  Dr Jeff Leips | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Karis R. Barnett  |  OPTIMIZING THE SEPARATION OF AN ANTIPARASITIC MEDICATION USING HIGH-PRESSURE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (HPLC)  |  Dr. William R. LaCourse  |  Chemistry | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Maria Bieberich | CONSEQUENCES OF TELOMERE SHORTENING IN THE MOUSE PROSTATE GLAND | Dr. Charles Bieberich | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Duyen Bui, Jamie Mushrush | CHARACTERIZING BACTERIOPHAGE GENES CAPABLE OF INHIBITING BACTERIAL GROWTH | Dr. Viknesh Sivanathan | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Allyson Caldwell  |  APICAL CONSTRICTION MOLECULAR MACHINERY WITHIN THE ZEBRAFISH MEDIAL HINGE POINT  |  Dr. Rachel Brewster |  Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Evan Carlyle  |  SYNTHESIS OF FLEX-GUANOSINE ANALOGUES AS POTENTIAL ANTIVIRAL THERAPEUTICS  |  Dr. Katherine Seley-Radtke  |  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ridhi Chaudhary  |  IDENTIFICATION OF THE INITIAL NUCLEOCAPSID RECOGNITION ELEMENT IN THE HIV-1 RNA PACKAGING SIGNAL  |  Dr. Michael F. Summers  |  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Amanda Chen, Senali Dansou, Austin Fowler, Zachary Willis  STREPTOMYCES PHAGE CLUSTERING BASED ON TAIL LENGTH AND TAPE MEASURE PROTEIN  |  Dr. Steven Caruso  |  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Logan Courtright   |  PLOTTING THE STABILITY BOUNDARY OF CNOIDAL WAVES IN MICRORESONATORS  |  Curtis Menyuk  |  Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Sergio Diaz  |  ICESAT-2 AND LUFFT CHM 15K CLOUD BASE HEIGHT COMPARISON  |  Dr. Belay Demoz |  Physics | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Justin Drummond  |  SUPPORT STRUCTURES FOR THE CENTRIFUGAL MIRROR FUSION EXPERIMENT  |  Carlos Romero-Talamas  |  Mechanical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Adanna Ekekwe | THE ROLE OF N-LINKED GLYCOSYLATION ON MELANOPSIN EXPRESSION AND SIGNALING FUNCTION | Dr. Phyllis Robinson | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Star Fernandez  |  USING AN ANIMAL MODEL OF HUMAN PROSTATE CANCER TO TEST NEW NANA-THERAPIES  |  Dr. Charles Bieberich  |  Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Alanah Follis | REVIEW OF STRESS AND IMMUNITY IN DROSOPHILA | Dr. Jeff Leips | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Kevin Gibbons, Josh Ogbenna, Mia Penn  |  WHOLE GENOME COMPARISON OF BACTERIOPHAGES INFECTING PATHOGENIC AND NON-PATHOGENIC MYCOBACTERIUM SPECIES  |  Dr. Steven Caruso  |  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Isaiah Hayes | APPLICATION OF DROOP MODELS IN ALGAL CULTURE | Dr. Michael Betenbaugh | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Andrew Hennigan  |  ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF PHOPHOMIMETIC MUTATIONS ON MOUSE MELANOPSIN SIGNALING  |  Dr. Phyllis Robinson  |  Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ting Huang  |  ONLINE LEARNING AND STUDENT SATISFACTION DURING COVID-19  |   Dr. Diane Alonso  |  Psychology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Ben Hyatt  |  STABILITY ANALYSIS OF CAR FOLLOWING CONTROL OF LINEAR VEHICLE DYNAMICS WITH A GENERAL MPC HORIZON  |  Dr. Jinglai Shen  |  Mathematics and Statistics | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Christian Johnson | BUILDING A GUI TO EVALUATE NUTRIENT VARIATION ON BACTERIA METABOLISM | Dr. Michael Betenbaugh | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Elayna Kemp | USING GENOME SCALE MODELS TO SIMULATE VIRAL INFECTION IN HEK-293 CELLS | Dr. Michael Betenbaugh | Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Mohammed Khalid | ASSESSING POTENTIAL INDICATORS OF ONLINE RADICALIZATION | Dr. Anupam Joshi | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Lynn Krushinski  | FERROFLUIDS FOR HYPERTHERMIA APPLICATIONS   |  Dr. Mary Devadas |  Chemistry | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Amir Ledbetter, Emily Marinko, Caroline Moore, Precious Oyinloye  |  IDENTIFYING THE DIFFERENCES IN THE GENOMES OF BI2 AND BI4 PHAGE SUBCLUSTERS  |  Dr. Steven Caruso  |  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Aditi Madabushi | INCREASING TRIACYLGLYCEROL (TAG) PRODUCTION WITH GENE MINING TECHNIQUES IN VARIOUS ALGAL SPECIES | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Olufolake Majekodunmi  |  EXAMINATION OF BEHAVIORAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF E-CIGARETTE FLAVORINGS AND VAPOR ON IMMUNE RESPONSE IN TONGUE OF MICE MODELS  |  Dr. Weihong Lin  |  Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Marie-Rose Mayifuila | INVESTIGATING THE LINK BETWEEN CELL CYCLE GENES AND CELL DIVISION NUMBER IN THE VOLVOCINE GREEN ALGAE | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Catherine Mbuashu-Ndip | CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII AND VOLVOX CARTERI RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN GENE INVENTORY AND DATA ANALYSIS: LOOKING FOR CLUES TO THE EVOLUTION OF CELLULAR DIFFERENTIATION | Dr. Stephen Miller | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Malaysia McGinnis | DECADES OF DRUGS AND TERROR: AN ANALYSIS OF THE RACIALIZED OPIOID EPIDEMIC IN BALTIMORE CITY | Dr. Dawn Biehler | Social Sciences | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Nithya Navarathna | ESTABLISHING A CELL-BASED HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREEN TO IDENTIFY PATHWAYS TARGETING ZNF217 LEVELS IN OVARIAN CANCER CELLS | Dr. Achuth Padmanabhan | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Achuna Ofonedu  |  APPLYING GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODELS FOR CLIMATE ANALYSIS   |  Dr. Jianwu Wang  |  Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Chelsea Okeh | THE EFFECTS OF HYPERGLYCEMIA ON NEURULATION | Dr. Rachel Brewster | Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Crystal Parry  |  IL-1β – VEGF-A SIGNALING AXIS IN ATHEROSCLEROTIC CALCIFICATION   | Dr. Alan R. Morrison  |  Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Michelle Ramsahoye  |  DETERMINATION OF GLUCOSOME SPECIFICITY USING COLOCALIZATION ANALYSIS OF 4-D IMAGES OF METABOLIC PATHWAYS  |  Minjoung Kyoung |  Chemistry | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Alexandra Seas | RADIATION THERAPY POTENTIATION VIA FERROPTOSIS INDUCTION FOR THE TREATMENT OF PANCREATIC DUCTAL ADENOCARCINOMA | Dr. Joseph Carmicheal | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Joshua Slaughter | TOWARDS USING CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS TO PREDICT HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS | Dr. Jonathan Cohen | Computer Science – Computer Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Diane Stonestreet  |  LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT: THERMODYNAMIC MODELING OF AEROSOLS AND AEROSOL PH IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND  |  Dr. Christopher Hennigan  |  Chemical Engineering | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Sierra Wallace   |  GENERATION OF DP2 MUTANT IN VOLVOX CARTERI THROUGH THE CRISPR/CAS9 GENE EDITING SYSTEM  |  Dr. Stephen Miller  |  Biology  | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Frances Watson  |  COVID-19: EXPLORING THE OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS OF TELEHEALTH & TELEREHABILITATION SERVICES FOR STROKE SURVIVORS  |  Dr. Helena Mentis  |  Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Jameka Wiggins  |  CUSTOMIZABLE TOOLS FOR MEASURING POLYMER DEGRADATION  |  Dr. Sheldon Broedel  |  Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

Lorrayya Williams  |  MINING MEDICAL IMAGES AND TEXT FOR CLINICAL DECISION MAKING  |  Dr. Sanjay Purushotham  |  Information Systems | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation

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Sheila Yeboah |   EXAMINING THE ROLE OF CANONICAL HISTONES, VARIANTS AND HISTONE-MODIFYING ENZYMES IN THE EVOLUTION OF MULTICELLULARITY IN THE VOLVOCINE LINEAGE | Dr. Stephen Miller |   Biology | UMBC SURF Online Student Presentation