Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research

Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research

Poster Session 1 (11:00AM – 12:00PM)

Discipline Presentation Poster Board Location Room
Biology Assessing Wolbachia Releases in an Age-Structured Population
Jorly Chatouphonexay
1 Broome Library
Biology Mitochondrial Function in Axotomy-Induced Axon Degeneration
Nickolas Wheat
2 Broome Library
Biology The reversal of red light-induced gene expression by far red light suggests the presence of a novel phytochrome-like molecule in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
alex powell
3 Broome Library
Biology Continuous Time Markov Chain Models of Gene Regulatory Networks under the Environmental Stress of Cold Shock in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Nicholas Rohacz
5 Broome Library
Biology Identification of the Amino Acid Sequence of the Mature PhrA Signaling Peptide of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Amilcar Perez
6 Broome Library
Biology Enhancer in Diease
Tuyen Nguyen
7 Broome Library
Biology Examining the Effects of Reservoirs on Population Structure and Dispersal of the Mayfly Baetis tricaudatus by Analyzing Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA
Kaylee Arnold
8 Broome Library
Biology The parthenogenetic reproduction of Baetis tricaudatus
Guadalupe Elguera
9 Broome Library
Biology Isolation of Possibly Significant Chromosomal Contributors to Cadmium Resistance in Selected Drosophila melanogaster
Gregory Zacharias
10 Broome Library
Biology Alzheimer’s in Drosophila Melanogaster: Testing a Model System
Shelby Chun Fat
11 Broome Library
Biology Impacts of Discharge on the Woody Plant Communities of the San Gabriel and Tujunga Rivers in the Angeles National Forest
Brian De La Torre
12 Broome Library
Biology Coding region polymorphism within the mitochondrial genome of horseshoe crab Limulus Polyphemus
Megan Cooper
13 Broome Library
Biology Cardiovascular Health of Young Adults: A Comparative Study
Gina Fitzgerald
14 Broome Library
Biology The Effect of the Notch Signal Pathway on the Expression of Matrix Metalloproteinase 2 and Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase 2 in Lymphangiogenesis
Aaron van Loon
15 Broome Library
Biology Genetic Detection of Harmful Algae Bloom Organisms in the Southern California Coastal Waters
Tiffany Sidwell
16 Broome Library
Biology Investigating Insect Interactions on the Tropical Tree, Pentaclethra macroloba
Arlin Alger
17 Broome Library
Biology Herbivory on Toxic Plants and Gut Microbial Diversity in Tropical Katydids
Kenji Quides
18 Broome Library
Biology Comparative effects of Chlorpyrifos and Diazinon on zebrafish developmental physiology
Hena Garcia
19 Broome Library
Biology Effect of chlorinated organophosphate pesticides on zebrafish developmental physiology
Natalie Hole
20 Broome Library
Biology Effects of Soil Temperature and Moisture on Stomatal Density and Water Use Efficiency in Pseudotsuga macrocarpa
Daniel Mendes
21 Broome Library
Biology Climate Linked Range Shift in a California Endemic Conifer
Peter Pellitier
22 Broome Library
Biology Megathura Crenulata and its Physiological Response to Blood Loss
Thomas Kelly
23 Broome Library
Biology The Hostess with the Mostest: the Effects of Host Tree Leaf Feeding and Light Exposure on Bromeliad Tank pH
Kristen Treat
24 Broome Library
Biology Quantifying the Effects of Light on Tank Bromeliads
John Dawson
25 Broome Library
Biology Modeling Leaf Hydraulics in “Tank Bromeliads”
Franklin Maharaj
26 Broome Library
Biology Cloning of RND Pump genes from B. Fragilis into an E. coli Vector
Gabriela Mulato
27 Broome Library
Biology Antioxidants Effects on Human Cancer Cell Lines
Domenico Rinaldi
28 Broome Library
Biology Effects of Bacterial Manganese Oxidation on Intracellular Manganese
Brenda Hall
29 Broome Library
Biology Pertinent Genes for Determination of Prokaryotic Phenotype by PCR
Thedore Peterson
30 Broome Library
Biology Ultrafine Particulates Differentially Induce Reactive Oxygen Species in Fibroblast BHK21 and A549 Human Alveolar Lung Cells
Sarah Alvarado
31 Broome Library
Biology Integrins and Mechanosensitive Ion Channels in Reactive Dilation
Douglas Land
32 Broome Library
Biology A Novel Post-Translational Modification of Core Histone Proteins: Glutathionylation
Carl Decker
33 Broome Library
Political Science Racial Differences in Level of Trust in Government
Nicolette Hoekstra
34 Broome Library
Biology The effect of mesh bagging and visit number on honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollen deposition in seedless watermelon (Citrullus lanatus)
Charity Muraya
35 Broome Library
Biology Effect of Nicotine on Streptococcus mutans Adherence
Melissa Langer
36 Broome Library
Biology Physiological analysis of synthesized and natural peptides to confirm the molecular target of cone snail neuroexcitatory peptides
Karen Medina
37 Broome Library
Biology Analysis of habitat utilization by the fish-hunting cone snail, Conus catus
Jason Preble
38 Broome Library
Biology Investigation of the Roles of RNA-Binding Proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana
Aubrie De La Cruz
39 Broome Library
Biology Dynamical Systems Modeling of the Cold Shock Response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Katrina Sherbina
40 Broome Library
Biology A wild species of budding yeast, Saccharomyces paradoxus, is more resistant to cold temperature stress than the domesticated species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Nicolette Harmon
41 Broome Library
Biology The Equine Immune Response to Corynebacterium Pseudotuberculosis
Margaret Winterkorn
42 Broome Library
Biology The Effect of Cassette Sequence on the Knockdown Efficiency of a Triple tRNA-shRNA Chimera Gene Therapy Vector
fang-chu lin
43 Broome Library
Chemistry Phi-Analysis of CusF: Alanine-Scanning Mutagenesis to Reveal the Folding Transition State
Sundee Olson
44 Broome Library
Chemistry Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange NMR Reveals the Details of Ligand-Dependent Stabilization in CusF, a Bacterial Copper(I) Chaperone
Lorenzo DeSantiago
45 Broome Library
Chemistry Analysis of F-T gasoline with Gas Chromatography
Brice Lee
46 Broome Library
Chemistry Proteolytic Analysis of G6PD Conformational Changes Induced by NADP Analogue Binding
Samuel Gill
47 Broome Library
Chemistry Glucose-mediated Catabolite Repression in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Bryan S. Artmann
48 Broome Library
Chemistry Screening and Identification of mutated IAPP sequences that inhibit the aggregation of human IAPP
Marissa Paterson
49 Broome Library
Chemistry N-Substituted Oxazolidinones in the Preparation of Functionalized Chiral Auxiliaries Using Wittig Reagents
Aleah Bond
50 Broome Library
Chemistry Screening of a Designed Combinatorial Peptide Library for Inhibitors of IAPP Aggregation
Paola Cota
51 Broome Library
Chemistry IAPP Aggregation and Cellular Toxicity are Inhibited by PGG
Marisa Takiguchi
52 Broome Library
Chemistry “Analysis of Beta Amyloid Peptides by High Performance Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS)”
Lance Talbert
53 Broome Library
Chemistry Towards a Total Synthesis of Beilschmiedic Acid C
Wai Man Yu
54 Broome Library
Chemistry Amplification of a small enantiomeric excess by preferential co-adsorption. A study of adsorption of N-acetyl Amino acids onto Zeolite NaY by Solid State NMR, Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
Julia Stearns
55 Broome Library
Chemistry Studies on the Enantioselective Synthesis of DAB-1
Anasheh Sookezian
56 Broome Library
Chemistry Spatially-resolved Sequence Analysis of hit gene in B. bacteriovorus Biofilms
Elya Shamskhou
57 Broome Library
Chemistry Computational Investigation of the Rate Determining Step in a Water Oxidation Process involving Mononuclear Ruthenium
Juan Melendez
58 Broome Library
Chemistry Oxidative crosslinking between tRNA and Protein
Bridgett Cabrera
59 Broome Library
Chemistry Decay of Guanine Radical Produced by the Flash Quench Technique: Dependence Upon Quencher
Evelyn Carillo
60 Broome Library
Chemistry A System for Comparing Relative Rates of Back Electron Transfer and Crosslinking
Christina Khorozyan
61 Broome Library
Chemistry Corrosion Behavior of Ultrafine-Grained 5083 Al
Yanting Li
62 Broome Library
Chemistry Investigation of Nucleobase Dimers in the Gas Phase
Mark Hilado
63 Broome Library
Engineering US/China IRES Program: Wireless Communication
Emily C Petrillo
64 Broome Library
Engineering Circuit Design for a Prototype Ultrasound Fingerprint Sensor
Sien Mao
65 Broome Library
Engineering Modification of Soil Permeability Using Shredded Rubber
Kelby Styler
66 Broome Library
Engineering The Application of Shredded Rubber Tire in Construction
Alexander Lemmon
67 Broome Library
Engineering Characterization of biomarkers in breast cancer cells with quantum dots and detection of brain tumor cells using SpectroPen
Abhinav Sharma
68 Broome Library
Engineering Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) Fiber Positioner Testbed Development
Andrew Houck
69 Broome Library
Engineering Greener Structural Concrete with Recycled Material's
Oscar Gutierrez
70 Broome Library
Engineering Towards a Biomineralized Photocatalyst: Identification of a ZnO-binding Peptide
Marzieh FanaeianSeyediTousi
71 Broome Library
Engineering RF Source Tracking with Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles
Michael Grino
73 Broome Library
Engineering Improving Electrospinning Technique for Better Alignment of Carbon Nanofibers
Adhitya Soemardy
74 Broome Library
Engineering Radio Propagation Models for Pico-cellular Networks
Melissa Johnson
75 Broome Library
Engineering Monitoring corrosion using visible light
Rukmini Ravi
76 Broome Library
Engineering The Use of Solid Phase Change Material as a Strategy for Temperature Mitigation and Improved Efficiency of Solar Panels
Yensi Deras
77 Broome Library
Mathematics Math and Music
Saro Dostounian
78 Broome Library
Mathematics Thermal Fatigue of Solder Interconnects
Hunter Elbourn
79 Broome Library
Mathematics Biomimetic Pattern Recognition in Cancer Detection
leonila lagunes
81 Broome Library
Mathematics Matrix Completions for Commutativity
Wesley Chang
82 Broome Library
Mathematics F-test in Microarray Experiments
Emily Ramos
83 Broome Library
Mathematics Classification of algebraic surfaces of low degrees
Shelby Daniel
84 Broome Library
Mathematics Properties of the space of continuous functions on a closed interval
Lucas Mattick
85 Broome Library
Mathematics Lower Bounds on Class Numbers
Jose Chavez
86 Broome Library
Physics Calibration of the Ocean Optics USB2000 Spectrometer
ZHENG CHUEN WONG
87 Broome Library
Physics A Macroscopic Model of a Liquid Crystal Phase Transition
Caleb Wagner
88 Broome Library
Physics Measurements on the Anomalous Temperature Dependence of the C44 Shear Modulus for Single-Crystal MnO
Natalie Kennedy
89 Broome Library
Physics Jamming of Ice Mélange: Using Particle Rafts to Model Ice Mélange Dynamics
Alexander Hunter
91 Broome Library
Physics Radiofrequency Impedance Matching at 1 and 10 Mega Hertz
William Ton
92 Broome Library
Anthropology Assessing the Impact of Lactic Acidosis at the Time of Death on the Rate of Development of Rigor Mortis
Anne Whitehair
93 Broome Library
Astronomy The Spokes Star Cluster in NGC 2264. A Catalog of the Youngest Stars
Matt Young
94 Broome Library
Business Smooth Operations: Turning Vacancies into Cash Flow
Nick Murillo
95 Broome Library
Business DRM - Digital Rights Mismanagement
Kevin Ferris
96 Broome Library
Business Tweeting With The Stars
Jeffrey Gomez
97 Broome Library
Cultural Studies Case Study of the Impact of the Hip Hop Music Industry on the Labor Market Outcomes of African American Women
Ashley Compton
98 Broome Library
Cultural Studies Impact of Culture on Taiwanese Children’s Social Development and Emotion Regulation
Wan-Hsuan Minnie Lin
99 Broome Library
Geography The Geography of War
Eliezer Abate
100 Broome Library
Medicine Assessment of Concurrent Hyperglycemia and Lactate Elevation with Hospital Outcomes in Emergency Department Sepsis Patients
Priyanka Shah
101 Broome Library
Medicine A Cell Phenotype based Assay on a Biomaterial Matrix for Identification of Genes and Factors in Stem Cell Tissue Regeneration
Madonna Chico
102 Broome Library
Medicine CSF-1R Mediated Inhibition of Alternatively Activated Macrophages to Augment Androgen Receptor Blockade Therapy
Connie Liu
103 Broome Library
Environmental Science Fracture joints shows extension of the Mojave block acted as a conduit for initiation of the Garlock fault
Brian Townsend
104 Broome Library
Environmental Science Probing California's Coastline to Unearth Traces of Paleotsunami
Robert Leeper
105 Broome Library
Environmental Science KaleidoscopeLA: Experiential Cartography of Urban Daily Life
Carla De Lira
106 Broome Library
Gender Studies Impact of Gender, Ethnicity, and Attitude on High School Students' Comprehension of Science.
Grace Kim
107 Broome Library
Environmental Science Striping Spring Street
Eve Sanford
108 Broome Library
Environmental Science Structural geology taxonomy of outcrop deformation developed for oil and gas industry
Lydia Harmon
110 Broome Library
Environmental Science Vesicle analysis of Sheep Creek Range flows points to tectonic tilting
Julia Defigueiredo
111 Broome Library
Environmental Science Sustainable Seafood Survey
Gloria Ramirez
112 Broome Library
Medicine Associations between Smoking and Major Adverse Cardiac Events in Women
Debbie Yan Qun Huang
113 Broome Library
Biology Biomechanics in Ataxic Horses
Kristie Conde
114 Broome Library
Planetary Science Evaluation of NEXRAD accuracy across climate type
Stephen Ratkovich
115 Broome Library
Planetary Science Formation of Beachrock Horizons of the Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica
Andrew Barnhart
116 Broome Library
Political Science The impact of religious beliefs on the attitudes of Foreign Policy
Julia Smith
117 Broome Library
Political Science The effect of negative media on policial cynicism of earmarks
Robert Lestak
118 Broome Library
Psychology Attitudes about Forced Sexual Behavior
Spencer Choy
119 Broome Library
Psychology The Role of Gender Identity Salience and Self-Esteem in Math Discounting Among Women STEM Majors
Lilian Saldana
120 Broome Library
Psychology Implicit Intelligence Theories Predict STEM Majors’ Psychological and Behavioral Outcomes
Elizabeth Shea
121 Broome Library
Psychology Expatriate Sociocultural Adjustment
Amanda Milner
122 Broome Library
Psychology Parent-Child Sex Communication Among African American Fathers Versus Mothers
Anais Franco
123 Broome Library
Psychology Gender Differences in Parent-Adolescent Communication About Sexual Debut
Brian Smith
124 Broome Library
Psychology That Smells Blue! Cultural Differences Between Colour-Odour Associations
Jai Levin
125 Broome Library
Psychology Wealth of Well-Being
Nick Capute
126 Broome Library
Psychology Moving Away from Traditional Relational Values: The Role of Culture, Age and Education on Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence
Yolanda Fulton
127 Broome Library
Psychology Evolutionary motivators: male and female differences in rating facial attractiveness
Sylvana Insua-Rieger
128 Broome Library
Sociology Dark Side of the Moon: Woman Trafficking in China
Dennis Lee
130 Broome Library
Sociology Facebook, Facebook, On My Wall...: How Facebook Contributes to Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Nadine Bedwan
131 Broome Library
Chemistry Synthesis of Ruthenium Complexes for the Oxidation of Alcohols, Olefins, Sulfides and Amines
Andrew Patalano
132 Broome Library
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