Below, please find the first round results of the Northern New Jersey Junior Science and Humanities Symposium. All winners identified below are invited to present their work at the Northern New Jersey JSHS, to be held February 25th-26th, 2008, on the Rutgers Busch Campus and at the Holiday Inn of Somerset. Complete instructions for both oral and poster presenters, as well as an itinerary of the symposium, are located here.
The following students have been selected to give ORAL PRESENTATIONS of their work at the 2008 Northern New Jersey JSHS, where they will compete for scholarships and trips to the national finals in Orlando, Florida:
- Peter Bibawi, McNair Academic HS- The Modification of SPIO Particles with Receptor Proteins and the Fabrication of a Nanothermometer
- Emily Bick, Millburn HS- Development and Efficacy of a Novel Fabric Fiber Impregnated with Discriminatory Insect Repellent
- Kumar Bista, Dickinson HS- Finding the Maximum Level of Antioxidant and Antimicrobial Activity in Oregano using Various Concentrations of Ethanol
- Samuel Chang, Watchung Hills Regional HS
- Eric Delgado, Bayonne HS- Engineering a Novel Gram-negative Effective Efflux Pump Inhibitor
- Ilan Griboff, Torah Academy of Bergen County- Our Sun's Coronal Mass Ejections and Their Effects on Satellites and Telecommunications
- Barnett Koven, Millburn HS- Engineered Anaerobic Digestion Utilizing a Thermophilic Media
- Joanne Lee, Livingston HS- Learning the Categorical Limitations of English Speakers
- Wen Liu, Livingston HS- Effects of Mood on Working Memory
- Amed Logrono, Union Hill HS- Synthesis of Substituted Pyrroles
- Sarvagna Patel, High Tech HS- Target of the Transcriptional Inhibitor ppGpp: Isolation of Mutants Resistant to ppGpp
- Samir Ray, Dickinson HS- Shelf-Life Extension and Moisture Control of Amaretto Cookie By an Edible Polymer Coating
- Eva Salinas, Bergen County Technical HS- Evaluation of Treated Sediments Leaching beyond the Standard TCLP 18 Hour Period
- Sonika Tyagi, Dickinson HS- Evaluation of Alternative Chloroplast Loci for DNA Barcoding of Endangered Plant Species: A Case Study Using Orchids
The following students have been selected to give POSTER PRESENTATIONS of their work at the 2008 Northern New Jersey JSHS, where they will compete for prizes recognizing the top poster presenters:
- Arielle Alpert, Livingston HS- Impact of El Nino on Hurricane Development Through Barotropic Flow: Utilization of Geopotential Height Fields
- Jessica Arguelles, Union Hill HS- Dissolution of Gabriola Clay
- Abhishek Bali, Dickinson HS- Microwave-Assisted Petasis Reaction
- Amel Butt, Dickinson HS- Expression of Ribosomal protein L3 in transgenic wheat by conferring resistance Fusarium Head Blight
- Johny Castelli, Union Hill HS- Fresh Frozen Plasma Administration: Appropriateness of use considering coagulation testing results
- Camille Cole, Millburn HS- Blastomere Fragmentation of Mouse Two-Cell Embryos
- Gabriel Cummings, Union Hill HS- Studies Evaluating Cyclopiazonic acid as a Mechanism-Based Inhibitor of Rat Hepatic Cytochrome P450 3A1
- Stuti Desai, Livingston HS- The Rescue of Expression of MyoD1 with Inserted Premature Stop Codon by PTC124 and Gentamicin
- Tomer Eliav, Livingston HS- Anti-Inflammatory Cytokines, A Potential Treatment for Neuropathic Pain
- Rebecca Elwin, Livingston HS- A Retrospective Study of Accumulated Data Files to Identify the Primary and Secondary Effects of Cancer Cachexia on the Body
- Ruslan Fridman, Livingston HS- Creation of an Ideal Spherical Model Dust
- George Ghanim, Watchung Hills Regional HS- Point Source Luminosities of NGC 4038/4039. Joint work with Jennifer Zelenty, Daniel Castanheria, Deepa Sathaye, Cathy Zhang
- Jenieve Guevarra, High Tech HS- Investigation Into the Existence of Perceptual Anti-faces Using the Attentional Blink
- Nina Hong, High Tech HS- Testing the Effectiveness of An Experimental Capping Material: Plant Growth
- Avi Kapadia, Dickinson HS- The Significance of Genotyping Transgenic Mice in Melanoma Research
- Ibrahim Khokhar, Bayonne HS- A Study of Dissolution and Diffusion As Fundamental Mechanisms For Drug Delivery In The Pharmaceutical Industry
- Alexandra LeBental, Livingston HS- Association of Interleukin-4 Gene Polymorphism and Periodontal Disease Risk
- Jordan Lichay, Mahwah HS- Conserved G-Quadruplexes May Regulate The Expression of Mammalian MECP2 Gene Involved in Autism
- Kamaris Loor, Union Hill HS- Study of Breast and Colon Cancer Prevention by Vitamin D and Stillbene Analogs
- Irtiza Mansoor, Bayonne HS- Engineering A New Form of Personal Power Generation
- Maksym Marek, Livingston HS- Cypin's Effect on the Cell Cycle in COS-7 Cells
- Carol Mendez, Union Hill HS- A New Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
- Hayden Metsky, Millburn HS- The Development of an Urdu-to-English Machine Translation System
- Alaap Parikh, Holmdel HS- Digital Filter Design for Audio Processing. Joint work with Ethan Elenberg, Anthony Hsu, Marc L'Heureux, Stephanie Ng, E.J. Thiele, Michelle Yu.
- Arati Patel, Dickinson HS- Differences in Foraging Between Two Different Populations of Blue Crabs
- Avani Patel, Dickinson HS- Synthesis and Characterization of High Temperature Superconductor
- Kinjal Patel, Dickinson HS- Evaluation of Biotic Diversity in Chironomid Populations using Head Capsule Morphology and Hemoglobin Protein as Biomarkers
- Milesh Patel, McNair Academic HS- Treatment of Hexacalent Chromium and Associate Volumetric Expansion in Chromite Ore Processing Residue (COPR)
- Purvee Patel, Dickinson HS- Using Perceptual Adaptation to Investigate Orthogonality in Face-Space
- Saurabh Patel, High Tech HS- Antioxidant Abilities of Steroids in Rat Brain Tissue
- Eric Plaud, Union Hill HS- Fluorescein Isothiocyanate as a Tracer
- Chintan Rajput, Dickinson HS- The Effect of Calcium Cross-Linking on Control Release Pectin Films
- Vijay Ramani, Millburn HS- Hydroxyapatite-Coated Nanotube Thin Films for Bone Tissue Engineering
- Mitch Ramlakhan, McNair Academic HS- The Formation of 1,4 Dihydropyridines
- Natalie Rivera, High Tech HS- The Surveillance of Influenza and Mutational Analysis of Neuraminidase during the Off Season of Influenza Viral Infection (July-September)
- Nicholas Ruggirello, Bayonne HS- Use of Nanotechnology to Investigate Bonding Strengths In Thermite Welding
- Gerardo Santacruz, Bayonne HS- Nilpotency Degree of the Left Multiplication Group of a Left Bol Loop
- Shilpa Sarode, Edison HS- Lunar Structures for Initial Lunar Settlement. Joint work with Sahil Ambani, Fedja Buzancic, Megan Lam, Joshua Marciano, Michelle Micallef, Justin Renga.
- Diego Scerbo, High Tech HS- The Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Germinating Tagetes erecta
- Radhika Shah, Livingston HS- Fabrication of and Spectroscopy of Ceramic Nd:Yttria
- (Arunima) Reema Sil, Watchung Hills Regional HS- Genome Analysis of Artemia franciscana
- Omer Sohail, Dickinson HS- Biodegradation of Methyl tert Butyl Ether (MTBE)
- Jonathan Sookdeo, McNair Academic HS- The Remediation of TCE Using Zero Valent Iron
- Hamsini Sridharan, Millburn HS- Correlation between a Risk Allele on ENGRAILED 2 and the Behavioral Phenotype of Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Stephanie Sun, Livingston HS- Youth Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Survey
- Evelyn Tong, Livingston HS- Stress decreases glucocorticoid receptor expression in asthmatics: A possible mechanism for exacerbation of asthma by stress?
- Vineet Tyagi, McNair Academic HS- Remediation of Lead and Tungsten Contamination from Firing Range Berm Media
- Bo Wang, Livingston HS- Use of synthetic immunostimulatory compounds to inhibit tumor growth in vivo
- Yifei Wang, Millburn HS- The Preconditioning Effect of Rapamycin By Influencing Cardiac Metabolism and Cardioprotective Pathways
- Tian Xia, Livingston HS- The Role of Epidermal Stem Cells in Wound Healing
- Jonathan Yen, Millburn HS- Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) Length Polymorphism in Crassostrea ariakensis, C. gigas and C. virginica Crosses
- Monica Youssef, High Tech HS- Synthesis of High Temperature Superconductor YBa2Cu3O6.87
Congratulations to all young researchers on your fabulous work, and we look forward to hearing more about it at the JSHS on February 25th and 26th!