Friday May 1, 2009
Room 101
9:00 am: Dimir Abrar – “Cross-docking Inhibitors of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase”
Faculty Mentor – Robert Rizzo, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
9:30 am: Aisha Akhtar – “The Quality of Intraoral Images Obtained at the Stony Brook School of Dental Medicine in 2006 and 2008”
Faculty Mentor – Dan Colosi, Department of General Dentistry
10:00 am: Kevin Ankey - “Making a Movie”
Faculty Mentor – Ron Overton, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
10:30 am: Candace Ishmael – “The Fate of Character: Predestination and Choice in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series”
Faculty Mentor – Ruth Bottigheimer, Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
11:30 am: Fernando Barajas – “The Effects of Ethanol on the GlyR Gating Variables”
Faculty Mentor – James Dilger, Department of Anesthesiology
1:00 pm: Rachel Bronzinsky – “Twentieth Century Spain through Two Auteurs: The Transgressive Cinema of Buñuel and Almodóvar”
Faculty Mentor – Kathleen Vernon, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature
1:30 pm: Alexander Bruno – “An In Vitro Recirculation Loop for Testing the Thrombogenic Potential of Prosthetic Heart Valves”
Faculty Mentors – Daniel Bluestein, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Helmut Strey, Department of Biomedical Engineering
2:30 pm: Alex Chamessian – “Building a Cyanovirin Multimer: An Unnatural Approach”
Faculty Mentor – Isaac Carrico, Department of Chemistry
4:00 pm: Daryl McHugh – “An Assessment of the Presence and Fate of Quaternary Ammonium Compounds in Biosolid "
Faculty Mentor – Bruce Brownawell, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Monday May 4th, 2008
Room 102
8:45 am – Marta Gyvel – "The Gurdjieff Movement and American Responses"
Faculty Mentor – Bill Miller, Department of History
9:00 am: Jeff Fei – “High Resolution Structure of Phospholamban in Membrane Bilayers”
Faculty Mentor – Steven Smith, Department of Structural Biology
11:30 am: Sarah Kantharia – “Functional Characterization of Electrospun PLGA/ Dextran Scaffold in Diabetic Chronic Wounds, in vitro & in vivo”
Faculty Mentor – Weiliam Chen, Department of Biomedical Engineering
11:45 pm: Joyce Grillo – “Crazy Woman Creek and Other Poems”
Faculty Mentor – Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Department of English
1:00 pm: Saad Khan – “Testing a Biopsychosocial Model for Borderline Personality Disorder”
Faculty Mentor – David Klonsky, Department of Psychology
1:30pm: Soohong Kim – “Forebrain Allometry of Threespine Stickleback”
Faculty Mentor – Michael Bell, Department of Ecology and Evolution
2:00 pm: Amanda Korber – “Paul Laurence Dunbar's Duality”
Faculty – Susan E. Scheckel, Department of English
2:30 pm: Bret Kugelmass – “Sunset's Ablution”
Faculty Mentor – Christa Erickson, Department of Art
3:15 pm: Tiffany Kataria – “Modeling the Detection of Exoplanets Around Young M-type Stars from the Beta Pictoris Moving Group”
Faculty Mentor – Michal Simon, Department of Physics and Astronomy
3:45 pm: Christina Domanico – “Gender and Mathematical Problem Solving”
Faculty Mentor – Lisa Berger, Department of Mathematics
Tuesday May 5th, 2008
Room 102
9:30 am: James Maier – “Guiding Molecular Dynamics Using the Anisotropic Network Model”
Faculty Mentor – Carlos Simmerling, Department of Structural Biology
10:00 am: Chris Arettines – “A Combinatorial Algorithm for Finding Curves with Minimal Self-Intersection”
Faculty Mentor – Moira Chas, Department of Mathematics
10:30 am: Sally Matthew – “Structure- Function Analysis of gC1qR/ p33 Using Deletion Mutants Shows Additional Binding Sites for C1q”
Faculty Mentors- Berhane Ghebrehiwet, Department of Allergy and Immunology
11:00 am: Andrea Love – “The Effect of Generation Time on the Stability of Specialists of Escherichia coli in Mixed Sugar Chemostats”
Faculty Mentor – Daniel Dykhuizen, Department of Ecology and Evolution
11:15 am: Zachary Kurtz – “Characterizing Subunit Interactions in CS1 pili Assembly in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli”
Faculty Mentor – David Thanassi, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
11:30 am: Andrew McGowan– “Three Short Piano Pieces”
Faculty – Peter Winkler, Department of Music
1:00 pm: Cory Clifton - “Inner Vortex Evolution of Hurricane Ophelia (2005)”
Faculty Mentor – Brian Colle, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
1:30 pm: Tatyana Mestechinka - "Early Attachment and Aspects of Later Romantic Relationships”
Faculty Mentor – Joanne Davila, Department of Psychology
4:00 pm: Matt Meyers - " How to Find Neverland: Poems by Matt Meyers
Faculty Mentor – Dennis Clarke, Program in Writing and Rhetoric
Wednesday May 6th, 2008
Room 102
9:30 am: Mike Oldrey – “Sit-to-Stand Walker”
Faculty Mentor – Anurag Purwar, Department of Mechanical Engineering
10:00 am: Tee Pamon, Hala Mostafa, Bridget Matikainen – “Wireless Biosignal Monitor”
Faculty Mentors – Wei Lin, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Helmut Strey, Department of Biomedical Engineering
10:30 am: Suraj Rambhia – “Characterization of the Megakaryopoietic Transcriptome
Using a Platelet-Specific Microarray”
Faculty Mentor – Wadie Bahou, Department of Hematology
11:00 am: Andrew Ritzmann – “From Refuse to Regeneration: An Enquiry Into What We Leave Behind”
Faculty Mentor – Marilyn Zucker, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
11:30 am: Tim Roberts – “My Body”, a Children’s Book
Faculty Mentor – Keith Sheppard, Center for Science and Mathematics Education
12:00 pm: Guang Li – “Do Current Housing Price Trends Reflect Historical Trends?
A Multivariate Regression Approach”
Faculty Mentor - Eva Carceles-Poveda, Department of Economics
1:00 pm: Nicole Romano – “Communication During Musical Performance and the Role of Gesture Between Co-Performers”
Faculty Mentor - Susan Brennan, Department of Psychology
1:30 pm: Seroos Salvati - "Understanding Tigar”
Faculty Mentor – Nicolas Nassar, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
2:00 pm: Nick Simon – “Survey On Dental Services Provided at Colleges and Universities"
Faculty Mentor – Raymond Goldsteen, Graduate Program in Public Health
3:30 pm: Krishna Sarma – “Lifeact: a novel tool to visualize F-actin”
Faculty Mentor - Michael A. Frohman, Department of Pharmacological Sciences
5:00 pm: Eugene Tan – “Locating Sugars on Mouse Notch3”
Faculty Mentor – Robert Haltiwanger, Department of Biochemistry
LOCATION – N3090 Melville Library
5:30 pm: David Spritzer – “Transition Metal Thiolate Complexes”
Faculty Mentor - Michelle Millar, Department of Chemistry
LOCATION – N3090 Melville Library
6:00 pm: Shanza Malik – “Gender Inequalities in the Workforce: The Case of Law”
Faculty Mentor – Cathy Marrone, Department of Sociology
LOCATION – N3090 Melville Library
Thursday May 7th, 2008
Room 102
9:00 am: Richard Thalappillil – “Learn Malayalam in 30 Days”
Faculty Mentor – Ron Overton, Department of Writing and Rhetoric
9:30 am: Jennifer Traditi – “Familial, Demographic, and Personality Correlates Associated with Preschool Anxiety”
Faculty Mentor – Daniel Klein, Department of Psychology
10:00 am: Christian Videbaek – “War as a Catalyst of Human Progress”
Faculty Mentor - Ian Roxborough, Department of Sociology
10:30 am: Kim Wodiska – “The Effect of Title IX on the Lifestyle of the Female Collegiate Student-Athlete”
Faculty Mentor – Kathleen Nutter, Department of History
11:00 am: Min Xu – “Mapping Glycosylation Sites on Endogenous
Drosophila Notch”
Faculty Mentor – Robert Haltiwanger, Department of Biochemistry
11:30 am: Jimmy Mathews – “The homology axioms for smooth and topological bordism”
Faculty Mentor – Dennis Sullivan, Department of Mathematics
12:00 pm: Tomasz Bakowski – “An Analysis of Nuclear Fission and its Sustainability”
Faculty Mentor - John Hobbs, Department of Physics and Astronomy
1:30 pm: David Cooper – “Defining and Redefining Terrorism: An Analysis of the Causes and Motivations Behind Substate Political Militarism”
Faculty Mentor - Helmut Norpoth, Department of Political Science
2:00 pm: Sarah Mallik – “Regulation of Cardiac L-Type Calcium Channel Expression in Adult Mice”
Faculty Mentor – David McKinnon, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior