CSAM Well Represented at 9th Annual Student Research Symposium

Biology (43 presentations)

• Green Tea Polyphenols Inhibit Biofilm Formation in Streptococcus mutans (Advisor: Lee Lee)
• Green Tea Camellia sinensis Inhibitory Effects on the Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus (Advisor: Lee Lee)
• Utilizing CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing Technique to Eliminate Target Sequence from ICER Promoter in Zebrafish (Danio rerio) (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• Is pollution starving trees? Starch Analysis in Betula populifolia and Populus spp. in an Abandoned Urban Brownfield (Advisor: Dirk Vanderklein)
• Assessing the population density, size distribution, and biomass of the long-spined sea urchin, Diadema antillarum, in St. John, U.S.V.I. (Advisor: Paul Bologna)
• CRISPR/Cas System in Genome Engineering (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• In Vitro Synergetic Antiviral Activity of Black Tea Theaflavins and Acyclovir on Herpes Simplex Virus Types 1 and 2 in A549 Cells (Advisor: Sandra Adams)
• Impacts of land use and land cover composition on macroinvertebrate assemblages at both catchment basin and riparian scales along the Passaic River, New Jersey (Advisor: Meiyin Wu)
• Love that Dirty Water: Potential microbial diversity in on-street Manhattan hot dog water (Advisor: John J. Gaynor)
• Seasonal variation in starch content of two trees growing on contaminated soil (Advisor: Dirk Vanderklein)
• A classroom undergraduate research experience: annotation of a sequence-indexed reverse genetics resource for maize (Advisor: Chunguang Du)
• Recovery of red mangrove communities: assessment of prop root fouling communities (Advisor: Paul Bologna)
• Projected mid-twenty-first century climate changes in the White Volta Basin, West Africa (Advisor: Clement Alo)
• Complexities of Sensory Conflict as an Explanation for Different Types of Motion Sickness (Advisor: Frederick Bonato)
• Are you addicted to social media (Advisor: Dr. Chunguang Du)
• Environmental Correlates of Ranavirus Disease Distribution in New Jersey (Advisor: Lisa Hazard)
• Annotation of novel bacteriophage genomes from New Jersey Soil (Advisor: Sandra Adams)
• Lipophilic Green Tea Polyphenols as Promising Control Agents for Endospore Germination in Bacillus cereus. (Advisor: Lee Lee)
• Characterization of full-length candidate genes captured by Helitrons (Advisor: Chunguang Du)
• Effect of Black Tea Extract on Herpes Simplex Virus Type-2 Infection of A549 cells (Advisor: Sandra Adams)
• Relationships between predicted energy intake, the Institute of Medicine guidelines, and self-reported energy intake in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition study: New insights derived from a Dynamic Energy Balance Model (Advisor: Diana Thomas)
• Comparative Analysis of MMP20 Gene in Different Mammals (Advisor: Robert Meredith)
• Cloning and expression of Cryptochrome proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana (Advisor: Jim Dyer)
• Foraging efficiency of immature Blatta laterialis and Blatta germanica in simple and complex environments (Advisor: Scott Kight)
• Auditory Learning in Drosophila (Advisor: Julian Keenan)
• A Computational Study of the Contributions to the Relative Stability of the Axial and Equatorial Conformers of D-Glucopyranose (Advisor: Marc L. Kasner)
• Study the Effect of Selenium Oxide on the Toxicity of Cadmium Chloride in the Growth of Cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. IU 625. (Advisor: Lee Lee)
• A Profiling Study to Determine the Susceptibility of Erythromycin and Green Tea Polyphenols on Bacillus megaterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Mycobacterium (Advisor: Lee H Lee)
• Crude and Pure Green Tea Polyphenols as a Novel Approach to Inhibiting Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Advisor: Lee Lee)
• Effect of BK channel inhibition on PC12 cell migration (Advisor: Elena Petroff, Ph.D.)
• Regulation of the transcriptional repressor ICER by ubiquitination (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• RET Dependent Transcriptional Changes of Cell Signaling Proteins in Neuroblastoma Cells (Advisor: Quinn C. Vega)
• Green Tea Polyphenols , Erythromycin and Tetracycline Synergistically Inhibit the Growth of E.coli and Staphylococcus aureus (Advisor: Lee H Lee)
• A Bioinformatics Study of HSV Glycoprotein Structure and Ligand Binding of EGCG and EGCG-stearate (Advisor: Lee H. Lee)
• Prevalence of the Pathogen Ranavirus Throughout The NE USA: Results From A Five State Two Year Study (Advisor: Kirsten Monsen-Collar)
• Eating Rates (Advisor: Diana Thomas)
• Predicted Pattern of Bone Loss of Long-Term Spaceflight (Advisor: Frederick Bonato)
• RSYN: A Java Program for Effective RNA Interference (Advisor: Chunguang Du)
• Microbial Diversity of Different Sized Aggregates in Metal Contaminated Soils (Advisor: Jennifer Krumins)
• CRISPR-Cas9 in Neuroscience (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• The Cell Signaling Effects of EGCG-stearate on HSV-1 Infected Vero Cells (Advisor: Quinn Vega)
• Green Tea Polyphenols, EGCG and EGCG-Stearate as Potential Inhibitors of Herpes Simplex Virus-1 in Human Epithelial A549 cells. (Advisor: Lee Lee)
• Inhibition of Herpes Simplex Virus 2 Infection in Cultured Cells by EGCG and EGCG-stearate (Advisor: Sandra Adams)

Chemistry (16 presentations)

• The Study of Y127A Mutation on Dihydrofolate Reductase (Advisor: Nina Goodey)
• Effect of pH on Cry-DASH UV-Damaged DNA Repair Activity (Advisor: Yvonne Gindt)
• Investigation of the oligomeric structure of cryptochrome using fluorescence (Advisor: Yvonne Gindt)
• CRISPR-Cas Systems & their Potential Applications in Microbiology (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• The Application of the CRISPR/Cas9 system in Cancer (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• CRISPR/Cas9 Plant Genome Editing (Advisor: Carlos Molina)
• Conformational Motions Associated with Ligand binding to with Apo and Holo DHFR (Advisor: Nina Goodey)
• Conformational Dynamics of Substituted Tetrahydropyrans: A Computational Analysis (Advisor: Marc L. Kasner)
• A novel fluorescent sensor for cations with an additional PET pathway to suppress protons signals (Advisor: Saliya de Silva)
• Ionic liquid fluorescent sensors for cations (Advisor: Saliya de Silva)
• Defying all Odds: Understanding the Ability of Heavily Contaminated Soil to Sustain Life (Advisor: Nina Goodey)
• Effect of synthesis conditions on the spectroscopic properties of 5,10-methenyltetrahydrofolate (Advisor: Johannes Schelvis)
• Interfacially activated aggregation of Alpa Synuclein (Advisor: David Talaga)
• Progress on the design and synthesis of alternate substrates and inhibitors of indole-3-glycerol phosphate (Advisor: David Konas)
• God’s Word and the Realm outside Time and Space (Advisor: Glen Gill)
• Accurate Interaction Energies Using the Random Phase Approximation for Problematic Dispersion-Bound Complexes (Advisor: Henk Eshuis)
• Expression and Purification of a Potential Antifolate Target, Dihydrolfate Reductase from B. Malayi (Advisor: Nina Goodey)

Computer Science (4 presentations)

• GeoTagger: A Sustainability Platform for Citizens and Researchers (Advisor: Jerry Fails)
• Sentiment Analysis of Big Sustainability Data on a Mobile Platform (Advisor: Katherine Herbert)
• IEEE Floating Point Converter Tool 1.1 (Advisor: George Antoniou)
• Using Graphical Processing Units for Computing Optimal Band Selection in Hyperspectral Data (Advisor: Stefan Robila)

Earth and Environmental Studies (27 presentations)

• Modeling the Surface of Shore Attached Sand Ridges, Mantoloking, New Jersey (Advisor: Sandra Passchier)
• Assessing Phosphorus Storage in Sediments of Lake Hopatcong (NJ) (Advisor: Meiyin Wu)
• A Cost-Benefit Approach Towards New Jersey Coastal Protection and Replenishment Practices, Using Hedonic Modeling (Advisor: Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba)
• Temporal and Spatial Relationship of Adult and Planula Chrysaora quinquecirrha Barnegat Bay, NJ (Advisor: Paul Bologna)
• Threshold Behavior of a Marine-Based Sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet in Response to Early Pliocene Ocean Warming (Advisor: Sandra Passchier)
• Urban simulation models based on cellular automata and data mining for multiple cities (Advisor: Aparna Varde)
• Mercury Contamination in Diamondback terrapins: Implication for Human Health and Wildlife Management (Advisor: Meiyin Wu)
• Investigative Analysis on Ancient Marble Rock at the Villa of the Antonines (Advisor: Stefanie Brachfeld)
• Relationship between Particle Size, Extracellular Enzymes, and Heavy Metals (Advisor: Nina Goodey)
• Sediment Mobility in New York Bight Apex and Its Environmental Implications (Advisor: Sandra Passchier)
• Addressing Environmental Concerns of Hydraulic Fracturing in Urban Areas of Western Pennsylvania Using GIS (Advisor: Danlin Yu)
• A Hedonic study of the surrounding contaminated area of Liberty State Park and the environmental qualities present (Advisor: Pankaj Lal)
• What is causing the over population of sea nettles and jellyfish in the ocean waters of Barnet Bay? (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• 2012 Demography of Car Crash Fatalities Due to Alcohol in New Jersey and New York (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• Pushing Bears Over the Edge:  The Impact that Loss of Land has on the Black Bear as well as the Polar Bear (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• An Analysis of the Changing Flood Zones Compared to Change in Land Use in the Paterson Area of the Passaic River (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• Power lines: more foe than friend (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• Frequent Flooding Affecting Real Estate Market in New Milford, New Jersey (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• The effect of trail size on the amount of trash found (Advisor: Gregory Pope)
• Assessing the Impact Superfund Sites have on Residential Property Values In Passaic County New Jersey (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• Lucky: A Geographical Interpretation of America’s Lottery Winners (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• A Lithologic and Geomorphic Analysis of the Kittatinny Ridge, Appalachian Mts. (Advisor: Joshua Galster)
• CHARACTERIZATION OF UV-QUENCHING DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS IN LANDFILL LEACHATE (Advisor: Yang Deng)
• Assessing the flood mitigation potential of water resource reservoirs (Advisor: Joshua Galster)
• SOIL WATER SOURCES FOR NON-NATIVE SPECIES JAPANESE KNOTWEED, PHRAGMITES AND MULTIFLORA ROSE (Advisor: Dirk Vanderklein)
• Observing the Relationship Between Land Use and Contaminated Sites (Advisor: Greg Pope)
• The Desynchronization of Storm Discharge Peaks from Modeling Low Impact Development (LID) Impacts in a Small, Urbanized Watershed in New Jersey (Advisor: Dr. Joshua Galster)
• Geochemical analysis of Antarctic sediment cores from Prydz Bay site for the purpose of reconstructing the paleo-environment during the Eocene-Oligocene (Advisor: Sandra Passchier)

Marine Biology and Coastal Sciences (6 presentations)

• Assessment of home range, behavior, and population intermixing among bottlenose dolphins in New Jersey (Advisor: Paul Bologna)
• Macroinvertebrate Assemblages of New Jersey Springs (Advisor: Meiyin Wu)
• Microplastic distribution within a mussel bed at Sandy Hook, NJ (Advisor: Robert Prezant)
• Caribbean Sea Sponge Diversity and Size Distribution: A New Age Biofilter (Advisor: Paul Bologna)
• Diel Habitat Utilization of Fish and Decapod Species in Great Lameshur Bay, St. Johns, USVI (Advisor: Paul Bologna)
• Seagrass Wrack as a Potential Benthic-Pelagic Link in Barnegat Bay, NJ (Advisor: Paul Bologna)

Mathematical Sciences (17 presentations)

• On the 3-Dimensional Fluid-Structure Interaction of Flexible Fibers in a Flow (Advisor: Bogdan Nita)
• Non-linear Gravitational-Wave Memory from Merging Binary Black Holes (Advisor: Marc Favata)
• Numerical Study of Body Shape & Wing Flexibility in Fluid Structure Interaction (Advisor: Ashwin Vaidya)
• Interlace Polynomial of a special Eulerian Graph (Advisor: Aihua Li)
• Piloting a Model of Inquiry-Oriented Supplemental Instruction for Calculus I (Advisor: Steven Greenstein)
• Designing a Learning Trajectory for the Classification of Quadrilaterals (Advisor: Nicole Panorkou)
• Crossing Boundaries in Undergraduate Biology Education (Advisor: Mika Munakata)
• A Proposed Study of Millennial Preservice Mathematics Teachers’ Cultural Experiences and Implications for Instruction (Advisor: Steven Greenstein)
• Developing a Hypothetical Learning Trajectory of Elementary Students’ Understanding of 3D Geometry (Advisor: Nicole Panorkou)
• The Path to K-12 Science Teacher Leadership: A Preliminary Inquiry of Teachers Working Toward Leadership (Advisor: Mika Munakata)
• 100K Strong in Chile for CSAM Students-A model for international scientific and educational collaboration among STEM undergraduate students (Advisor: Mika Munakata)
• Design of Knapsack Cryptosystems Using Certain t-Superincreasing Sequences (Advisor: Aihua Li)
• The Ping-Pong Effect: Extinction Dynamics in Stochastic Populations with Migration (Advisor: Eric Forgoston)
• Randic Connectivity Indices of Cycle Based Graphs (Advisor: Aihua Li)
• Observations on the Transition to Equilibrium of Hinged Bodies in a Flow (Advisor: Ashwin Vaidya)
• Modeling Gravitational Waves (Advisor: Marc Favata)
• Gravitational lensing of light near black holes (Advisor: Marc Favata)
• Analysis of Water Quality in New Jersey (Advisor: Haiyan Su)