ENZYME KINETICS AND MECHANISM

Lina Carmona, Shuyi Chen, Janice Chou, Zhen Gong, Michael Hurley, Frances Jin, Stephanie Lo, Ramya Natarajan, Angela Wu, Derek Yee

Advisor: Dr. Adam G. Cassano
Assistant: Jennifer Gomez

Team 1

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF TREES INFESTED BY THE ASIAN LONGHORNED BEETLE

Robert Bruce, Jr., Deepa Cherla, Pedro Duran, Josephine Li, Tanvi Rastogi, Aaron Sin, Gregory Springsted, Alex Yang, Divya Yerramilli, Rae Yoon Eric Yoo, Alex Zozula

Advisor: Jeremy Stanton
Assistant: Bhavik Shah

Team 2

POPPING UNDER PRESSURE: THE PHYSICS OF POPCORN

Aleksandr Arkhipov, Carly Becker, David Bergamo, Veronica Demtchouk, Andrew Freddo, Edward Kreider, Michael Lee, Joseph Montalbano, David Richards, Elizabeth So, Jasper Wang

Advisor: Dr. Paul Quinn
Assistant: Sally Warner

Team 3

RECONSTRUCTING POTS-RECONSTRUCTING LIVES: ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF ANCIENT CERAMICS FROM ECUADOR

Samantha Ahle, Keith Dezmin, Pariket Dubal, Christopher Hernandez, Richard Kao, Caitlin King, Jacqueline Palmore, Anousheh Shafa, Kathryn Silverio, Lily Wang, Shuang Yang

Advisor: Dr. Maria Masucci
Assistant: Paul-Michael Huseman

Team 4

THE EFFECTS OF CREDIBILITY ON THE SOCIAL CONTAGION OF MEMORY

Brian Boyle, Nihal Dayal, Andrew Fung, Kaitlyn Golden, Christopher Larsen, Leslie Nachbar, Liza Rubenstein, Sarah Schechter, Alexandra Shechtel, Paul Szerlip, Millicent Younger

Advisor: Dr. Patrick Dolan
Assistant: Jennifer Sissman

Team 5

PRINCIPLES OF RADAR TRACKING

Luke Anderson, Ankur Bakshi, Kareem Elnahal, Joe Kelly, David Kim, Vikram Modi, Adam Pantel, and Joe Park, Alex Schnayder, Alex Sood, Andrew Weintraub

Advisor: Randy Heuer
Assistant: Karl Strohmaier

Team 6

CELESTIAL MECHANICS

Andrew Davis, Mary Germino, Ethan Groveman, Semmie Kim, Daniel Morgan, Kate Safin, Jake Snell, Alexander Stephan, Denys Voytenko, Rosalie Yan, Daniel Yoo, Eileen Zhuang

Advisor: Dr. Steve Surace
Assistant: Margaret Senese

Team 7

THE AMELIORATIVE PROPERTIES OF 3-HYDROXYL-3METHYLGLUTARYL-COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITORS ON THE NITRIC OXIDE PRODUCTION OF MICROGLIAL CELLS: AN ALZHEIMER'S MODEL

Jash Bansal, Jonathan Cantalino, Morgan Greenfield, Jennifer Lee, Christina Long, Darius Rackus, Karen Sun, Sam Tarakajian, Roxinne Templonuevo, Chris Thompson, Kathy Zhou

Advisor: Dr. Diane F. Kozireski-Chuback
Assistants: Carl W.F. Bird B.A., Jonathan Stone

Team 8

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF AN UNKNOWN P-ELEMENT INSERTION IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER

Cyndi Chung, Shanchita Ghosh, Sarah Han, Forrest Lai, Theresa Laverty, Carol Li, Chris McGrath, Sajid Mehmood, Brett Mensinger, Mona Sadegh, Tina Varghese, Chrys Webb Woodbury

Advisor: Dr. Heather Cook
Assistant: Kirsten Ruch

Team 9