NUCLEIC ACID CATALYSTS: COMPARING THE MECHANISMS OF DNA AND RNA ENZYMES

Anvesh Annadanam, Raghunandan Avula, Nathan Buchbinder, Jonathan Chen, Sarah Cuneo, Ruth Fong, Michael Granovetter, Paul Lee, Tyler Nisonoff, Renuka Reddy, Meera Trivedi, Han-Wei Wu

Advisor: Dr. Adam G. Cassano
Assistant: Jyotsna Ramachandran

Team 1

IMPROVING THE HYDROPHOBICITY OF FABRICS WITH THE USE OF PHOSPHONIC ACIDS

Craig Barretto, Jonathan P. Chen, Ishaan Desai, Samuel Finegold, Aamod George, Madeleine Hu, Karen Nan, Rei Otake, Amrita Rao, Carli Smolen, Lu Yin, David Zhao

Advisor: Dr. Michael Avaltroni
Assistant: Darius Rackus

Team 2

THE INHIBITORY EFFECTS OF GREEN TEA (CAMELLIA SINENSIS) ON THE GROWTH AND PROLIFERATION OF ORAL BACTERIA

Margaret Axelrod, Sean Berkowitz, Raina Dhir, Veronica Gould, Arjun Gupta, Eric Li, Jane Park, Amar Shah, Kevin Shi, Christelle Tan, Ming-Ming Tran

Advisor: Mrs. Rachel Sandler
Assistant: Tina Varghese

Team 3

THE EFFECTS OF MEDIAL AMYGDALA LESIONS ON FEAR AND ANXIETY

Rachel Bergman, Eileen Gongon, David Handsman, Saheela Ibraheem, Eileen Jiang, Nikhil Keny, Wendy Wei, Caresse Yan, Annie Yang, Sabrina Zeller, Allen Zheng, Linda Zhong

Advisor: Dr. Graham Cousens
Assistant: Zachary Vogel

Team 4

ZERO-ORDER CONTROLLED-RELEASE KINETICS THROUGH POLYMER MATRICES

Kyle Douglas, James Farber, Steven Flynn, Janie Gu, Vivian Qin, Jenny Shih, Jake Silberg, Anita Wamakima

Advisor: Dr. David Cincotta
Assistant: Jeremy Tang

Team 5

OPTICS, LASERS, AND MOLECULES: A STUDY OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Stephen Carr, Mojin Chen, Brian Delancy, Jason Elefant, Alice Huang, Nathaniel May, Avinash Moondra, John Nappo, Nicholas Paggi, Samuel Rosin, Marlee Silverstein, Daniel Zhang

Advisor: Dr. Robert Murawski
Assistant: Aaron Loether

Team 6

THE EFFECTS OF SPACE ENVIRONMENTS ON SOLAR CELLS

Laura Bruce, Brian Dawes, James Horner, Krupa Patel, Ronak Patel, Nicholas Porto, Steven Scarfone, Olivia Shabash, Priyanka Shah, Daphne Sun, Jisoo Yoon

Advisor: Dr. Paul Quinn
Assistant: Sally Warner

Team 7

DEBUNKING THE ENEMY RELEASE HYPOTHESIS: DOES INTRODUCED NORWAY MAPLE LACK DEFENSES AGAINST NATIVE HERBIVORES?

Tony Chen, Julianna Garreffa, Emily Gleason, Joe Miciak, Alomi Parikh, David Shang, Rebecca Shi

Advisor: Dr. Kristi MacDonald-Byers
Assistant: Jessica Reid

Team 8