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Results from the 2005 Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials Invitational Science Fair

Computer Science Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Andrew Gross Paul D. Schreiber HS A computer study of green-wave traffic light coordination in a two-dimensional grid system
1st Place David Golub Paul D. Schreiber HS A Robot Programming System Featuring Automatic Derivation of Kinematic Equations

Molecular Biology Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Suraj Rambhia
 Jericho HS Modulation of the Ubiquitin Proteasome Complex via Morphine Induced Nitric Oxide: A Possible Mechanism for the Prevention of Neurodegenerative Diseases
2nd Place Eugene Tan Herricks HS Computerized Quantitation of Synergism or Antagonism of Anticancer Drugs
2nd Place Jared Gruszecki Jericho HS Development of a Novel Cell-Based Screen to Identify New Anti-Cancer Compounds
3rd Place Tiffany Yeh Syosset HS Human Dermal Fibroblast Growth and Response to Polybutadiene and PB-Cloisite 6A Nanocomposite Surfaces
3rd Place Sarah Goldman Roslyn HS Cancer Suppressor DBC2 and Protien GOLGA5 Co-localize
3rd Place Samantha Schneider Jericho HS An Evaluation of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)within Gene EP300 of Human Chromosome 22q to Assess Their Role in Pediatric Brain Tumors
Meritorious Farah Hussain Syosset HS The Role of Microsomal Triglyceride Transfer Protein in Carbon Tetrachloride-Induced Steatosis
Meritorious Grace Yuen Great Neck South HS Cloning and Activity of Human IL4I1 Variants
Meritorious Adam Silbert Paul D. Schreiber HS An Investigation of the Interaction of OepX and TolC on the Outer Membrane Component of the Efflux Pump of Escherichia coli
Honorable Mention Renjini Thomas Great Neck South HS The Role of IL-4 and IL-13 in Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Honorable Mention Eugene Won Great Neck South HS Examination of the Source Nucleotide Variation Between Polymorphic SINE Insertions in the Canine Genome
Honorable Mention Angela Yang Jericho HS The Relationship Between the Normal and Mutated expression of Connexin43 and Oculodentodigital Dysplasia (ODDD)

Molecular Biology Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place James Pyo Paul D. Schreiber HS Does Low Temperature Enhance the Cooperativity of Ca2+ Binding to Troponin C by Augumenting the Weak Attachment of Myosin Crossbridges?
2nd Place Lana Castor & Bonnie Lam Jericho HS Modification of the conductance of the mouse 5-HT3A receptor channel
3rd Place Lauren Hartstein South Side HS Effect of Resveratrol on the Peripheral Nervous System of headless Methsulah Drosophila melanogaster
Meritorious Dhruv Vasishtha Roslyn HS Presence of µ3 opiate receptor in Homarus Americanus
Honorable Mention Danielle Schwartz & Deeba Zivari The Wheatley School The effect of pesticides on cell growth
Honorable Mention Jennifer Chu Great Neck North HS A study of plant genetics based on Mendel's laws

General Biology Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Christopher Chen Great Neck North Predicting Drug Resistance: PDMP's Potential Vulnerability to Glucosylceramide Regulation of Ceramide Levels in Human Prostate Cancer Cells (LNCaP)
2nd Place Nikhil Gupta Manhasset HS Engineering 3-Dimensional Muscle Tissue
3rd Place Joshua Mirkin Great Neck South HS The Interrelationship between Sleep, Immune Response, and Immune Challenge in Drosophila melanogaster
3rd Place Noor Desai Great Neck North HS shRNA, A Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing Mechanism, Used to Inhibit Expression of Murine GHR
3rd Place Nicholas Calluzzo Manhasset HS The MMP-7 Gene Regulates the in vitro Invasion of DOV13 EOC Cells
Meritorious Adwait Parker Paul D. Schreiber HS Using Microsatellites to Graph Recombination Rates
Meritorious Brinda Alagesan & Amit Mehta Manhasset HS Dynamics of Genomic DNA on Micropatterned Surfaces
Honorable Mention Neil Shah Jericho HS Buffered Diffusion into a Model Synapse
Honorable Mention Ruchi Bhargava The Wheatley School The Synthesis of Porphyrin Conjugates towards Photodynamic Therapy
Honorable Mention Neha Gupta Great Neck South HS The Role of CD4+CD25+ T Cells in the Pathogenesis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

General Biology Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Sarah Pickering Paul D. Schreiber HS Applying the Prisoner's Dilemma to Predator Inspection in Fish
1st Place Hilana Lewkowitz-Shpuntoff Great Neck South HS Behavioral And Neuroanatomical Characterization Of CIRL3-like Mutants.
1st Place Zachary Hollander Great Neck North HS Pit Construction by Antlion Larvae: The Function, Slope Asymmetry, and Structure of Antlion Pits
2nd Place Steven Stavrou Manhasset HS The Effects Of Melatonin on the Circadian Rhythms of Drosophila melanogaster
2nd Place Daniel Stewart Paul D. Schreiber HS Investigating a connection between stress and relapse of ethanol addiction in Drosophila melanogaster
2nd Place Michael Levy & Alex Egan Manhasset HS The Effects of Trichostatin A on the Expression of hsp22 in Drosophila melanogaster
2nd Place Ashish Bakshi Manhasset HS A Composite Model of a Cerebellar Granule Neuron
2nd Place Eshin Jolly, John Hong, & Bryan Byrnes Manhasset HS The effects of a simulated microgravity environment on Drosophila melanogaster
2nd Place Sophie Kroft Paul D. Schreiber HS Affect of Cordyceps sinesis on the regeneration rate of the earthworm Lumbricus
2nd Place Sarah Silvergleid Paul D. Schreiber HS Quantifying the consequences of local demyelination in Multiple Sclerosis/Optic Neuritis
3rd Place Rishi Sood & Tian Liang Syosset HS Curcumin and anti-HMGB1 as novel methods to inhibit proinflammatory cytokine production in sepsis.
3rd Place Zach Singer Paul D. Schreiber HS Effects of Extremely low-frequency pulsing electromagnetic fields and kanamycin as a co-factor on Escherichia coli
3rd Place Alison Liu Manhasset HS The Effect of Retinoic Acetate and Lipoic Acid on the Development of the Photosensing System in Regenerating Dugesia tigrina
3rd Place Marc Sherwin & Madhuri Indaram The Wheatley School Comparing the Effects of Pesticides versus Lady Beetles on Plants with Aphid Infestation
3rd Place Iris Hsiao Manhasset HS The Effect of Acid Rain on the Growth of Marigolds
3rd Place Brian Kim & Mark Grbic Manhasset HS The effects of varied agents on the regeneration rate of planaria
3rd Place DJ Smolinsky Great Neck North HS Fingerprint Symmetry as Determined by Distance, Slope, and Classification
3rd Place James Costaras & Aditi Kanth Manhasset HS The Effect of Caloric Restriction on Lifespan, Fertility, and Metabolic Rate of Drosophila melongaster
3rd Place Christopher Chin Manhasset HS The Effects of Age on the Short and Long Term Memory of Drosophila melanogaster
3rd Place Matthew Seigerman Herricks HS The Effects of Wasabi on Vibrio Haemolycitus
3rd Place Chuan Hao Chen Manhasset HS A Comparison of the Effects of Low Dose UV-B on Radish and Sunflower Growth
Meritorious Paul Millington South Side HS Isolation of Adult Skeletal Muscle Satelitte Cells for Tissue Engineering
Meritorious Alex Shahery Great Neck North HS The Surface Texture Preference of California Blackworms, Lumbriculus variegatus
Meritorious Amy Cheng Great Neck South HS Effects of Rhizobium and Cytokinin on Soybean Plant Growth
Meritorious Malorie Simons Roslyn HS The Effect of Garlic, Coenzyme Q10 and Beta Carotine on "Plant Cancer" Bacterium
Meritorious Scott Kestenbaum Great Neck North HS Electromagnetism and its Effect on the Orientation of Lumbricus terrestris
Meritorious Kamalakar Atluri Herricks HS Endogenous Morphine Production As A Coping Strategy Of Homarus Americanus Affected By Temperature And Pesticides
Meritorious Vikas Anand, Esther Kwak, Joshua Lampert, & Qi Yu Jericho HS Effects of herbal remedies and spices on certain bacterial species
Meritorious Nicole Herz Roslyn HS Antibiotic Resistance Development in Staphylococcus
Meritorious Rita Iyer The Wheatley School The Effect of Ginger Extract on Breast Cancer
Meritorious Simran Jundoria & Sandra Oliveira The Wheatley School The Effect of Turmeric on Fruit Flies
Meritorious Vinay Krishnan The Wheatley School The Relationship Between Hydralazine and Hydrogen Peroxide in the Pathogenesis of Drug-Induced Lupus and the Effect of Trace Metals on This Interaction
Meritorious Benjamin Leibowicz Great Neck North HS The validity of the serial dilution method for determining the least inhibitory concentration of various disinfectants on a colony of Escherichia coli bacteria.
Meritorious Jaime Sharot, Karolyn Hasday, & Matt Geyer South Side HS The Effects of Food Additives on Drosophila melanogaster
Honorable Mention Leah Goldman Great Neck North HS The Growth and Repair of Tomato Plants After Various Types of Plant Grafting
Honorable Mention Gulus Emre Paul D. Schreiber HS Determination of the efficacy of individual antimicrobial sweat properties against S. epidermidis
Honorable Mention John Krauss Paul D. Schreiber HS Bird Song: A Biomusicological Cross-Species Comparison
Honorable Mention Jeffrey Cohen Great Neck South HS Chitosan’s Effect on the Lifespan of Drosophila Melanogaster
Honorable Mention Christopher Mackey South Side HS Interactions Between the Extracellular Matrix Proteins and Glycosaminoglycans and the Effects of Biomineralization to Mimic Bone Formation
Honorable Mention Alex Babazadeh Roslyn HS Development of Blood Vessels in an Ischemic Hindlimb: Role of VEGF in Recruitment of Stem Cells
Honorable Mention Brian Shah South Side HS An Investigation into the Presence of the CREB Gene in California Blackworms (Lumbriculus variegatus) by Analyzing Genotypic and Phenotypic Expression
Honorable Mention Esteban Kim Manhasset HS How Varied Applications of Heat Shock Affect the Longevity of Drosophila Melanogaster

Social Sciences Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Hillary Wool Paul D. Schreiber HS The Influence of Dopamine and Serotonin System-Related Genetic Polymorphisms on ADHD-like Cognition and Personality
1st Place Nicole Nussbaum Roslyn HS Truth or Lies--The Words will Tell: An Automated Linguistic Analysis of Deception in Computer-Mediated Interrogation
2nd Place Monique Yashaya Roslyn HS The Effect of Gender and Job Type on Perceptions of Job Competence and Deserved Salary
2nd Place Lauren Lipari Roslyn HS The Impact of Multi-tasking on the Quality of Adolescents’ Work and the Time Needed to Complete A Task
3rd Place Jessica Cohen Roslyn HS The Impact of Condom Education Lessons on High School Students
3rd Place Jessica Shon & Alafia Akhtar Roslyn HS Perceived Quality and Liklihood to Buy
Meritorious Emily Blatt & Allison Polizzi Roslyn HS The Impact of Education and the Internet on Plagiarism
Meritorious Nicole Sheehan Syosset HS Gender-Typical Adjectives: A Comparative Study of the Media Coverage of Male and Female Sports
Meritorious Erin Choo Roslyn HS The Influence of Affirmative Action on High School Students' Assessment of College Applicants
Honorable Mention Ellissa Corwin Syosset HS Eamining Influences on Adolescent Political Opinion
Honorable Mention David Gordon Great Neck North HS Perceptions of Support by Patients’ Significant Others in a Brain Injury Day Treatment Program
Honorable Mention Karen Brachot Great Neck South HS The Effects of AIDS Education on Attitudes Towards HIV/AIDS

Social Sciences Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Andrew Forrest Roslyn HS  An Exploration of the Factors Contributing to the Political Efficacy of High School Students
1st Place Erica Berck Roslyn HS  Factors Leading to Adolescent Sexual Permissiveness
2nd Place Adam Harris Great Neck South HS How does perceived parental pressure affect academic succes?
2nd Place Julie Goldman Roslyn HS Cheating Among High School Students
2nd Place Mary Martha Douglas & Ariana Tibaldi Manhasset HS The Effect of Interval Training on CREB Activity and Long Term Memory Formation in Wildtype Drosophila
2nd Place Benjamin Laitman Great Neck North HS The Effect of Subliminal Instruction on the Ability of a Subject to Draw a Tangram
2nd Place Amy Lee Roslyn HS Differences in the perceptions of divorced and married men and women
2nd Place Samantha Fishbein Roslyn HS The Effect of Psychological Reactance and Gender on Response to Anti-Smoking Campaigns in Teenagers
3rd Place Vidya Viswanathan Herricks HS The Effect of Eye Contact on Perception of Sincerity in Different Genders
3rd Place Madalyn Darnell Great Neck South HS The Effect of Environmental Factors on the Reading Achievement of Elementary School Students
3rd Place Stefanie Aquilina, Reema Dalal, & Uma Mullapudi Jericho HS The Effect of Different Fonts on Human Cognition
3rd Place Christina Tu Roslyn HS The Role of Implicit Theories of Intelligence in Advanced High School Mathematics
3rd Place Heather Berman, Elana Brenner, & Leah Libresco The Wheatley School The Gender Gap in Mathematics; Intrinsic or Learned?
3rd Place Gabriela Monsanto Paul D. Schreiber HS Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness in High School Students
3rd Place Daniella Roseman Syosset HS The Relationship Between Inter-Candidate Negativity in Party Convention Rhetoric and Post Convention Polling Data
3rd Place Nicole Meyers & Cole Charnas Roslyn HS Parents' Influence on Their Children's Political Opinions
3rd Place Joanna Melnick Great Neck North HS A Comparison of the Psychological Effectiveness of Fair Division Mathematical Models: Cut and Choose and Moving Knife
Meritorious Mike Shores Roslyn HS The Effect of Teachers' Opinions on the Evaluation of Students' Essays
Meritorious Seth Levine Great Neck South HS Obesity and Perception of Nutritional Value
Meritorious Raymond Kim Roslyn HS Techniques to Maximize Donation Quantity and Total Amount
Meritorious Samantha Goldstein Roslyn HS Is There Language Bias in Perception of Applicants for Employment?
Meritorious Heather Makover Great Neck South HS The Effect Of Text Organization On Reading Comprehension
Meritorious Shiva Kothari & Kaitlyn Hay Jericho HS Assessing the Political Rhetoric of Totalitarian Dictators Versus Democratic Leaders And Its Impact on Public Sentiment
Meritorious Spencer Herman Roslyn HS The Influence of Pet Ownership and Pet Attachment on the Public's Attitudes Toward the Use of Animals in Biomedical Research
Meritorious Sarah Khan, Zabeen Noorani, & Nidhi Parikh Herricks HS The Effects of Gender on Cerebral Dominance
Meritorious John Schulman Great Neck South HS An Analysis of Human Play in the Game of Odds and Evens
Honorable Mention Benjamin Albert Great Neck North HS The effect of personality auditory tasks on temporal perception
Honorable Mention Svetlana Dobrow & Randy Alevi The Wheatley School Ethnic Segregration among students
Honorable Mention Jake Novick Roslyn HS Students' Perceptions of Student Athletes
Honorable Mention Dana Zalkin Great Neck North HS Evaluation of the Extent to Which Conformity and Obedience to Authority Influences Students
Honorable Mention Jamie Tobin Herricks HS The Effects of Color on Memory
Honorable Mention Adam Levine South Side HS An Analysis of the Relationship Between Women's Status in South American Society And the Health Care of Women and Children
Honorable Mention Ethan Hoch, Steven Schwartz, Brienne Kugler, & Adam Lamm Jericho HS The Effects of Brain Dominance on Personality Traits
Honorable Mention Gabrielle Karol & Courtney Yadoo The Wheatley School The Selectivity Hypothesis and Organizational Skills
Honorable Mention Jenessa Malin Syosset HS The Effect of Educational Technology on Student Achievement

Physical Sciences Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Jonathan Scholl The Wheatley School Surface Directed Crystallization of Polymer Thin Films in Supercritical Fluids
2nd Place Jacob Fainzilberg Paul D. Schreiber HS Magnetically-Induced Viscosity
3rd Place Jonathan Wu Great Neck South HS The Beauty of Less Perfect Light: A High Resolution Interferometer for Characterizing Broadband Light Sources
Meritorious Vandana Sood & Sagar Mehta Syosset HS Creating a Low Viscosity Lubricant for MEMS Using POSS Nanocomposites and Copolymers
Honorable Mention Danielle Bourguet Paul D. Schreiber HS Focusing Light by Diffraction: Observations and Analysis of Talbot and Zone Plate Images
Honorable Mention Rohan Panchamia Herricks HS Development of Novel DNA Sensitive Dyes Using Combinatorial Approach

Physical Sciences Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Lukasz Mosakowski & David Chang Manhasset HS Fluid Dynamics Measurements of Factors Affecting Drag
2nd Place Lauren Fleischer South Side HS The Effect of Various Factors on the Control of Ice Spike Growth
2nd Place Meray Muney & Azadeh Issapour Syosset HS The Effect of Fibroids on Sex Steroid Levels
3rd Place Jimmy Hom & Samuel Breidbart Syosset HS Deciphering Damaged Eighteenth Century Manuscripts
3rd Place Alex Thachara & Grace Kang The Wheatley School Engineering Polymer Thin Films With Controlled Porosity Using Nanoparticles
3rd Place Eric Mogil Great Neck North HS Analyzing the Reflectance of Blood Spectrophotometrically in Order to Determine Age on a Surface
3rd Place Nicole Khezri Great Neck North HS The Iridescence of Columba Livia and Sturnus Vulgaris Feathers Examined at Different Angles
Meritorious Alan Chou Great Neck South HS Mechanical Properties of Pluronic F127
Meritorious Shaheen Youssef South Side HS A preliminary study of the drop shape of glycerol.
Meritorious Samuel Levy South Side HS The Use of Fractal Analysis to Analyze the Crystal Formation of Calcium Carbonate.
Meritorious Gregory Wall South Side HS The effect of time and storage techniques on tortilla texture
Honorable Mention Jeremy Saks Syosset HS Analysis of Skin Secretions wihtin Latent Fingerprints
Honorable Mention Erin D'Agostino Manhasset HS The Effect of Length, Number, Pitch, and Temperature of Blades on the Energy Output of a Wind Generator
Honorable Mention Tamara Nowakowski Paul D. Schreiber HS Non-Prescription Antioxidants: Assessment of Activity Using Cytochrome-C Reduction Assay

Environmental Science Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Sarah Bancone & Joanna Hurley The Wheatley School The Effects of Ash and Fertilizer on the Germination of Blue Curls
Meritorious Brian Schwartz Jericho HS A Test for Insecticides and Fungicides in Long Island Top Water and Soil

Environmental Science Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Whitney Quackenbush Manhasset HS The Effect of White Light on the Repair Mechanism of U.V. Exposed E. coli K12
2nd Place Erin Steigerwald Syosset HS The Effect of Legumes on the Growth of Plants in Cryptobiotic Soil Crust
2nd Place Marisol Ryu & Chris Kostoulas Manhasset HS The Effectiveness of Artemia and Vibrio Fischeri Bioassay at Prediction of Low Level Lead Pollution in Marine and Aquatic Environment
3rd Place Christoper Havasy Paul D. Schreiber HS The Use of the Capture-Recapture Method to Estimate the Population Density of Puma concolor
3rd Place Matthew Woo Manhasset HS The Effect of UV-B on E. Coli Population Density
3rd Place Arvin Jundoria The Wheatley School The Effects of Various Light Intensities and Potentially Limiting Nutrients on Phytoplankton Growth.
Meritorious Jordan Meltzer & Amy Ramirez Roslyn HS The Truth about Dustless Chalk
Meritorious Chen Zhang & Nirav Chheda Great Neck South HS The Bioremediation of Copper using Sargassum and Other Seaweeds
Meritorious David Khalily Great Neck North HS The effect of salt and water stress on plant leaf reflectance
Meritorious Nicholas Werle Paul D. Schreiber HS The Effects of Pesticides on the Parasitic Trematode Ribeiroia ondratae
Honorable Mention Carmen Lam Manhasset HS The Effect of the Amount of Carbon Dioxide on the Growth of Algae
Honorable Mention Daniel Rosloff Great Neck South HS The Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Coral Growth

Prototype Engineering Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Heather Berstein Syosset HS An Ergonomically Improved Ice Cream Scooper

Prototype Engineering Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Michael Arsiotis Manhasset HS The Effect of Pitch on Thrust
2nd Place John Oh, Ryan Saunders, Won Woo Lee, & Kiwoong Yoo Jericho HS Replacing PBDEs Using Nanocomposite, Phosphorus Containing, Materials
Meritorious Zachary Wachter Manhasset HS The Effect of Varying Structures on the Amount of Drag Created
Honorable Mention Rajesh Atluri Herricks HS Novel Synthesis of Nanocomposite Metal Oxides for Implantable Biosensors

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