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Results from the 2006 Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials Invitational Science Fair

Computer Science Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place David Golub Paul D. Schreiber HS Finding and Orienting the Normals to a Cloud of Points

Computer Science Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Michael Geoghegan Manhasset HS The Effects Of Different Sensor Types On Autonomous Robot Function
 

Molecular Biology Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Emily Sorg
 Paul D. Schreiber HS Characterizing Mouse CD99L2 Adhesion
2nd Place Bonnie Lam and Lana Castor Jericho HS The Inhibition of the Mouse and Human 5-HT3A Receptor by Ondansetron
3rd Place Alan Chou Great Neck South HS A Novel System to Study Multiple Double Strand Breaks in Arabidopsis
3rd Place Christopher Mackey South Side HS The Development of a Novel Method for Diagnosing Fibrous Protein Abnormalities
Meritorious Manish Shaha Great Neck North HS The Analysis of Squamous Cell Carcinoma Related Oncogene's Funtional Role in E3 Ligase Ubiquitination Pathway
Meritorious Manish Shaha Great Neck North HS The association of palladin with actin in breast cancer metastasis
Honorable Mention Andrei Assa Syosset HS Locating Annonaceous Acetogenins in Asimina triloba
Honorable Mention David Holthausen Syosset HS Investigation of the Binding of a Recombinant Antibody Fragment to Borrelia burgdorferi

Molecular Biology Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Jimmy Hom Syosset HS Investigating function of the microRNA target gene HAP2C in Arabidopsis thaliana
1st Place Qi Yu Jericho HS Effects of Carboxyfullerenes on Brain Aging: Prevention against Dementia and Age-related Diseases
2nd Place Hilana Lewkowitz-Shpuntoff and Mary Wen Great Neck South HS Cell Growth and Proliferation on Clay Nano-Composites
3rd Place Madeline Byrnes and Ashley Cramer Manhasset HS Spices as an Antimicrobial Agent
3rd Place Rishi Chopra Jericho HS Vitamin D Enhances the Neuroprotective Effect of Morphine in Human Neuroblastoma Cells: Implications in Neurodegenerative Disease
Meritorious Marianne Jacob The Wheatley School The Effect of MLE vs. MLE80 Cells in Room Air and 80% Hyperoxia
Meritorious Oren Rafii Great Neck North HS Overexpression of the Chemokine Receptor CXCR4 and the Ligand SDF-1 in Fibroblastic Tumors
Meritorious Eve Rotman Great Neck North HS Association of Geminin with Neuron Formation from Embryonic Stem Cells
Honorable Mention Ingrid Loveras South Side HS Endosymbionts Effecting Carpenter Ant DNA Research
Honorable Mention Jennifer Mounessa Great Neck North HS Measuring the Effects of Glucose on the ATP Production Within the Mitochondria of a Drosophila Melanogaster Using a Luciferase Reaction

General Biology Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Dana Zalkin Great Neck North Analysis of the Histone Variant MacroH2A: Interacting Proteins and New Post-Translational Modifications
2nd Place Sarah Silvergleid Paul D. Schreiber HS Quantifying the Behavioral Effects of Demyelination in Multiple Sclerosis/Optic Neuritis Using Psychophysical Testing
Meritorious Brian Druyan Jericho HS Decellularization of Porcine Cardiac Tissue and Application of Acellularized Matrices in Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Honorable Mention Rita Iyer The Wheatley School Regulation of the Estrogen Receptor-alpha and the Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Gene Expression by Ginger Extract in Human MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells

General Biology Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Kamalakar Atluri and Dhruv Vasishtha Herricks HS Levodopa Produces Morphine Biosynthesis and Upregulates Mu Opiate Receptor
1st Place Madhuri Indaram and Yaagnik Kosuri The Wheatley School Development of A Novel Method to Reduce Ischemic Reperfusion Injury in the Myocardium
1st Place Sean Lee Great Neck North HS An in vitro study of the Efficacy of PDMP on U87 Malignant Gliomas
2nd Place Chuan Hao Chen, Jeff Qiu, and Mike Levy Manhasset HS The Effect of Myristic, Oleic, and Linoleic Fatty Acids on the Fat Storage and Metabolism of the nhr-49 Strain of Caenorhabditis elegans
2nd Place Stefanie Hong Great Neck North HS Effects of Microwave Radiation on the Phaseolus vulgaris
2nd Place Steven Levy Manhasset HS The Effects of Different Wavelengths of Visible Light on Photoreactivation in Drosophila
2nd Place Alexis Mychajliw Paul D. Schreiber HS Foraging Behavior in Mus Musculus in Response to Auditory, Olfactory, and Visual Predator Stimuli.
2nd Place Allison Rosenberg Paul D. Schreiber HS Effects of the Presence of Neural Tissue on Neural Stem Cell Differentiation
2nd Place Steven Stavrou and Mark Grbic Manhasset HS Creating a Cardiac Model in Daphnia pulex for the Assessment of Melatonin’s Effect on Ischemia
3rd Place Gulus Emre Paul D. Schreiber HS Efficacy of the 6D11 Antibody in Reducing the Appearance of PrPSc in Prion Diseases
3rd Place Matt Geyer South Side HS Can Hormesis be Shown in California Black Worms?
3rd Place Benjamin Jaffe Paul D. Schreiber HS Caffeine as a Novel Toxicant for Blattella Germanica
3rd Place Brian Kim and Christopher Chin Manhasset HS The Use of RNAi to Determine the Role of PolyQ Involved Genes in the Aggregation of Amyloid in Strain CL2006 C. elegans
3rd Place William Moon Manhasset HS UVB radiation on drosophila lifespan
3rd Place Philip Moussazadeh Great Neck North HS Testing Various Molar Concentrations of Ascorbic Acid on Apple Browning
3rd Place Sarah Pickering Paul D. Schreiber HS From Initial Exposure to Cellular Damage: Finding a Visible Indicator of a Relationship between Environmental Insult and Apoptosis
3rd Place Whitney Quackenbush and Erin D'Agostino Manhasset HS The Effects of Differentiating Fat Diets on the Fat Content, Fat Stores, and Longevity of Caenorhabditis elegans
Meritorious Tanzeel Ahmed Herricks HS The Effects of Isotonic and Isometric Exercises on Blood Pressure
Meritorious Evan Babazadeh Roslyn HS Effect of shear stress on specialization of stem cells
Meritorious Rebecca Byrne South Side HS Growth Orientation in Wisconsin Fast Plants: Which has a Greater Influence, Gravity or Light?
Meritorious Austin Chang Herricks HS The Hormetic Effect of Heat Shock on the Life Span and Health of Drosophila melanogaster
Meritorious Ethan Hoch Jericho HS Excercise Induced QRS Amplitude Changes Correlated with Echocardiographic Findings
Meritorious Yusuf Rahman and Sajeeb Saha Herricks HS Variations in Plant Growth due to Light Spectrum
Meritorious Erin Szulman Paul D. Schreiber HS Feeding Soy to Malnourished Drosophila melanogaster to Enhance Learning
Meritorious Jourdan Urbach Roslyn HS The Role of Laminin in Remyelination:Implications in Multiple Sclerosis
Honorable Mention Daniela Calcagni Manhasset HS The Effects of Heavy Metal Pollution on the Onset of Parkinson in Parkinson Model Drosophila melanogaster
Honorable Mention Benjamin Huang Manhasset HS THE EFFECT OF ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN ON DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
Honorable Mention Alyson Kaplan Syosset HS The Effect of Pawpaw Parental Varieties on Acetogenin Concentration
Honorable Mention Brittany Katz and Daniel Swerdloff Roslyn HS Dietary Supplements for Plant Tumor: Are they helpful or harmful?
Honorable Mention Devon Lawrence Manhasset HS The effects of auxin and gibberellins with various lighting positions on the tropisms of Pisum sativum
Honorable Mention Chang Ok Manhasset HS The Effect Of UV-B Radiation on Plants
Honorable Mention Matthew Seigerman Herricks HS The exposure of food borne pathogens to Wasabia Japonica as a means of food protection
Honorable Mention Ankit Shah and Reshama Patel Herricks HS Affect of Exercise on Cognitive Function
Honorable Mention Brian Tam Manhasset HS The Effects of Genetically Engineering Soybeans to Resist Herbicide, on their Rate of Growth, Health and Normality

Social Sciences Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Christina Tu Roslyn HS Is Math Just for Boys? Gender Differences in Dropout Rates and Attitudes of Advanced High School Mathematics Students
2nd Place Alexander Hughes South Side HS The Effects of Erroneous Feedback on Self-efficacy and Performance under Social Cognitive Theory
2nd Place Alexis Rosenblum Jericho HS The Effect of Variation in Instrument Pitch on Gender Associations among 2nd Graders: An Empirical Analysis
3rd Place Michael Hofer Roslyn HS The Effect of Framing and Described Task Difficulty on Expectations and Performance
3rd Place Paulene Meyers Roslyn HS A Study to Remember: The Effect of Deeper Processing and Rehearsal on Immediate and Delayed Recall of Vocabulary
Meritorious Steven Chartan Great Neck North HS Perception of stop voicing contrasts in French by monolingual French and American English listeners
Meritorious Adam Harris Great Neck South HS Motor Speed, Dexterity, and Reaction Time: An Age/Gender Study
Meritorious Patrick Rein South Side HS Asscociated Traits of Handedness over Different Age Groups 
Honorable Mention Henry Fok Great Neck North HS The World On The Sidelines: Attitudes and Behaviors Among Travel League Soccer Parents
Honorable Mention Steven Koch South Side HS Perceived Political Bias In The Media
Honorable Mention Gabriela Monsanto Paul D. Schreiber HS Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Awareness in High School Students

Social Sciences Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Malin Jenessa Syosset HS Can Level of Self Control Help to Better Understand the Music and Movie Piracy Problem?
1st Place Samantha Lefland and Amanda Rosales Roslyn HS  The Impact of Weight on Perceptions of Others and One's Own Happiness
1st Place Eric Leiberman Great Neck North HS The Evolution of our Economic Biases: Evidence from Capuchin-Monkey Trading Behavior
1st Place Vidya Viswanathan Herricks HS Relationship of Health Habits to Locus of Control, and Susceptibility to Intervention
2nd Place Matt Chuchul, Neil Patel, and Sanchita Singal Herricks HS Do your hand gestures indicate your personality type?
2nd Place Austin Cohen Roslyn HS Correlation Between Religiosity/Spirituality and Psoriasis Severity and Global Life Impact
2nd Place Mary Martha Douglas and Alison Liu Manhasset HS The Effects of CNS Stimulants and SSRI's on the Formation of Conditioned Long Term Memory and Learning Behavior in Sleep Deprived Wildtype Drosophila
2nd Place Mike Shores and Erika Kolb Roslyn HS Teachers Are People Too: Factors that Effect Teacher Evaluations of Student Essays
2nd Place Davina Simhaee and Liana Berkowitz North Shore Hebrew Academy The Body Language of Flirting
3rd Place Madalyn Darnell Great Neck South HS The Effect of Chronological School Entry Age on Reading Achievement
3rd Place Samantha Fishbein Roslyn HS When Don't Means Do: The Impact of Anti-smoking Advertising
3rd Place Elyssa Goldberg Roslyn HS Factors that Influence Political Tolerance
3rd Place Samantha Goldstein Roslyn HS Effect of Availability of Food and Drink on Student Consumption
3rd Place Arjun Khanna Roslyn HS Do the clothes make the man? Impact of clothing and eyeglasses on perception of a student and his project
3rd Place Leah Libresco The Wheatley School At the Head of the Class: Classroom Dynamics in Secondary Math Education
3rd Place Mili Mehta and Mital Patel The Wheatley School Identifying Depression in Dialysis Patients in an Urban Population
3rd Place Daniel Rosloff and Adam Langsner Great Neck South HS The Correlation between Personal Profile and Risk Assessment
3rd Place DJ Smolinsky Great Neck North HS New Method for Teaching Children with Learning Disabilities: Taking Brain Cognition into Consideration
Meritorious Scott Greenberg Syosset HS Understanding Adolescent Tanning Behaviors as Abusive and Dependent Behavior
Meritorious Raymond Kim Roslyn HS Effects of Smoking on Perceived Characteristics
Meritorious Seth Levine Great Neck South HS Fast Food Restaurant Density, Socioeconomic Factors and Obesity in Queens, New York
Meritorious Michael Schneider Roslyn HS Factors Influencing Students' Decision to Use Performance Enhancing Substances
Meritorious Zach Singer Paul D. Schreiber HS The Effects of Multiple Modalities on Long-Term and Working Memory 
Meritorious Ali Somerstein and Jessica Ruben Roslyn HS The Impact of Anti-Alcohol Messages on Students' Intent to Drink and Attitudes Towards Drinking
Meritorious Benjamin Wasserman Roslyn HS The Effects of Personality Traits on Perceived Physical Characteristics
Meritorious Courtney Yadoo and Gabrielle Karol The Wheatley School The Selectivity Hypothesis: Gender Roles in Information Processing
Honorable Mention Heather Berman and Danielle Schwartz The Wheatley School The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Stress Levels
Honorable Mention Lauren Hartstein South Side HS The Transference, Identification & Defining Characteristics of Facial Expression of Emotion
Honorable Mention Adam Ilowite Roslyn HS Factors that Predict Negative Attitudes Toward Gays/Lesbians
Honorable Mention Nissa Ostroff-Moskowitz Roslyn HS Media Impacts on Teen Smoking
Honorable Mention Naina Prasad, Shreya Subramani, and Cindy Li The Wheatley School Perceptions of Women's Beauty
Honorable Mention Alexis Shaw and Allison Frey Roslyn HS Deal or No Deal? The Effect of The Deal on Consumer Evaluations.
Honorable Mention Eric Tischler Great Neck South HS The effect of total joint knee replacement on patients with osteoathritis in an urban setting
Honorable Mention Nandini Venkateswaran   Effects of Sleep Deprivation on an Individual's Memory Capacity
Honorable Mention Jonathan White Roslyn HS The Effects of Sleep Deficiency on Learning, and the Differences in Morning and Afternoon Classes

Physical Sciences Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Amol Jain Herricks HS Development of an Optical Orbital Angular Momentum Sorter
2nd Place Shahrukh Mallick The Wheatley School Surfactant Nucleation of Methane Hydrates
3rd Place Dev Anand and Vinay Krishnan The Wheatley School A Physical Model for Compatibilization of Polymer Blends Using Functional Clays.
3rd Place Nicholas Werle Paul D. Schreiber HS The Template-Free Synthesis of Nanocrystalline ZSM-5
Meritorious Sophie Kroft Paul D. Schreiber HS The Comparison of Monocationic to Dicationic Ionic Liquids as Electrolytes in Chemical Batteries
Meritorious Sean McCormack Jericho HS The Electrical Transport of DNA Across Periodic Crosspattern Surfaces
Honorable Mention Shiva Kothari and Stefanie Aquilina Jericho HS Developing A Novel Approach To Treating Methamphetamine Addication
Honorable Mention Rishi Sood Syosset HS Adrenomedullin Effects on Dendritic Cell Cytokine Production and Cellular EndoPDI Expression in a Sepsis Model

Physical Sciences Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Benjamin Leibowicz Great Neck North HS The Relationship Between the Wavelength of Incoming Light and the Efficiencies of Polycrystalline Silicon and Amorphous Silicon Photovoltaic Cells
1st Place Marc Sherwin The Wheatley School Templating Biomineralization Using Self-Assembling Proteins
2nd Place Moon Limb Great Neck North HS A Jones-Calculus Model of Color Patterns in Polarized-Light Art
2nd Place Amy Ramirez Roslyn HS Effects of Light on Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors for Spintronic Applications
2nd Place Victor Wang and Debbie Yee Great Neck South HS The Effect of Polymer Thin Film Thickness on Melting Point: A Comparison of Different Techniques 
3rd Place Vincent Chyn Manhasset HS The Effect of Temperature on the Power Output and Efficiency of Amorphous, Monocrystalline, and Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cells
3rd Place Scott Huang Great Neck North HS A Schlieren Photography Examination of Thermal Instabilities Created by Sparks
3rd Place Brienne Kugler Jericho HS The Effects of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide on the Segregation of POSS Nanoparticles and on the Metallization of PS and PMMA Thin Films
3rd Place Leandra Merola South Side HS A Study that Tests the Ability of a New SID Monitor to Detect Solar Flares 
Meritorious Shirin Bajaj Syosset HS The Application of Polyaniline Films for the Detection of Bacillus cereus Spores
Meritorious Joseph Calderone Manhasset HS Best Hydroelectric Turbine
Meritorious Vidit Sharma Herricks HS Cutinase Catalyzed Polyester Degradation
Meritorious Fangfei Shen and Boyoung Yoon Roslyn HS Refining Dye Doped Sol-Gels to Determine the Extremes of the pH Scale
Honorable Mention Vikas Anand and Esther Kwak Jericho HS Controlled Release of Lidocaine Using Pluronic Copolymers and Curdlan
Honorable Mention Barry Dynkin Great Neck North HS An Alternative Model of a Quasar The Matter Anti-Matter Model (MAM Model) 
Honorable Mention Darren Huang, Amit Kohli, and Maxwell Thomas Herricks HS The Effect of Acids, Bases, and Medicines on Plant Growth and Development
Honorable Mention Michael Kim Syosset HS The Effect of Ammino Acids on Zinc Succinate
Honorable Mention Breidbart Samuel Syosset HS Using Quinones and Hydroquinones as Antioxidants to Prevent the Acid Degradation of Eighteenth Century Iron Gall Ink

Environmental Science Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Jaclyn Porter South Side HS Heavy Metal Contamination in Dietary Supplements

Environmental Science Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Marisol Ryu and Chris Kostoulas Manhasset HS Construction of beneficial PGPR Pseudomonas Strains for the Phytoremedation of Heavy Metal and PAH Contaminated Soils
2nd Place Robert D'Ambra Roslyn HS The Effect of a Magnetic Field on Western Harvester Ants
2nd Place Steven Han Great Neck South HS The Key To Phytoremediation of Zinc-Contaminated Waters
2nd Place Ben Kim Manhasset HS The resistance of model buildings on a shake table
3rd Place Zachary Hollander Great Neck North HS Sources of variation in growth, form and survival in dwarf and normal stature pitch pines, Pinus rigida in transplant experiments
3rd Place Chen Zhang and David Majnemer Great Neck South HS Methods of Copper Remediation
Meritorious Conor Foley Great Neck South HS Phytoremediation of nitrogen and phosphorus and its effect on algae growth.
Meritorious Preeti Kohli Herricks HS Removing Toxic Wastes from the Soil
Meritorious Kevin Oh The Wheatley School Morphine Found in the Hemocytes of Homarus americanus, and the Effect of Pesticides on these Morphine Levels
Meritorious Erin Steigerwald Syosset HS The Effect of Varying Phosphorous Environments on the Growth of Cyanobacteria
Honorable Mention Stephanie Aiuto Great Neck North HS Survival on Mars Despite Limited Resources: Dream or Reality
Honorable Mention David Rosengarten and Robert Rothbaum Great Neck North HS Sand Transport Across a Gravel Bed: An Experimental Flume Study of Spatial and Temporal Trends in Particle Size and Sediment Volume as a Function of Flow and Bed Conditions
Honorable Mention Kourosh Shargani Manhasset HS The Affects Of Temperature On Seed Germination
Honorable Mention Deeba Zivari and Alyson Caligure The Wheatley School Risking Groundwater Contamination from Pesticides on Long Island Golf Courses

Prototype Engineering Grade 12

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Gali Levy Great Neck North HS CAP-Collagen: A Novel Biomedical Material for the Treatment of Fistula
Meritorious Wilfred Wong and Ashish Bakshi Herricks HS Polycaprolactone-Chitosan Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Wound Healing and Tissue Engineering

Prototype Engineering Grades 9-11

Award Student(s) School Title
1st Place Michael Spigner, Alexander Egan, and James Costaras Manhasset HS The Effect of Microbubbles on Skin Surface Drag Reduction
2nd Place Harriman Lee and Vijay Jain The Wheatley School Molecular Templating for Rapid Bioterrorism Detection
3rd Place John Kucharczyk and Michael Arsiotis Manhasset HS The Effects of Low Cost Aerodynamic Improvements on the Fuel Efficiency of 18 Wheelers.
3rd Place John Oh and Lee Won Woo Jericho HS Self-Extinguishing Non-Halogenated HIPS/Phosphorus/ Clay Nanocomposites
Meritorious Robert Kim Great Neck South HS The application of electromagnetic induction in ocean wave energy harvesting
Meritorious Jason Strauss North Shore Hebrew Academy The Nautical Ramjet: the Feasibility of a Ramnjet-propelled Torpedo with a Liquified Gas Supply
Honorable Mention Simone Agha and Sarabeth Buckley Herricks HS Prototype Pool Safety Mechanism
Honorable Mention Harris Moore and Haris Khan Jericho HS Using the Mineral accretion technology to form limestone out of Salt water. 

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