The City University of

New York

a ch2 2 r AMERICAN MUSEUM Of NATURAL HISTQRV

The New York City Department of Education

presents the

2011 New York City Science and Engineering Fair

Finals Event

March 29, 2011

Held at the

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street

New York, NY

Sponsored by the

City University of New York

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New York City Science and Engineering Fair Program Staff

Jeanette Kim, Director Susan Appel (SRC Chair)

Dorothy Robinson (Artwork/Design)

CUNY College Now Program Staff Ljubica Depovic

Rana Emerson

Eric Hofmann

Jeanette Kim

AMNH Youth Initiatives Staff Marnelli Candelario

Michael Foster

Barbara Grossblatt

Brian Levine

Hilleary Osheroff

Christina Pease

Yvette Santana-Taveras Jeannie Song

Nina Nisimova

Lee Schere Matthew Silverman Rosa Solano

Siva Ramakrishnan Ariana Rickard Samara Rubinstein Monique Scott Cynthia Toledo Danny Zeiger

The New York City Science and Engineering Fair (NYCSEF) is the city's largest high school research competition, with hundreds of students participating annually. The fair provides a supportive, academic venue for students to present their research, network with other NYC high school students, and meet leading scientists and science professionals from around the metropolitan area. NYCSEF builds on the long-standing collaboration between the New York City Department of Education and the City University of New York Col/ege Now and offers a distinctive educational opportunity for students across the five boroughs.

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Schedule of Events
STUDENTS
8:30AM General Student Registration Grand Gallery
8:45AM - 10:00AM Project Set-up & Breakfast Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
10:00AM - 12:00PM Public Viewing of Projects Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
Welcome Remarks
Ellen V. Futter, American
Museum of Natural History
11:30AM - 12:00PM Cathleen P. Black, NYCDOE
Gillian Small, CUNY Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
Keynote Address 'Bitten by the
Science Bug"
Maribel Vazquez, Sc.D. Kaufmann Theatre
12:15PM - 1:00PM Associate Professor of Biomedical
Engineering; City College - CUNY
Project Judging
(only students and judges will be Milstein Hall of Ocean Life
1:00PM - 4:30PM allowed in the project area) Mezzanine Level JUDGES

11:30 AM

Judge Registration

Grand Gallery

12:00PM

Welcome Remarks and Judge Orientation

Susan Appel, NYCSEF

Milstein Hall of Ocean Life Mezzanine Level

Lunch and Project Preview

1:00PM - 4:00PM

Project Judging

(only students and judges will be allowed in the project area)

Milstein Hall of Ocean Ufe Mezzanine Level

4:00PM - 4:30PM

Judge Deliberations

Milstein Hall of Ocean Ufe Mezzanine Level

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Participating Students
Approximately 600 project applications were received from more than
750 students for the 2011 New York City Science and Engineering Fair.
Below are the names, schools, and project titles of the nearly 200
students who were approved to display for today's Finals competition.
Ayelet Abelow Jude Appiah Natan Belchikov
Yeshiva University HS for Girls Queens High School for Hunter College High School
Comparing the Effects of Sciences @ York College Mesenchymal Stem Cells:
Gold Nanoparticles on Cyclic Primes and Different Characterization of a New
Osteoblasts and Rat Bases Paradigm to Face
Osteosarcoma Cells Alzheimer's Pathology
Eric Au
Sunny Aggarwal Francis Lewis High School Jane Belyavskaya
Francis Lewis High School Adsorption of Salicylic Acid Bronx High School of Science
Quasi-Periodic Photonic on Goethite Reduced Hippocampal
Crystals for Multi-wavelength Expression of a Protein
Reflectors and Emitters Zohar Bachiry Linked to Neuronal Plasticity
Yeshiva University HS for Girls in 5-HTT Deficient Mice
Radin Ahmadian The Effects of Mechanical
Hunter College High School Nanopattems on Human Jonathan Benny
Impact of U.S. Presidential Stem Cell Differentiation Queens High School for
Election on Energy Price in Sciences @ York College
the United States- A Michelle Badri The Effect of Light Stress on
Predictive Quantitative Model Midwood High School @ the pH of Soil Under
Brooklyn College Cyanobacteria
Saqib Ahmed Race as a Factor in
John Bowne High School Children's Self Perception as Paul Bergin
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Tested by the Famous Clari< SI. Francis Preparatory HS
Produced by Meat Doll Experiments Using Lipid Bio-chemistry as
Consumption for an Average a Diagnostic Tool to
Family in Queens, New Richard Balram Determine Stress Induced
York: An Effort to Reduce Forest Hills High School Cellular Dysfunction in
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Hermatypic Corals & Their
by RaiSing Awareness Does Media Multitasking Symbiotic Dinoflagellates in
While Studying Correlate VIVO and in Situ
With School Performance?
Samuel Alter
PoIy1echnic Preparatory Country Surl Bandler Henningston Bernard III
Day School Ramaz Upper High School Forest Hills High School
Unlocking Halophiles Does Media Multitasking
Encysted in Commercial Sea Determining the Frequency While Studying Correlate
, Salts of Mutation in Cells with With School Performance?
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Sarah Aminov Amena Banu Moyouri Bhattacharjee
Francis Lewis High School Queens High School for Hunter College High School
The Effect of Calendula NMR studies of Molecular
Officinalis Extract on Sciences @ York College Interactions involving AFABP
, Micrococcus Luteus and Diffusion Limited with Activating and Non-
Providencia Alcalifaciens Aggregation, The Viscosity- Activating Ligands
, Based Phenomenon,
Governs Gastric HCI-mucin
Hannah Anousheh Interaction, and Prevents the Emmanuel Blankson
Bronx High School of Science Stomach from Digesting Manhattan Center for Science
The Effects of Aerobic Itself. Fractal Self-Similarity and Mathematics
Exercise on Regents Exam Probably Defines the The Role of Mitofusin1 in
Performance "Genesis of Human Life" a Cell Aging During Cell Death
Unique Perspective.
Leora Apfelbaum Venkat Bommasamudram
SAR High School Jacob Barnett Francis Lewis High School
Designing the Optimal Polytechnic Preparatory Country Determining The Existence
Scaffold for Dental Pulp Day School of Extremophiles On The
Stem Cells Essential Oil as a Natural Transiting Super-Earth
Alternative to Chemical GJ1214b
Pesticides
7 Joseline Cruz Yeelam Eng Igor Gluskin
Midwood High School @ HS for Environmental Studies The Abraham Joshua Heschel
Brooklyn College The Tree Diversity in Three High School
Working Memory in Children New York City Parks as an Screening Traditional
with Typical Learning Indicator for Potential Chinese Medicinal Herbs for
Development and in Children Susceptibility to Harmful Inhibition of B-
with Specific Language Foreign Species Hexosaminsdase Releese
Impairment from RBL-2H3 Cells
Jennifer Fang
Jalia Dash Bronx High Schaal of Science Lewis Golove
HS for Environmental Studies Effects of Nandrolone on Hunter College High School
Identification of Honeybee Paralysis Induced Changes Cracking the Code: A Novel
Pathogens from Honey in Levels of Muscle Specific agr Inhibitor BLocks
miRNA Virulence in Staphylococcus
Valentina D'Costa aureus
Forest Hills High School Rachel Franchi
The Effects of MnCI2 on the HS for Environmental Studies Shari Gurusinghe
Growth and Photosynthesis Identification of Honeybee Bronx High School of Science
in Ceratopteris richardii Pathogens from Honey The Association between
Prenatal Smoke Exposure
Aislinn Deely Anastasia Gazgalis and DNA Repair Capacity of
Francis Lewis High School Stuyvesant High School the Nucleotide Excision
Tracking Quatemary Inflammation and Repair Pathway
Sealevel with Corals and Phagocytosis in Models of
Molluscs: Cosmic Dose Rate Amyotrophic Lateral James Haggerty·Skeans
Modeling and ESR Dating on Sclerosis Staten Island Technical HS
San Salvador, Bahamas The Synthesis of Methyl
Stephanie Gergoudis Acetate in a Micro-Reacting
George DeMarco Townsend Harris High School @ System
Archbishop Malloy High School Queens College
Organic Flame Suppressant Identification of Farah Haider
Insulation Acinetobacter Baumannii Francis Lewis High School
Prophage Lytic Enzymes. The Effect of Calendula
Savera Dhanraj Officinalis Extract on
High School for Health Naureen Ghani Micrococcus Luteus and
Professions & Human Services Brooklyn Technical High School Providencia Alcalifaciens
Sedimentological Analysis The Development of an
and Determination of Heavy Autonomous Solar Hydrogen Joy Hallmark
Metals: Howard Beach, NYC Electric Submarine with Bronx High SchOOl of Science
Multiple Water Sampling Presenilins/Gamma-
Maryama Diaw Capabilities. Secretase Regulate mGluR
Young Women's Leadership Signaling in the
School (Manhattan) Ish rat Ghani Hippocampus
Contrasting Reproductive Townsend Harris High School @
Success of Female Stream Queens COllege Jacob Harush
Fishes in Two Drainages in Antimicrobial Properties of Yeshivah of Ratbush HS
Northwestern Florida: A Ufe Polycationic Derivatives of The Synthesis of Methyl
History Study on the Starch from Potato Acetate in a Micro-Reacting
Gambusia Holbrooki System
Nadege Giraudet
Anca Dogaroiu Institute for Collaborative Jie Hu
Stuyvesant High School Education Bayside High School
Assessing the Relation The Effect of Ear Dominance A Mathematical Study of the
Between Reading Speed and on Object Localization after Catenary Shape of a
Visual Span: Implications for Audio- Visual Conditioning Spider's Web With
Screening of Children Application to the Structural
Dajana Gjoza Debris Collection in High
Francis Lewis High School Rise Disasters
Optimal Growth Rates for
Electrically Stimulated
Spartina Alterniflora (Marsh
Grass)
9 Thomas Lloyd

Bronx High School of Science The Role of Executive Functioning in Sexual Risk Taking Among Methamphetamine-Using MSM

Shunella Lumas

Bronx High School of Science The Effect of shRNA on Genes Associated with Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Regulation

Luiza Maciejak

Bronx High School of Science Variation in the Cgret Retrotransposon in Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, the Causative Agent of Cranberry Fruit Rot.

Valerie Maldonado

High School for Malh, Science and Engineering @ CCNY Expression of K-Ras in Malignant and Normal Breast Celfs

Arhea Marshall

High School for Math, Science and Engineering @ CCNY Predation of Kiffifish Embryos by Adult Killifish

Celine Martinez

HS for Environmenlal Studies The Tree Diversity in Three New York City Parks as an Indicator for Potential Susceptibility to Harmful Foreign Species

Anastasiya Matveyenko Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College

Survey of Medicinal Plant Use of Brooklyn Botanic Garden Staff and Visitors

Maxine McGredy

Hunter College High School Mutational Analysis of APOL 1 in Patients with Fechtner and Epstein Syndromes

Jeremy Meyers

Slaten Island Technical HS The Impact of Globalization on Quality of Ufe in Developing and Developed Nations

Linamarie Miller

Townsend Harris High School @ Queens College

Purification of the Rhobinding Domain from Rhotekin and its Biochemical Characterization by Competition Fluorescence Anisotropy.

Meredith Mills

SI. Francis Preparatory HS Variabifity in Voice Onset Time in Speech Impaired and Typically Developing Children

Nyanthar Minnyo

Forest Hills High School Concurrency point of 3 Congruent Bitangent Circles in a Triangle.

Samrath Mogha

Queens High School for Sciences @ York College Feasibility Study of a MicroHydropower Project an the Roshi River

Humera Mohammad Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College

The Effect Of Outcome Uncertainty On Conditional Learning

Anton Morozov

Bronx High School of Science Gut Bacteria in Human Atherosclerotic Tissues

Kevin Most

Townsend Harris High School @ Queens College

Development of an Optical Diode Based on the ThueMorse Sequence

Afsana Nasrin

Manhattan Cenler for Science and Mathematics

Tracking the Pathway and Function of APL-1, An Amyloid Precursor-Related Protein, in Neurons of Caenorhabditis elegans

Derek Netto

Archbishop Molloy High School Biological Injection System

Nicole Ng

Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College

Investigation of the Hydrophobic Nature of (LGGVG)3, a Possible Madel of Elastin Behavior

Sue Ni

Foresl Hills High School

The Effects of MnCI2 on the Growth and Photosynthesis in Ceratopteris richardii

Sonya Ochshorn Institute for Collaborative Educalion

The Effect of Depth an the Perception of Color

Adam Omar

Bronx High School of Science Carbon Dioxide, Latent Heat and Sensible Heat Fluxes:

Performance Comparisons Between a Green Roof. Bare Roof. and a Lawn

Lev Omelchenko Stuyvesant High School Genetic and Genomic Analysis of TOR1 Signaling in Initiation of Cell Quiescence

Francisca Onyiuke Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College Determination of Heart Rate Variabifity Using an Electronic Stethoscope

Cynthia Ortigoza

Frederick Douglass Academy Producing a Green(er) Harlem: The Significance of Access to Greenspace

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Sara Shenas Taylor Sutton Jingxian Wang
Yeshiva Universily HS for Girls Stuyvesant High School Manhattan Intemalional HS
The Synthesis of Methyl Identical Digit Prefixes in Making Mixed DNA-Protein
Acetate in a Micro-Reacting Exponential Sequences Conjugates for Applications
System in Molecular Robotics: The
Anthony Tamburello Scorpion and the Frog
Yangtsel Sherap Forest Hills High School
HS for Environmental Siudies Gender Effects on Meng Wang
A Comparison of Heavy Conformity Forest Hills High School
Metals in Urban Parks Concurrency point of 3
Throughout New York City Dmitri Teplov Congruent Bitangent Circles
Sluyvesant High School in a Triangle.
Andrew Sherlock Target RNA Binding and
Hunler College High School Crystallization of the Quaking Zhao Na Wang
The Pneumonia Hypothesis: Posttranscriptional Regulator Midwood High School @
Exploring the Statistical, Brooklyn College
Differential, and Genomic James Thompson Investigation of the
Foundations of Mortality from Stuyvesant High School Hydrophobic Nature of
Pandemic and Non- A shape- Detection System (LGGVG)3, a Possible Model
Pandemic Influenza for Screening of 20 of Elastin Behavior
Membrane Protein Crystals
Nirali Sheth Chen Wei
Bronx High School of Science Brian Tung Hunter College High School
Genetic Screen of SOS1 and Bronx High School of Science Characterization of Dermal
RAFt Transgenic Flies to Construction of Crystalline Papilla Stem Cell Niche Cells
Identify New RAS-MAPK Metal Organic Frameworks Using a Tbxt8-Cre Driven
Interacting Partners (MOFs) Using Coordination Niche-Specific Gene
Bonds Between Organic Targeting System
Rebecca Sichel Ugands and Metal Ions as a
SAR High School Potential Hydrogen Fuels Naomi Weinblatt
Applied Mathematics in Storage Matrix Foresl Hills High School
Baseball: Analyzing Gender Effects on
Uncommon Events KaityTung Conformity
Bronx High School of Science
Ajeet Singh Introduction of Centrosome Alexander Wong
Bronx High School of Science is Not Sufficient to Promote Stuyvesant High School
A Molecular Basis of Alcohol Embryonic Cleavages Association of Adenosine
and Estrogen as Breast Deaminase (ADA), Acid
Cancer Risk Faelors Sara Veselinovlc Alpha Glucosidase (GAA),
High School for Math, Science Notch 2 and Lactase
Helene Sonenberg and Engineering @ CCNY Genotypes or Single
Yeshiva University HS for Girls Myeloid Derived Suppressor Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Comparing the Effects of Cells as a Veelor for (SNPs) in Adult Obesity
Gold Nanoparticles on Oncolytic Virus to Develop a
Osteoblasts and Rat Possible Treatment for Alexander Xiao
Osteosarcoma Cells Cancer Hunter College High School
Effect of the BRCA 1 IVS8-3
Samantha Stein Eigen Wang delT Mutation On mRNA
The Abraham Joshua Hesche! Stuyvesant High School Splicing
High School Determine a Camera's
Prospective Study of the Location and Direction Emily Yang
Joint Symptoms in Based on a Single Picture Francis Lewis High School
Postmenopausal Women The Effects of Salicylic Acid
Starting Aromatase Inhibitors Haoxuan Wang on the Growth of Nemophila
Bronx High School of Science menziesii
Leighton Suen Direct Visualization of Single
Slaten Island Technical HS Hypoxic Tumor Cell Invasion Helen Yao
Detecting Circatidal Rhythms and Intravasation in Slaten Island Technical HS
of Locomotion in the Crab Mammary Tumors Using Ecological Niche
Species Hemigrapsus Modeling to Predict Current
sanguineus and Future Ranges of
Cryptic Phylogeographic
Uneages
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The New York City Science and Engineering Fair acknowledges the following teachers, principals, assistant principals, department chairs, and other school officials who helped the hundreds of students conduct research in preparation for this event. The student work displayed at this competition is a tribute to their exceptional dedication and hard work.

Terri Aharon

Ramaz Upper High School

Richard AJtabe

Magen David Yeshiva HS

Estela Arras

High School for Math, Science and Engineering @ CCNY

Randy Asher

Brooklyn Technical High School

Michael Athy Bayside High School

Jessica Bagby Trinity School

Marigle Barbosa Manhattan Intemational HS

Mark Barretta Totlenville High School

James Barron

Bronx Theatre High School

Marissa Bellino

HS for Environmental Studies

Stuart Benas

Magen David Yeshiva HS

Ofra Biener

Forest Hills High School

Karen Blackmon Regis High School

Bonnie Blackwell

Francis Lewis High School

Joel Blickstein

Queens High School for Sciences @ York College

Kenneth Bonamo

Townsend Harris High School @ Queens College

Sandra Bornstein Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School

Althea Bradshan-Tyson Young Women's Leadership School

Tobie Brandriss SAR High School

Susan Brauerman

Bronx High School of Science

Peter Brooks Stuyvesant High School

Harika Celtikcilioglu

High School for Health Professions & Human Services

Raywattie Chan

Edward R. Murrow High School

Charlene Chan-Lee Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics

MaryCheisi Bayside High School

Despina Cocorikas Forest Hills High School

David Cohen

Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College

Rebecca Cohen Yeshivah of Flatbush HS

Leonard Conway

SI. Francis Preparatory HS

Victor Delmastro

HS for Environmental Studies

Maria Diangco

Sheepshead Bay High Schaal

Danielle Dubno

Institute for COllaborative Education

William Dugan

High School for Math, Science and Engineering @ CCNY

Deborah Effinger

Bronx Theatre High School

Glenn Elert

Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College

Mark Erlenwein

Staten Island Technical HS

Thomas Evangelist

Brooklyn Technical High School

Tony Fisher

Hunter College High School

Ruth Fried

Yeshiva University HS for Girls

Jonathan Gastel Stuyvesant High School

Robert Gentile

High School for Health Professions & Human Services

Susan Getting

Townsend Harris High School @ Queens College

Joseph Goglionmella James Madison High School

Jay Goldmintz

Ramaz Upper High School

Robert Goodman SAR High School

Saul Gootnick

Forest Hills High School

Anuva Halberstam

The Abraham Joshua Heschel High School

Tully Harcsztark SAR High School

David Harman Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School

E. Harrington Bayside High School

Barrington Harvey

James Madison High School

Allan Herman

Frederick Douglass Academy

George Hero

Midwood High School @ Brooklyn College

Ann Higgins

SI. Francis Preparatory HS

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