In addition to the top awards, judges presented certificates in each subject category for best, high honors and honors. The student projects comprise research in 23 different categories, including behavioral and social sciences, cell biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental science, genetics, mathematics, microbiology and physics.
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A. Philip Randolph Campus High School
Bronx High School of Science
Convent of the Sacred Heart
The Day School
Fieldston School
Fordham Preparatory
Hunter College High School
James Madison High School
LaGuardia High School
Magen David High School
Midwood High School
Packer Collegiate
Robert F. Kennedy High School
Schreiber High School
St. Francis Preparatory
Stuyvesant High School
AWARD RANK STUDENT NAME, GRADE PROJECT TITLE
A. Philip Randolph Campus High School: Best Engineering Khalid Ali, 12 The formation and applications of water-in- oil-in-water multiple emulsions. Best Earth and Jeantel Degazon, 12 Evolution of cloud Space Science structures in storm lifecycles. Honors Xiaoquian Zhang, 12 SERS and UV/Vis studies of two electron reduction of flavin mononucleotide on an Ag electrode. Top of page.
Bronx High School of Science: Honors Darya Bubman, 12 The sugar-binding mechanism of asialoglycoprotein receptor in mammalian physiology. High Honors Elinor Chan, 12 Electrode effect on the ferroelectric properties of Pb(ZrTi)O3 thin films. Best Physics Andy Chang, 12 The effects of x-ray radiation on electrical properties of Pb(ZrTi)O3. High Honors Zirka Horochiwsky, 12 Effects of cannabinoids on glutamate release. Best Gerontology Michelle Hsieh, 12 Effects of age, gender and ischemia on brain ascorbate and glutathione levels. Honors Chin Yu Hsu, 12 Methodology for direct structural determination of proteins in solution. Best Chemistry Anthony Hui, 12 Investigation into modes of formation of Buckminsterfullerene. High Honors Milton Wei Chan Analysis of trace element Hwang, 12 composition in fossil teeth and bones from selected sites. Best Medical Sandhya Kadiyam, 12 Study of a possible Sciences mechanism by Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan accelerates wound healing. High Honors Nancy Kunjukunju, 12 A molecular view of the direct process: a solid catalyzed, gas-solid reaction. Third Place Indiv. Adrian Majid, 12 Mapping the rheumatoid factor binding site using heavy and light chain recombination and site directed mutagenesis: implications for understanding rheumatoid arthritis. High Honors Jenny Min, 12 The molecular mechanism for recognition of fibronectin by Streptococcus pneumoniae. High Honors Kyriaki Poumpouridis, Dispersive removal of 12 aromatic oil deposits by anionic surfactant in rotating flow. High Honors Antara Prasad, 12 Calcitonin gene-related peptide as a potential marker for estrogen action in the hippocampus of the rat brain. High Honors Tarah Pua, 11 Effects of expression of a dimeric phosphatase on v-src transformed cells. High Honors Chaitanya Dev Sareen, Application of 12 microwave-induced organic reaction enhancement chemistry to hydrazine processes: simplification of the akabori method for rapid and inexpensive peptide sequencing. Best Mathematics Daniel Shapiro, 12 A comparative study of the stiffness and energy of intact and instrumented spinal motion segments. Best Pharmacology Andrew Tom, 12 Yeast cells as a model system to study mechanisms of multidrug resistance in mammalian cells. Best Neuroscience Pei-Hsin (Michelle) Sensorin-containing Tsai, 12 neurons in the buccal ganglion of aplysia are afferents that innervate muscles of the buccal mass (biting apparatus). Best Computer Uri Voskoboynik, 12 Anomalous field Science dependence of blocking temperature of natural horse-spleen ferritin. Tie Fourth Place Victor Zaydfudim, 12 Combat in the soil: Indiv. protective adaptations of social amoebae. Top of page.
Convent of the Sacred Heart, Individual: Tie Fourth Place Cecilia Curran, 12 Identification of genes Indiv. that influence adherence of S. pneumoniae to GalNAc[[beta]]1-4Gal resting cell receptors. Convent of the Sacred Heart, Team Project: Tie Third Place Gabrielle Jampol, 12, Insertion duplication Team and Carolyn Ortiz, 12 mutagenesis for the creation of a Streptococcus pneumoniae mutant gene library. Top of page.
The Day School: Best John Shultz, 12 Early exposure Group 3. Developmental Biology Top of page.
Fieldston School: High Honors Michael Kestenbaum, 12 The effects of long-term potentiation and stress related hormones (aldosterone and RU 28362) on the expression of GAP-43. Top of page.
Fordham Preparatory: Best Immunology Alan Hue Cheung, 12 In vitro studies of the effect of an antipeptide antibody in preventing proliferation of human mononuclear cells when exposed to staphylococcal and streptococcal exotoxins. Top of page.
Hunter College High School: Best Structural Aaron Einbond, 12 Characterization of a Biology new proline-protein-binding motif and prediction of its role in muscular dystrophy and other genetic disorders. Best Molecular Zhi Juan Xie, 12 Reconstituted Biology thioredoxin by fragment complementation: association constant, stability, and biological activity. Top of page.
James Madison High School: High Honors Anna Gorelik, 12 Marine anti-fouling paints and gasoline: potential environmental hazards. Honors Abdul Manaf, 12 Energy-efficient glazing for a NYC high school. High Honors Marisa Matthew, 12 The use of a supravital stain as an adjunct to assess the accuracy of x sperm ratio determined by fish. Best Biology Christopher D. Reyes, Deinonychus 12 antrirrohpus, a reevaluation of the pes inspired by Cassaurius Cassaurius. Honors Svetlana Live and pre-recorded Sapozhnikova, 11 input for face recognition. Top of page.
LaGuardia High School, Team Project: Tie Second Place Tiana Grimes, 12* and Identifying the genes Team Melissa Villanueva, responsible for the 12 inactivity of the * student of pneumococcal autolytic Midwood High School. enzyme in the presence of the antibiotic penicillin. Top of page.
Magen David High School: Best Behavioral Ezra Antebi, 11 Nesting patterns of and Social Science Myiopsitta monachus in Brooklyn, New York. Top of page.
Midwood High School, Individual Projects: Best Human Danny K. Chaung, 12 Evaluation of the Genetics relationship between chromosome aneuploidy and Erb-B2 gene amphlication to the stages of human breast cancer progression using F.I.S.H. (fluorescence in situ hybridization). High Honors Lori Diamond, 12 Investigation of the mei2 gene in fission yeast meiosis using transformation of mutants. Best Rany Huynh, 12 Transformation and tumor Environmental formation in pancreatic Science acinar cells in vitro by the tobacco smoke-specific carcinogen, NNK. Tie Fourth Place Jenice Forde, 12 Effects of estrogen gene Individual disruption on sexual behavior and motor neuron of male mice. High Honors Nicole Forel, 11 Evolution of human proto-oncogenes in great apes. Best Biochemistry Abraham George, 12 Purification and expression of the lipid G4 acetylcholinesterase enzyme from bovine brain: study of the molecular motions of the novel enzyme form. Tie Best Junior Rose Payyapilli, 11 Novel regulation of Project platelet activation. Tie Best Junior Jonathan I. Localization and Project Silverberg, 11 evolutionary conservation of the SHP1 regulatory gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Honors Raymond Wu, 12 Protective effects of apoE allelic isoforms in hypoxia compared to oxidative stress. Midwood High School, Team Projects: First Place Team Saif Ahmed, 11, and To what extent does Zhen Huang, 11 coliphage T4 IIRA mediate the partial reversal of UV damage in E. coli K12? Tie Second Place Sunny Chan, 11, and The usage of SDS and Team Vincent Eng, 11 pressure in the degradation of cellulose in improving the production of ethanol fermentation. Georgi Goldman ,12, Changes in weather and Roni Keller, 12 and bacteria in oceans. Tie Second Place Tiana Grimes, 12, and Identifying the genes Team Melissa Villanueva, responsible for the 12* inactivity of the * student of pneumoccal autolytic LaGuardia High School. enzyme in the presence of the antibiotic penicillin. Tie Third Place Benson Sang, 11, and Production of synthetic Team Andrew Shapiro, 11 fuel from algae. Top of page.
Packer Collegiate: Honors Nora Pines, 11 Muscarinic receptors regulate the consolidation of auditory memory in the avian telecephalon. Top of page.
Robert F. Kennedy High School: Honors Grace Chen, 12 Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating mammalian teeth from the Villanyian site, Kisland, Hungary. Honors Beverly Lau, 12 Electron spin resonance (ESR) dating Ursus spelaeus teeth from the archaeological site, divje Babea I, Slovenia. Top of page.
Schreiber High School: Honors Elizabeth Kass, 11 Analysis of DNA incorporation in transgenic mice using PCR, southern blot and triglyceride assay. Top of page.
St. Francis Preparatory: Honors Nima Patel, 12 Cloning of lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) n-Sec 1. Top of page.
Stuyvesant High School: Best Microbiology Jonathan Aaron Occurrence of asc10-like Fisher, 12 aggregation substance genes in clinical isolates of Enterococcus faecium. Second Place Ting Luo, 12 Identification and Individual characterization of a novel human general transcription factor: implications in gene expression regulation, transcription-translation linkage, host cell-virus communication and programmed cell death. High Honors James Park, 12 A new clinical treatment for burn patients: the effects of heat shock protein (Hsp) supernatant on skin cell recovery and proliferation. Best Plant Ming Chun Tam, 12 Isolation of a Genetics hypersensitive mutant (asi2) in the ABA signal transduction pathway. First Place Aaron Wong, 12 Anterior development of Individual the Drosophila embryo in absence of the morphogen hunchback. Honors William Yeh, 11 Expression of the brain lipid-binding in the central nervous system of adult canaries and its possible relation to function. Best Cell Biology Glenn Yiu, 12 Identification of a desensitization mutant, asi1, in the ABA signal transduction pathway. Top of page.