List of 2022 Student Presentations
| Presenter Name | Title | Topic | Easel | Day | Time | Location | Poster Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Jo | Portable locomotion activity monitor (pLAM): A cost-effective setup for robust activity tracking in small animals | Animal Behavior | 1 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Alan Eden | Ethical considerations involving GIS fieldwork at Boynton Beach Memorial Park and Mausoleum | Anthropology | 2 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Veronica Rodriguez | Impact of His 90 and Cys 65 on the stability and folding mechanism of Globin X | Biochemistry | 3 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Antonio Gutierrez | Mechanism of Calcium Recognition by DREAM | Biochemistry | 4 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Alycia Shariff | DNA Base Excision Repair Capacity in Tissues of Friedreich’s Ataxia Transgenic Mice | Biochemistry | 5 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Rafael Aldaya Bourricaudy | Host Cell Effects on Body-wide Density of Endosymbiotic Wolbachia Bacteria in Drosophila. | Biological Sciences | 6 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Tyler Sanford | Apparent activity in Ae. aegypti mosquito and its correlation with age as a result of mating partner necessity | Biological Sciences | 7 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Ernesto Leyva | “Diet and Insulin signaling affect the number of endosymbiotic Wolbachia in Drosophila melanogaster germline cells.” | Biology | 8 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Melissa Venedicto | Facilitated Release of Doxorubicin from Disulfide Biodegradable Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles | Biomedical Engineering | 9 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Angelica Garcia del Rio, Srujana Yellapragada, Lina Sabkhangulova | Obtaining Optimal Size of Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles while Alternating pH Conditions | Biomedical Engineering | 10 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Alanys Pliopa | Investigating how students connect the core ideas of chemistry to the real world | Chemical Education | 11 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Viviana Montalti | Ingrid Lopez | Investigating the Relationship Between Gender Identity and Chemistry Identity | Chemistry | 12 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Daniela Martinez Rioseco | Understanding the Influence of English Language Learner (ELL) Status on Chemistry Identity Development | Chemistry | 13 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Aubrey Litzinger | Standard Aging of Concrete for the Study of Protection Systems at Savannah River Site | Civil Engineering | 14 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Laura Vega | Rethinking Brazil: Assessing Equity in Sao Paulo's Criminal Justice Sector | Criminal Justice | 15 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Isabella Crowley | Juan Garcia | Mariana Lora | Adrice Galloway | Automation for Architecture | Design Studies | 16 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Caridad Estrada | Evaluation of a suite of sorbents for cost-effective mercury remediation in a freshwater stream ecosystem | Environmental Engineering | 17 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Patricia Bouza | Building a baseline: nearshore biodiversity of Sandspur Island | Environmental Studies | 18 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Rowan Jacobs | Consumer Concerns Regarding the Health & Safety of CBD | Health and Human Concerns | 19 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Zain Hussein | Multi-Anvil Apparatus Calibration | Interdisciplinary Studies | 20 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Nicholas Brejcha | Modeling the time evolution of COVID-19 cases using the SEIARQD model along with the effect of lockdown measures and economics | Mathematical Sciences | 21 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Mariana Ontiveros | Non-destructive Evaluation of Composites for Aerospace Applications | Mechanical Engineering | 22 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Christopher Montejo | Video Game Emulation and Modification as Communal Reimagining of Art | Philosophy | 23 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Manuel Ramírez García | Constituent Counting Rule on Various Meson-Baryon Photoproduction Reactions | Physics | 24 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Vanessa Ponte | Marginalized Youths and How "STEM Talk" Affects Their Affiliations with STEM | Psychology | 25 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Carlos J. Casapons | Let’s Play Ball!: Examining Gender Differences and the Role of Sports Participation on Children’s Mental Rotation Performance | Psychology | 26 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Joshua Schamach | The Role of Exercise in Managing Stress and Supporting Sobriety Among Adults Recovering from Substance Use Disorder | Psychology | 27 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Melanie Rae Perez | Is Yoga, as Practiced in Western Monotheistic Cultures, Culturally Appropriating Traditional Indian Practices? | Religious Studies | 28 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Jacqueline Valiente | A Snapshot of Turfgrass Microbiomes: Characterization of Endophytic Fungal & Bacterial Communities in Leaves, Roots, and Soil across Different Turfgrass Species | Biology | 29 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Luis Orozco | Means and Method of Manufacturing Fiber Reinforce polymer (FRP) composites for civil engineering applications | Mechanical Engineering | 30 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Carlota Giménez | Cytotoxic Ability of Annona Montana Extracts on Breast Cancer Cells | Biological Sciences | 31 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Maria Parente | Inducible resistance to permethrin lacking in 'Aedes aegypti' mosquitoes | Biological Sciences | 32 | Tuesday, March 22 | 10:00 - 11:00 am | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 1 |
| Ziad Malik | Real-World Application of Gauss Markov Mobility Model | Computer Science | 1 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Celeste Marin | Analysis of endogenous DNA damage from Natamycin-treated prostate cancer mice models | Biochemistry | 2 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Daniel E. Marrero Roche | Optimization of High Field Asymmetric Waveform Ion Mobility Spectrometry (FAIMS) Parameters for Glycopeptide Analysis | Biochemistry | 3 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Christian Alejandro Hernandez-Fajardo | The Role of the N- and C- Termini in Cytoglobin’s Nitrite Reductase Activity | Biochemistry | 4 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Marlene Marimon | David Fairchild and the 1931-1932 USDA Expedition to the Caribbean and Guianas | Biological Sciences | 5 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Ruben Castellon | Chris Phillips | Characterization of Novel Mutations at Site N220 of a Bacterial Beta-Glucosidase | Biological Sciences | 6 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Lia Paolino | Micro- and meso-mechanics of low concentration agarose hydrogel | Biomedical Engineering | 7 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Noble C Amadi | A 3D Modeled Case for a Smartphone-based Optical Device to Image Diabetic Foot Ulcers | Biomedical Engineering | 8 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Tiffany Moreno | Develop A Transgenic Mouse Model to Examine the Role of Inward Rectifying K+ Channel in Cerebral Capillaries | Biomedical Engineering | 9 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| George Rophail | Investigating the Effect of the Use of Learning Assistants on Students’ Chemistry Identity Development | Chemical Education | 10 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Joni Spencer | Reaction pathway for the hydrogen abstraction of trans-1-propenol using the hydroxy radical | Chemistry | 11 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Stephanie Ortiz | Sulfonamides for f-Element Extraction from Alkaline High-Level Waste: Synthesis, Complexation and Separation Studies | Chemistry | 12 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Paulina Acosta Cevallos | Deep Learning Network for Classifying ALS Patients using Mass Spectrometry Data | Computer Science | 13 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| VENUS | Association between type of beverage and total water intake in children in Miami-Dade: Preliminary data from the MetA-Bone Trial. | Dietetics and Nutrition | 14 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Jocelyn Garcia | Malak Elaouinate | Women and LGBTQ+ Engineering Students’ Experiences | Engineering and Computing Education | 15 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Natalia Hidalgo | Invasive Tilapia: A Threat to Florida's Biodiversity | Environmental Studies | 16 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Vanessa Rolle | How effective are the recruitment, requirement, and training strategies of the North Miami Dade Police Department? | Human Resources Management | 17 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Gia Azcoitia | Quantum Equation with Infinite Nonlinear Terms | Mathematical Sciences | 18 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Hiba Khalil | Integration of Sensors for Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | Mechanical Engineering | 19 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Alan Sosa | Studies of angular distributions in meson photoproduction at GlueX | Physics | 20 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Alejandra Granados | The constituent counting rule (CCR) Photoproduction of pions ????^? ? | Physics | 21 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Estefania Urdaneta | Polarization in Present-day Chile | Political Science | 22 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Melanie Silva | Differences in parent language input and infant speech production as a function of socioeconomic status and maternal age | Psychology | 23 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Giselle Herrera | Parenting in the Context of Childhood Adversity: Examining the Influence of Acculturation on the Moderation Effect of Positive Parenting | Psychology | 24 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Yousra Benkirane | Britney Broxton | Eduardo Herandez | Gen Z and the Public Administration Pillars of Good Governance, Economy, Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity- “The 4 Es of Good Governance and What they mean to me.” | Public Administration | 25 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Lilia Fernandez | Analysis of the Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko) in Florida | Quantifying Biology in the Classroom | 26 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Samuel Olah Velez | Yoga in Miami, a Case Study | Sociology | 27 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Ashley Moreno | On-Campus Dual Enrollment: Student Experiences in Two-Year Programs | Educational Foundations and Policy | 28 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Anita Shchepetova | The Contrast in the Belief Between Two Countries (Russia and America) About the Optimal Age Gap Between Spouses for a Successful Heterosexual Marriage | Psychology | 29 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Camila Garcia | Sequence Selectivity in the Binding of Melatonin to PhiX174RF DNA | Chemistry | 30 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Andres Hernandez | Metabolic Pathways of Culex quinquefasciatus that control Wolbachia titer | Biological Sciences | 31 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Ra'Mal Harris | Analysis of SmgGDS interactions with RAC1 and RAC1B | Biochemistry | 32 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Armin Akbarpur Dehkordi | The Effect of Pre-Performance Routines in Plyometric Exercise on Adherence | Kinesiology | 33 | Tuesday, March 22 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 2 |
| Nicole Rodrigues | Brain and Behavior: Cognitive Failures are Associated with Sensation Seeking via Adolescent Marijuana Use | Behavioral Neuroscience | 1 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Lia Vaquero | Investigating the Identification of Menstrual Blood using Epigenetic Markers | Biochemistry | 2 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Alejandra Ramos | Peptide Binding Specificity of Evolutionarily Related EVH1 Domains | Biochemistry | 3 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Nicole Lago | Eduardo Alvarez | Paenibacillus polymyxa ?-Glucosidase B Site I91 Mutant Characterization | Biological Sciences | 4 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Jorge Arias | The JNK1/Sab mediated interaction maintains mitochondrial health and homeostasis | Biological Sciences | 5 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Nathalie Saliba | “Out of Cuba” – The additional botanical expeditions of Brother Marie-Victorin across the Caribbean (1941 and 1942) | Biology | 6 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Salomon Jean | Isolation of the seagrass pathogen Labyrinthula and possible antagonists | Biology | 7 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Isabella Gonzalez | Application of Surface Noise Removal Techniques to the Tissue Oxygenation Maps Obtained from Control Subjects | Biomedical Engineering | 8 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Claudia Paredes | Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Decellularized Myocardial Extracellular Matrix Hydrogels | Biomedical Engineering | 9 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Jose Mendoza Garcia | Potential Use of Thyroid Differentiation Scores in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Prognosis and Response to RAI Uptake | Biomedical Engineering | 10 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Diane Documet | Mexican Pepper Leaf (Piper auritum) Plant: Thin Layer Chromatography, and Preliminary Antioxidant Properties Assays. | Chemistry | 11 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Stevens Charles | Characterization of Surface Water Dynamics within the F-area of Savannah River Site and its Linkages with Groundwater and I-129 Geochemistry | Civil Engineering | 12 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Fabio Macias | Foundational Science Course Experiences | Engineering and Computing Education | 13 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Kiara Taibi-Briz | Isolation of Antagonistic Endophytes for the Biocontrol of Raffaelea lauricola, Causal Agent of Laurel Wilt of Avocado | Environmental Studies | 14 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Sofia Valdeon | Nintendo Walden Pond: The Virtual Dawn of a New Transcendentalism | Interdisciplinary Studies | 15 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Jaclyn Pascual | A Topological and Machine Learning approach to Time Series Shape Analysis | Mathematical Sciences | 16 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Clare Bennett | Study of the color diffusion model for (^12)C(e,e’p) at Jefferson Lab 12 GeV kinematics | Physics | 17 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Shaileen Barberena | Physical and Mental Health Concerns of Emerging LatinE Gender Diverse Adults in South Florida | Psychology | 18 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Kaitlyn Saari | Infant Multisensory Attention Skills Predict Early Literacy and Language Outcomes in Childhood | Psychology | 19 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Melanie Perez | MicroRNA expression in murine spontaneous non-small cell lung cancer and human cell lines post-treatment of PRIMA-1 | Quantifying Biology in the Classroom | 20 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Elizabeth Perez | Anamaria Astudillo | Loga Burrows | Courtney Afram-Gyening | Nicole Nunez | An Examination of the Potentially Confounding Effects of Ambient Noise on Music Exposure during Aerobic Exercise. | Sports and Fitness | 21 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Edurne Sosa El Fakih | Slow Tourism: A Possible Solution to Indigenous Communities’ Invisibility in San Cristóbal de las Casas | Anthropology | 22 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Paula Koppel | Are there convergent structural brain alterations associated with autism spectrum disorders, and if so, where do they occur? | Psychology | 23 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |
| Sebastian Verrier Paz | Assessing the JUN N-terminal Kinase 3 (JNK3) and SH3-Domain-Binding Protein 5 (Sab) Interaction as a Potential Target in Neurodegeneration | Biological Sciences | 24 | Tuesday, March 22 | 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Graham Center Ballrooms | Poster Session 3 |