List of 2023 Student Presentations
| Presenter Name(s) | Title | Topic | Easel | Day | Time | Location | Poster Session |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie Alexis Ruiz | Targeting Cancer Cells Using Single Stranded Oligonucleotides | Medicine | 1 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Tyler Sanford | Apparent activity in Aedes aegypti mosquito and its correlation with age and social environment | Biology | 2 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Isabela de la Rosa | Claudia Rey Ochoa | Oriana Pinto Corro | Do Parental STEM and Gender Beliefs Affect Children's Metal Rotation Performance? | Psychology | 3 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Diego Padilla | Final state interactions in tagged DIS experiment | Physics | 4 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Anthony Perez-Pinon | Chipless RFID for pH Sensitive Zone Monitoring | Electrical Engineering | 5 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Mariana Perdomo Puente | Congenital Zika Virus: The Placental Mediation Hypothesis, The Direct Transfer Hypothesis and Microcephaly | Medicine | 6 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Jose Cabas Peraza | Delanie Perez | Challenges in Management due to Social Determinants of Health: A Case of T1DM in an Uninsured and Low-Income Child | Health and Human Concerns | 7 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Delanie Herrera | RTK Abstract | Biology | 8 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Nicole Tia Najam | Olga Capurro | Assay Replicability in Enzyme Kinetics Across Laboratories | Biochemistry | 9 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Diana Rodriguez | Fabrizio Lorenzo | Raquel Battifora | Exploring the Role of Tryptophan 407 in the Folding of Beta-Glucosidase B | Biological Sciences | 10 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Soichi Ystokazu Gomez | deuteron tensor polarized structure function b1 | Physics | 11 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Antonella Mini | Parental Perceptions of Personal Strengths in Emerging Adults with Down Syndrome | Psychology | 12 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Brandon Roldan | Influence of the Polarization Direction in the Extraction of the Deuteron Tensor Polarized b1 Structure Function. | Physics | 13 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Angel Reji | The Indian News Media: Perpetuating the Normalization of Violence Against Women | Women's and Gender Studies | 14 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Daniel E. Marrero Roche | Nano-Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Human and Murine Fc Gamma Receptor N-Glycosylation | Biochemistry | 15 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Maria Suarez | Gabriella Santos | Novel Targets for Immunotherapy: Dysregulated levels of Galectins in Diffuse Large B cell Lymphomas | Biological Sciences | 16 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Brian Fogel | Annabeth Smith | Orestes Pena | Consumer Attitudes Among College Students | Psychology | 17 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Andrea Rivera | Optimization of Polydimethylsiloxane Membranes for Microscopic Tissue Tensile Mechanical Testing | Biomedical Engineering | 18 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Smith Mondesir | A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Impacts of Revactin® on Male Sexual Health and Quality of Life | Behavioral Neuroscience | 19 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Lorena De Michele | Rose Cabrale | Tatiana Guerra | Edward Philippe | Total Phenolic and Total Flavonoid Content in Selected Extracts of Bursera simaruba var. | Chemistry | 20 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Felipe Rodas | Head Tracking Assisted Driving Module (ADM) | Computer Science | 21 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Luis Luna | NASA Microgravity Challenge | Engineering and Computing Education | 22 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Cristian Luis Sundblad | Slurry 3D Printer | Mechanical Engineering | 23 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Lucas Tembras | Machine Learning Model to Detect Alzheimer's Disease from MRI Scans | Computer Science | 24 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Reanna Thomas | RAPDs DNA Fingerprinting in Plants using Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis | Biology | 25 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Oliver Galindo | Ryan Amador | Mohammed Bharoocha | Wolfson’s Microbiology Biofuel Lipid Extraction | Biochemistry | 26 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Felipe Gonzalez | Surface chemistry and spectroscopy studies of proteinase K enzyme and its conjugate with carbon nitrate dots | Chemistry | 27 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Gia Garino | Fracture strength and wear resistance of multi-component ultra-high temperature carbides | Mechanical Engineering | 28 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Liliana Almeida | Inhibitory Control and Individual Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers | Psychology | 29 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Kamila Kemenyfy-Rojas | Medial Prefrontal-Hippocampal Interactions with Local and Long-Range Delta in the Theta, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Bands following Optogenetic Stimulation of Thalamc Nucleus Reuniens | Behavioral Neuroscience | 30 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Ruth Marius | Discovery of Novel Proteins Binding to HIV Reverse | Biology | 31 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Estefany D. Carvajal | Implications of Microplastic Pollution for the Conservation of Marine Protected Areas Abstract | Marine Biology | 32 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Amanda Di Perna | Stress biomarker associations with phthalate ester exposure in two species of captive delphinids | Environmental Chemistry | 33 | Tuesday, April 4 | 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 1 |
| Coral Burgos-Soler | David Fairchild’s Plant Hunting Expedition to Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico (Yucatan) - Year 1944 | Botanical History | 1 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Stephanie Calvo | Priscilla Collazo | INTERACTION OF RNA POLYMERASE T7 AND CARCINOGEN 4-NITROQUINOLINE-1-OXIDE [NQO] WITH DNA AND EFFECTS ON CLEAVAGE ACTIVITY OF RESTRICTION ENZYMES | Biochemistry | 2 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Crismely Fermin | Monica Perez | Benefits of Time Spent in the Outdoors in Early Childhood Education: A Systematic Review | Psychology | 3 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Samarah R. Martin | The effect of saltwater stress on the performance of cherry tomatoes | Biology | 4 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Desiree Dominguez | 3D Reconstruction using Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Large Data | Computer Science | 5 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Byron I. Pena | Spirituality as a Protective Factor against Acculturative Stress and Discrepancy Conflicts for Latino/a Immigrant Families | Psychology | 6 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Maria Fernanda Salgado Sanchez | Social and Cultural Factors Associated to Latino College Women Eating Disorders: An Intersectional and Culturally Competent Perspective. | Psychology | 7 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Elizabeth Alvarez | Henry Arnold | ALEC STUDY PLSd | Psychology | 8 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Luisa Rincon | China's Political Engagement within the Lithium Triangle | Political Science | 9 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Nayshla and Samantha | Border Security Concerns in the Northern Triangle of Central America | Public Policy and Service | 10 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Basilio Garcia | Gabriella Santos | Maria Suarez | Characterizing cell surface glycans on metastatic melanoma and vascular endothelial cells to provide novel mechanistic insights into metastatic spread | Biology | 11 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Alejandra Granados | The Constituent Counting Rule and Meson-Baryon Photoproduction | Physics | 12 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Isabella Milanes | A computational approach to structural and evolutionary analysis of pathogenic sites within proteins associated with Parkinson’s disease | Biological Sciences | 13 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Isabel Trespalacios | DNA repair gene expression is suppressed in trinucleotide repeat expansion disease cells | Biochemistry | 14 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Nicolas Cea | Baryon - Antibaryon Photoproduction | Physics | 15 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Flora Beleznay | GIS Research | Geosciences | 16 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Anthony Marichal | Polymer-Based Nanomedicine for Targeted Drug Delivery to tackle NeuroHIV | Medicine | 17 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Lorimar Santiago | Chronic Kidney Disease and High Phosphate Diet Affects Survival Rate of Male Mice Due to High Sodium Content | Biomedical Engineering | 18 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Juan Luna Jose | Electric Bike - Streamlined Energy Turbine (STE) | Mechanical Engineering | 19 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Lilia Fernandez | Population Dynamics of Symbiodiniaceae Species in hospite with Sea Anemone Exaiptasia diaphana under Elevated Exposure of Nitrogen Pollution | Quantifying Biology in the Classroom | 20 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Gia Azcoitia | Natalie Jimenez | Gias: A Study into the Signal Topology of South Florida | Electrical Engineering | 21 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Katrina Rodriguez | Corrosion Behavior of Wire Arc Additive Manufactured Single Phase Titanium for Marine Applications | Mechanical Engineering | 22 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Kenan Hussaini | High Pressure Research on Cu2ZnSnSe4 | Chemistry | 23 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Gilberto Gonzalez | Reinforcement Learning-Based Navigation of a Spot Robot in Low-Gravity Environments | Computer Science | 24 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Fabio Macias | Engineering and Computing Students' Experiences in Physics Courses | Educational Foundations and Policy | 25 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Miguel Perez Rodriguez | Isolation of Rosetta 2-DE3 pET15b Etoplll (621) Topoisomerase III | Biochemistry | 26 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Jose Alberto Mendoza Garcia | Erbol Nishanov | Potential Use of Thyroid Differentiation Scores in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Prognosis and Response to RAI Uptake | Biomedical Engineering | 27 | Tuesday, April 4 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 2 |
| Thomas Silva | The Effects of Environmental Toxic Metals on RNA Synthesis by DNA Polymerases | Biochemistry | 1 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Ashleigh Sherman | Vanadium-based Alkylidenes for Olefin Metathesis | Chemistry | 2 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Raania Mohammad | Jessica Roig | Reported Differences in Childhood Anxiety Through Race and Ethnicity | Psychology | 3 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Agustina Dotta | Listening to students for insights about inclusion: A narrative exploration of Jakobe’s experience as “poor” and Black in engineering education. | Educational Foundations and Policy | 4 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Anastasia Romayrie Legoute | Post-COVID Crisis: Describing Metacognitive Strategies and Cognitive Flexibility Among College Students. | Psychology | 5 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Vijay Bradley Paharia | EFFECT OF THE DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGE PLASMA TREATMENT ON THE POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE SURFACE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION | Mechanical Engineering | 6 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Alberto Morilla | Optimal Dispatch of Photovoltaics and Battery Energy Storage for Voltage Control in Active Distribution Networks | Electrical Engineering | 7 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Alex Vo | Sodike Toudjani | Evaluation of Effective Parameters for in-situ Measurement of Soil Hydraulic Conductivity | Environmental Engineering | 8 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Nicholas Torres | Globin X: a novel globin with unusual ligand affinity and aggregation properties | Biochemistry | 9 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Dunnel Fennell | ASSESSING GEOMORPHIC VARIABILITY OF NOURISHED AND NON-NOURISHED BEACHES IN NORTHERN PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL. | Geosciences | 10 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Acaydia Campbell | Venicia Castro Villatoro | Angel Lopez | From website to work environment: Exploring minority undergraduate engineering students’ conceptualizations of engineering careers at national laboratories | Engineering and Computing Education | 11 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Juana Sefair | Role of neuronal calcium sensors in herbicides neuropathology | Biochemistry | 12 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Zain Hussein | Investigation of the Nd-B System at High Pressures | Chemistry | 13 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Maria Andrade | An antimalarial drug disrupts symbiosis in the coral bleaching model Cassiopea xamachana | Biological Sciences | 14 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Nils Cabrera | Evaluating Perennial Shrubs as Productive Vegetative Barriers to Reduce Nutrient Runoff | Environmental Engineering | 15 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Tulsi Chaudhari | Future Career Plans and Job Preferences of Lower-Income Computing Students | Engineering and Computing Education | 16 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Nicole Rodrigues | Differences in Decision-Making and Episodic Memory Capabilities between Adolescent Cannabis Users with and without Cannabis Use Disorder | Behavioral Neuroscience | 17 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Catherine Rizo | Measuring Memory Online: A Literature Review on Working Memory Measures in Toddlers | Psychology | 18 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Colleen Rodriguez | The assessment of Cetacean importance economically in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Results of face-to-face interview surveys of locals | Marine Biology | 19 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Acaydia Campbell | Amy Ramos-Homs | 3D Printing of Bone Defect of Variable Porosity for Pediatric Defects | Biomedical Engineering | 20 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Zion Michael | Compositional and Mechanical Properties of Biogenic Termite Structures | Mechanical Engineering | 21 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Marquise Xavier | Andrew Sinnott | Srujana Yellapragada | Lina Sabkhangulova | Angelica Garcia del Rio | Amine-Functionalization of Silica Nanoparticles for Efficient Drug Delivery | Biomedical Engineering | 22 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Daidreuna Donaldson | A Study of Signal Topology in South Florida | Computer Engineering | 23 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Shawna-Lee Pommells | Perovskites and solar cells | Electrical Engineering | 24 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Jalaica Jaramillo | Polyaniline-based Sensor for Real-time Plant Growth | Biomedical Engineering | 25 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Juliet Perez-Del Oro | Parents perceptions on f√∫tbol for development in a Latin context in the US: A qualitative analysis | Psychology | 26 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Michael Reyes | Conformational Selection Mechanism for Mg2+ and Ca2+ Binding to NCS | Chemistry | 27 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Melaney Lara | Using Geochemical Tracers to Identify Freshwater Inputs Between the Dry and Wet Season in a Coastal Estuary: Biscayne Bay, Florida | Geosciences | 28 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Diana Lima | Effects of increased viscosity on the conformational dynamics and ligand binding kinetics of globin x | Biochemistry | 29 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Joni Spencer | Reaction Pathway for the Hydrogen Abstraction from Trans-1-Propenol Using the Hydroxy Radical | Chemistry | 30 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Javonte Thelwell | The Effects of Endogenous and Environmentally-Induced Oxidative DNA Damage on DNA Base Excision Repair Gene Expression in Human Cells | Environmental Studies | 31 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Venus Dinou | Association between sleep and hydration in children from the MetA-Bone Trial | Dietetics and Nutrition | 32 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |
| Genesis Moreno | The Effect of Pubertal Development on Anxiety: Exploring the Mediating Role of Sleep | Psychology | 33 | Tuesday, April 4 | 3:00 - 4:00 PM | Graham Center Ballrooms | 3 |