Proceedings April 19-20, 2016 Hunter College Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings April 19-20, 2016 ________________________________________________ Oral Presenter Index p. 3-5 Poster Presenter Index p. 6-9 Oral Presentations Session 1 p. 10 Session 2 p. 15 Session 3 p. 19 Session 4 p. 23 Session 5 p. 28 Poster Presentations Session 1 p. 34 Session 2 p. 43 Session 3 p. 50 Session 4 p. 59 _____________________________________________ 2 Oral Presenter Index Oral Presentation Session 1: Tuesday, 9:00am - 11:30am 3rd Floor Glass Cafeteria # Presenter(s) Title Pg 1 Brian Richford Asthma in the South Bronx: An Environmental Analysis 10 2 Claudine Avalos Afro-Peruvian Jazz: A Case Study of the Fusion of Two Genres 10 A Closer Look at Discrimination: Field Experiments on Productivity 3 Daniel Cisneros 10 Perception and Same-Race and Bender Bias. Investigating the Role of Y-Family Polymerases in Stress Induced 4 Krisha Mehta 11 Mutagenesis and Drug Resistance National Guidelines for Surveillance Testing in Patients with Solid 5 Rubaya Yeahia 11 Tumors: Variation and Specificity Characterization of the Insulator Activity in the T Cell Receptor-Alpha 6 Valentyna Kostiuk 12 Locus Control Region (TCRα LCR) 7 Eric Nava-Pérez Neoliberal Textile Production of Puebla, Mexico 12 8 Gianna Torre The Healing Power of Art 13 9 Lauren Christopher Daily Energy Requirements for Human Populations 13 The Influence of Don Quixote on Dostoevsky’s Idiot: The 10 Olha Oliynyk 13 Quixotesque Character as a Result of Societal Tensions A Multilevel Analysis of NYPD Precinct Disparities in the Use of 11 Omari-Khalid Rahman 14 Force 12 Sarah Chebli Freedom as a State for the Slave 14 Oral Presentation Session 2: Tuesday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm 3rd Floor Glass Cafeteria Identification of Rahnella Aquatilis' lipid A and its Relation with the 13 Alfredo Vidal Ceballos 15 Human Immune System 14 Caresse Jackson Neo-Orientalism in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea 15 Comparing Historical Radar Storm Data with Electric Utility Power 15 Christine Hirt 15 Outages in Order to Develop Statistical Models 16 David Kanbergs Perceptions of Change: Narratives of Loss in Amman, Jordan 16 The Cognitive Mediators of Binge Drinking on GPA and Academic 17 Jannatun Ferdowsi 16 Performance 18 Craig Brooks Surface Brightness Mapping Using the BELR Flow Model 17 Urban Food Policy and the Potential for Urban Agriculture in New 19 Kathleen Emerson 17 York City No Longer a Slave to the System: How Anne Bradstreet and 20 Morgan Haywood-Joy Frederick Douglass used their Voices to Combat Systematic 17 Oppression and Regain Power 21 Sarafina Gordon LGBT Afro-Caribbean Activism, Experiences and Gatherings 18 Toward Repurposing Metformin as a Precision Anti-Cancer Therapy 22 Shihab Dider 18 Using Structural Systems Pharmacology 3 Oral Presentation Session 3: Tuesday, 4:15pm - 6:15pm 3rd Floor Glass Cafeteria Understanding Rab7 Endosomal Trafficking in Schwann Cell 23 Brenda Abdelmesih 19 Development and Myelination Self as Commodity, Social Media as Market: The Branding of a Porn 24 Esra Padgett 19 Star 25 Jaquelin Erazo Mapping the Full-Extent of Dust in Molecular Clouds 19 Does 8-Amino-Adenosine Activate a cep-1-independent Cell Death 26 Prima Manandhar-Sasaki 20 Pathway in Tumorous C. elegans and Inhibit Tumor Development? 27 Ryan C. Zurich On Art: Translating the Creative Act 20 Effects of Curcumin on Fear Learning and the Anxiety-Related 28 Farangis Tolibzoda 21 Threat Bias 29 Neriel David Ponce Here and There: Home for Undocumented Immigrants 21 30 Rakia Khalid Migration in Diasporic Communities 22 31 Roy Emmanuel Nuñez Uncovering the Genomic Basis of Treponema Diversity 22 32 Syedah Meriam Haider Islam, and Fair and Lovely 23 Oral Presentation Session 4: Wednesday, 9:00am - 11:30am 3rd Floor Glass Cafeteria Classical Islamic Perspective on the Relationship between the 33 Abtsam Saleh 23 Individual and the Society Identifying Sources of Inclination Biases of Inferred Galaxy Star 34 Betsy Hernandez 23 Formation Rates 35 Martha Ordonez Characterization of Tau Protein in Cancer Cells 24 36 Paul Melas Cosmogony and Sacrifice in the Greek Orthodox Paschal Ritual 24 37 Sham Rampersaud Iron Oxide Nanocages for Medical Applications 24 Analysis of the Binding Abilities of Benzophenone-like Drugs to 38 Steven Hall 25 GLO1 Analysis of Racial Bias in the Application of Physical Force by Police 39 Abraham Gutman 25 Officers in the New York City Stop and Frisk Program Investigating Ion Transport in Solid State, Ionically Conducting 40 Fernando Villafuerte 26 Materials: Insight into the Future of Energy Storage Patient Outcomes and Characteristics in Peripheral T-Cell 41 Promie Faruque 26 Lymphomas Treated with Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors 42 Rani Allan The Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 27 Visual Evoked Potential Measures of Sex Differences in Lateral 43 Ridwan Carim-Sanni 27 Inhibitory Mechanisms 44 Tenzing Doma Farmers’ Markets and Population Health in the U.S. 28 4 Oral Presentation Session 5: Wednesday, 2:00pm - 4:30pm 3rd Floor Glass Cafeteria Preliminary Observations on the Effects of Unmanned Aerial 45 Brigid Maloney 28 Systems (UAS) on Bottlenose Dolphin Behavior Amplification and Mechanical Property Manipulation of Breast 46 Carina Sirochinsky 29 Cancer Cell Exosomes Exogenous Fatty Acids Stimulate mTOR via the LPAAT Pathway in 47 Elizabeth Gorodetsky 29 Mammalian G1 Cell Cycle 48 Nadha Fathima Yakoob Iron-Oxide Nanoparticles and Exosomes for Targeted Therapy 30 An Electrophysiological Analysis of Spatial Vision in Males and 49 Norine Wendlyn Chan 30 Females Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Primary Uveal 50 Saipriya Iyer 30 Melanoma 51 Evelyn Mau The Effect of English Language on Hong Kong Cantonese 31 Judicial Obstructionism in Chilean History Post-Pinochet’s 52 Jose Ramirez 31 Dictatorship (1973-1990) Reducing Error and Increasing Consistency in the Segmentation of 53 Kathleen Jedruszczuk 32 Anatomical Structures for Radiotherapy Planning Construction of a Transgenic C. Elegans Strain to Study Human 54 Mame Diop 32 Gain of Function Mutant p53 Mouse Model of Multiple Traumatic Brain Injury Shows Decrease in 55 Nadera Rahman 33 Motoric Aspects of Nervous System Arousal 56 Rosaury Hernandez Does Bilingualism Affect Working Memory? 33 5 Poster Presenter Index Poster Presentation Session 1: Tuesday, 9:45am - 11:45am 3rd Floor Main Cafeteria # Presenter(s) Title Pg Alketa Plaku & Alma 1 Tax Avoidance by Financial Companies 34 Plaku Selective Potentiation of Hippocampal-Accumbal Synapses in Cocaine 2 Andrea Cumpelik 34 Conditioned Place Preference The Influence of Muscle Tension and Gastrointestinal Distress on 3 Andrew Villier 34 Psychological Symptoms within Generalized Anxiety Disorder Binding of Protein RBM22 to the Human Spliceosomal U2-U6 snRNA 4 Anjelica Gangaram 35 Complex Mental Number Representations in Adults: Relations Between Spatial 5 Da Eun Chung 35 Cognition and the Mental Number Line Behavioral Differences in Methamphetamine-Induced Conditioned 6 Desiree Gordian Place Preference Between C57Bl/6 and 129/SvEv Adolescent 36 Female Mice 7 Eloise McAviney Subject-Permitted Teasing: Agency and Support in High-Risk Humor 36 Nonverbal Joint Attention Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum 8 Elyce Williams 37 Disorder: Investigating Continuity and Change 9 Gil Dekel Identification of Topological Structures in 2-D Spatial Models 37 Drongo, the Fruit Fly Homolog of AGFG1, Participates in Vesicular 10 Giussepe Yanez 37 Trafficking During Oogenesis Pain Experience in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Relationship 11 Gunjan Desai 38 with Subjective and Objective Measures of Sleep Characterization of Terebrid Venom Peptides Using a Polychaete 12 Helen Shin 38 Bioactivity Assay 13 Ilana V. Deyneko Effects of Microtubule Stabilizing Drugs in CNS Myelination 39 Physiological and Behavioral System for Hearing Restoration with 14 Ina Shehu 39 Cochlear Implants 15 Jacob Hamer Using Dense Hydrogen Clouds to Improve Galaxy Formation Models 40 Electron Paramagnetic Resonance and the Effects of Radiation in 16 Jessica Johnson 40 Kapton Asian American Roots: The Current and Historical Role of Youth and 17 Kevin Park 40 Undergraduate Organizing in Asian American Studies 18 Miranda Trapani Volatility of Host Mark Pheromone in Tamarixia Radiata 41 Risk Aversion Effects on Health and Financial Investments in Middle 19 Nataliya Rubinchik 41 Adulthood 20 Ying Xie Lethal Effects of Imidacloprid on Asian Citrus Psyllid, Diaphorina Citri 41 Generation of a novel mouse model for the study of cisplatin resistant 21 Seonghee (Joy) Park 42 bladder cancer A Million Years Young: Determining the Age of 11 Young Brown 22 Victoria DiTomasso 43 Dwarfs Intergroup Threat Alters the Underlying Dimensions of Face-Trait 23 Ying Xie 43 Evaluation 6 Poster Presentation Session 2: Tuesday, 1:45pm – 3:45pm 3rd Floor Main Cafeteria 24 Alexa D'Angelo Analyzing the Relationship Between Student Debt and Physical Health 43 Synthesis of Tetrahydroisoquinoline/D3 Antagonist Hybrids as 25 Alkaya Massaly 44 Potential Anti-Cocaine Agents Understanding the Relationship Between Urban Infrastructure and 26 Angelina Usherenko 44 Asthma in the South Bronx The Untold Story: Post-Traumatic Stress Among Parents of 27 Betty Y. Lung 45 Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer Synthesis and Characterization of 99Tc Complexes Containing 28 David Iskhakov 45 Phosphonic Acid Ligands Evaluating the Causal Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on the 29 Eden Volkov 45 Labor Supply of Young Adults Characterizing Bioluminescent Proteins from Polychaete Worms Using 30 Emily Lau 46 Top- Down Proteomics Effect of Cortisol on Goldfish Startle, Sensory Gating and Open Field 31 Frank Yeh 46 Behavior 32 Giovanna Romero The Communication Between Phytobacteria 47 33 Hector Moran Effects of microtubule stabilizing drugs in PNS myelination 47 34 Jean-paul Ventura Characterizing Brown Dwarf and Exoplanet Atmospheres 47 35 Mauricio Vallejo Localization of Active DNA Sub-regions of the JaCa in the TCRa Locus 48 Westhampton, NY Coastal Morphology Assessment: Pre and Post 36 Sofia Chelpon 48 Hurricane Sandy Biochemical and Behavioral Sex Differences in Response to the 37 Steven Behm 48 Cannabinoid Agonist CP55,940 38 Victor R.