Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo 52nd ACS Junior Technical Meeting 37th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting PROGRAM AGENDA April 28/2018 52nd ACS Junior Technical Meeting 37th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo Gurabo, Puerto Rico April 28/2018 SPONSORED BY American Chemical Society – Puerto Rico Section Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Resource Center for Science and Engineering, University of Puerto Rico Central Administration Sistema Universitario Ana G. Mendez, Universidad del Turabo 3 52nd ACS Junior Technical Meeting 37th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo April 28/2018 Table of Contents Map Universidad del Turabo - Gurabo, Puerto Rico .............................................................. 7 Invited Speaker ........................................................................................................................... 13 Program Agenda ........................................................................................................................ 17 Oral Sessions .............................................................................................................................. 19 Agricultural Sciences ................................................................................................................. 21 Astronomy ................................................................................................................................... 23 Chemistry .................................................................................................................................... 25 Computer Sciences ..................................................................................................................... 39 Electronics ................................................................................................................................... 41 Engineering ................................................................................................................................. 43 Environmental Sciences............................................................................................................. 51 General Sciences ......................................................................................................................... 61 Geosciences ................................................................................................................................. 63 Life/Biological Sciences ............................................................................................................ 67 Mathematics ................................................................................................................................ 93 Pharmaceutical Sciences ............................................................................................................ 95 Physics ......................................................................................................................................... 97 Poster Sessions ......................................................................................................................... 101 Agricultural Sciences ............................................................................................................... 103 Chemistry .................................................................................................................................. 104 Engineering ............................................................................................................................... 108 Environmental Sciences........................................................................................................... 110 General Sciences ....................................................................................................................... 112 Geosciences ............................................................................................................................... 113 Industrial Pharmacy ................................................................................................................ 114 Life / Biological Sciences ........................................................................................................ 115 Mathematics .............................................................................................................................. 119 Pharmaceutical Sciences .......................................................................................................... 120 Physics ....................................................................................................................................... 121 5 Map - Universidad del Turabo - Gurabo, Puerto Rico 7 52nd ACS Junior Technical Meeting 37th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo Organizing and Scientific Committees Puerto Rico Local Section American Chemical Society Officers 2018 Chair Dr. Carlos R. Cabrera Elected Chair Dr. Ángela González Immediate Past Chair Dr. José Ramírez Secretary Angel G. Colón Santiago Treasurer Dr. Jorge Colón Northeastern Representative Dr. Laura Santiago Southwestern Representative Dr. Ubaldo Córdova Counselor Dr. Edmy J. Ferrer Counselor Dr. Néstor Carballeira Counselor Myrna Otaño Counselor Dr. Jorge Colón Alternate Counselor Orlando J. Morales Alternate Counselor Dr. Bárbara Casañas Alternate Counselor Dr. Brenda Ramos Director at Large Dr. Ingrid Montes Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo Research and JTM/PRISM Committee President Dr. José F. Méndez Méndez Acting Chancellor Dr. David Méndez Vice Chancellor Sponsored Research Dra. Jacqueline A. Mullen Hunt Dean, School of Science Dr. Teresa Lipsett Ruiz Dean, School of Engineering Dr. Rolando García González Associate Dean, School of Engineering Dr. Idalides Vergara Laurens Committee President Dr. Miguel Goenaga Jiménez Register Mrs. Zoraida Ortiz Muñoz Physical Facilities Manager Eng. Mayra Rodríguez Collaborators and Special Thanks: Associate Degree Director Mr. Nelson Martínez Administrative Director Mrs. Daisy Román Student Service Director Mrs. Luz Vilches Administrative Assistant Mrs. Lydia Centeno 9 PR-LSAMP Co-PI Dr. Eduardo Nicolau Director Dr. Pablo A. Llerandi Academic Coordinator Prof. Javier Figueroa Santiago Management Coordinator Ms. Zulma I. Crespo Figueroa, MS UPR-Central Administration Acting UPR President/PR-LSAMP PI Dr. Darrell F. Hillman Barrera Acting UPR Vice President Dr. Ilka C. Ríos Reyes Acting Associate Vice President for Dr. José Rodríguez Medina Research and Innovation Acting Director of the Resource Center Dr. Ana R. Guadalupe for Science and Engineering 11 52nd ACS Junior Technical Meeting 37th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo April 28/2018 INVITED SPEAKER Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, PhD Mammalogy Assistant Curator, Jorge Vélez-Juarbe, holds a PhD from Howard University, where he studied the morphology, systematics, and paleobiology of fossil sirenians and cetaceans. After receiving his doctorate in 2012, Dr. Vélez-Juarbe held Post-Doctoral Associate positions at the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, and at California State University Fullerton before being hired as Mammalogy Assistant Curator of Marine Mammals at our Museum. Dr. Vélez-Juarbe's appointment involves curatorial responsibility for both out fossil and extant marine mammal collections. Some of his current projects include: diversity and dynamics of ancient marine mammal herbivore communities, marine mammals from Central America and the Caribbean, Evolution of Cenozoic marine faunas of the Eastern Pacific region, Evolution and diversification of early odontocetes and mysticetes, and paleobiogeography of Cenozoic vertebrates from the Caribbean region. 13 52nd ACS Junior Technical Meeting 37th Puerto Rico Interdisciplinary Scientific Meeting (PRISM) Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Universidad del Turabo April 28/2018 INVITED SPEAKER Rafael Irizarry, PhD Rafael Irizarry received his Bachelor’s in Mathematics in 1993 from the University of Puerto Rico and went on to receive a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1998 from the University of California, Berkeley. His thesis work was on Statistical Models for Music Sound Signals. He joined the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 1998 and was promoted to Professor in 2007. Currently, Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health. Since 1999, Rafael Irizarry’s work has focused on Genomics and Computational Biology problems. In particular, he has worked on the analysis and signal processing of microarray, next-generation sequencing, and genomic data. He is currently interested in leveraging his knowledge in translational work, e.g. developing diagnostic tools and discovering biomarkers. Professor Irizarry also develops open source software implementing his statistical methodology. His software tools are widely used and he is one of the leaders and founders of the Bioconductor Project, an open source and open development software project for the analysis