Proceedings March 25-26, 2015 Hunter College Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings March 25-26, 2015 ________________________________________________ Oral Presenter Index p. 4-6 Poster Presenter Index p. 7-12 Oral Presentations Session 1 p. 13 Session 2 p. 19 Session 3 p. 24 Session 4 p. 28 Session 5 p. 34 Poster Presentations Session 1 p. 41 Session 2 p. 50 Session 3 p. 59 Session 4 p. 70 Session 5 p. 79 Session 6 p. 89 _____________________________________________ 2 3 Oral Presenter Index Oral Presentation Session 1: Wednesday, 9:00am - 11:30am # Presenter(s) Title Pg 1 Krisha Mehta Bridging the Gap between the Arts and the Sciences 13 Investigating the Role of Translation in Normal and Malignant 2 Daniela Mikhaylov 13 Hematopoiesis Are Mold-exposed Mice Depressed: Immobility in the Water 3 Amanda Arita 14 Maze The Matrix: Revealing a Basic 3-Dimensional Structural Motif 4 Hila Chase 14 in Trabecular Bone Rapamycin-induced G1 Cell Cycle Arrest Employs both TGF-β 5 Kaity Tung 15 and Rb Pathways Assessing the Relationship between Alcohol Consumption 6 Elizabeth Savarese 15 and Sexual Harassment among LGBT Military Personnel 7 Isabella Divilova Rhetorical Analysis of Gender Stereotyping in Commercials 16 Predicting Polypharmacology of Drug Metabolism and 8 Ruth Hauptman 16 Transformation When is Neutral Really Neutral? An ERP study on Positive 9 Laura Fonseca 17 Emotion Regulation and Neutral Stimuli Colonoscopy and Polypectomy in Patients less than 50 Years 10 Nadiya Rahaman 17 Old: Indications and Findings Monitoring of Patient Movement during External Beam 11 Essence Eley 18 Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer 12 Cody Piggott Documentary Books of The Great Depression: A Digital Exhibit 19 Oral Presentation Session 2: Wednesday, 2:00pm - 4:00pm Munazza Alam & Sara 13 Investigating Brown Dwarf Near-Infrared Color Outliers 19 Camnasio Comparing TLF1 and TLF2 Activity Before and After 14 Daphne Ko 20 Trypanosome Infection in African Subjects Look through the Glass: Inspiration and the Process of Song- 15 Edrean-Neil Kabigting 20 Writing 16 Jen Ta Hsu "Dude" in Everyday American Life 21 A Versatile Molecule: The Synthesis of Indole and The Art of 17 Aleksandr Itskovich 21 Organic Chemistry 18 Guadalupe Terrones Socrates and the Athenian Laws 22 19 Angelina Volkova From Genotype to Chemotype: 17-Hydroxycyclooctatin 22 Characterization of the Insulator Activity in the T Cell 20 Valentyna Kostiuk 23 Receptor-alpha Locus Control Region (TCRα LCR) 21 Ian Murphy Housing in Corona, Queens 23 4 Oral Presentation Session 3: Wednesday, 4:15pm - 6:15pm Henson-style Puppetry Performance and its Effects on Adults 22 Jacob Friedman 24 who Stutter 23 Rana Khamis Middle Eastern Identity 24 Burkean Consubstantiality: A Study of Arguments of 24 Nicole Krishtul 25 Identification and Individuality in Brookdale Dorm Rooms Analyzing the role of silencers and enhancers in the TCR 25 Ariel Calderon 25 Alpha Locus Control Region 26 Janis Mahnure Bollywood Film and Gender Identities 26 Reaping the benefits of digitization: Sekiko Yoshida, Gender, 27 Eileen Clancy 26 Race and the Space Race 28 Alex Teachey The Discovery of New Ammonia Masers in the Galactic Center 27 A Photographic Study: The Identity of the Iranian-American 29 Nelly Gordpour 27 Diaspora A Literary Perspective of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 30 Steve Salazar 28 Islamic Galleries Oral Presentation Session 4: Thursday, 9:00am - 11:30am Characterizing PLX4032 Resistant Melanoma in Zebrafish 31 Stephanie Azzopardi 28 Chimera Assay 32 Alessandra Majchrzyk Taking Comedy Seriously: A Sociological Analysis of Humor 29 The Influence of Blue Mood on the Experience of Anticipated 33 Amine Elghouayel 29 Regret 34 David Michael An Inquiry Into Mankind's Domination of Nature 30 35 Jaime Jaget Finding your Voice in New York Theater Arts 30 36 Mert Keceli Antimicrobial High Density Lipoprotein: The Good Cholesterol 31 Use of Mitotane in Adrenocortical Carcinomas: Risk and 37 Betty Lung 31 Benefit "Choose Your Character!" Player Identity and Avatar Choice in 38 Paulina Toro Isaza 32 Single-Player vs. Multi-Player Video Games Serum Magnesium Levels in Patients with Metastatic Breast 39 Gianna Torre 32 Cancer on Pertuzumab Maria Elizabeth The Law “of the Oppressor” becomes the Sword of the 40 33 Rodriguez Beltran Oppressed Regulation of Alternative Polyadenylation in DNA Damage 41 George Zakusilo 33 Response 5 Oral Presentation Session 5: Thursday, 2:00pm - 4:30pm Does Age Make a Difference? Mammogram Findings in 42 Diane Kogan 34 Women 80 Years of Age and Older The Wellness Zone: Direct Sales and Fitness Culture in Punta 43 Peter Finlon 34 Gorda, Belize Plato's Crito: Is Phthia a place of death or escape for 44 Emmanuel Aprilakis 35 Socrates? How has Executive Order (EO) 13211, entitled "Actions Concerning Regulations that Significantly Affect Energy 45 Miriam Jovanovic 35 Supply Distribution & Use," impacted the ability of the federal government to regulate public health and the environment? Insight into the Immunostimulatory Molecules Present Within 46 Steven Hall 36 Juzen-taiho-to Female Rat Hippocampal Delta Opioid Receptors Following 47 Khalifa Stafford 36 Stress and Oxycodone Exposure 48 Brian Lamberta The Real Small Business Killer 37 Effects of Social Isolation during Adolescence on Apical 49 Ruka Aderogba Dendritic Spine Density of CA1 Pyramidal Cells in Dorsal and 37 Ventral Hippocampus 50 Abdel-Minem Mustafa The Role of Ethnicity in the Language of the Noble Quraan 38 51 Jeffrey Garzon The Neuroscience of Attachment 38 Detection of Melanoma Cells in Cerebral Spinal Fluid for the 52 Larisa Shagabayeva Diagnosis of Leptomeningeal Metastasis in Patients with 39 Melanoma Changing the Definition of “Americanism”: From Anti-Labor 53 Genevieve McNamara 39 Terrorism to New Deal Legislation 6 Poster Presenter Index Poster Presentation Session 1: Wednesday, 9:00am - 11:00am # Presenter(s) Title Pg Brenda Abdelmesih & Understanding Rab 7 Endosomal Trafficking in Schwann Cell 1 41 Justina Assaad Development and Myelination The Role of TklA and PldB in Morphogenesis and 2 Annelie Aguessy 41 Differentiation in Dictyostelium discoideum 3 Stephanie Almanzar Sports Facility Impact on Flushing Meadows Corona Park 42 4 Nicole Avento The Disappearing Egg and Sperm 42 Methamphetamine-induced Short-term Increase and Long- 5 Stephen Braren term Decrease in Spatial Working Memory Affects Protein 43 Kinase M zeta (PKMζ), Dopamine, and Glutamate Receptors Medium-Resolution Photometric and Spectroscopic Analysis 6 Sara Camnasio 43 of Unusually Red and Blue Brown Dwarfs Social Effects of Sensory Filtering and Anxiety-related 7 Ai Ying Chen 44 Behavior in Female African Cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni Nonparametric and Variance Stabilizing Methods of 8 Ahmed El-Razi 44 Correcting Heterogeneity of Variance 9 Jaquelin Erazo Detecting and Mapping Extinction Clouds 45 Antidepressant-like Behaviors Related to Enrichment Aided 10 Erick Fedorenko 45 Neurogenesis Correlations Between Parental Warmth and Academic 11 Grace Frutos Achievement, and its Association with Self-esteem, 46 Resilience, and Self-efficacy Joshua Halpenny- 12 Adult Day Care in Flushing, Queens 46 nguyen 13 Saipriya Iyer Surgical Pathology of Microinvasive Breast Cancer (MIBC) 47 Synthesis of (+)-Boldine Derivatives and their Relationship to 14 Saveliy Kelebeyev 47 CNS Receptors 15 Martha Ordonez Characterization of Tau protein in Cancer Cells 48 Developing a Triggerable Nanocontainer for Peptide Drug 16 Aleksandr Uvaydov 48 Delivery 17 Alexis Vigo Internal Language, External Implications 49 The Effects of Doxycycline on Spatial Memory and Learning in 18 Shu Shu Wu 49 Spore-Treated Mice Glycomimetics via the [2 + 3] Dipolar Cycloaddition of 19 Masai Young 50 Nitrones and Alkenes 7 Poster Presentation Session 2: Wednesday, 11:30am - 1:30pm 20 Zeina Alturk Social Support among Muslim Women 50 The Diversity of Avian Eggshell Shapes: A Mathematical 21 Tobey Ben-Aderet 51 Approach Non-obvious Conceptual Structure: Evidence From Weak 22 Emma Briggs 51 Definites Effects of Gonadal Hormones on Recognition Memory and its 23 Dina Buitrago 52 Neural Correlates in the Hippocampus in Castrated Male Rats Sex Differences in Anxiety-like Behavior and the Biochemical 24 Cody Chan 52 Effects of Cannabinoids on the Nucleus Accumbens 25 Deena Chanowitz Absence of Rb Confers Rapamycin Resistance to Cancer Cells 52 Exploring a Cost Effective Strategy for Drug Discovery by 26 Anahi Garnelo 53 Mining Big Data of Adverse Drug-Side Effects How Does Infant Care Affect Maternal Activity Budgets? A 27 Natalia Grube 53 Test with Arboreal Monkeys The Relationship between Attachment Style, Life Satisfaction, 28 Rochelle Langman 54 and the Need to Belong Synthesis of Phthalocyanine Derivatives with near IR 29 Patrick Moy 54 Absorption for Materials and Biomedical Applications 30 Roy Nunez Evolution of Flagella Operon in Spirochetes 55 Age Associated Decline of Proteasome Function and its 31 Aminoor Rashid 55 Effects on Protein Aggregation in Drosophila melanogaster Carbon Dynamics of Surface and Down-core Sediments of 32 Nunny Reyes 56 Piermont Marsh, Hudson River Estuary How Does the Rhetoric of the New York Times Encourage 33 Rehma Saleem 56 anti-Muslim/Islamic sentiment? The Relationship Between Body Weight and Pain Perception 34 Demelio Urbano 57 after Mold Exposure A Comparative Electrophysiological Analysis of Visual Acuity in 35 Shaneka Whittick 57 Males and Females Der blonde Eckbert: das simultane Verleugnen und Aufgreifen 36 Julia Williams 58 des Märchens in der frühromantischen