Table of Contents - UROP
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Table of Contents - UROP
A Letter from the Chancellor May 18, 2013 Dear Colleagues and Guests, Welcome to the 20th annual University of California, Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium, a day dedicated to the students who have chosen to broaden their education by conducting faculty-mentored research projects and creative activities. Today’s theme, “Undergraduate Research: Passion and Values,” highlights the dedication and integrity that are critical elements of the research process. Making these elements a part of the undergraduate experience is one of the foundations of the educational culture at UC Irvine. I invite you to spend the day experiencing for yourself the undergraduate research being shared with us today. The research projects and creative activities that students are presenting demonstrate the breadth of subjects being explored throughout the campus, while the depth of the students’ research is shown in their presentations’ precision and profound conclusions. To the students who have pursued their research passions throughout their projects I offer my congratulations for a job well done; I know that the skills and values they have learned will serve them well as they pursue their future goals. I also offer my sincere appreciation to the faculty mentors who have shepherded them through their projects; their dedication to the next generation of leaders, innovators and scholars is apparent in their students’ successes. Finally, I offer my profound thanks to the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program team for organizing this symposium and for its continuing efforts to foster undergraduate research at UC Irvine. This year marks the publication of Volume XV of The UCI Undergraduate Research Journal, a sampling of the most outstanding undergraduate research projects presented at last year’s symposium. UC Irvine’s commitment to undergraduate research is a national model for how a research university can effectively enhance its undergraduates’ educational experience. To further celebrate UC Irvine’s commitment to research, it is my distinct pleasure to sponsor the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. This award—a 17-year tradition—recognizes the dedication and contributions of one student and faculty member from each school. Along with the entire UC Irvine community, I offer my congratulations to this year’s talented recipients. Congratulations also to all the dedicated students and faculty mentors who are participating in the 2013 UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium. Thank you for joining us at today’s symposium as we celebrate the passion and accomplishments of our undergraduate researchers. I hope you find your day to be exciting and inspiring. Sincerely, Michael V. Drake, M.D. Chancellor Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values Table of Contents Schedule of Events ........................................................................ 2 A Welcome from Undergraduate Education ......................... 3 Keynote Speaker ............................................................................ 4 Lunch Performance ...................................................................... 5 Oral Presentations ......................................................................... 7 Poster Presentations .................................................................. 39 Individual Poster Presentations ........................................................... 39 Group Poster Presentations ................................................................. 55 Index of Presenters .................................................................... 67 Thanks & Acknowledgments ................................................. 99 Symposium Student Center Map .......................................... 104 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 1- Schedule of Events Saturday, May 18, 2013 7:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Registration 7:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. Oral Presentations - Session I 10:30 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Keynote Address & Awards Ceremony Crystal Cove Auditorium 12:00 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. Lunch 12:20 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 1:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. Poster Session Pacific Ballroom C & D 3:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. Oral Presentations - Session II Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium -2- A Welcome from Underg raduate Education May 18, 2013 Dear UC Irvine Community Members and Guests: Welcome to the 20th annual UC Irvine Undergraduate Research Symposium. This event celebrates the hard work and dedication of today’s presenters in carrying out faculty-mentored research projects and creative activities. This year’s theme, “Undergraduate Research: Passion and Values,” highlights the drive that has propelled these students to pursue their work and the personal qualities nurtured and developed by their mentors through their research journeys. The scale of today’s event—with almost 600 projects, presented by close to 950 students, mentored by just under 400 faculty—provides you the opportunity to immerse yourself in the research culture that is such an important part of an undergraduate education at UC Irvine. Whether you devote yourself to examining multiple facets of a single field or exploring a range of topics, you are sure to be excited by the quality of these students’ accomplishments. A host of contributors helped make this day possible. We especially thank the faculty mentors, whose passion for their own work serves as an inspiration for our students. We are enormously grateful, as well, to the many volunteers who have worked hard to ensure the Symposium’s success. The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in the Division of Undergraduate Education assists UC Irvine’s students by facilitating and recognizing their involvement in faculty-mentored undergraduate research and creative activities. As the organizer of today’s symposium, UROP has provided research assistance and funding to many of today’s presenters. UROP programs also include advising undergraduate students about on- and offcampus research opportunities, and publishing The UCI Undergraduate Research Journal, an annual multidisciplinary publication. In addition, the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) provides students with the opportunity to immerse themselves into a research project or creative activity under the guidance of UC Irvine faculty members. UROP has also collaborated with other units on campus to sponsor undergraduate research programs emphasizing multidisciplinary design, as well as research in biophotonics, health promotion and disease prevention, information technology, cardiovascular research, chemistry, and micro/nano technologies. This year, UROP has further expanded its offerings with the launching of the International Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (I-SURF), which encourages international students to come to the United States to conduct summer research under the guidance of UC Irvine faculty mentors. Thank you for joining us for today. We hope you are inspired by the efforts and accomplishments of the student presenters and celebrate with us their research excellence. Sincerely, Sharon V. Salinger Dean, Division of Undergraduate Education Said M. Shokair Director, UROP Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values -3- Keynote Speaker Bruce Blumberg, Ph.D. Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering Bruce Blumberg received the Ph.D. from UCLA in 1987 where he studied the molecular biology and biochemistry of basement membranes. His postdoctoral training was in the molecular embryology of vertebrate development with Eddy De Robertis at UCLA from 1988–1992. Dr. Blumberg trained in molecular endocrinology as a Staff Scientist at the Salk Institute with Ron Evans in 1992, where he led the effort to identify new hormones that act through so-called orphan nuclear receptors. He joined the faculty at UC Irvine in 1998, where he is currently Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine. Dr. Blumberg’s research focuses on the role of nuclear hormone receptors in development, physiology and disease. Particular interests concern the early patterning of the vertebrate nervous system, and the links between exposure to environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals and the development of cancer and obesity. He proposed the obesogen hypothesis, which holds that exposure to chemical obesogens can reprogram metabolism to favor the storage of excess fat, despite normal diet and exercise, and has recently shown that prenatal exposure to such obesogens can have permanent effects on the exposed individuals, their children and grandchildren. Dr. Blumberg was appointed as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012. Dr. Blumberg is passionate about involving undergraduates directly in his research. In his 14 years at UC Irvine, 57 undergraduate students have trained in his laboratory of whom 15 were underrepresented minorities and 49 were female. Twenty-four of these undergraduates have been supported by UROP-sponsored programs, 15 have been awarded “Excellence in Research” by the School of Biological Sciences, 16 have gone on to co-author papers in high impact scholarly journals, and three have published in The UCI Undergraduate Research Journal. Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium -4- Lunch Performance The Dance Department is proud to present faculty-mentored undergraduate creative projects that feature movement-based research. Dance artists share their ideas through live performance and discussion. These new works demonstrate the ability to allow inspiration and creativity to flow between research, rehearsal and the stage. We hope you will enjoy the show! Time: 12:20 – 1:20 p.m. Location: William Gillespie Performance Studio 1100 Improv Revolution Faculty Mentor: Joel Veenstra Title: Improv Revolution Showcase Performers: Matthew Duran, Zoe Moacanin, Marcus Munguia, Katie Reed, Benjamin Ridge, Vincent Tangherlini, Yunder Tsai, Andra Whipple Bare Bones Dance Theater 2012-2013 Faculty Mentor: Jodie Gates Title: You are the Beauty Choreography: Brittany Clements Music: “Spiegel im Speigel” by Arvo Part Dancers: Brittany Clements, Karen Wing, Natalie Matsuura Title: Little Battles Choreography: Anne Carr Music: “Un Dernier Verre (Pour La Route)” by Beriut and “La Banlieue” by Beirut Dancers: Anne Carr, Alex Dreschke DTM2 Improvisation Ensemble (Dance, Theater, Music, and Media) Faculty Mentor: Lisa Naugle Choreography: Professor Lisa Naugle in collaboration with dancers Dancers: Sarah Bauer, Kimberly Bridgewater, Sarah Castro, Brita Crain, Kelsey Gerber, Cyla Grisso, Kaylyn Hopkins Title: Passerby Faculty Mentor: Lisa Naugle Choreography: Kimberly Bridgewater Music: “Claire De Lune” by Ludwig van Beethoven Dancers: Cierra Crowley, Kelsey Gerber, Caitlin Hicks Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values -5- Performance (cont’d.) Title: Annie Fannie (an excerpt) Faculty Mentor: Jodie Gates Choreography: Kimberly Bridgewater Music: “House by the Sea” by Iron and Wine Dancers: Cierra Crowley, Caitlin Hicks Donald Mckayle’s UCI Etude Ensemble 2012-2013 Title: To Artina Choreography: Donald McKayle Rehearsal Assistant: Will Jonhston Music: “To Artina” by Eric Santos, Vocals by Darryl Taylor, Poem by Langston Hughes Dancers: Karen Wing and Jeremy Zapanta Interface Ensemble Faculty Mentor: Chad Michael Hall Title: Whiplash Choreographer: Chad Michael Hall Music: Composed by David Karagianis Dancers: Melanie Anderson, Brita Crain, Landyn Endo, Kelsey Gerber, Andrew Hallenbeck, Shelby Monson, Keely Moore, Daniel Tran Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium -6- Oral Presentations Each presentation is allotted 15 minutes followed by a 3-minute question and answer period. Each session has a faculty moderator who is assisted by a student room monitor. Participants and guests are asked to adhere to the Symposium Etiquette Guidelines and not to enter or leave the rooms during presentations. Abstracts for the presentations at this year’s Symposium are available on the UROP Web site: http://www.urop.uci.edu/symposium.html Balboa Island A Time Student Presenter(s) Oral Session I Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 8:30 AM Zachary Campagna Biomedical Engineering Effect of Cardiac Fibroblasts on In Vitro Vascular Network Formation Steven George Biomedical Engineering 8:50 AM Kevin Cho Chemical Engineering Jessica Motherwell Biomedical Engineering Optimizing the Lentiviral Transduction of Primary Cells Steven George Biomedical Engineering 9:10 AM Alexandra Crampton Biomedical Engineering Effects of TGF-β Stimulation on In Vitro Vasculogenesis Models Steven George Biomedical Engineering 9:30 AM Matthew Curtis Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine/ Music Performance: Viola The Effects of Oxygen Preconditioning on the Vascularization of Fibrin Tissues Steven George Biomedical Engineering 9:50 AM Danny Baldo Jr. Meghan Knight Biomedical Engineering Myopacer Electrode Assay for In-Vitro Contractility Experiments Anna Grosberg Biomedical Engineering 10:10 AM Abdullah Siddiqui Biomedical Engineering Finite Element Analysis of Piezoelectric iSensors for the Study of Cardiomyocyte Contractility William Tang Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values -7- Balboa Island A (cont’d.) Time Student Presenter(s) Oral Session II Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 3:00 PM Michael Corrado Biomedical Engineering Size Selection of C. Microfabricated Filter elegans 3:20 PM Natasha Felsinger Biomedical Engineering Covalent Linkage of Biomolecules on to Metal Nanostructures Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 3:40 PM Edgar Pena Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering An Improved Shortest Paths Approach for Detecting Brain White Matter Connections Frithjof Kruggel Biomedical Engineering 4:00 PM Jonaphan Hateley Ali Khalessi Kimberly Sarrisin Biomedical Engineering Baolong Nguyen Mechanical Engineering Real Time PCR on a Microfluidic CD for Point of Care Applications Lawrence Kulinsky Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering William Tang Biomedical Engineering 4:20 PM Kevin Lee Mathematics Electromechanical Modeling of the Heart in Moving Domains Using the Phase-Field Method John Lowengrub Mathematics through a Olivier Cinquin Developmental & Cell Biology Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium -8- Balboa Island B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Yu-Wen Chan Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Design of a Computer Controlled Multi-Channel Variable-Gain Amplifier Unit and a Band Pass Filter Circuitry for DOT System Gultekin Gulsen Biomedical Engineering 8:50 AM Mohamad Abedi Biomedical Engineering Pneumatic Testing of Air-Based Inverters to Optimize Miniaturized Diagnostic Devices Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 9:10 AM Michelle Hwang Biomedical Engineering Microfluidic Implementation in Serial Dilution Processes Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 9:30 AM Hyung Phouasalit Biomedical Engineering The Effects of Spatially Activating the Wnt Signaling Pathway in Cancer Cells Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 9:50 AM Phoebe Nguyen Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine The Role of the Physical Microenvironment in Regulating Macrophage Polarization and Function Wendy Liu Biomedical Engineering 10:10 AM Christopher Shum Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine A Low-Cost EEG and Evoked Potentials System for Brain Lesion Localization An Do Neurology Zoran Nenadic Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II 3:00 PM Christopher Griffin Philosophy Tea and the Arts of Being and Time Martin Schwab Philosophy 3:20 PM Gregory Dixon English Tarot: A Collection of Stories Ron Carlson English 3:40 PM Marilyn Leider English “The Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars”: Dante’s Choreographic Vision James Chiampi European Studies 4:00 PM Alexandra Lossada English The Problematics of an Encrypted Mother: Reading White and Black Spaces in Tennessee Williams’ “Desire and the Black Masseur” and Suddenly Last Richard Godden English Summer 4:20 PM Natalie Badalof English Letters of Brook Farm Rodrigo Lazo English 4:40 PM Saniya Taher Comparative Literature/ Women’s Studies; International Studies Presence of an Impenetrable Past: Italian Postwar National Memory and Trauma in Antonioni’s Rei Terada Comparative Literature Trilogy Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values -9- Crescent Bay A Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Sophia Nguyen Business Economics Testing for Retaliatory Effects: A Time Series Study of Tariff Endogeneity between the United States and Canada Gary Richardson Economics 8:50 AM Mehwish Shakeel International Studies National Identity and the Impact of Drones in Pakistan Daniel Brunstetter International Studies 9:10 AM Colleen Bromberger History Geography and Secularization Joseph McKenna History 9:30 AM Jeffrey Gibson Business Administration/ Political Science The Role of the Pakistani Army within Pakistan Patrick Morgan Political Science 9:50 AM Long Kan Economics/ Political Science For Coin and Contract: The Resurgence of Private Military Companies Patrick Morgan Political Science the Success of Sweden’s Oral Session II 3:00 PM Y Nguyen Sociology The Maoist Military Line and Political Revolution Yang Su Sociology 3:20 PM Lucas Hahn International Studies/ Political Science Leadership Instability in China’s Foreign Policy Robert Uriu Political Science 3:40 PM Sheila Vilanilam International Studies Leadership and Decision Making in the Hermit Kingdom Robert Uriu Political Science 4:00 PM Allen Tran Political Science Liberalization, without Democratization: Why the Imbalance Exists in Myanmar’s Current Transition Robert Uriu Political Science 4:20 PM David Ou Political Science Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in China: A Perspective from Zhongshan City Dorothy Solinger Political Science Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 10 - Crescent Bay B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Soobin (Kristen) Ahn Psychology Khanh Kathy Dong Political Science/ Sociology Asian American College Students Well-Being: A Comprehensive Analysis of Psychological, Social and Cultural Factors in the Context of the Family Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 8:50 AM Brian Hermosillo Psychology & Social Behavior Compadre hood: An Untapped Support System for Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 9:10 AM Shacole Hamlett Social Science Successful African American Entrepreneurship: An Examination of Individual, Group, and Environmental Processes Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 9:30 AM Asad Malim African-American Studies 40 Acres and a Mosque: Blackness, Islam, and Racialization in Post 9/11 America Sohail Daulatzai Film & Media Studies 9:50 AM Batya Fields Sociology Black Identity: The Importance of Membership in Black Organization and Gender in Racial Identity among Black College Students Jennifer Lee Sociology Latino Male Undergraduates and their College Adjustment Oral Session II 3:00 PM Faye Cheng Sociology The Globalization of Higher Education Samuel Gilmore Sociology 3:20 PM Yu-Fang Pan Sociology Degree of In-Group Solidarity and its Effect on Willingness to Interact with Out-Group Members Samuel Gilmore Sociology 3:40 PM Tanishia Santana Sociology A Comparison of Military Sexual Trauma and Disposition of Reported Cases in the U.S. Military and Israeli Defense Force Catherine Bolzendahl Samuel Gilmore Sociology 4:00 PM Nayab Syeda Sociology Unequal Inequality: Patterns of Support across Dimensions of Gender Equality Catherine Bolzendahl Sociology 4:20 PM Jessica Quintana Sociology How is Marital Satisfaction Affected by Household Labor? Matt Huffman Sociology Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 11 - Crescent Bay C Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Eddie Bonilla Chicano/Latino Studies Class or Race? A Comparative Study of the Black Panther Party and the Chicano Left Rodolfo Torres Planning, Policy, & Design 8:50 AM Samantha Navarro Global Cultures/ Literary Journalism Undocumented Struggles Ana Rosas History Barry Siegel English 9:10 AM Sheila Xiao Sociology Motivating Factors for Long Term Activism Ann Hironaka Sociology 9:30 AM Christopher Galeano International Studies/ Political Science Media and its Negative Influence on Public Opinion of Immigration Louis DeSipio Political Science 9:50 AM Yoselinda Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior From the Words of Latino Males: Navigating PostSecondary Education Glenda Flores Chicano/Latino Studies Maria Rendon Planning, Policy, & Design Oral Session II 3:00 PM Emily Whitley Sociology In-and-Out: Lives of Mentally Disabled Homeless Women in Los Angeles Jacob Avery Sociology 3:20 PM David Liu Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Mexican Orphanage Experience and the Impact from Non-Profit Organizations Kristin Peterson Anthropology 3:40 PM Esther Mealy Anthropology StripperWeb: Sex Worker Solidarity in an Online Forum of Professional Transgressives Kristin Peterson Anthropology 4:00 PM Rahul Chopra Political Science The Politics of Human Trafficking: Assessing the Effectiveness of California Human Trafficking Laws Charles Anthony Smith Political Science 4:20 PM Tyler Hunt Political Science Human Trafficking and Victim Assessing the Role of NGOs Charles Anthony Smith Political Science Assistance: Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 12 - Crescent Bay D Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Rocio La Rosa International Studies Prosecutorial Discretion and the International Criminal Court Christopher Whytock Political Science 8:50 AM Thao Thai Political Science Employment Discrimination and the Supreme Court: From Griggs to Ricci Katherine Tate Political Science 9:10 AM Sophia Fonua Business Economics/ Political Science Public Opinion on Welfare Reform in the United States Katherine Tate Political Science 9:30 AM Bereket Shibeshi Sociology New Voter ID Laws and Young Minority Males David Meyer Sociology 9:50 AM Angelina Dayfallah Political Science The Use of Nonviolence in the Palestinian-Israeli Peace Process Daniel Wehrenfennig Political Science Oral Session II 3:00 PM Stella Sakhon Psychology & Social Behavior Self Motivated False Memories Elizabeth Loftus Psychology & Social Behavior 3:20 PM Christian Avetisyan Criminology, Law & Society Matthew Jansen Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior False Memories of Fabricated Political Events Elizabeth Loftus Psychology & Social Behavior 3:40 PM Thomas Doan Hoang Nguyen Psychology & Social Behavior Motivated False Memories Elizabeth Loftus Psychology & Social Behavior 4:00 PM Natalie Ikker Helen La Sala Ingres Patricia Place Psychology & Social Behavior Potentially Traumatic Events, Directed Forgetting, and Time Perspective Elizabeth Loftus Psychology & Social Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 13 - Crystal Cove Auditorium Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Amanda Peronto Drama/ History What “Putting a Woman in her Place” Really Means in Theatre Ketu Katrak Drama 8:50 AM Connor Alhart Drama (Un)Anonymous: An Exploration of Addiction and Personal Identity Annie Loui Drama 9:10 AM Matthew Duran Katie Reed Benjamin Ridge Vincent Tangherlini Yuder Tsai Andra Whipple Drama Zoe Moacanin English Marcus Munguia Criminology, Law & Society Improv Revolution Presents: The Coup de Comedy Festival Joel Veenstra Drama 9:30 AM Vahan Hartooni Computer Science & Engineering/ Digital Arts Sakura Transmutation: Twitter Ikebana Bryan Jackson Studio Art 9:50 AM Natalie Kovacs Psychology & Social Behavior/ Studio Art Melissa Maldonado Economics/ Studio Art Catalyst: Undergraduate Art Gallery Gifford Myers Studio Art 10:10 AM Anna Mariscal Anthropology Traveling and Improvisational Dancing: Reflections on a Holistic Approach to Dance Instruction Lisa Naugle Dance Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 14 - Crystal Cove Auditorium (cont’d.) Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session II 3:00 PM Reyna Baltazar Psychology & Social Behavior Jacqueline Fuentes Marjory Vazquez Criminology, Law & Society Consequences of Living in an Undocumented Family on Youths’ Experiences with the Juvenile Justice System Elizabeth Cauffman Psychology & Social Behavior 3:20 PM Shan-Chun Chen Psychology & Social Behavior Romina Gill Business Economics/ Psychology Nina Ozbardakci Psychology DRD4 and Depression: The Mediating Role of Friends Elizabeth Cauffman Psychology & Social Behavior 3:40 PM Rudolph Bielitz Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Deanna Gallegos Sonja Huang Psychology & Social Behavior Not Just Child’s Play: Youth Bullying And The Risk Of Offending Behavior Elizabeth Cauffman Psychology & Social Behavior 4:00 PM Claudia Gavrilescu Michael Kim Criminology, Law & Society Julia Lee Roshan Sharma Psychology & Social Behavior Coping during Incarceration: Comparison of Youths Processed in Juvenile versus Adult Court Elizabeth Cauffman Psychology & Social Behavior 4:20 PM Julia Lee Psychology & Social Behavior Do Individual and Contextual Factors Predict Processing Decisions for Juvenile Offenders? Elizabeth Cauffman Psychology & Social Behavior 4:40 PM Stephanie Nguyen Psychology & Social Behavior Kiley Smith Psychology The Moderating Effect of Callous-Unemotional Traits on Juvenile Conduct Elizabeth Cauffman Psychology & Social Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 15 - Doheny Beach A Oral Session I The morning session in Doheny Beach A will be presented by students from the Advanced Field Study .course sequence in the School of Social Ecology. A list of their presentations is on page 38. Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session II 3:00 PM Kristine Bonifacio Michelle Sangalang Kevin Yokota Biomedical Engineering Phong Tran Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Eric Wilde Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Rehabilitation Walker Tibor Juhasz Ophthalmology Albert Yee Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 3:20 PM Justin Bass Anh Cao Aaron Paff Electrical Engineering William Hillhouse Computer Engineering ZipScope Time-Domain Analyzer Lee Swindlehurst Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 3:40 PM Jahanzeb Ashraf Andrew Dugum Monil Patel Biological Sciences Quentin Dietz Biomedical Computing Sandy Ortiz Philosophy Growing and Extracting Biofuel from Algae Peter Bowler Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 4:00 PM Khizar Karwa Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Motor Control for Accurate Characterization of a Small IC Engine John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 4:20 PM Ryan Kuehne Mechanical Engineering Prototyping and Testing of a Mechanical Trap Toilet John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 4:40 PM Joe Chen Anaya Mekonnen Lineker Phuong Mechanical Engineering Christopher Gay Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Stored Energy Solar Stove Project John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 16 - Doheny Beach B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Kevin Limtao Biomedical Engineering Microfluidic Platform for Small-Sample Protein Analysis Mark Bachman Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 8:50 AM Natasha Felsinger Nigel Fernandez Patrick Kahn Biomedical Engineering Huylong Ngo Biomedical Engineering/ Chemistry/ Biological Sciences Vladmir Satchouk Aerospace Engineering Automated Microfluidic HIV Platform for Developing Nations Oladele Ogunseitan Program in Public Health William Tang 9:10 AM Chase Davis Priyanka Jain Ryan Kwong Katherine Lee Eric Nguyen Reaz Rahman Biomedical Engineering Portable, Low-Cost Malaria Diagnostic Platform Oladele Ogunseitan Program in Public Health William Tang Biomedical Engineering 9:30 AM Michael Lum Biomedical Engineering Cancer Tumor Microfluidics Inertial William Tang Biomedical Engineering 9:50 AM Andrea Navarro Tracey Tien Biomedical Engineering Microfabricated Fluidic Platform with Piezoelectric Bridges for Studying the Biomechanics of Cardiomyocytes William Tang Biomedical Engineering Cell Isolation Immunoassay with Oral Session II 3:00 PM Joseph Gomez Yijiao Wang Biomedical Engineering Simulated Capillaries for Blood Rheology Study William Tang Biomedical Engineering 3:20 PM Emma Gallarza Jennifer Lee Max Mao Albert Truong Biomedical Engineering Smartphone Analyzer of Microfluidic Assays for Portable Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Arlene Doria William Tang Biomedical Engineering 3:40 PM Umer Waris Biological Sciences Prevalence of AHA’s Life Simple 7 Adherence across Various Racial and Ethnic Groups in California Nathan Wong Epidemiology 4:00 PM John Peralta Biological Sciences Christine Umali Public Health Sciences Neck Pain in the U.S. Working-Age Population Haiou Yang Medicine 4:20 PM Amanda Nguyen Political Science/ Public Health Policy The Emergency Medical Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Lisa Grant Ludwig Program in Public Health Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 17 - Doheny Beach C Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Jonathan Lim Business Administration/ Psychology & Social Behavior Love at First Sight?: Asian Americans’ Use of Impression Management on a Speed Date Chuansheng Chen Psychology & Social Behavior 8:50 AM Ronica Senores Psychology & Social Behavior The Roles of Self-Esteem and Gender on MateValue Accuracy in a Speed-Dating Environment Chuansheng Chen Psychology & Social Behavior 9:10 AM Justin Huft Psychology & Social Behavior/ Social Ecology Quantitative Differences in Schemas of Depression between Religious Groups Peter Ditto Eric Knowles Psychology & Social Behavior 9:30 AM Hannah Kang Psychology & Social Behavior Taboo Trade-Offs Based on Moral Foundation Theory Peter Ditto Psychology & Social Behavior 9:50 AM Hongyang Guan Psychology A Survey of Observed Power in a Large Sample of Published Articles in Psychology Joachim Vandekerckhove Cognitive Sciences Oral Session II 3:00 PM Jamie Amemiya Biological Sciences Sex-Specific Susceptibility to Pre- and Postnatal Environments Programs Infant Cognitive Development Elysia Davis Psychiatry & Human Behavior 3:20 PM Margaret McDuffee Psychology & Social Behavior Maternal Stress during Pregnancy and Infant Outcomes Ilona Yim Psychology & Social Behavior 3:40 PM Vicky Lien Psychology & Social Behavior Biculturalism, Loneliness, and Stress among Asian Americans Ilona Yim Psychology & Social Behavior 4:00 PM Amy Goldman Sociology Exploring International Gender Differences in Mathematics Self-Efficacy Andrew Penner Sociology 4:20 PM Lucus McKenzie Sociology Uneven Development at the Regional Scale: Port Infrastructure and Southern California’s TradeDependent Industries David Smith Sociology Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 18 - Doheny Beach D Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Naomi Lichtner Earth & Environmental Science/ English Peace Negotiations via Environmental Cooperation in the Congo Richard Matthew Planning, Policy, & Design 8:50 AM Dahnish Shams Social Ecology Boundary Organizations: A Redefined Tool for Environmental Communications Richard Matthew Planning, Policy, & Design 9:10 AM Jeanette Lee Earth & Environmental Science Temporal Variability in Oceanic Nutrient Ratios along the Southern California Coast Adam Martiny Earth System Science 9:30 AM Elliot Persico Physics/ Studio Art Enhancement of Ferromagnetism in Ultra-Thin SrRuO3 Film with Few-Monolayer-Thick SrTiO3 Capping Layer Jing Xia Physics & Astronomy 9:50 AM Karen An Earth & Environmental Science The Human Implications of NASA’s GRACE Satellite: Estimating a Global Hydrological Carrying Capacity James Famiglietti John Reager Earth System Science Oral Session II 3:00 PM Golroxan Shoa Biological Sciences Visual Working Memoray in Cortical Visual Field Maps Alyssa Brewer Cognitive Sciences 3:20 PM Camille Macalinao Psychology Using EEG Recordings of Covert Shifts of Spatial Attention to Signal Intended Direction Michael D’Zmura Cognitive Sciences 3:40 PM Natalie Poppa Psychology Neural Correlates of Sensorimotor Integration in Speech Production: A Lesion Study Gregory Hickok Cognitive Sciences 4:00 PM Irina Danileiko Psychology Calibration of People’s Estimates of Probabilities in Soccer Michael Lee Cognitive Sciences 4:20 PM Mark Dennison, Jr. Psychology Effects of TMS on Visual Attention Ramesh Srinivasan Cognitive Sciences Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 19 - Emerald Bay A Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Bima Hasjim Biological Sciences/ Psychology The Role of Cholecystokinin on Non-Responsive Mechanisms during Electroacupuncture Treatment on Elevated Blood Pressure in Rats Min Li Medicine 8:50 AM Allison Enomoto Lily Sung Biological Sciences The Role of γ-Aminobutyric Acid in the Nucleus Tractus Solitarius during Electroacupuncture Modulation of the Bezold-Jarisch Reflex Stephanie Tjen-a-looi Medicine 9:10 AM Minh Tran Biological Sciences Studying the Role of Opioids in the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract during Electroacupuncture (EA) Stephanie Tjen-a-looi Medicine 9:30 AM Omeid Heidari Cassidie Thomas Nursing Science Developing and Implementing and Effective Reproductive Health Eduction Program Julie Rousseau Program in Nursing Science Oral Session II 3:00 PM Alison Wong Public Health Sciences Student Dancers at UC Irvine: How Can Injury Risk Be Reduced? Zuzana Bic Brandon Brown Program in Public Health Diane Diefenderfer Dance 3:20 PM Thuy Quyen Pham Public Health Policy Vietnamese Americans’ Attitudes towards Compensation for Living Kidney Donation Zuzana Bic Brandon Brown Program in Public Health 3:40 PM Marty Ralph Ignacio Business Economics/Public Health Policy Shifting the Fear of Hypoglycemia among Parents with Children with Type 1 Diabetes Zuzana Bic Program in Public Health 4:00 PM Newsha Dowlaty Biological Sciences Brian Tran Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Amanda Yoon Public Health Policy The Inflammatory Effects of Glucose on Granulocytes and Monocytes of Obese and Type II Diabetic Subjects Pietro Galassetti Pediatrics 4:20 PM Natalie Rivadeneira Public Health Sciences Cancer Mortality Trends in the United States: Patterns by Sex and Age 1959–2010 Andrew Noymer Program in Public Health Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 20 - Emerald Bay B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Michelle Yancoskie Genetics Phosphorylation of the Mammalian Transcription Factor Grainyhead-like 3 (GRHL3) by MitogenActivated Protein Kinases Lee Bardwell Developmental & Cell Biology 8:50 AM Chantle Edillor Developmental & Cell Biology The In Vivo Effects of Bisphenol A Diglycidyl Ether and its Potential Pathways for Adipogenic Induction Bruce Blumberg Developmental & Cell Biology 9:10 AM Megan Afetian Developmental & Cell Biology Characterizing trp53 Mutation in Hair FollicleDerived Pilomatricomas Xing Dai Biological Chemistry 9:30 AM Joseph Choe Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Analyzing RNA that Specifically Localize to Drosophila melanogaster Lipid Droplets Steven Gross Developmental & Cell Biology 9:50 AM Sarah Valles Biological Sciences Transport Regulating Proteins in Lipid-Droplets of Drosophila melanogaster Embryos Steven Gross Developmental & Cell Biology 10:10 AM Seyed Pairawan Biological Sciences Studying the Chlamydial Developmental Cycle using Electron Microscopy Christine Suetterlin Developmental & Cell Biology Oral Session II 3:00 PM Shichun Ling Psychology & Social Behavior Demographic Differences of the Perceived Importance and Reasons for Life Goals Jutta Heckhausen Psychology & Social Behavior 3:20 PM Vinnie Wu Psychology & Social Behavior Shared Agency with Parents Motivation and Achievement Academic Jutta Heckhausen Psychology & Social Behavior 3:40 PM Kristin Gundersen Psychology & Social Behavior Hardiness as a Predictor of Officer Cadet Performance: A Longitudinal Study at the United States Military Academy, West Point Salvatore Maddi Psychology & Social Behavior 4:00 PM Benjamin LathamBryman Psychology & Social Behavior Understanding the Non-Medical Use Prescription Stimulants by College Students of JoAnn Prause Psychology & Social Behavior 4:20 PM Colleen Burkhead Tian Harrison Psychology & Social Behavior Gender and Ethnicity as Moderators of the Effect of Writing about One’s Best Possible Self Joanne Zinger Psychology & Social Behavior in Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 21 - Emerald Bay C Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Tara Zand Biological Sciences Comparison of Floseal Tubeless Exit vs. Cope Loop Nephrostomy vs. Facial Stitch Following Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy by Prospective Randomized Trial Jaime Landman Urology 8:50 AM Helena Do Biological Sciences Hinal Patel Neurobiology Randomized Assessment of Alcohol Consumption with Computerized Screening and Brief Intervention for Adult and Adolescent Patients in the Emergency Department Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 9:10 AM Christopher Gilani Sohni Singh Biological Sciences Sina Popal Public Health Sciences Utility of Ultrasound Guided Lumbar Puncture in Successfully Reducing Level of Traumatic Taps John Christian Fox Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 9:30 AM Chelsey Bithell Nooreen Khan Armaan Rowther Nadia Zuabi Biological Sciences Prevalence and Clinical Import of Thoracic Injuries Identified by Chest CT but not Chest Radiograph in Blunt Trauma Patients Mark Langdorf Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 9:50 AM Anika Akhter Public Health Policy Jenna Hung Maggie Wu Pharmaceutical Science Michael Liu Keli Tahara Ivan Trang Neurobiology A Survey of UCI Student Health Center Patients: Attitudes and Receptiveness to Using Integrative Medicine for Common Medical Conditions Wadie Najm Family Medicine Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 22 - Emerald Bay C (cont’d.) Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session II 3:00 PM Adriana Capatina Biological Sciences Development and Assessment of a Novel Perioperative Ultrasound Curriculum for Anesthesiology Residents Davinder Ramsingh Anesthesiology 3:20 PM Shane Breazeale Biological Sciences Melika Hosseini Public Health Sciences Ultrafest, a Hands-On Ultrasound Symposium for California Medical Students John Christian Fox Emergency Medicine 3:40 PM Sami Dwabe Biological Sciences The Association of Sepsis and Deep Vein Thrombosis Rates in Trauma Patients Cristobal Barrios Allen Kong Surgery 4:00 PM Daniel Ho Biological Sciences Kunaal Kapoor Public Health Sciences Leslie Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior Bhavika Patel Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Cathy Shutaya Public Health Policy A Survey on Patients at the UCI Santa Ana Family Health Center: Attitudes and Knowledge of Complementary and Alternative Medicine David Kilgore Family Medicine 4:20 PM Esther Kim Biological Sciences The Importance of Brief Screening and Intervention in Older Patients Cristobal Barrios Allen Kong Surgery Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 23 - Emerald Bay D Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Shivani Sharma Biological Sciences Immunofluorescent Computed Tomography Based Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Human Optic Nerve Head Donald Brown Ophthalmology 8:50 AM Michael Finney Public Health Sciences Laminar Organization of Local Excitatory and Inhibitory Circuitry in Mouse Visual Cortex Nicholas Olivas Xiangmin Xu Anatomy & Neurobiology 9:10 AM Caroline Bakhit Biological Sciences/ Psychology & Social Behavior Emotion Perception in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder and the Influence of Neurocognition Julie Patterson Psychiatry & Human Behavior 9:30 AM Rahaf Baker Biological Sciences Stimulation or Reperfusion Can Contributed to Increased Cortical Damage Three Hours Following Occlusion in A Rodent Stroke Model Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior 9:50 AM Keli Tahara Neurobiology Horizontal Projections as an Anatomical Foundation for Radial Spreads of Activity following Single-Whisker Stimulation Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior 10:10 AM Jocelyn Argueta Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Metabolic Defect in Down Syndrome Cell Lines Jorge Busciglio Pinar Coskun Neurobiology & Behavior Oral Session II 3:00 PM Pejman Majd Biological Sciences Individual Axons from Neurons in the Posteromedial Barrel Subfield Project Horizontally for Several Millimeters through Cortical Gray Matter Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior 3:20 PM Andrew Banuelos Biological Sciences Clare Quirk Neurobiology Effects of Temporary Inactivations of the Hippocampus and Medial Prefrontal Cortex on Sequence Memory Timothy Allen Norbert Fortin Neurobiology & Behavior 3:40 PM Naira Sargsyan Biological Sciences Retention Rate and Nature of Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) Over Time James McGaugh Craig Stark Neurobiology & Behavior 4:00 PM Amandeep Singh Biological Sciences Explicit and Implicit Learning in the Serial Reaction-Time Task James McGaugh Craig Stark Neurobiology & Behavior 4:20 PM Soraya Azzawi Neurobiology Rescue of Long-Term Location Memory for BAF53b Heterozygous Knockouts Marcelo Wood Neurobiology & Behavior 4:40 PM Mariexcel Davatolhagh Biological Sciences The Role of NR4A1 and NR4A2 in Long-Term Memory Marcelo Wood Neurobiology & Behavior Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 24 - Emerald Bay E Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Baldwin Chang Computer Science & Engineering Anita Gilbert Nafiri Kusumakaulika Informatics Nithin Jilla Computer Science Social Media’s Epilogue: A Design Study Exploring Postmortem Data Management Jed Brubaker Gillian Hayes Informatics 8:50 AM Jeffrey Hong Business Information Management Nafiri Kusumakaulika Andrea Lau Informatics uCibo: Supporting Novice Cooks through Sensor Enhanced Computing Technologies Gillian Hayes Informatics 9:10 AM Van Custodio Katherine Nguyen Rachel Weiner Informatics Video Modeling for Autism Gillian Hayes Informatics 9:30 AM Victor Lelas Computer Science Hugo Polanco Informatics/ Medical Informatics Katherine Tran Computer Science & Engineering Joseph Trevino Computer Science/ Mathematics Understanding Users’ Needs for a Mental Health Smartphone Application Karen Cheng Gillian Hayes Informatics 9:50 AM Victor Lelas Computer Science Minhnhut Vo Computer Science & Engineering/ Informatics Ching-Wen Yang Public Health Sciences Technologies for Assisting with Food Insecurity: Strengthening Nonprofit Organizations Gillian Hayes Melissa Mazmanian Informatics Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 25 - Emerald Bay E (cont’d.) Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session II 3:00 PM Igii Enverga Taylor Rogers Jonathan Stroud Computer Science Brian Song Mathematics Ensemble Learning and the Heritage Health Prize Alexander Ihler Max Welling Computer Science 3:20 PM Katherine Lo Mathematics Implications of the Materiality of Game Devices on Player Identity Bonnie Nardi Informatics 3:40 PM Michael Vorobyov Computer Science Application of Bayesian Networks to Texas Hold’em Poker Alexander Ihler Computer Science 4:00 PM Christine Bediones English Camille Macalinao Psychology Are we Washing Poop?: Unintended Consequences of Educational Game Design AnneMarie Conley Education 4:20 PM Nina Kang Anish Patel Tiffany Wu Biological Sciences Application of Neurobiological Animations as a Pedagogical tool for Educational Enhancement through the Social Media platform Brad Hughes Zheyan Xu Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 26 - Moss Cove A Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Adrienne Nguyen Anthropology/ History Second Generation Vietnamese Americans and the Historical Memory of the Vietnam War Emily Rosenberg History 8:50 AM Howard Diep Asian American Studies/ Political Science Michelle Pham Biological Sciences Interactive History: Vietnamese American Elders’ Stories Thuy Vo-Dang Asian American Studies 9:10 AM Nathan Directo History/ Mechanical Engineering Animating the Lost Generation: Understanding Japanese Youth Problems through Popular Culture Kathryn Ragsdale History 9:30 AM Tiffany Quebral History/ Political Science The Significance of Political Activism to Reclaim the Memory and Truth of the Comfort Women Dorothy Fujita-Rony Asian American Studies 9:50 AM Neil Bautista English Exploring Philippine Queer Culture: The Rhetoric of Containment for the Bakla (a Third Gender) Jonathan Alexander English Oral Session II 3:00 PM David Cao Chemistry Synthesis and Characterization of a Heterobimetallic Coordination Complex with Redox-Active Ligands Alan Heyduk Chemistry 3:20 PM Arya Baghkhanian Chemistry A Hydrophobic Surface is Essential to Inhibit the Aggregation of a Tau-Derived Hexapeptide James Nowick Chemistry 3:40 PM Diana Tran Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Cross Your Fingers for Cleavable Cross-Linkers: An Investigative Study Scott Rychnovsky Chemistry 4:00 PM Thanh Ho Ngo Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Temperature Dependence and the Effect of Propane Flow Rate on the Kinetics of Propane Clathrate Hydrate Formation Kenneth Janda Chemistry 4:20 PM Margaret Marvin Chemistry Seeing the Forest for the (Pine) Trees: Aqueous Photochemistry of cis -Pinonic Acid, a Representative Compound in Forest Haze Sergey Nizkorodov Chemistry 4:40 PM William Brown Chemistry Expanding Attachment Chemistry for Single Molecule Nanocircuits Gregory Weiss Chemistry Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 27 - Moss Cove B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Talar Malakian English Armenian American Postmemory Diaspora Narratives of Arlene Keizer English 8:50 AM Christopher Barber Classical Civilization/ Urban Studies Michael Ko Comparative Literature Military Texts and State Formation in Warring States China and Japan Anne Walthall History 9:10 AM Amrita Khoshoo Global Cultures/ History Hiram Bingham & Indiana Jones: The Saviors of History Allison Perlman History 9:30 AM Tessa Frey Art History Veronica Franco and the Enigma of Female Portraiture during the Venetian Renaissance Lyle Massey Art History 9:50 AM Sasha Sabherwal International Studies/ Political Science/ Women’s Studies Intersections of Indian Nationalism and Gender: the Role of Women and Motherhood in the Hindutva Movement Vinayak Chaturvedi History 10:10 AM Neha Bhatt Biological Sciences Effects of Neoliberalism and Desocialized Understandings of HIV/AIDS on Poor Women of Color Jennifer Terry Women’s Studies Oral Session II 3:00 PM Courtney Bell English The Boy Who Lived and the Boy Who Never Grew Up: The Comparison of Agency, Fear and Transition in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Peter Pan Jayne Lewis English 3:20 PM Lauren King English Breaking Boundaries: The Subversive Role of the Female Knight in Le Roman de Silence and Julia Lupton English 3:40 PM Taylor Fuller Comparative Literature/ Film & Media Studies Wole Soyinka: The Ambiguous and Complex Nature of Post-Colonial Nigeria Jane Newman Comparative Literature 4:00 PM Meena Malik Comparative Literature The Question of Fiction in Autobiography—Nawal El Saadawy Jane Newman Comparative Literature 4:20 PM Kenneth Lai Classics/ English New England’s Curator: Colonial Revival in the Works of Lovecraft James Steintrager English Orlando Furioso Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 28 - Newport Beach A Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Joel Trushinski Biological Sciences Microfluidic Breast Cancer Early Detection Device Weian Zhao Pharmaceutical Sciences 8:50 AM Michael Wu Biological Sciences Insights to Mechanism Weian Zhao Pharmaceutical Sciences 9:10 AM Carlin Lee Biological Sciences Specialized Mn2+ Transporters Aid Salmonella Colonization of the Inflamed Gut Manuela Raffatellu Microbiology & Molecular Genetics 9:30 AM Veronica Ortiz Developmental & Cell Biology Analysis of the Envelope Protein Pertaining to the Jaagsiekte Sheep Retrovirus (JSRV) that Causes Cancer in the Lungs of Sheep Melanie Cocco Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 9:50 AM Jason Jia Biological Sciences Estrogen Stimulation of Hydrogen Biosynthesis in Uterine Endothelial Cells Dongbao Chen Obstetrics & Gynecology 10:10 AM Arman Walia Biological Sciences Measurement of Tissue Elasticity Post Aerosol Cell Transfer of Bladder Urothelium in Bladder Augmentation Guy Hidas Urology Deoxyribozymes: Structure and Sulfide Oral Session II 3:00 PM Mahyar Malekan Pharmaceutical Science Examining Translation Initiation Function in SelfCleaving Ribozymes Andrej Luptak Pharmaceutical Sciences 3:20 PM Roya Mirilavassani Biological Sciences Metabolite-Induced Change in Self-Scission of the F. prausnitzii Ribozyme Andrej Luptak Pharmaceutical Sciences 3:40 PM Eunice Oh Pharmaceutical Science GTP Aptamers in Human Genome Selection Andrej Luptak Pharmaceutical Sciences 4:00 PM Karissa Chow Biological Sciences Metabolic Fingerprint Variation Among Vector Mosquito Species Anthony James Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 4:20 PM Brian Nguyen Biological Sciences Functional and Expression Analyses of Aedes aegypti Eggshell-Related Genes Anthony James Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 4:40 PM Grace Yu Biological Sciences The Effects of Invasive Brassica nigra Pollen on Seed Set of the Native Phacelia parryi Diane Campbell Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 29 - Newport Beach B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Truman Nguyen Biological Sciences Construction and Testing of Tissue-Simulating Phantoms to Model Intrinsic Optical Scattering Contrast between Healthy and Diseased Breast Tissue to Improve Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Detection Albert Cerussi Beckman Laser Institute 8:50 AM Kathleen Mendoza Leila Nazemi Steven Serna Biomedical Engineering Edgar Pena Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Enhancing Vein Visualization for Subcutaneous Puncture Bernard Choi Abraham Lee Biomedical Engineering 9:10 AM June Tong Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Assessment of Reconstructive Flap Occlusion in a Preclinical Model: A Comparison of Multispectral Imaging to Conventional Digital Color Imaging Anthony Durkin Adrien Ponticorvo Beckman Laser Institute 9:30 AM Elliott Kwan Biomedical Engineering Design and Fabrication of a Capillary Network Model to Validate Optical Imaging Technologies Tyler Rice Physics & Astronomy Bruce Tromberg Biomedical Engineering 9:50 AM Alex Matlock Biomedical Engineering Fabrication of a Fast, Scalable Prototype for Diffuse Optical Spectroscopic Imaging Bruce Tromberg Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II 3:00 PM Katherine Hamorsky Biological Sciences Exercise and a Higher Fat Diet may Influence the Physical Health of Individuals with Inclusion Body Myopathy with Early-Onset Paget Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia Manaswitha Khare Virginia Kimonis Marie Wencel Pediatrics 3:20 PM Naomi Setiawati Biological Sciences Intelligence Test Result Comparison between Prader Willi Syndrome (PWS) Patients Treated with or without Growth Hormone, and Patients with Uniparental Disomy and Deletions Virginia Kimonis Pediatrics 3:40 PM Janet Ajdaharian Biological Sciences/ Studio Art Imaging Gingivitis Response to a Novel Dentrifice Petra Wilder-Smith Beckman Laser Institute 4:00 PM Na Eun Chung Biological Sciences Imaging-Based Approach to Evaluating Dentrifice for Treating Periodontitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial Petra Wilder-Smith Beckman Laser Institute 4:20 PM Amin Sarraf Biological Sciences/ Public Health Sciences Use of Optical Coherence Tomography to Detect and Compare the Effectiveness of Natural Products on Prevention of Dental Caries in Enamel Petra Wilder-Smith Beckman Laser Institute Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 30 - Pacific Ballroom A Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Hugo Banh Jessica Chean Kevin Kho Lawrence Ng John Parcell Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Albert Barber Sarah Black John Chen Varun Jasuja Ravi Patel Roi Rivera Mechanical Engineering Michaela Fleming Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Michael Gamboa Charles Poblete Robert Zavala Aerospace Engineering Joseph Petrilli Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Bruno Vu Information & Computer Science/ Mechanical Engineering Design Build Fly at UCI Robert Liebeck Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 8:50 AM Alecxandre Andres Dat Huynh Joe King Jason Nanez Samuel Reyes Aerospace Engineering Jacob Boyer John Huleis Athanasios Kaplanis Konstantinos Kaplanis Timothy Lin Alexander Mercado Ramsha Qasim Franco Staub Veronica Swanson Mechanical Engineering Anais Gharabegian Physics Brian Notosubagyo Jacqueline Thomas Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Human Powered Airplane at UCI Robert Liebeck Kenneth Mease Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 31 - Pacific Ballroom A (cont’d.) Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I (cont’d.) 9:10 AM Keegan Carroll Mechanical Engineering Kevin Lasqyete Akash Patel Aerospace Engineering Satellite Design and Power Collection for Two-Unit Cube Satellite Benjamin Villac Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 9:30 AM Olivia Domenici Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Phobos-Deimos Cycler Mission Design Benjamin Villac Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 9:50 AM Tony Christiansen Stephanie Kwok Mechanical Engineering Jared Hatland Aerospace Engineering Electrospray Propulsion Benjamin Villac Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 10:10 AM Alvin Cao Joseph Cuevas Christopher Gay Kenny Miranda Jonathon Wong Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Solar Powered Airplane Albert Yee Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Oral Session II 3:00 PM Nathan Kirksey Dustin Semark Mechanical Engineering Generation Hydrogen and Application of 3:20 PM Junyan Peng Chemical Engineering Synthesis of Economical Bijels in Macroscopic Dimensions Ali Mohraz Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 3:40 PM Kevin He Max Mao Chemical Engineering Effects of Alternating Thrombosis James Earthman Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 4:00 PM Kevin Cheng Chemistry Utilization of Hydrogen Bonds to Prepare Dynamic Nanocomposites Zhibin Guan Chemistry 4:20 PM Hannah Little Biological Sciences Biocompatible Dendronized Polymer for siRNA Delivery Zhibin Guan Chemistry 4:40 PM Timothy Tiambeng Chemistry PEGylated Denpols for siRNA Delivery Zhibin Guan Hanxiang Zeng Chemistry Magnetic Renewable Fields on Tim Brown Scott Samuelsen Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 32 - Pacific Ballroom B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Ruben Alanis Luu Biomedical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Hanna Chang Michael Kim Saharat Pinyo Biomedical Engineering Christopher Yeung Material Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Deflectable Tip Guidewire William Tang Biomedical Engineering 8:50 AM Parinaz Abiri Alexandra Crampton Anh La Nicole Mendoza Biomedical Engineering Albert Liao Materials Science Engineering Magnetic Surgical Retraction System William Tang Biomedical Engineering 9:10 AM Christian Crouzet Meghan Knight Princeton Saroha Daniel Youssef Biomedical Engineering Urmilla Janardan Undeclared Distally Expanding Catheter for Improved Ischemic Clot Aspiration William Tang Biomedical Engineering 9:30 AM Maxwell Daly Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Timothy Keo Brianne Lucchesi Ethan Parker Abduallah Siddiqui Biomedical Engineering Phong Tran Biomedical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Cardiac Surgical Device for Repairing the Mitral Valve William Tang Biomedical Engineering 9:50 AM John Lam Amanda Ngo Tracey Tien Jonathan Vo Biomedical Engineering Michael Lum Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Soleciety William Tang Biomedical Engineering 10:10 AM Indrani Mikkilineni Biomedical Engineering Integration of Optical Detection System with Microplatforms to Diagnose Malaria William Tang Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 33 - Pacific Ballroom B (cont’d.) Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session II 3:00 PM Stephanie Berganza Business Economics/ International Studies Security and Development in Guatemala: Drug Trafficking and Infrastructure in Peten Caesar Sereseres Political Science 3:20 PM Parneet Ghuman Public Health Sciences/ Sociology How Do We Mobilize the Immobilized Population? Caesar Sereseres Political Science 3:40 PM Jennifer Komissarenko History/ Political Science Land Rights and Terrorism: Growing Threat of Mapuche Indigenous Tribes to the United States’ Economic Interests in Chile Patrick Morgan Caesar Sereseres Political Science 4:00 PM Linh Le Anthropology/ Political Science Examining the Rise of Hatsune Miku: The First International Virtual Idol Caesar Sereseres Political Science 4:20 PM Maritza Mantilla International Studies/ Spanish/ Political Science Female Representation in Electoral Office: Assessing Catholicism, the Binominal System, and Neo-Liberalism in Chile Caesar Sereseres Political Science Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 34 - Woods Cove A Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Christina Cheung Biological Sciences Passive Properties of Anuran Hind Limb Muscles Eman Azizi Nicole Danos Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 8:50 AM Jane Chang Biological Sciences Defining the Role of Cdc6 during SAM Checkpoint Activation in MDAMB468 Breast Cancer Cells Peter Kaiser Biological Chemistry 9:10 AM James Mitchell Physics Relation of Mammographic Density Distribution to Tumor Location in Breast Cancer Clare Yu Physics & Astronomy 9:30 AM Jin Hur Biological Sciences F1 Female Offspring Lacking Glutamate Cysteine Ligase Modifier Subunit (Gclm ) are More Susceptible to Developing Ovarian Tumors following Benzo[A]Pyrene Exposure In-Utero Ulrike Luderer Medicine 9:50 AM Richard Kim Mathematics Christine Quach Pharmaceutical Science Novel Mechanisms of APE/Ref-1 in Metastasis and the Potential as Prognostic Biomarker for Human Melanoma Frank Meyskens Pharmaceutical Sciences Oral Session II 3:00 PM Alexandra Ashcroft Biological Sciences Ephrin-A5 as a Molecular Substrate for Axon Targeting in Auditory Brainstem Development Karina Cramer Neurobiology & Behavior 3:20 PM Pritha Dewanjee Biological Sciences Structural Brain Correlates of Action Selection after Stroke Steven Cramer Neurology 3:40 PM Michelle Caunca Neurobiology Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Examination of Florbetipir-Pet Amyloid Imaging and Cognitive Performance in the Oldest-Old Claudia Kawas Neurology 4:00 PM Nima Khoshab Neurobiology Oligomeric Amyloid-ß42 Increases Endocannabinoid Signaling in Cultured Cortical Neurons Kwang-Mook Jung Daniele Piomelli Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:20 PM Thar Soe Biological Sciences Assessment of PTEN Deletion and its Contribution to CST Regeneration in Mice Oswald Steward Anatomy & Neurobiology 4:40 PM Ivan Trang Neurobiology Acute Nicotine Exposure Effects on Novel Object Location and Novel Object Recognition Katumi Sumikawa Neurobiology & Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 35 - Woods Cove B Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Elaine Tong Criminology, Law & Society A Demographic Portrait of Physicians Excluded by the Federal Government from Medicare and Medicaid Paul Jesilow Criminology, Law & Society 8:50 AM Madison Wilson Psychology & Social Behavior Criminogenic Needs and Officer-Probationer Interaction Style: An Assessment of Hawaii’s Interactive Journaling Program Jennifer Skeem Psychology & Social Behavior 9:10 AM Lubna Mohammad Criminology, Law & Society/ Social Ecology The Mental Health Effects of Solitary Confinement Susan Turner Criminology, Law & Society 9:30 AM Gabriel Beringer Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Depressive Symptoms and Behavioral Reactivity in Older Adults Susan Charles Psychology & Social Behavior 9:50 AM Kelsey Martinez Psychology & Social Behavior The Role of Neuroticism in Physiological Stress Responses Sally Dickerson Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II 3:00 PM Alexandra Chindris Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Attitudes on the Effectiveness Rehabilitation Centers of Juvenile Cheryl Maxson Criminology, Law & Society 3:20 PM Jamie Amemiya Biological Sciences Female Inmates who Kill their Abusers: Characteristics, Predictors, and Re-Entry Donna Schuele Criminology, Law & Society 3:40 PM Darius Dehghan Criminology, Law & Society A Morally Centered Approach to Constitutional Interpretation Donna Schuele Criminology, Law & Society 4:00 PM Alexz Figueroa Criminology, Law & Society Explaining the Public Disinvestment of the UC System Donna Schuele Criminology, Law & Society 4:20 PM Sarah Ottone Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Toward a More Natural Union: Changes in Criteria and Justifications for State Regulation of Marriage Donna Schuele Criminology, Law & Society Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 36 - Woods Cove C Time Student Presenter(s) Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Oral Session I 8:30 AM Hazel Eng Criminology, Law & Society/ English Do Play Location and Crowding Have an Effect on Toddlers’ Prosocial and Aggressive Behaviors in a Childcare Setting? Stephanie Reich Education 8:50 AM Nazanin Tadjbakhsh Psychology & Social Behavior Employee Relationships and their Effects on Perceptions of Work Productivity and Overall Job Satisfaction Stephanie Reich Education 9:10 AM Anika Akhter Public Health Policy Associations among Parental Support, Perceived Competence, and Adolescent Physical Activity: Investigating the Parental Support and Child Elicitation Pathways Margaret Schneider Planning, Policy, & Design 9:30 AM Jazmine Wong Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Intensity as a Moderator for the Relationship between Competence and Affective Response in Adolescent Physical Activity Margaret Schneider Planning, Policy, & Design 9:50 AM Mika Smith Anthropology Linguistic Registers in On-Campus Organizations and How They Create and Foster Identity and Personal Relationships Keith Murphy Anthropology Oral Session II 3:00 PM Khang Nguyen Biological Sciences Can Squalamine Present an Effective Anti-Viral Activity against Encephalomyocarditis Virus in the Context of Interferon Immunity? Luis Villarreal Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 3:20 PM Amirali Aghili Pharmaceutical Science Age-Related Changes in the Function of Dendritic Cells in Response to Influenza Anshu Agrawal Medicine 3:40 PM Akanksha Kandhari Biological Sciences Effects of Age-Associated Changes in the Immune System on Respiratory Diseases Anshu Agrawal Medicine 4:00 PM Alan Nguyen Biological Sciences DRAK2 and its Role in Autoimmunity and T Cell Survival Craig Walsh Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 4:20 PM Christina Carnevale Biological Sciences Identification of Cell Lines that Respond to the Mucosal Chemokine CXCL17 Albert Zlotnik Physiology & Biophysics 4:40 PM Martin Hsu Biological Sciences Th17-Mediated CNS Damage in Response to Streptococcus pyogenes Intranasal Infection in an Animal Model for Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) Dritan Agalliu Developmental & Cell Biology Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 37 - Advanced Field Study Doheny Beach A, 8:30 AM The Advanced Field Study (AFS) course sequence in the School of Social Ecology offers a small number of undergraduate students an in-depth, three-quarter field study experience focused on civic and community engagement. Students work together with a local community, government, or business organization to prepare a professional research client report which helps the organization better understand the social or community problems it hopes to address, helps inform the organization’s strategic goals, and/or helps enhance the organization’s operations or services. Students draw upon academic training, local insights of people living and working in the community, personal reflections, and in-class discussions to guide these problemsolving efforts and other civic education experiences. AFS embodies the School of Social Ecology’s commitment to engaged scholarship, developing interdisciplinary approaches to social problems, and improving and making positive and lasting contributions to the communities we serve. Each student in the 2012–2013 inaugural class of AFS worked through the year with public sector and non-profit organizations in the City of Santa Ana, California, a largely low-income and Hispanic community. Students gained comparative perspectives about the range of challenges and opportunities in this community through class exercises and discussions of their field study experiences and research project. Student Presenter Project Title Community Partner Catherine Chang ShortStop and its Influences on Juvenile Offenders Orange County Bar Foundation’s ShortStop Program Jacqueline Ellison Partner Referral Program Strategic Outreach Overview and Action Plan Women Helping Women Jennifer Fong Can Santa Ana Make the Ride? Santa Ana Parks and Recreation Shichun (Asminet) Ling Determining an Association between Ethnicity and Prevalence of Diagnoses Providence Community Services Nancy Lo Approaches towards Energy Efficiency in School Buildings Santa Ana Unified School District Bindiya Patel Marking a Legal Status: A Plan of Action for Casa Guanajuato-Santa Ana Casa Guanajuato Roger Rath Transportation and Pedestrian Safety Needs Assessment Santa Ana Unified School District Gabriel Vidal Challenges and Potential of Youth Organizations: Community Change in Central Santa Ana KidsWorks Christy Wong Composting in Santa Ana: An Evaluation of the Santa Ana Compost Project KidsWorks Jenny Wong Completing the Streets in Santa Ana KidsWorks Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 38 - Poster Presentations Posters will be displayed in Pacific Ballroom C and D. Students will be available to answer questions regarding their projects during the Poster Session from 1:30 – 2:50 PM. Group posters are listed by size of group, followed by poster number order. See the Index of Presenters, beginning on page 67, to locate a particular student’s poster. Abstracts for the presentations at this year’s Symposium are available on the UROP Web site: http://www.urop.uci.edu/symposium.html Individual Poster Presentations Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 2 Sara Abdelhalim Biological Sciences Inflammatory Cells Affect the Fate of Human ES and iPS Derived Neural Stem Cells Aileen Anderson Anatomy & Neurobiology 6 Jeby Abraham Biological Sciences VLSM Analysis of Acute Infarct Predicts Degree of Chronic Impairment Steven Cramer Neurology 28 Christina Abundis Developmental & Cell Biology Localization of Ribosomal Protein S6 Phosphorylation and the Immediate Early Gene, Arc, in Animals Exposed to a Novel Environment Oswald Steward Anatomy & Neurobiology 272 Ikeoluwa Adesina Materials Science Engineering Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloys Thermally Stabilized with Diamantane Hydrocarbons Farghalli Mohamed Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Fareed Ahmed Chemical Engineering Validation of the NEXUS-II Decision Tool in Blunt Head Injury Patients Presenting to a Level I Trauma Center Carrie Chandwani Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 337 Rebecca Allen Philosophy Closed Windows Jonathan Alexander Elizabeth Catchings English 156 Sara Alleyasin Political Science Performance on PERMP Math Tests in ADHD Children and Adults: Comparison of Age and Gender Tim Wigal Pediatrics 175 Elias Almaz Biological Sciences Mechanisms Underlying Age Differences in the Reinforcing Effects of Nicotine Combined with Alcohol Frances Leslie Pharmacology Jacob Anderson Earth & Environmental Science Trend of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Climate Change Banafshe Khalili Oladele Ogunseitan Program in Public Health Sara Arastoo Biological Sciences An iPad App to Monitor and Improve Classroom Behavior for Children with ADHD Kimberley Lakes Pediatrics Alexandra Ashcroft Biological Sciences Ephrin-A5 as a Molecular Substrate for Axon Targeting in Auditory Brainstem Development Karina Cramer Neurobiology & Behavior 92 80 151 9 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 39 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Thomas Assali Microbiology & Immunology Development of Polymer Nanoparticles with High Affinity to Human Serum Albumin Hiroyuki Koide Kenneth Shea Keiichi Yoshimatsu Chemistry 32 Mariam Astarabadi Biological Sciences The Role of CBP in Extinction of Drug-Seeking Behavior Marcelo Wood Neurobiology & Behavior 90 Bryan Au Biological Sciences Changes in Pollen Size after two Generations of Artificial Selection in Schiedea salicaria (Caryophyllaceae) Ann Sakai Stephen Weller Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 32 Soraya Azzawi Neurobiology Rescue of Long-Term Location Memory for BAF53b Heterozygous Knockouts Marcelo Wood Neurobiology & Behavior 230 Vikram Babu Biomedical Engineering Determining the Safety and Efficacy for Combined Pulsed Laser and Topical Delivery of Honokiol and Rapamycin to Inhibit the Regeneration of Coagulated Blood Vessels Wangcun Jia John Nelson Beckman Laser Institute 253 Salvador Badillo Rios Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Analysis of Water-in-Oil Emulsions and Composite Disturbances on Emulsion Jets Vincent McDonell Scott Samuelsen Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 177 Alisha Bajwa Biological Sciences Evaluation of Serotonin 5HT1A Receptors in Postmortem Alzheimer’s Disease Brains Jogeshwar Mukherjee Radiological Sciences 115 Caroline Bakhit Biological Sciences/ Psychology & Social Behavior Emotion Perception in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder and the Influence of Neurocognition Julie Patterson Psychiatry & Human Behavior 197 Robert Boud Biological Sciences Simulation-Based Structured Interviews Stratify Residency Candidates in Phase One Darren Raphael Anesthesiology 162 James Brewster Chemistry Project title removed at student’s request Kelvin Gee Pharmacology 310 Deena Brosi Biological Sciences Effectiveness of Inverted Classroom on Higher Order Learning in an Introductory Biology Course Diane O’Dowd Adrienne Williams Developmental & Cell Biology 176 Andrew Cabrera Biological Sciences D2 Receptor Sensitization following Adolescent Nicotine Exposure Frances Leslie Pharmacology 231 Everardo Camacho Biomedical Engineering Interfacing of a Brain Computer System with a Motorized Wheelchair An Do Neurology Zoran Nenadic Biomedical Engineering 290 Andrew Campo Computer Science Program Characterizations and Optimization for Completion Time vs. Power Consumption Alex Nicolau Computer Science 344 Scott Cannon International Studies/ Political Science The Legacy of Former Colonial Policy Caesar Sereseres Political Science 196 Adriana Capatina Biological Sciences Development and Assessment of a Novel Perioperative Ultrasound Curriculum for Anesthesiology Residents Davinder Ramsingh Anesthesiology 287 Naomi Carrillo Mathematics Princess and the Roses: A Combinatorial Game Analysis Sarah Eichhorn Mathematics 275 Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 40 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 91 Katharine Cary Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Invasive Potential of Fountain Grass (Cenchrus setaceus ) in Central Orange County Ann Sakai Stephen Weller Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 18 Michelle Caunca Neurobiology Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Examination of Florbetipir-Pet Amyloid Imaging and Cognitive Performance in the Oldest-Old Claudia Kawas Neurology 77 Faisal Chaabani Neurobiology Potential Temperature Adaptation of α-Amylase in Xiphister mucosus , an Herbivorous Fish Donovan German Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 83 Carolus Chan Biological Sciences Physical Map of Chromsome 3 in Drosophila Jose Ranz Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 102 Vincent Chang Biological Sciences California Prescription Drug Monitoring System (Cures) and Its Effect on Physician Prescribing Behavior among Patients Presenting with Chronic Pain Bharath Chakravarthy Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 245 Renee Cheung Materials Science Engineering Incorporation of Plant-Based Chemicals into Silicone Coatings for Marine Applications James Earthman Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 168 Beatrice Chiang Pharmaceutical Science The Ability of Green Tea to Protect against Stress Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences Justin Chin Neurobiology Mechanism of Broad Multi-Whisker Sensory Integration in Barrel Cortex: Contributions from Inhibitory Circuits Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior Lauren Chin Business Administration An Empirical Analysis of Loss Firms’ Earning Conference Calls Siew Hong Teoh Paul Merage School of Business Neha Chiruvolu Biological Sciences Cortical Network Dynamics in Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients with Aphasia Steven Cramer Neurology 160 Ellen Choi Biological Sciences The Characterization of D1 Cre ZsGreen Reporter Mouse Line Olivier Civelli Pharmacology 135 Jaydee Choompoo Nursing Science The Effect of Complement Protein C1q on the Ingestion of Apoptotic Cells by M1 and M2 Macrophages Andrea Tenner Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 292 Bianca Christensen Chemical Engineering Studies in Transition Metal-Catalyzed CrossCoupling Reactions Elizabeth Jarvo Chemistry 250 Brian Chu Chemical Engineering The Role of Peptide Sequence on Folding by Peptide Amphiphile Molecules Hung Nguyen Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 64 Na Eun Chung Biological Sciences Imaging-Based Approach to Evaluating Dentrifice for Treating Periodontitis: A Randomized Clinical Trial Petra Wilder-Smith Beckman Laser Institute 17 Samantha Corwin Biological Sciences Memory Maps in the Hippocampus Christine Gall Gary Lynch Anatomy & Neurobiology 304 Scott Coste Chemistry High Surface Area Bismuth Vanadate Photoanodes for Water Oxidation Matt Law Chemistry 206 Christian Crouzet Biomedical Engineering In-Vivo Determination of Burn Depth with Laser Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering 16 198 7 willitsoni Speckle Imaging Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 41 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Ruskin Cua Neurobiology Inducible Ablation of Brain Choroid Plexus Mediated by Diphtheria Toxin A in Transgenic Mice Edwin Monuki Pathology Matthew Curtis Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine/ Music Performance: Viola The Effects of Oxygen Preconditioning on the Vascularization of Fibrin Tissues Steven George Biomedical Engineering Mohammad Dadkhah Biological Sciences A Clinical and Imaging Study to Evaluate a Novel Dentifrice Dental Gel Using Multiphoton Microscopy Petra Wilder-Smith Beckman Laser Institute Chase Davis Biomedical Engineering Investigating the Role of Substrate Stiffness on Macrophage Polarization and the Foreign Body Response Wendy Liu Biomedical Engineering Jahanshah Davoodifard Anthropology/ Biological Sciences Morphometric Comparisons between Juvenile and Adult Checkered Garter Snakes James Hicks Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 244 Anthony DeNicola Chemical Engineering Optimization of Degree of Hydroxylation in Recombinant Human Collagen III Nancy Da Silva Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 259 Lianne Devera Chemistry/ Microbiology & Immunology Photophysics and Photochemistry of Model Compounds for Natural Organic Matter: TripletExcited State Studies of Newly-Synthesized Benzophenone Derivatives William Cooper Civil & Environmental Engineering Pritha Dewanjee Biological Sciences Structural Brain Correlates of Action Selection after Stroke Steven Cramer Neurology 118 Oscar Diaz Biological Sciences The Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 LatencyAssociated Transcript Affects Distribution and Number of Virus-Specific CD8+ T Cells within the Vaginal Mucosa of Latently Infected Mice Lbachir BenMohamed Ophthalmology 149 Kosha Doshi Biological Sciences Effects of Marijuana Use on Cognitive Performance and Brain Activity in Young Adults with and without ADHD Jean Gehricke Pediatrics 20 Haley Dunn Public Health Sciences Impact of Inflammation of Tau Pathology and its Relevance for Alzheimer Disease Frank LaFerla Neurobiology & Behavior 67 Chantle Edillor Developmental & Cell Biology The In Vivo Effects of Bisphenol A Diglycidyl Ether and its Potential Pathways for Adipogenic Induction Bruce Blumberg Developmental & Cell Biology 122 Zachary Ellison Chemical Engineering Sediment Microbial Fuel Cells: Generating Clean Energy from Dirty Microbes Allon Hochbaum Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 123 Arijh Elzein Pharmaceutical Science Analysis of norA Mutations Conferring Cross Resistance to Fluoroquinolones Using Ciprofloxacin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Mutants Luis Mota-Bravo Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 185 Horacio Estabridis Biomedical Engineering Mechanical Analysis of ECM Fibers with SpaceTime Image Correlation Spectroscopy Elliot Botvinick Biomedical Engineering 193 Melody Fang Biological Sciences The Incidence and Impact of Drug Use as well as Alcohol on Trauma Allen Kong Surgery 39 213 65 229 78 5 Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 42 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 217 Yen Chi Fang Biomedical Engineering Post-Assembly Laser Cutting in Microfluidic Glass Device Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 280 David Feng Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Improvements towards a Low-Flush Toilet John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Sarah Ferrara Biological Sciences Pharmacological Inhibition of PTEN in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Neuronal Progenitors as a Regenerative Strategy for Spinal Cord Injury Hans Keirstead Anatomy & Neurobiology Gilana Finogenov Neurobiology Neural Stem Cell-Mediated Delivery of the CoChaperone Protein CHIP Mathew Blurton-Jones Neurobiology & Behavior 127 Briana Fitch Biological Sciences Targeting Translation in Lymphoma Cells that are Resistant to Active-site mTOR Inhibitors David Fruman Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 79 Yuri Foreman Biological Sciences The Effect of Fasting Time on Oxygen Consumption during Rest and Digestion in the African Brown House Snake James Hicks Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 354 Christopher Galeano International Studies/ Political Science Media and its Negative Influence on Public Opinion of Immigration Louis DeSipio Political Science 312 Andria Gazda Biological Sciences Perjury, Conspiracy, and Massive Nuclear Irresponsibility: A Brief Analysis of the Corruption that Took Place at the Rocky Flats Plant John Whiteley Environmental Health, Science, & Policy Berkenesh Gebrekristos Biological Sciences Assessment of Forelimb Motor Function on Rats Using the Automatic Grip Strength Meter (AutoGSM) by Implementing Various Training Paradigms Oswald Steward Anatomy & Neurobiology 242 Sahara George Psychology Release from Loudness Adaptation as a Function of Amplitude Depth Modulation in Young and Older Normal Hearing Listeners Fan-Gang Zeng Anatomy & Neurobiology 130 Armen Gevorkyan Pharmaceutical Science The Use of Small Organic Molecules to Rescue Mutant Forms of the Tumor Suppressor p53 Hartmut Luecke Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 61 Heeva Ghane Public Health Sciences Rapid HIV Testing at a Mobile Unit Amongst Men Who Have Sex with Men David Timberlake Program in Public Health 70 Yasamine Ghorbanian Microbiology & Immunology Histological Characterization of Regenerative and Scar-Like Responses in the Axolotl David Gardiner Developmental & Cell Biology 174 Landon Gibson Biological Sciences Cigarette Smoke Extract is More Rewarding than Nicotine in a Rat Self-Administration Model Frances Leslie Pharmacology 261 Edgar Gomez Chemical Engineering Inhibition of Biofouling on Seawater Reverse Osmosis Membranes by Quorum Quenching Sunny Jiang Leda Katebian Civil & Environmental Engineering 219 Maunika Gosike Biomedical Engineering Microfabrication of a Well for Successive High Definition Imaging of Hydra during Regeneration Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 307 Patricia Guan Biological Sciences Therabot: A Remote Controllable Robot Avatar Designed for Bedridden Kids Jill Berg Yuqing Guo Program in Nursing Science Simon Penny Studio Art 19 4 29 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 43 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Roblen Guevarra Neurobiology Laminar Analysis of Horizontal Fiber Distributions in the Rat Somatosensory Cortex Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior Christopher Gutierrez Computer Science Mathematics and Machine Learning: Solving “The Galaxy” Sarah Eichhorn Mathematics 27 Eden Gutierrez Biological Sciences The Effects of Lidocaine on Axonal Regeneration in Nogo-Deficient Mice Oswald Steward Anatomy & Neurobiology 144 Brenda Guzman Biological Sciences The Effects Of Parental Language on Children’s Illness Uncertainty Michelle Fortier Anesthesiology 55 Kayla Haag Public Health Sciences Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Hamid Djalilian Hossein Mahboubi Otolaryngology 22 Patrick Hang Biological Sciences Differential Effects of Intracellular and Extracellular Amyloid Beta on Tau and Synaptic Pathology Frank LaFerla Neurobiology & Behavior 298 Anastasia Harris Chemistry Efforts towards the Concise Total Synthesis of (–)Stenine Kenneth Shea Chemistry 286 Brian Hermosillo Psychology & Social Behavior The Benefits of Romantic Relationships for Latino Men Belinda Campos Chicano/Latino Studies 201 Timothy Hernandez Electrical Engineering High Voltage Power Processing Unit for an Electrostatic Propulsion System Benjamin Villac Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 34 Daniel Ho Biological Sciences Induction of Herp Expression by ER Stress is via an Nrf1 Dependent Feedback Loop Jefferson Chan Pathology 221 Victoria Ho Biological Sciences Mathematical Modeling of Cell Behavior Verified through 3-D Culture in Fibrin Gel Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 308 Rochelle Hoffman Anthropology What Defines Success: Culture as a Determinant of Academic Achievement for Immigrant and Nonimmigrant High School Students AnneMarie Conley Education 254 Davit Hovhannisyan Computer Science & Engineering Real-Time Interrupt Handling of Federation of Mobile Devices with Camera Based Video Synchronization Fadi Kurdahi Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Christina Huang Biological Sciences Formulating a Novel Hyaluronic Acid and Fibrin Hydrogel for Use as a 3D Scaffold for Neural Stem Cells Lisa Flanagan Neurology 333 Jasmine Hugo Pharmaceutical Science/ Psychology & Social Behavior The Relationship between Hardiness Levels and Cardiovascular Recovery following an Aerobic Exercise Manipulation Salvatore Maddi Marina White Psychology & Social Behavior 241 Syed Fowaz Hussain Biological Sciences Electromechanical Reshaping of Ex-Vivo Porcine Trachea Brian J. Wong Otolaryngology 142 Carol Huynh Biological Sciences Self-Regulation in Children with ADHD: The Relationship between Self-Perceptions of Academic Competence and Academic Performance Dan Cooper Pediatrics 215 Ji Hwang Biomedical Engineering Automated Tumor Tissue Processing Dissociation Chamber for Microfluidic Biopsy Chip Jered Haun Biomedical Engineering Caitlyn Hwe Biological Sciences Comparison of Positional Information in Axolotl and Mouse David Gardiner Developmental & Cell Biology 13 288 11 69 Therapy for Tinnitus Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 44 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Marty Ralph Ignacio Business Economics/ Business Economics & Public Health Policy Shifting the Fear of Hypoglycemia among Parents with Children with Type 1 Diabetes Zuzana Bic Program in Public Health 100 Anum Iqbal Biological Sciences Does a Consensus Exist between Emergency Physicians Regarding Physical Characteristics that Constitute a Seatbelt Sign? Bharath Chakravarthy Shahram Lotfipour Arthur Youssefian Emergency Medicine 314 Mariam Iskajyan International Studies/ Political Science Empowerment and Engagement through FilmBased Activism: A Survey of Invisible Children Participation and Impacts Richard Matthew Planning, Policy, & Design 251 Trevor Jones Civil Engineering The Effects of Mineral Precipitation on Fluid Flow in Carbonate Rock Systems Russell Detwiler Civil & Environmental Engineering 264 Bhavin Joshi Chemistry Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Superlattices for Photovoltaics Zhibin Guan Chemistry 317 Hannah Kang Psychology & Social Behavior Cultural Difference in Moral Judgments Peter Ditto Psychology & Social Behavior 303 David Kapukchyan Chemistry/ Physics Discoverability of the Z' particle at a new Electron Positron Collider Timothy Tait Physics & Astronomy 278 Khizar Karwa Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Motor Control for Accurate Characterization of a Small IC Engine John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 188 Nikhita Kathuria Biological Sciences The Use of Electroencephalography in Stroke Telerehabilitation Steven Cramer Neurology 220 Sonia Kaushal Biomedical Engineering Detection of Cardiac Troponin I in a Microfluidic Chip Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 140 Behdad Kavianpour Biological Sciences Engraftment and Survival of Human Umbilical Mesenchymal Stem Cells in the Mouse Cornea: An Immunofluorescent Computed Tomography Study James Jester Jennifer Simpson Ophthalmology 301 Rika Kawamura Earth & Environmental Science Elemental Stoichiometry of Soil Bacteria in Loma Ridge, CA Adam Martiny Earth System Science Parastou Khalessi Hosseini Psychology/ Public Health Sciences Cultural Perceptions of HPV and Vaccine Uptake among High School Students in Orange County Brandon Brown Program in Public Health 106 Anthony Khong Biological Sciences Are Ultrasonographically Obtained Common Bile Duct Measurements in Emergency Department Patients with Symptomatic Gallstones Useful? Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 180 Nima Khoshab Neurobiology Oligomeric Amyloid-ß42 Increases Endocannabinoid Signaling in Cultured Cortical Neurons Kwang-Mook Jung Daniele Piomelli Anatomy & Neurobiology 113 Jae Kim Biological Sciences Brain Responses to Tones in Babble Background Noise in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder Julie Patterson Psychiatry & Human Behavior 218 Colin Kincaid Biomedical Engineering Optogenetic Control of Stem Cell Differentiation Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 48 53 Quantum Dot Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 45 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 240 Kevin Klein Chemical Engineering The pH-Responsivenss of Engineered Proetin Nanocapsules Szu Wang Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 186 Akihisa Kodama Physics Investigating the Effect of Particles on the Phase Transitions of Lung Surfactant Michael Dennin Physics & Astronomy 243 Marc Kryger Chemical Engineering Effect of Increased NADPH Levels on 6-MSA Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Integration of K. lactis native GDP1 Nancy Da Silva Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 277 Ryan Kuehne Mechanical Engineering Prototyping and Testing of a Mechanical Trap Toilet John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 164 Steven Kurumada Psychology Identifying Cinnamomum aromaticum’s Mechanism of Action through Dietary Restriction in Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences 178 Sharon Kuruvilla Biomedical Engineering 18F-Niofene: A New PET/SPECT Imaging Agent for α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors (nAChRs) Jogeshwar Mukherjee Radiological Sciences 351 Valerie Ky Social Science Psychosociocultural Model Factors that Contribute to a High School Counselors’ Perspective on a Successful College Placement Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 302 Jaspreet Lally Physics Supernova Feedback and other Galaxy Formation Processes and their Effects on Dark Matter Distribution around Galaxies James Bullock Physics & Astronomy 119 Sophia Lam Biological Sciences Rab7 is Critical in T-Independent and T-Dependent Immunoglobulin Class Sswitch DNA Recombination Paolo Casali Medicine 319 Tiffany Lam Biological Sciences/ Psychology & Social Behavior Are Sibling Relationship Quality and Friendship Quality Related to Theory of Mind in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder? Wendy Goldberg Psychology & Social Behavior 249 Anthony Lan Chemical Engineering Deciphering Kinetic Mechanisms of DNA Renaturation and Self-Assembly via Molecular Dynamics Simulations Hung Nguyen Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Kristina Le Neurobiology A Cross-Species Approach to Understanding Sequence Memory Craig Stark Neurobiology & Behavior 136 John Leong Biological Sciences Biosynthesis of Equisetin: Crystal Structure and Biochemical Studies of EqiS TR, an Enzymatic Domain of Equisetin Synthase Shiou-Chuan Tsai Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 339 Deborah Lewis English A Place to Call Home: Revisiting America’s First Jewish Orphanage Alice Fahs History 260 Amanda Li Biological Sciences Bacterial Chemotaxis toward Pseudo-nitzschia Sunny Jiang Janet Rowe Civil & Environmental Engineering 43 Zhenzhi Li Biological Sciences EFEMP1 Suppresses Epithelial Growth Factor Receptor in Human Glioblastoma Cell Line U251HF Yi-Hong Zhou Neurosurgery 26 Drosophila melanogaster australis Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 46 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Eric Lim Biological Sciences Mechanism of Broad Multi-Whisker Sensory Integration in Barrel Cortex: Understanding Initial Input Activity in Layer 4 Circuits Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior Kevin Lim Drama Being in Process: Writing “Greenboy the Musical” Myrona Delaney Drama Melody Lim Mathematics Feature Identification for Colon Tumor Spheroid Classification Ernie Esser Mathematics 340.5 David D. Liu Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Mexican Orphanage Experience and the Impact from Non-Profit Organizations Kristin Peterson Anthropology 209 Patrick Lo Biomedical Engineering High Resolution, Depth-Resolved Imaging of Mouse Heart Microvasculature Using Optical Histology Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering 346 Estefanía Lopez Political Science/ Sociology The Psychosociocultural Analysis on Undocumented Latina/o Students’ Academic Persistence Mixed Methods Study Phase II: Surveys Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 110 Michael Louthan Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Emergency Department Reason for Visit: Comparing Patient Perceptions to Emergency Screening Index Shannon Toohey Andrew Wong Emergency Medicine Becky Lu Biological Sciences Alpha-5 Integrin and Paxillin Dynamics inside Focal Adhesions Michelle Digman Enrico Gratton Biomedical Engineering David Lu Pharmaceutical Science Identifying Green Tea’s Effect on Restriction in Drosophila melanogaster Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences 14 Pejman Majd Biological Sciences Individual Axons from Neurons in the Posteromedial Barrel Subfield Project Horizontally for Several Millimeters through Cortical Gray Matter Ron Frostig Neurobiology & Behavior 179 Sridivya Majji Biological Sciences Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of the Binding of Dopamine D3 Receptor Agonist, 18F-7-OHFHXPAT, in Rodents Jogeshwar Mukherjee Radiological Sciences 322 Tiffany Mak Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Policy Perceptions of Social Mobility: The Difference between Young Adults and Middle Aged Adults Jutta Heckhausen Psychology & Social Behavior 202 Melinda Malley English/ Mechanical Engineering A Magnetic Interface for a Completely-in-the-Canal Mechanical Hearing Aid Mark Bachman Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 148 Gabriela Manzo Psychology & Social Behavior The Relationship between Parental Characteristics and Monitor/ Blunting Coping Style Michelle Fortier Anesthesiology 161 Justin Matsuura Biological Sciences Study of the Analgesic Effect of a Compound from Olivier Civelli Pharmacology 155 Melissa McManus Biological Sciences The Effects on Infant Imitation and Memory Retention from Skype, Video, and Live Demonstrations Stephanie Reich Education Bozhao Men Biological Sciences EFEMP1 Expression in Prostate Cancer Yi-Hong Zhou Neurosurgery 15 305 36 37 166 42 Dietary Corydalis yanhusuo W.T. Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 47 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 334 Janki Merai Anthropology/ Psychology An Investigation of Children’s Numerosity Ability in Legal Settings Jodi Quas Psychology & Social Behavior 146 Fergie Anne Mercado Biological Sciences Is there a Relationship between Parental Behavioral Responses to Pain and Ethnicity in the Quality of Life in Pediatric Cancer Patients? Michelle Fortier Anesthesiology Jasmine Mistry Biological Sciences Electroacupuncture of Wrist Neiguan and Jianshi Activaes the Pathway from the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract to the Rostral Ventrolateral Medulla and Elicits Release of c-Fos in the NTS Zhiling Guo Medicine 276 Verenice Mojica Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Usage of Infrared Thermography to Obtain Reliable Temperature Measurements Derek Dunn-Rankin Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 300 Geovani Montoya Chemistry Impact of a Particle Concentrator on Physical and Chemical Properties Barbara Finlayson-Pitts Lisa Wingen Chemistry 273 Andrew Moodie Mechanical Engineering Architected Cellular Ceramic Materials for NextGeneration Multi-Functional Thermal Protection Systems Tim Rupert Lorenzo Valdevit Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 349 Lourdes Morales Psychology Latina/o Undergraduates Well-Being: An Emic Analysis of Positive Psychology Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 54 Karen Munoz Public Health Policy/ Public Health Sciences Awareness of HPV, Cervical Cancer, and Preventative Services among Hispanic Women in a Tri-County Area of Southern California Brandon Brown Program in Public Health 131 Paige Murata Biological Sciences/ Chemistry In-Vitro Selection of Genomic Aptamers Andrej Luptak Pharmaceutical Sciences 150 Alexander Nam Biological Sciences Predicting Factors that Increase the Risk of Having Breakthrough Urinary Tract Infection in Pediatric Patients with Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux Guy Hidas Antoine Khoury Urology 268 Patrick Ngo Chemical Engineering The Role of Water Vapor and Incorporated Protons in Enhancing Diffusion and Sintering in Ceramics Martha Mecartney Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 191 Adrienne Nguyen Biological Sciences Incidence of Postoperative Diabetes following Distal Pancreatectomy vs. the Whipple Procedure David Imagawa Surgery 45 Ai-Thuan Nguyen Pharmaceutical Science Interaction between Opioids and Cholecystokinin in Non-Responders to Electroacupuncture Min Li Medicine 57 Amanda Nguyen Political Science/ Public Health Policy The Emergency Medical Response to the 2010 Haiti Earthquake Lisa Grant Ludwig Program in Public Health 285 Baolong Nguyen Mechanical Engineering The Effects of Turbulence Intensity on the Mixing of a Passive Scalar John LaRue Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 189 Cammie Nguyen Public Health Sciences Evaluating the Accuracy and Precision of the Masimo Labs/Masimo Corporation Pulse COOximeter Hemoglobin Monitor Maxime Cannesson Anesthesiology 171 Emily Nguyen Biological Sciences Anxiolytic Effects on Intravenous CoAdministration of Alcohol and Nicotine on Adolescent and Adult Rats Frances Leslie Pharmacology 58 Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 48 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 294 Jenny Nguyen Pharmaceutical Science Biophysical Characterization of γS-G18V Crystallin Mutants Rachel Martin Chemistry 157 Jenny Nguyen Biological Sciences Nicotine Dependence and Health Risks in Young Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Tim Wigal Pediatrics 345 Monica Nguyen Political Science The Paradox of Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission: The Effects of Campaign Finance Jurisprudence on Congressional Election Regulation Charles Anthony Smith Political Science Phuongchi Nguyen Biological Sciences/ Chemistry The Role of Aurora kinases in Chromium-Induced Melanomagenesis Lifang Xie Cancer Center 159 Tan Nguyen Pharmaceutical Science Sex Differences in the Expression of MelaninConcentrating Hormone Olivier Civelli Pharmacology 147 Therese Nguyen Biological Sciences The Effect of Children’s Temperament on the Relationship between Parental Anxiety and Postoperative Pain Michelle Fortier Anesthesiology 316 Y Nguyen Sociology The University and Capitalism Raul Fernandez Chicano/Latino Studies Rodolfo Torres Planning, Policy, & Design 126 Kevin Nuno Biochemistry & Molecular Biology A Reporter System to Study the Mechanisms of Nuclear Localization of SUV3 Helicase Phang-Lang Chen Biological Chemistry 296 Jessica O’Neill Chemistry Development of Novel Luciferin Analogs for Bioluminescence Imaging Jennifer Prescher Chemistry Michelle Oei Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Expression of Heparan Sulfate Sulfotransferases in Regenerating Limbs of an Axolotl David Gardiner Developmental & Cell Biology 262 Dean Orellana Chemical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Characterization of Bacteria in Microbial Fuel Cell Sunny Jiang Janet Rowe Civil & Environmental Engineering 143 Alfonso Ortiz Public Health Sciences Parents’ Acceptability of Interventions for their Premature Infants Dan Cooper Jessica Vaughan Pediatrics Yuqing Guo Ellen Olshansky Program in Nursing Science 128 Federico Palacios Biological Sciences Crystallization of Bacillus anthracis HAL Near-Iron Transporter (NEAT) Domain Celia Goulding Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 199 John Parcell Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Design/Build/Fly Competition Robert Liebeck Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 342 Divya Parmar Economics The Great Depression and its Effect on Bank Lending Gary Richardson Economics 138 Avinash Patel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Determining the Structure and Function of Monooxygenase BexE, Involved in the Biosynthesis of BE-7585A Shiou-Chuan Tsai Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 41 68 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 49 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Sonam Patel Public Health Sciences A Qualitative Analysis of Motives for and Health Outcomes of the Dual Use of Marijuana and Tobacco among UCI Students David Timberlake Program in Public Health 338 Thea Patterson Dance/ English Where did Austen Go?: Adapting the Narrative Authority of Mansfield Park and Persuasion into Film Ann Van Sant English 327 Hillary Patton Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology Planting False Autobiographical Memories Elizabeth Loftus Psychology & Social Behavior Patrick Penalosa Biological Sciences Are Immobilization Backboards and C-Collars Needed for Patients who are Ambulatory at the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Accident? The Occurrence of Spinal Injury Shahram Lotfipour Angelica Loza Christopher McCoy James Puckett Emergency Medicine 132 Michael Peng Chemistry Fluorescent Labeling RNA to Analyze Ribozyme Kinetics by Fluorescence Anisotropy Andrej Luptak Pharmaceutical Sciences 167 Andrew Pham Pharmaceutical Science The Effect melanogaster Lifespan and Health of Maltodextrin on Drosophila Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences 216 Hiep-Huy Pham Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Optimizing Extracellular Matrix Proteins for Maximum Microvessel Network Formation Christopher Hughes Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 99 Kevin Pham Biological Sciences The Natural History of Human Stingray Injuries Robert Katzer Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 121 Andrew Phung Biological Sciences Characterization of Conditional Scn8a Knockout in Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons Using High Level Cre Reporter Alan Goldin Microbiology & Molecular Genetics 205 Chelsea Pittman Genetics Use of Longitudinal In-Vivo Optical Analysis Techniques to Create and Analyze Implanted Prevascularized Engineered Tissues Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering 181 Miah Pollack Pharmaceutical Science The Effect of Fullerene-C60 on Lifespan and Stress Resistance in Drosophila Melanogaster Sam Schriner Pharmaceutical Sciences 211 Brian Polson Chemical Engineering Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for the Secretion of Fatty Acids to Increase Extracellular Levels Nancy Da Silva Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Boss Povieng Biological Sciences Manipulation of Glycosylation: The Effects of Glycosylation Modulators on Neural Stem Cell Membrane Capacitance Lisa Flanagan Neurology Simon Pun Aerospace Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Effect of Diamantane Nanoparticle on the Thermal Stability in Nanocrystalline Aluminum Alloy Farghalli Mohamed Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Clare Quirk Neurobiology Effects of Temporary Inactivations of the Hippocampus and Medial Prefrontal Cortex on Sequence Memory Timothy Allen Norbert Fortin Neurobiology & Behavior Ramita Rahimian Biological Sciences Hyperglycemia is Associated with Venous Thromboembolism in Critically Ill Patients Allen Kong Surgery 60 98 10 271 12 194 Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 50 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 214 Miranda Ramirez Mechanical Engineering Biaxial High-Throughput Mechanical Stimulation Cell Culture System Steven George Biomedical Engineering 72 Diksha Ramnani Public Health Sciences Cytosolic Histone Mediated Immunity in Male vs. Female Drosophila Steven Gross Developmental & Cell Biology 74 Pooja Rana Biological Sciences How Toads Reduce Torque to Stick their Landings Eman Azizi Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 30 Brittany Raynor Neurobiology Effects of Meningeal Membrane Removal on Chick Optic Tectum Development following Intraventricular Injections of 6-Hydroxydopamine Georg Striedter Neurobiology & Behavior 133 Jerry Richo Biological Sciences Spectroscopic Approaches and Analysis of Potential Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitors Thomas Poulos Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 352 Kendy Rios Gonzalez Psychology Alzheimer’s Disease and the Latina/o Community: Latino/a Elderly Patients & Alzheimer’s Disease: A Psychosocialcultural Perspective Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 311 Melissa Rogers Psychology Exploring the Cross National Gender Gap in Female Participation in STEM Anne McDaniel Education 267 Merna Salama Chemical Engineering Synthesis and Characterization of LaCrAl11O19 (Magnetoplumbite) through Solid State Reaction Martha Mecartney Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Lorena Salcedo Psychology Comparative Studies of Malaria Prevalence in Highlands and Lowlands of Western Kenya and Different Diagnostic Methods Eugenia Lo Guiyun Yan Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 227 Kevin Santiago Biomedical Engineering Shrink-Film Multiscale Wrinkles for Culturing Human Embryonic Stem Cells Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 258 Jessica Satterlee Environmental Engineering Natural Organic Matter and its Effect on the Environmental Fate of Water Contaminants William Cooper Civil & Environmental Engineering 282 Thomas Sayles Mechanical Engineering Decay of Active Grid-Generated Turbulence without Mesh Screen Damping John LaRue Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 283 Thomas Sayles Mechanical Engineering Decay and Homogeneity of Active Grid-Generated Turbulence with Mesh Screen Damping John LaRue Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 66 Jonathan Schilling Biological Sciences How Does ALDH1A1 Stimulate Melanogenesis? Anand Ganesan Dermatology 222 Ashley Scott Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Characterizing Cell Migration through JuxtacrinePermeable Membranes: A Novel Platform for Separable Co-Culture Elliot Hui Biomedical Engineering 71 Sunit Shah Biological Sciences Implications for Limb Regeneration: Differential Expression of Heparan Sulfate Sulfotransferases in Mouse Skin David Gardiner Developmental & Cell Biology 139 Tejas Shah Biological Sciences Role of SUMO-γlated PPAR Gamma in Lipogenesis James Jester Ophthalmology 158 Joshua Shannon Biological Sciences Effectiveness of CUIDAR Parenting Classes on Symptoms of ADHD in Children Tim Wigal Pediatrics 343 Kriti Sharma International Studies Analyzing the Effectiveness of Spain’s 15M Movement Cecelia Lynch Political Science 81 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 51 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 117 Shikha Sheth Developmental & Cell Biology The Role of HDAC3 in Gene Expression in the Dorsal Hippocampus Marcelo Wood Neurobiology & Behavior 52 Nikita Shroff Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Sciences Barriers and Facilitators in the Recruitment and Retention of Female Sex Workers in an HPV Vaccine Trial Brandon Brown Program in Public Health 24 Amandeep Singh Biological Sciences Explicit and Implicit Learning in the Serial Reaction-Time Task James McGaugh Craig Stark Neurobiology & Behavior Rene Slykhous Biological Sciences/ Earth & Environmental Science The Relationship between Clinical Diagnosis, Symptoms and Degree of Sensory Gating in P85 and N100 Julie Patterson Psychiatry & Human Behavior Abraham Sosa Biological Sciences Evolution of Herbivory in the Family Stichaeidae (Teleostei) Donovan German Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Dattanand Sudarshana Microbiology & Immunology The Role of GRA15II in CD40-Induced Autophagy of Toxoplasma gondii Melissa Lodoen Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 3 Dongjin Suh Biological Sciences Effect of Traumatic Acute Stress on Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis and Synaptic Function David Baglietto-Vargas Neurobiology & Behavior 33 Rachel Sunico Biological Sciences Differential Expression of Nrf1 Isoforms in Cellular Stress Jefferson Chan Pathology 82 Adeline Tang Biological Sciences Measuring the Seasonal Abundance of Marine Microbes through Flow Cytometry Jennifer Martiny Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 325 Joy Tawadrous Psychology & Social Behavior Parental Reminiscing Suggestibility Zoe Klemfuss Psychology & Social Behavior 224 Bakr Teebi Biomedical Engineering Arrays of Tunable Gold Antennas for Enhanced Sensing Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 246 Carine Todmia Materials Science Engineering Containment Materials Reliability/Sustainability in a Thermal Neutron, Molten Salt Environment James Earthman Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 324 Alexandria Tong Psychology & Social Behavior Effects of Emotional Eating on Mood and Eating Behavior: An Ecological Momentary Assessment of Eating and Affect Larry Jamner Psychology & Social Behavior 134 Amy Tran Biological Sciences Exploring the Effect of the Complement Activation Fragment, C5a, in Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models Andrea Tenner Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 46 Anthony Tran Biological Sciences Risk Communication of CVD In Patients With Diabetes Shaista Malik Medicine Daniel Tran Pharmaceutical Science AID-Dependent Recruitment of ATF2 to Switch Region Mediates Double-Strand Break Repairs in Class Switch Recombination Paolo Casali Medicine Guideng Li Microbiology & Molecular Genetics George Tran Biological Sciences Cortical Network Dynamics in Acute Ischemic Stroke Steven Cramer Neurology Jennifer Tran Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Policy Passport for Health: Nutrition Promotion in the Latino Community to Reduce Diabetes Development in Orange County Zuzana Bic Brandon Brown Program in Public Health 114 76 129 120 8 50 Style and Children’s Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 52 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 141 Jenny Tran Biological Sciences Partnership with the Discovery Science Center: The Smoking Lung Model Behnoosh Afghani Pediatrics 263 Luan Tran Environmental Engineering Investigation of Foaming Bacteria: Gordonia amarae in an Incompletely Nitrifying Water Reclamation Plant Betty Olson Civil & Environmental Engineering 169 Teresa Tran Biological Sciences The Use of Tahitian Plant Extracts Protect against Oxidative Stress Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences 187 Truc Tran Biological Sciences Membrane Stretch Modulate the Activity of hHv1 Voltage-Gated Proton Channel Francesco Tombola Physiology & Biophysics 103 Alex Trinh Biological Sciences Physician and Patient Views on Acceptable Risk for CT in Trauma Mark Langdorf Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 192 Khoi Trinh Chemistry Does CTA Surveillance after Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Cause Deterioration in Renal Function Vincent Kirkpatrick Russel Williams Samuel Wilson Surgery 355 Jessica Trinidad English/ Political Science Motivators behind Latino High School Students’ Participation in School-Based Athletics Louis DeSipio Political Science 297 Jonathan Trinidad Chemistry Absolute Configuration of Lactams and Oxazolidinones Using Kinetic Resolution Catalysts Scott Rychnovsky Chemistry 341 Joshua Tromberg Psychology Neuromuscular Modulation by Attentional Control to Enhance Exercise Ramesh Srinivasan Cognitive Sciences 163 Stephanie Truong Pharmaceutical Science Evaluation of the Putative Active Compounds in Rhodiola rosea Root Extract Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences 225 Roger Tu Biological Sciences Functional Alignment of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes to Promote Maturation Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 44 Anne Twardowsky Di Donato Biological Sciences Epigenetic Regulation of EFEMP1 Expression in Malignant Glioma and Derived Primary Culture and Cell Lines Yi-Hong Zhou Neurosurgery 21 Rakhee Vaidya Biological Sciences Role of Intracellular Aβ and Tau on Early Synaptic Alternations in an AD Model Frank LaFerla Neurobiology & Behavior 35 Joshua Valdez Biological Sciences Determining the Role of Nrf2 Transcription Factor in Adipose Cell Function Jefferson Chan Pathology 182 Andy Vu Biological Sciences Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicines on Dopamine Receptors Olivier Civelli Zhiwei Wang Pharmacology 195 Jennifer Vu Pharmaceutical Science How Thrombospondin-4 Contributes to Pain Processing David Luo Anesthesiology 299 Kevin Vu Mathematics/ Physics Testing Machine Learning Methods on Density Functional Theory and Various Functionals Kieron Burke Chemistry Melissa Ward Biological Sciences Oxygen Transportation through the Lacunae System of Emergent Marsh Plants Peter Bowler Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 75 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 53 - Poster # Student Presenter Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 145 Sabrina Wedee Biological Sciences The Effects of Parental Attitudes about Pain Management Using Analgesics on the Child’s Self Pain Report Michelle Fortier Anesthesiology 204 Matthew Wiersma Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine High Resolution Imaging Conveying Depth Information of Mouse Brain Microvasculature Using Optical Histology Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering 266 Elizabeth Wille Chemistry High Yield Lead Telluride Quantum Dot Synthesis for Use in Photovoltaics Matt Law Chemistry Alison Wong Public Health Sciences Student Dancers at UC Irvine: How Can Injury Risk Be Reduced? Zuzana Bic Brandon Brown Program in Public Health Diane Diefenderfer Dance 137 Fiona Wong Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Synthesis of Polyketide Analogues and their Crystallographic Analysis Shiou-Chuan Tsai Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 336 Jazmine Wong Anthropology/ Public Health Policy A Closer Look at Cultural Models: View on Mental Health and Treatment in Asian Americans Keith Murphy Anthropology 104 Samantha Wong Biological Sciences Evaluation of Shoulder Injury in the Emergency Department: Utility of Bedside Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Acute Shoulder Dislocation Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 125 John Woolson Chemistry Adding the Strep Tag Epitope to the C-Terminus of S1P and Expression in BHK-21 Cells Michael Buchmeier Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 228 Chun Wu Biomedical Engineering Enhancing Sensitivity for POC Diagnostics Using Evaporation on a Superhydrophobic Surface Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 356 Sheila Xiao Sociology A World Society Perspective on Environmental Outcomes Ann Hironaka Sociology 295 Bryan Xie Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Functionalized Cyclopropenes as Bioorthogonal Chemical Reporters Jennifer Prescher Chemistry 165 Elyse Young Biological Sciences Biological Characterization Synthetic Rosavin Analogs Mahtab Jafari Pharmaceutical Sciences 38 Genesis Zamora Biological Sciences Photochemical Internalization (PCI) Enhanced Non-Viral Transfection of Pro-Drug Activating Genes Henry Hirschberg Beckman Laser Institute 40 Maryam Zarrabi Biological Sciences Verification of DN-BmpR1a Overexpression in a Transgenic Mouse Line Edwin Monuki Pathology 265 Ben Zhou Chemical Engineering Silicon Nanowire and PEDOT:PSS Composite Films for Thermoelectrics Allon Hochbaum Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 49 of Rosavin and Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 54 - Group Poster Presentations Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Owen Cruz Philip Yu Biological Sciences Differentiating Cognitive Strategies in Sequence Memory in Rats Timothy Allen Norbert Fortin Neurobiology & Behavior 23 Angelina Kang Biological Sciences Stephen Yeung Public Health Policy Adult Neurogenesis Following Brain Injury Frank LaFerla Neurobiology & Behavior 31 Lisa Leung Ashley Yang-Halsey Biological Sciences Effect of Genetic Amyloid Beta Augmentation on Biochemical Characteristics of Alzheimer’s DiseaseRelated Analytes in Mouse Model of AD Vitaly Vasilevko Neurology 59 Omeid Heidari Cassidie Thomas Nursing Science Developing and Implementing and Effective Reproductive Health Eduction Program Julie Rousseau Program in Nursing Science 63 Armin Miresmaili Gabriel Sanchez Biological Sciences Central Processing Roles during Electroacupuncture in Response to Cardiovascular Depression Stephanie Tjen-a-Looi Medicine 73 Jacqueline Algara Eden Barragan Biological Sciences Effects of Monoamines on Temperature Sensitive Seizures in Mutant Drosophila Diane O’Dowd Soleil Schutte Developmental & Cell Biology 93 Patricia Guan Nadia Nikroo Biological Sciences Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Ultrasound Guided versus Palpation Method for Radial Artery Catheterization in Critically-Ill Patients John Christian Fox Emergency Medicine Mark Rosen Medicine 97 Sohni Singh Trang Tran Biological Sciences Attending Level Abdominal Physical Exam vs. Medical Student Abdominal Ultrasound Exam John Christian Fox Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 108 Helena Do Biological Sciences Hinal Patel Neurobiology Randomized Assessment of Alcohol Consumption with Computerized Screening and Brief Intervention for Adult and Adolescent Patients in the Emergency Department Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 124 Rachel Kaufman Rana Khoury Biological Sciences A Deficiency in the Protein Repair Enzyme PIMT Leads to Hyperphosphorylation of Synapsin in Mouse Brain Dana Aswad Molecular Biology & Biochemistry 152 Amanda Orozco Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Leo Viray Psychology Dance Therapy Kimberley Lakes Pediatrics 153 Melissa McManus Biological Sciences Nazanin Tadjbakhsh Sociology The Educational Affordances Technology for Young Children 1 of Interactive Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 55 - Stephanie Reich Education Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 154 Jahanzeb Ashraf Biological Sciences Seyed Ali Khalessi Hosseini Biomedical Engineering Infantile Feeding Habits and Health Outcomes during the First 18 Months of Life Stephanie Reich Education 172 Cindy Duong Pharmaceutical Science Paul Tran Anthropology/ Pharmaceutical Science Age-Dependent Effects of Fluoxetine Exposure on Acquisition of Cocaine-Self Administration Frances Leslie Pharmacology 173 Carlos Aguirre Pharmaceutical Science Andrew Dam Biological Sciences Effects of Nicotine Pretreatment on Novel Object Recognition in Adolescent and Adult Male Rats Frances Leslie Pharmacology 183 Quyen Dang Sophia Ho Biological Sciences 5-HT7 Stable Cell Line Antagonist/Agonist Screening Zhiwei Wang Pharmacology 190 Wilson Liang Public Health Sciences Catherine Nguyen Biological Sciences Goal-Directed Fluid Management Based on Monitoring of Pleth Variability Index (PVI) Maxime Cannesson Anesthesiology 223 Kevin Santiago Biomedical Engineering Roger Tu Biological Sciences Functional Alignment of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocytes on Biomimetic Biodegradable Wrinkles to Promote Maturation Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 226 Stephen Mock Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Kevin Santiago Biomedical Engineering Biomimetic Pattern from Leaf Venation for Vascularizing Engineered Tissues Michelle Khine Biomedical Engineering 235 Hanna Chang Aswini Ponnaluri Biomedical Engineering Cancer Stem Cell Detection Using Dielectrophoresis Field Flow Fractionation William Tang Biomedical Engineering 239 Tro Babikian Chemical Engineering Mason Minot Chemical Engineering/ Chemistry Use of Laser-Generated Cavitation Bubbles to Measure Receptor-Ligand Binding Vasan Venugopalan Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 257 Chantal Fry Computer Engineering Kelvin Wu Computer Science Patient Connect Pilot Project G. P. Li Arthur Zhang Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Stephanie Reich Mark Warschauer Education 269 Alvin Cao Jonathan Wong Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Grain Boundary Analysis of Ultra-Fine Grained Aluminum Alloy Farghalli Mohamed Chemical Engineering & Materials Science for Serotonin’s Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 56 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 270 Dilip Das Chemical Engineering Jin Soo Kim Materials Science Engineering Corrosion Properties of Ultra-Fined Grained and Commercial Aluminum Farghalli Mohamed Chemical Engineering & Materials Science 284 Kyle Johnson Aerospace Engineering Baolong Nguyen Attenuation of a Pressure Wave through the Use of a Helmholtz Resonator John LaRue Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 293 Pia Dizon Pharmaceutical Science Vyvy Pham Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Exotic Crystallins of Underwater Organisms Rachel Martin Chemistry 306 Tiffany Anguiano Arnel Sancianco Drama Antonin Artaud’s Jet of Blood Jaymi Smith Drama 313 Kehaulani Ahu Urban Studies Brandon Duong Psychology & Social Behavior The Art and Science of Film and Behavior Change: An Emerging Agenda Richard Matthew Planning, Policy, & Design 318 Sun Kim Stephanie Tsai Psychology & Social Behavior Emotion Regulation Patterns between Father and Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder Wendy Goldberg Psychology & Social Behavior Yuqing Guo Program in Nursing Science 329 Jose Escobar Christian Rodriguez Psychology & Social Behavior Adult Supportive Language Use and Child Language Comprehension: Relations with Delayed Generalization in Toddlers Angela Lukowski Psychology & Social Behavior 330 Katherine Liptrap Allison Tanaka Psychology & Social Behavior Examining the Effects of Napping on Memory Recall in University Students Angela Lukowski Psychology & Social Behavior 331 Shichun Ling Allison Tanaka Psychology & Social Behavior Examining Associations between Parent Sleep Quality and Narrative Report of Negative ParentChild Interactions Angela Lukowski Psychology & Social Behavior 340 Christopher Barber Classical Civilization/ Urban Studies Michael Ko Comparative Literature Military Texts and State Formation in Warring States China and Japan Anne Walthall History 347 Katherine Martinez Sociology Maria Pena Psychology & Social Behavior The Role of Abuelos on Latina/o College Students Experiences: A Psychosociocultural Analysis Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 350 Ruben Atilano Psychology Denise Leon Psychology/ Chicano/Latino Studies Latina/o College Students’ Perceptions of La Virgen de Guadalupe , College Experiences and Well-Being: A Pyschosociolcultural Approach Jeanett Castellanos Social Science Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 57 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Fareshte Erani Psychology Shacole Hamletts Social Science Undergraduate Asian Indian Women, Self-Healing, Coping and Well-Being Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 25 Manuel Candelario Aerospace Engineering Johnny Quan Biochemistry & Molecular Biology David Sahagun Biological Sciences Modification of a Human Membrane Protein to Improve Heterologous Expression in Yeast Ricardo Miledi Neurobiology & Behavior 47 Payum Noshiravan Public Health Policy Lia Pallivathucal Christine Sarkisyan Public Health Sciences Evaluating the Impact of the Clinic in the Park: A Community-Based Outreach Program Phyllis Agran Pediatrics Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 94 Vincent Lam George Matar Biological Sciences Kevin Shiah Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Bedside Ultrasound vs. Chest X-Ray in the Evaluation of Placement of Central Venous Catheters John Christian Fox Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 95 Ngoc-Tram Huynh Biological Sciences Joel Ramirez Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Keli Tahara Neurobiology A Survey on Faculty and Residents at UCI Family Health Center: Attitudes and Knowledge of Integrative Medicine David Kilgore Family Medicine 101 Christopher Gilani Sohni Singh Biological Sciences Sina Popal Public Health Sciences Utility of Ultrasound Guided Lumbar Puncture in Successfully Reducing Level of Traumatic Taps John Christian Fox Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 107 Aspen Alotis Christopher Gilani Allen Yang Biological Sciences Emergency Department versus Radiology Department Pelvic Ultrasound and Effect on Patient Length of Stay: A Randomized Control Trial John Christian Fox Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 116 Johann-Christian Abordo Tracy Dao Ivana Lee Biological Sciences The Effect of Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia Psychopathology on Neurocognition Julie Patterson Psychiatry & Human Behavior 170 Aichun Chen Diana Lubyanaya Mathematics Antoine Hamedi-Sangsari Biological Sciences A QCT-Based Methodology for Evaluating Bone Mineralization as a Function of Age in Pediatric Patients Joyce Keyak Radiological Sciences 353 Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 58 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 207 Ryan Farraro Akshay Paul Biomedical Engineering Jeffrey Tse Information & Computer Science Deployable Blood Flow Imaging System Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering 208 Edmund Florendo Tram Pham Steven Truong Biomedical Engineering Design of Endoscope-Compatible Blood-Flow Imaging Device Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering Brian Smith Surgery 210 Tiffany Bui Theodore Chang Kent Mayzel Biomedical Engineering Design of a Dental Laser Speckle Imaging (LSI) Probe to Determine Pulpal Vitality Bernard Choi Biomedical Engineering 237 Lydia Ameri Mechanical Engineering Gary Chang Chemical Engineering Kishan Patel Biomedical Engineering Strain Gauges for Soft Tissue William Tang Biomedical Engineering 247 Tam Nguyen Chemistry Nicholas Sarif Biological Sciences Eriberto Vargas Chemical Engineering Synthesis of Semiconductors 252 Andrew Kin Thu Luu Alan Mendoza Civil Engineering Earthquake Engineering: Seismic Design Farzin Zareian Civil & Environmental Engineering 289 George Fang Computer Engineering Abraham Lin Electrical Engineering David Shin Electrical Engineering/ Information & Computer Science Low Power Sensor Network Michael Green Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 323 Anisa Arain Zinab Jawed Psychology & Social Behavior Bonnie To Business Economics/ Psychology & Social Behavior Influence of Perceived Opportunity for Social Mobility on Young Adults’ Motivational Commitment to Career Goals and the Resulting Effects on Health and Well-Being Jutta Heckhausen Psychology & Social Behavior 326 Alexandra Chindris Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Shichun Ling Gina Machiaverna Psychology & Social Behavior Is There a False Memory Trait? Comparing Five Different Memory Distortion Paradigms Elizabeth Loftus Lawrence Patihis Psychology & Social Behavior Novel N-Type Organic Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 59 - Alon Gorodetsky Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 328 Natalie Ikker Helen La Sala Ingres Patricia Place Psychology & Social Behavior Potentially Traumatic Events, Directed Forgetting, and Time Perspective Elizabeth Loftus Psychology & Social Behavior 332 Kristin Gundersen Christina Metropoulos Sarah Savino Psychology & Social Behavior Examining the Relationship between Mindset and Hardiness: A Preliminary Study Salvatore Maddi Psychology & Social Behavior 348 Arely Acuna Business Economics Mary Duenas Criminology, Law & Society Edward Gutierrez Psychology & Social Behavior Latina and Latino Student Undergraduate Experiences: A PSC Analysis of their Academic Micro-Successes Jeanett Castellanos Social Science 56 Miguel Chavez Chicano/Latino Studies/ Psychology Nadia Nikroo Anthropology Jeniffer Pena Michelle Tran Biological Sciences Lowering Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Levels: the Effectiveness of Diabetes Education in Rural Mexico John Billimek Epidemiology John Christian Fox Emergency Medicine Tonya Schuster Sociology 84 Grigor Azatian Jose Buenrostro Hoang-Anh Khong Biological Sciences Jennifer Majdick Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Defining the Relationships of Cardiac Function, Athletic Performance and Stress in Drosophila Michael Rose Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 85 Rocky Do Public Health Sciences Kevin Nguyen Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Tommy Pham Linda Trondle Biological Sciences Testing the Mutation-Order Hypothesis in Laboratory Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Michael Rose Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 86 Wendy Dang Christopher Truong Public Health Sciences Chris DiFebo Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Neda Ghofranian Biological Sciences Testing the Ecological Speciation Hypothesis in Laboratory Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Michael Rose Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Chelsey Bithell Nooreen Khan Armaan Rowther Nadia Zuabi Biological Sciences Prevalence and Clinical Import of Thoracic Injuries Identified by Chest CT but not Chest Radiograph in Blunt Trauma Patients Mark Langdorf Shahram Lotfipour Emergency Medicine 105 melanogaster Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 60 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 112 Diane-Marie Aguilar Tracy Dinh Janey Quach Lucinda Tang Biological Sciences Cigarette Smoking, Motivation, and Workplace Performance in Smokers with and without Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Jean Gehricke Tim Wigal Pediatrics 203 Zachary Davis Christopher Hurst Jordan Linford Amy Pham Electrical Engineering Integrated Electroplating System Mark Bachman Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 212 Stephanie Gonzales Joshua Nguyen Oluchi Okafor Biomedical Engineering Carine Todmia Materials Science Engineering Pressure Release Alert System For Spinal Cord Injury Patients An Do Neurology 255 Cliff Huang Timothy Kwan Kevin Sison Vinh Trinh Computer Science & Engineering Home Energy Management System Mohammad Al Faruque Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 256 Patrick James Borricano Electrical Engineering Sergio Lopez James Pham Raymund Theodore Ramos Computer Engineering WaterSaber Fadi Kurdahi Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 279 Joe Chen Anaya Mekonnen Lineker Phuong Mechanical Engineering Christopher Gay Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Stored Energy Solar Stove Project John Garman Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 291 Kyle Boos Information & Computer Science Joshua Ferguson Yuhao Ma Computer Science & Engineering Kevin Jonaitis Computer Science/ Electrical Engineering A Novel Depth Sensor Based Approach to Augmented Reality Donald Patterson Informatics 320 Silvia Gutierrez Shannon Merrell Roobina Tsaturyan Psychology & Social Behavior Emotion Regulation among Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Novel Application of a Dynamic Systems Approach Wendy Goldberg Psychology & Social Behavior Yuqing Guo Program in Nursing Science Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 61 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 321 Victoria Bubolz Yoselinda Mendoza Daniel Poissant Deepa Puthran Psychology & Social Behavior Is It Worth It? The Impact of Changing Majors on Students’ Motivation, Well-Being, and Academic Performance Jutta Heckhausen Psychology & Social Behavior 96 Daniel Ho Biological Sciences Kunaal Kapoor Public Health Sciences Leslie Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior Bhavika Patel Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Cathy Shutaya Public Health Policy A Survey on Patients at the UCI Santa Ana Family Health Center: Attitudes and Knowledge of Complementary and Alternative Medicine David Kilgore Family Medicine 233 Brian Anderson Brandon Chimits Kevin Jalalipour Kristen MacNeal Jacob Moebius Biomedical Engineering At-Home Quantitative Spasticity Measurement David Reinkensmeyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 234 Joseph Gomez Stephen Lee Timothy Macagba Sohan Weeraratne Biomedical Engineering Jin Kim Materials Science Engineering Artificial Anatomical Beating Heart for the Training of Heart Devices William Tang Biomedical Engineering 236 Casey Burgwald Materials Science Engineering Ji Hwang Kevin Limtao Andrea Navarro Derya Yilmaz Biomedical Engineering Semi-Automated CD Microfluidics for Capturing Circulating Tumor Cells William Tang Biomedical Engineering 238 Piyush Gupta Mark Keating Borna Khavari Jigar Shah Bakr Teebi Biomedical Engineering Aortic Stenosis Screening App William Tang Biomedical Engineering 274 Jonah Jocson Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Ali Mansouri Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Jason Merz Hamid Yaqubi Materials Science Engineering Erik Olson Mechanical Engineering Corneal Phantom for OCT Imaging Tibor Juhasz Ophthalmology Albert Yee Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 62 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 335 Leighanne Arellano Criminology, Law & Society Stephanie Blaze Colleen Burkhead Shan-Chun Chen Psychology & Social Behavior Titania Tran Business Administration/ Psychology & Social Behavior Graduate School Entrance Exams: Group Differences in Exam Preparation Behaviors, Psychological Health, and Exam Performance Joanne Zinger Psychology & Social Behavior Genie Alvarez Public Health Sciences/ Sociology Dillon Gamboa Lindsay Yamauchi Stephen Yeung Public Health Policy Pooja Patel Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Policy Purvee Patel Public Health Sciences Alcohol Use among UC Irvine Undergraduate Students David Timberlake Program in Public Health 109 Anika Akhter Public Health Policy Jenna Hung Maggie Wu Pharmaceutical Science Michael Liu Keli Tahara Ivan Trang Neurobiology A Survey of UCI Student Health Center Patients: Attitudes and Receptiveness to Using Integrative Medicine for Common Medical Conditions Wadie Najm Family Medicine 111 Jeric Israel Julian Jasleen Kahlon Amanda Le Amrit Panjabi Christopher Vo Sophia Wong Biological Sciences Severity of Depression and Anxiety Correlated to Polypharmacy Rimal Bera Psychiatry & Human Behavior 315 Ali Alkhatib Anthropology Fady Barsoum Mechanical Engineering Ian Brown Information & Computer Science/ Studio Art Erin Costino Political Science Reaksmey Diep Anthropology/ Urban Studies Ching-Wen Yang Public Health Sciences Values in Design: Designing for Hesitation and Presence Geoffrey Bowker Judith Gregory Informatics Sanjoy Mazumdar Planning, Policy, & Design 62 Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 63 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) 87 Christina Anz Meghmic Hacopian Kyle Wallace Public Health Sciences Laurel Dang Michelle England Crystal Pham Gerard Tran Biological Sciences Patterns of Forward Selection in Diverse Population Sizes of Drosophila melanog aster Michael Rose Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 88 Juan Alarcon Samantha Quesada Tanjot Saini Biological Sciences Krupa Bhakta Public Health Sciences Brandon Kuey Alison Rufo Pharmaceutical Science Joshua Lee Chemistry Diet Change, Aging, and Late Life: Adaptation to Novel and Ancestral Foods Michael Rose Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 89 Monica Chavez Laurel Dang Anna Liu Dena Nasir Mike Thongsuk Michelle Tien Biological Sciences Yu-Hsin Lin Chemistry The Effects of Reverse Selection in Small Populations of Drosophila melanogaster Michael Rose Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 232 Kristine Bonifacio Alexander Chu Stephanie Gonzales Meghan Knight Eric Nguyen Joshua Nguyen Biomedical Engineering Kevin Nguyen Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Manual Home-Based Therapeutic Device for Spasticity Patients David Reinkensmeyer Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 281 Kyle Boos Information & Computer Science Terri Chang Psychology Tzu-Yu Chao Veronica Swanson Mechanical Engineering Joshua Ferguson Randy Harper Computer Science & Engineering Richard Lee Computer Science Camille Macalinao Grant Moe Psychology Biologically-Inspired Robot Swarms for Search and Rescue Missions James Bobrow Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Ian Harris Computer Science Jeffrey Krichmar Cognitive Sciences Michael McCarthy Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 64 - Poster # Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Christine Bediones English Gary Chen Christopher Dinh She Nie Computer Science Kenneth Fernandez Alex Morishita Studio Art Vahan Hartooni Aerospace Engineering Stanislav Listopad Computer Science & Engineering Kal McDowd Lily Xiao Informatics Down With Food AnneMarie Conley Education Bill Tomlinson Informatics 51 Salvador Arriaga Karen Santoyo Linh Vu Public Health Sciences Mei Chang Kimberly Gardner Taylor Gardner Johanna Herrera Sophia Nguyen Jesse Salas Biological Sciences Katherine Vu Pharmaceutical Science Patient-Physician Communication Management of Type 2 Diabetes 248 Luis Acosta Michael Beto Steven Bui Ivan Cheng Joseph Hunt Brian Polson Jonathan Schreder Michael Vigliarolo Elmer Wei Bernice Wu Chemical Engineering Robinne Ponty Mechanical Engineering Chem-E Car 309 in the Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 65 - John Billimek Epidemiology Hung Nguyen Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Poster # 200 Student Presenters Project Title Faculty Mentor(s) Isaac Baertlein Violet Malyan Austin Moore Christoph Seeliger Lee Tea Mechanical Engineering Thanh Chung Kevin Jalalipour Biomedical Engineering Ivan Gochev Shailin Shah Electrical Engineering David Hahn Grant Jackson Huzafa Khan Robert Watson Aerospace Engineering Brian Morey Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering UCI Rocket Project Kenneth Mease Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 66 - Index of Presenters Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #2 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sara Abdelhalim Biological Sciences Anika Akhter Public Health Policy Oral Session I Balboa Island B 8:50 AM Mohamad Abedi Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:50 AM Anika Akhter Public Health Policy Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:50 AM Parinaz Abiri Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Woods Cove C 9:10 AM Poster Session ~ #109 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anika Akhter Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #116 1:30 - 2:50 PM Johann-Christian Abordo Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #6 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jeby Abraham Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:30 AM Ruben Alanis Luu Biomedical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #28 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christina Abundis Developmental & Cell Biology Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Juan Alarcon Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Luis Acosta Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #73 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jacqueline Algara Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #348 1:30 - 2:50 PM Arely Acuna Business Economics Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 8:50 AM Connor Alhart Drama Poster Session ~ #272 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ikeoluwa Adesina Materials Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #315 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ali Alkhatib Anthropology Oral Session I Emerald Bay B 9:10 AM Megan Afetian Developmental & Cell Biology Poster Session ~ #337 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rebecca Allen Philosophy Oral Session II Woods Cove C 3:20 PM Amirali Aghili Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #156 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sara Alleyasin Political Science Poster Session ~ #175 1:30 - 2:50 PM Elias Almaz Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #112 1:30 - 2:50 PM Diane-Marie Aguilar Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #107 1:30 - 2:50 PM Aspen Alotis Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #173 1:30 - 2:50 PM Carlos Aguirre Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #62 1:30 - 2:50 PM Genie Alvarez Public Health Sciences/ Sociology Poster Session ~ #92 1:30 - 2:50 PM Fareed Ahmed Chemical Engineering Jamie Amemiya Biological Sciences Oral Session I Crescent Bay B 8:30 AM Soobin (Kristen) Ahn Psychology Oral Session II Doheny Beach C 3:00 PM Jamie Amemiya Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #313 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kehaulani Ahu Urban Studies Oral Session II Woods Cove B 3:20 PM Oral Session II Newport Beach B 3:40 PM Janet Ajdaharian Biological Sciences/ Studio Art Poster Session ~ #237 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lydia Ameri Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 67 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session I Doheny Beach D 9:50 AM Karen An Earth & Environmental Science Poster Session ~ #350 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ruben Atilano Psychology Poster Session ~ #233 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brian Anderson Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #90 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bryan Au Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #80 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jacob Anderson Earth & Environmental Science Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 3:20 PM Christian Avetisyan Criminology, Law & Society Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Melanie Anderson Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #84 1:30 - 2:50 PM Grigor Azatian Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Alecxandre Andres Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #32 1:30 - 2:50 PM Soraya Azzawi Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #306 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tiffany Anguiano Drama Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 4:20 PM Soraya Azzawi Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christina Anz Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #239 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tro Babikian Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #323 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anisa Arain Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #230 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vikram Babu Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #151 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sara Arastoo Biological Sciences Oral Session II Balboa Island B 4:20 PM Natalie Badalof English Poster Session ~ #335 1:30 - 2:50 PM Leighanne Arellano Criminology, Law & Society Poster Session ~ #253 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session I Emerald Bay D 10:10 AM Jocelyn Argueta Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Salvador Badillo Rios Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Isaac Baertlein Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Salvador Arriaga Public Health Sciences Arya Baghkhanian Chemistry Poster Session ~ #9 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alexandra Ashcroft Biological Sciences Oral Session II Moss Cove A 3:20 PM Oral Session II Woods Cove A 3:00 PM Alexandra Ashcroft Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #177 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alisha Bajwa Biological Sciences Rahaf Baker Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #154 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jahanzeb Ashraf Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay D 9:30 AM Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:40 PM Jahanzeb Ashraf Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #115 1:30 - 2:50 PM Caroline Bakhit Biological Sciences/ Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #275 1:30 - 2:50 PM Thomas Assali Microbiology & Immunology Oral Session I Emerald Bay D 9:10 AM Caroline Bakhit Biological Sciences/ Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #32 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mariam Astarabadi Biological Sciences Oral Session I Balboa Island A 9:50 AM Danny Baldo Jr. Biomedical Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 68 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:00 PM Reyna Baltazar Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Woods Cove B 9:30 AM Gabriel Beringer Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Hugo Banh Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michael Beto Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 3:20 PM Andrew Banuelos Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Krupa Bhakta Public Health Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Albert Barber Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove B 10:10 AM Neha Bhatt Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #340 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Barber Classical Civilization/ Urban Studies Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:40 PM Rudolph Bielitz Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Moss Cove B 8:50 AM Christopher Barber Classical Civilization/ Urban Studies Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:30 AM Chelsey Bithell Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #73 1:30 - 2:50 PM Eden Barragan Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #105 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chelsey Bithell Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #315 1:30 - 2:50 PM Fady Barsoum Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Sarah Black Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:20 PM Justin Bass Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #335 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephanie Blaze Psychology & Social Behavior Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Sarah Bauer Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kristine Bonifacio Biomedical Engineering Kristine Bonifacio Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove A 9:50 AM Neil Bautista English Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:00 PM Eddie Bonilla Chicano/Latino Studies Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christine Bediones English Oral Session I Crescent Bay C 8:30 AM Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 4:00 PM Christine Bediones English Poster Session ~ #291 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kyle Boos Information & Computer Science Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kyle Boos Information & Computer Science Oral Session II Moss Cove B 3:00 PM Courtney Bell English Poster Session ~ #256 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patrick James Borricano Electrical Engineering Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom B 3:00 PM Stephanie Berganza Business Economics/ International Studies Poster Session ~ #197 1:30 - 2:50 PM Robert Boud Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Jacob Boyer Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 69 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 3:20 PM Shane Breazeale Biological Sciences Oral Session I Balboa Island A 8:30 AM Zachary Campagna Biomedical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Brittney Brewer Dance/ Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #290 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Campo Computer Science Poster Session ~ #162 1:30 - 2:50 PM James Brewster Chemistry Poster Session ~ #25 1:30 - 2:50 PM Manuel Candelario Aerospace Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Kimberly Bridgewater Dance-Choreography Poster Session ~ #344 1:30 - 2:50 PM Scott Cannon International Studies/ Political Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay A 9:10 AM Colleen Bromberger History Poster Session ~ #269 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alvin Cao Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #310 1:30 - 2:50 PM Deena Brosi Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 10:10 AM Alvin Cao Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #315 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ian Brown Information & Computer Science/ Studio Art Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:20 PM Anh Cao Electrical Engineering Oral Session II Moss Cove A 4:40 PM William Brown Chemistry Oral Session II Moss Cove A 3:00 PM David Cao Chemistry Poster Session ~ #321 1:30 - 2:50 PM Victoria Bubolz Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #196 1:30 - 2:50 PM Adriana Capatina Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #84 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jose Buenrostro Biological Sciences Adriana Capatina Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Steven Bui Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 3:00 PM Poster Session ~ #210 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tiffany Bui Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Woods Cove C 4:20 PM Christina Carnevale Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #236 1:30 - 2:50 PM Casey Burgwald Materials Science Engineering Anne Carr Dance-Performance/ Literary Journalism Poster Session ~ #335 1:30 - 2:50 PM Colleen Burkhead Psychology & Social Behavior Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Naomi Carrillo Mathematics Oral Session II Emerald Bay B 4:20 PM Colleen Burkhead Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #287 1:30 - 2:50 PM Keegan Carroll Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #176 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Cabrera Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:10 AM Katharine Cary Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Poster Session ~ #231 1:30 - 2:50 PM Everardo Camacho Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #91 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Sarah Castro Dance/ Psychology & Social Behavior Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 70 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #18 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michelle Caunca Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #170 1:30 - 2:50 PM Aichun Chen Mathematics Oral Session II Woods Cove A 3:40 PM Michelle Caunca Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gary Chen Computer Science Poster Session ~ #77 1:30 - 2:50 PM Faisal Chaabani Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #279 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joe Chen Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #83 1:30 - 2:50 PM Carolus Chan Biological Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 4:40 PM Joe Chen Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Balboa Island B 8:30 AM Yu-Wen Chan Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM John Chen Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:30 AM Baldwin Chang Computer Science & Engineering Poster Session ~ #335 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shan-Chun Chen Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #237 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gary Chang Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:20 PM Shan-Chun Chen Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:30 AM Hanna Chang Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Crescent Bay B 3:00 PM Faye Cheng Sociology Poster Session ~ #235 1:30 - 2:50 PM Hanna Chang Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ivan Cheng Chemical Engineering Oral Session I Woods Cove A 8:50 AM Jane Chang Biological Sciences Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 4:00 PM Kevin Cheng Chemistry Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mei Chang Biological Sciences Christina Cheung Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Terri Chang Psychology Oral Session I Woods Cove A 8:30 AM Poster Session ~ #210 1:30 - 2:50 PM Theodore Chang Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #245 1:30 - 2:50 PM Renee Cheung Materials Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #102 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vincent Chang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #168 1:30 - 2:50 PM Beatrice Chiang Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tzu-Yu Chao Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #233 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brandon Chimits Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #56 1:30 - 2:50 PM Miguel Chavez Chicano/Latino Studies/ Psychology Poster Session ~ #16 1:30 - 2:50 PM Justin Chin Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #198 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lauren Chin Business Administration Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Monica Chavez Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #326 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Jessica Chean Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Alexandra Chindris Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 71 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Woods Cove B 3:00 PM Alexandra Chindris Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #17 1:30 - 2:50 PM Samantha Corwin Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #7 1:30 - 2:50 PM Neha Chiruvolu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #304 1:30 - 2:50 PM Scott Coste Chemistry Oral Session I Balboa Island A 8:50 AM Kevin Cho Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #315 1:30 - 2:50 PM Erin Costino Political Science Oral Session I Emerald Bay B 9:30 AM Joseph Choe Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Brita Crain Dance-Choreography Poster Session ~ #160 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ellen Choi Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:50 AM Alexandra Crampton Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #135 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jaydee Choompoo Nursing Science Oral Session I Balboa Island A 9:10 AM Alexandra Crampton Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Crescent Bay C 4:00 PM Rahul Chopra Political Science Poster Session ~ #206 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christian Crouzet Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Newport Beach A 4:00 PM Karissa Chow Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:10 AM Christian Crouzet Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #292 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bianca Christensen Chemical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Cierra Crowley Dance Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:50 AM Tony Christiansen Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #1 1:30 - 2:50 PM Owen Cruz Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alexander Chu Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #39 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ruskin Cua Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #250 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brian Chu Chemical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 10:10 AM Joseph Cuevas Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #64 1:30 - 2:50 PM Na Eun Chung Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #213 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session II Newport Beach B 4:00 PM Na Eun Chung Biological Sciences Matthew Curtis Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine/ Music Performance: Viola Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Thanh Chung Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Balboa Island A 9:30 AM Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Brittany Clements Dance-Performance/ Film & Media Studies Matthew Curtis Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine/ Music Performance: Viola Van Custodio Informatics Oral Session II Balboa Island A 3:00 PM Michael Corrado Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:10 AM Poster Session ~ #65 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mohammad Dadkhah Biological Sciences Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 72 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:30 AM Maxwell Daly Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach D 4:20 PM Mark Dennison, Jr. Psychology Poster Session ~ #173 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Dam Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #259 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lianne Devera Chemistry/ Microbiology & Immunology Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Laurel Dang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #5 1:30 - 2:50 PM Pritha Dewanjee Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Laurel Dang Biological Sciences Pritha Dewanjee Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #183 1:30 - 2:50 PM Quyen Dang Biological Sciences Oral Session II Woods Cove A 3:20 PM Poster Session ~ #86 1:30 - 2:50 PM Wendy Dang Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #118 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oscar Diaz Biological Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach D 4:00 PM Irina Danileiko Psychology Oral Session I Moss Cove A 8:50 AM Howard Diep Asian American Studies/ Political Science Poster Session ~ #116 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tracy Dao Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #315 1:30 - 2:50 PM Reaksmey Diep Anthropology/ Urban Studies Poster Session ~ #270 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dilip Das Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:40 PM Quentin Dietz Biomedical Computing Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 4:40 PM Mariexcel Davatolhagh Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #86 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chris DiFebo Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:10 AM Chase Davis Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Dinh Computer Science Poster Session ~ #229 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chase Davis Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #112 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tracy Dinh Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #203 1:30 - 2:50 PM Zachary Davis Electrical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove A 9:10 AM Nathan Directo History/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #78 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jahanshah Davoodifard Anthropology/ Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Michelle Ditto Dance/ Drama Oral Session I Crescent Bay D 9:50 AM Angelina Dayfallah Political Science Oral Session II Balboa Island B 3:20 PM Gregory Dixon English Oral Session II Woods Cove B 3:40 PM Darius Dehghan Criminology, Law & Society Poster Session ~ #293 1:30 - 2:50 PM Pia Dizon Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #244 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anthony DeNicola Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #108 1:30 - 2:50 PM Helena Do Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 73 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 8:50 AM Helena Do Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay B 8:50 AM Chantle Edillor Developmental & Cell Biology Poster Session ~ #85 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rocky Do Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #67 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chantle Edillor Developmental & Cell Biology Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 3:40 PM Thomas Doan Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #122 1:30 - 2:50 PM Zachary Ellison Chemical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:30 AM Olivia Domenici Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #123 1:30 - 2:50 PM Arijh Elzein Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay B 8:30 AM Khanh Kathy Dong Political Science/ Sociology Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Kathryn Endo Dance/ Drama Poster Session ~ #149 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kosha Doshi Biological Sciences Oral Session I Woods Cove C 8:30 AM Hazel Eng Criminology, Law & Society/ English Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 4:00 PM Newsha Dowlaty Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michelle England Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Alex Dreschke Dance-Performance Oral Session I Emerald Bay A 8:50 AM Allison Enomoto Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #348 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mary Duenas Criminology, Law & Society Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 3:00 PM Igii Enverga Computer Science Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:40 PM Andrew Dugum Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #353 1:30 - 2:50 PM Fareshte Erani Psychology Poster Session ~ #20 1:30 - 2:50 PM Haley Dunn Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #329 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jose Escobar Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #313 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brandon Duong Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #185 1:30 - 2:50 PM Horacio Estabridis Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #172 1:30 - 2:50 PM Cindy Duong Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #289 1:30 - 2:50 PM George Fang Computer Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Matthew Duran Drama Poster Session ~ #193 1:30 - 2:50 PM Melody Fang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #217 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yen Chi Fang Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Matthew Duran Drama Poster Session ~ #207 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ryan Farraro Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 3:40 PM Sami Dwabe Biological Sciences Oral Session II Balboa Island A 3:20 PM Natasha Felsinger Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 8:50 AM Natasha Felsinger Biomedical Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 74 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #280 1:30 - 2:50 PM David Feng Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #257 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chantal Fry Computer Engineering Poster Session ~ #291 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Ferguson Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:00 PM Jacqueline Fuentes Criminology, Law & Society Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Ferguson Computer Science & Engineering Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kenneth Fernandez Studio Art Oral Session II Moss Cove B 3:40 PM Taylor Fuller Comparative Literature/ Film & Media Studies Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 8:50 AM Nigel Fernandez Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #354 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Galeano International Studies/ Political Science Poster Session ~ #19 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sarah Ferrara Biological Sciences Oral Session I Crescent Bay C 9:30 AM Christopher Galeano International Studies/ Political Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay B 9:50 AM Batya Fields Sociology Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:20 PM Emma Gallarza Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Woods Cove B 4:00 PM Alexz Figueroa Criminology, Law & Society Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:40 PM Deanna Gallegos Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Emerald Bay D 8:50 AM Michael Finney Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #62 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dillon Gamboa Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #4 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gilana Finogenov Neurobiology Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Michael Gamboa Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #127 1:30 - 2:50 PM Briana Fitch Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kimberly Gardner Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Michaela Fleming Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Taylor Gardner Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #208 1:30 - 2:50 PM Edmund Florendo Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:00 PM Claudia Gavrilescu Criminology, Law & Society Oral Session I Crescent Bay D 9:10 AM Sophia Fonua Business Economics/ Political Science Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 10:10 AM Christopher Gay Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #79 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yuri Foreman Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #279 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Rachel Fowler Dance-Performance Christopher Gay Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Christopher Gay Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove B 9:30 AM Tessa Frey Art History Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 4:40 PM Poster Session ~ #312 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andria Gazda Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 75 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #29 1:30 - 2:50 PM Berkenesh Gebrekristos Biological Sciences Amy Goldman Sociology Poster Session ~ #242 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sahara George Psychology Oral Session II Doheny Beach C 4:00 PM Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Kelsey Gerber Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #261 1:30 - 2:50 PM Edgar Gomez Chemical Engineering Joseph Gomez Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #130 1:30 - 2:50 PM Armen Gevorkyan Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:00 PM Poster Session ~ #61 1:30 - 2:50 PM Heeva Ghane Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #234 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joseph Gomez Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Anais Gharabegian Physics Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephanie Gonzales Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #212 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephanie Gonzales Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #86 1:30 - 2:50 PM Neda Ghofranian Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #219 1:30 - 2:50 PM Maunika Gosike Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #70 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yasamine Ghorbanian Microbiology & Immunology Christopher Griffin Philosophy Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom B 3:20 PM Parneet Ghuman Public Health Sciences/ Sociology Oral Session II Balboa Island B 3:00 PM Cyla Grisso Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Crescent Bay A 9:30 AM Jeffrey Gibson Business Administration/ Political Science Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Hongyang Guan Psychology Poster Session ~ #174 1:30 - 2:50 PM Landon Gibson Biological Sciences Oral Session I Doheny Beach C 9:50 AM Poster Session ~ #107 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Gilani Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #93 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patricia Guan Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:10 AM Christopher Gilani Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #307 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patricia Guan Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #13 1:30 - 2:50 PM Roblen Guevarra Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #101 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Gilani Biological Sciences Kristin Gundersen Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:30 AM Anita Gilbert Informatics Oral Session II Emerald Bay B 3:40 PM Poster Session ~ #332 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kristin Gundersen Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:20 PM Romina Gill Business Economics/ Psychology Poster Session ~ #238 1:30 - 2:50 PM Piyush Gupta Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ivan Gochev Electrical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Alec Guthrie Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #288 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Gutierrez Computer Science Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 76 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #27 1:30 - 2:50 PM Eden Gutierrez Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #348 1:30 - 2:50 PM Edward Gutierrez Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:30 AM Vahan Hartooni Computer Science & Engineering/ Digital Arts Poster Session ~ #320 1:30 - 2:50 PM Silvia Gutierrez Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vahan Hartooni Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #144 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brenda Guzman Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay A 8:30 AM Bima Hasjim Biological Sciences/ Psychology Poster Session ~ #55 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kayla Haag Public Health Sciences Jonaphan Hateley Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Meghmic Hacopian Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Balboa Island A 4:00 PM David Hahn Aerospace Engineering Jared Hatland Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:50 AM Oral Session II Crescent Bay A 3:20 PM Lucas Hahn International Studies/ Political Science Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 3:40 PM Kevin He Chemical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Andrew Hallenbeck Dance-Choreography Oral Session I Emerald Bay A 9:30 AM Omeid Heidari Nursing Science Poster Session ~ #170 1:30 - 2:50 PM Antoine Hamedi-Sangsari Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #59 1:30 - 2:50 PM Omeid Heidari Nursing Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay B 9:10 AM Shacole Hamlett Social Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay B 8:50 AM Brian Hermosillo Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #353 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shacole Hamletts Social Science Poster Session ~ #286 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brian Hermosillo Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Newport Beach B 3:00 PM Katherine Hamorsky Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #201 1:30 - 2:50 PM Timothy Hernandez Electrical Engineering Johanna Herrera Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #22 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patrick Hang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Randy Harper Computer Science & Engineering Caitlin Hicks Dance Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Poster Session ~ #298 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anastasia Harris Chemistry Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:20 PM William Hillhouse Computer Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay B 4:20 PM Tian Harrison Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #34 1:30 - 2:50 PM Daniel Ho Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vahan Hartooni Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 4:00 PM Daniel Ho Biological Sciences Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 77 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #96 1:30 - 2:50 PM Daniel Ho Biological Sciences Jenna Hung Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #183 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sophia Ho Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:50 AM Poster Session ~ #221 1:30 - 2:50 PM Victoria Ho Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #109 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jenna Hung Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Moss Cove A 4:00 PM Thanh Ho Ngo Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joseph Hunt Chemical Engineering Tyler Hunt Political Science Poster Session ~ #308 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rochelle Hoffman Anthropology Oral Session II Crescent Bay C 4:20 PM Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:50 AM Jeffrey Hong Business Information Management Oral Session I Woods Cove A 9:30 AM Jin Hur Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Kaylyn Hopkins Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #203 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Hurst Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #241 1:30 - 2:50 PM Syed Fowaz Hussain Biological Sciences Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 3:20 PM Melika Hosseini Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #142 1:30 - 2:50 PM Carol Huynh Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #254 1:30 - 2:50 PM Davit Hovhannisyan Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Dat Huynh Aerospace Engineering Oral Session II Woods Cove C 4:40 PM Martin Hsu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #95 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ngoc-Tram Huynh Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #11 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christina Huang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #236 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ji Hwang Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #255 1:30 - 2:50 PM Cliff Huang Computer Science & Engineering Poster Session ~ #215 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ji Hwang Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:40 PM Sonja Huang Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Balboa Island B 9:10 AM Michelle Hwang Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach C 9:10 AM Justin Huft Psychology & Social Behavior/ Social Ecology Poster Session ~ #69 1:30 - 2:50 PM Caitlyn Hwe Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #333 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jasmine Hugo Pharmaceutical Science/ Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #48 1:30 - 2:50 PM Marty Ralph Ignacio Business Economics/ Public Health Policy Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM John Huleis Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 3:40 PM Marty Ralph Ignacio Business Economics/ Public Health Policy Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 4:00 PM Natalie Ikker Psychology & Social Behavior Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 78 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #328 1:30 - 2:50 PM Natalie Ikker Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #264 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bhavin Joshi Chemistry Poster Session ~ #100 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anum Iqbal Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #111 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jeric Israel Julian Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #314 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mariam Iskajyan International Studies/ Political Science Poster Session ~ #111 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jasleen Kahlon Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Grant Jackson Aerospace Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 8:50 AM Patrick Kahn Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:10 AM Priyanka Jain Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Crescent Bay A 9:50 AM Long Kan Economics/ Political Science Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Jalalipour Biomedical Engineering Akanksha Kandhari Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #233 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Jalalipour Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Woods Cove C 3:40 PM Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:10 AM Urmilla Janardan Undeclared Poster Session ~ #23 1:30 - 2:50 PM Angelina Kang Biological Sciences Hannah Kang Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 3:20 PM Matthew Jansen Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Doheny Beach C 9:30 AM Poster Session ~ #317 1:30 - 2:50 PM Hannah Kang Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Varun Jasuja Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 4:20 PM Nina Kang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #323 1:30 - 2:50 PM Zinab Jawed Psychology & Social Behavior Athanasios Kaplanis Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Newport Beach A 9:50 AM Jason Jia Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Konstantinos Kaplanis Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:30 AM Nithin Jilla Computer Science Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Kunaal Kapoor Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #274 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jonah Jocson Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 4:00 PM Poster Session ~ #96 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kunaal Kapoor Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #284 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kyle Johnson Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #303 1:30 - 2:50 PM David Kapukchyan Chemistry/ Physics Poster Session ~ #291 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Jonaitis Computer Science/ Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #278 1:30 - 2:50 PM Khizar Karwa Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #251 1:30 - 2:50 PM Trevor Jones Civil Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 79 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 4:00 PM Khizar Karwa Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #106 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anthony Khong Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #188 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nikhita Kathuria Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #84 1:30 - 2:50 PM Hoang-Anh Khong Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #124 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rachel Kaufman Biological Sciences Oral Session II Woods Cove A 4:00 PM Nima Khoshab Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #220 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sonia Kaushal Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #180 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nima Khoshab Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #140 1:30 - 2:50 PM Behdad Kavianpour Biological Sciences Amrita Khoshoo Global Cultures/ History Poster Session ~ #301 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rika Kawamura Earth & Environmental Science Oral Session I Moss Cove B 9:10 AM Poster Session ~ #238 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mark Keating Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #124 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rana Khoury Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:30 AM Timothy Keo Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 4:20 PM Esther Kim Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Chelsea Kern Biological Sciences/ DancePerformance Poster Session ~ #113 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jae Kim Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #234 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jin Kim Materials Science Engineering Oral Session II Balboa Island A 4:00 PM Ali Khalessi Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #270 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jin Soo Kim Materials Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #53 1:30 - 2:50 PM Parastou Khalessi Hosseini Psychology/ Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:00 PM Michael Kim Criminology, Law & Society Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:30 AM Michael Kim Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Woods Cove A 9:50 AM Richard Kim Mathematics Poster Session ~ #318 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sun Kim Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #252 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Kin Civil Engineering Poster Session ~ #218 1:30 - 2:50 PM Colin Kincaid Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Joe King Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #154 1:30 - 2:50 PM Seyed Ali Khalessi Hosseini Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Huzafa Khan Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #105 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nooreen Khan Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:30 AM Nooreen Khan Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #238 1:30 - 2:50 PM Borna Khavari Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Kevin Kho Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 80 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Moss Cove B 3:20 PM Lauren King English Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:30 AM Nafiri Kusumakaulika Informatics Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 3:00 PM Nathan Kirksey Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:50 AM Nafiri Kusumakaulika Informatics Poster Session ~ #240 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Klein Chemical Engineering Elliott Kwan Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:10 AM Meghan Knight Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Newport Beach B 9:30 AM Poster Session ~ #255 1:30 - 2:50 PM Timothy Kwan Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session I Balboa Island A 9:50 AM Meghan Knight Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:50 AM Stephanie Kwok Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Meghan Knight Biomedical Engineering Ryan Kwong Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove B 8:50 AM Michael Ko Comparative Literature Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:10 AM Poster Session ~ #351 1:30 - 2:50 PM Valerie Ky Social Science Poster Session ~ #340 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michael Ko Comparative Literature Anh La Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #186 1:30 - 2:50 PM Akihisa Kodama Physics Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:50 AM Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom B 3:40 PM Jennifer Komissarenko History/ Political Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay D 8:30 AM Rocio La Rosa International Studies Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:50 AM Natalie Kovacs Psychology & Social Behavior/ Studio Art Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 4:00 PM Helen La Sala Ingres Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #243 1:30 - 2:50 PM Marc Kryger Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #328 1:30 - 2:50 PM Helen La Sala Ingres Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 4:20 PM Ryan Kuehne Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Moss Cove B 4:20 PM Kenneth Lai Classics/ English Poster Session ~ #277 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ryan Kuehne Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #302 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jaspreet Lally Physics Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brandon Kuey Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:50 AM John Lam Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #164 1:30 - 2:50 PM Steven Kurumada Psychology Poster Session ~ #119 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sophia Lam Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #178 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sharon Kuruvilla Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #319 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tiffany Lam Biological Sciences/ Psychology & Social Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 81 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #94 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vincent Lam Biological Sciences Kevin Lee Mathematics Poster Session ~ #249 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anthony Lan Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Balboa Island A 4:20 PM Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:10 AM Kevin Lasqyete Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Richard Lee Computer Science Poster Session ~ #234 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephen Lee Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay B 4:00 PM Benjamin LathamBryman Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Balboa Island B 3:40 PM Marilyn Leider English Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 8:50 AM Andrea Lau Informatics Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:30 AM Victor Lelas Computer Science Poster Session ~ #111 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amanda Le Biological Sciences Victor Lelas Computer Science Poster Session ~ #26 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kristina Le Neurobiology Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:50 AM Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom B 4:00 PM Linh Le Anthropology/ Political Science Poster Session ~ #350 1:30 - 2:50 PM Denise Leon Chicano/Latino Studies/ Psychology Oral Session I Newport Beach A 9:10 AM Carlin Lee Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #136 1:30 - 2:50 PM John Leong Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #31 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lisa Leung Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #116 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ivana Lee Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #339 1:30 - 2:50 PM Deborah Lewis English Oral Session I Doheny Beach D 9:10 AM Jeanette Lee Earth & Environmental Science Poster Session ~ #260 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amanda Li Biological Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:20 PM Jennifer Lee Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #43 1:30 - 2:50 PM Zhenzhi Li Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Lee Chemistry Poster Session ~ #190 1:30 - 2:50 PM Wilson Liang Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:00 PM Julia Lee Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:50 AM Albert Liao Materials Science Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:20 PM Julia Lee Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Doheny Beach D 8:30 AM Naomi Lichtner Earth & Environmental Science/ English Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:10 AM Katherine Lee Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach C 3:40 PM Vicky Lien Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #15 1:30 - 2:50 PM Eric Lim Biological Sciences Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 82 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session I Doheny Beach C 8:30 AM Jonathan Lim Business Administration/ Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:50 AM Michael Liu Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #305 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Lim Drama Poster Session ~ #109 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michael Liu Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #36 1:30 - 2:50 PM Melody Lim Mathematics Katherine Lo Mathematics Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 8:30 AM Kevin Limtao Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 3:20 PM Poster Session ~ #209 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patrick Lo Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #236 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Limtao Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #346 1:30 - 2:50 PM Estefanía Lopez Political Science/ Sociology Poster Session ~ #289 1:30 - 2:50 PM Abraham Lin Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #256 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sergio Lopez Computer Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Timothy Lin Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Balboa Island B 4:00 PM Alexandra Lossada English Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yu-Hsin Lin Chemistry Poster Session ~ #110 1:30 - 2:50 PM Poster Session ~ #203 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jordan Linford Electrical Engineering Michael Louthan Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Oral Session II Emerald Bay B 3:00 PM Shichun Ling Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #37 1:30 - 2:50 PM Becky Lu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #166 1:30 - 2:50 PM David Lu Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #326 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shichun Ling Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #170 1:30 - 2:50 PM Diana Lubyanaya Mathematics Poster Session ~ #331 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shichun Ling Psychology & Social Behavior Brianne Lucchesi Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #330 1:30 - 2:50 PM Katherine Liptrap Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:30 AM Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stanislav Listopad Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:30 AM Michael Lum Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 4:20 PM Hannah Little Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:50 AM Michael Lum Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anna Liu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #252 1:30 - 2:50 PM Thu Luu Civil Engineering Poster Session ~ #340.5 1:30 - 2:50 PM David Liu Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #291 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yuhao Ma Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session II Crescent Bay C 3:20 PM David Liu Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Michelle Maasz Art History/ Dance Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 83 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #234 1:30 - 2:50 PM Timothy Macagba Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #202 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 4:00 PM Camille Macalinao Psychology Melinda Malley English/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Violet Malyan Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach D 3:20 PM Camille Macalinao Psychology Poster Session ~ #274 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ali Mansouri Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Camille Macalinao Psychology Poster Session ~ #326 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gina Machiaverna Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom B 4:20 PM Maritza Mantilla International Studies/ Spanish/ Political Science Poster Session ~ #233 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kristen MacNeal Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #148 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gabriela Manzo Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #14 1:30 - 2:50 PM Pejman Majd Biological Sciences Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 3:40 PM Max Mao Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 3:00 PM Pejman Majd Biological Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:20 PM Max Mao Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #84 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jennifer Majdick Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 10:10 AM Anna Mariscal Anthropology Poster Session ~ #179 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sridivya Majji Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #347 1:30 - 2:50 PM Katherine Martinez Sociology Poster Session ~ #322 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tiffany Mak Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Policy Oral Session I Woods Cove B 9:50 AM Kelsey Martinez Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Moss Cove B 8:30 AM Talar Malakian English Oral Session II Moss Cove A 4:20 PM Margaret Marvin Chemistry Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:50 AM Melissa Maldonado Economics/ Studio Art Poster Session ~ #94 1:30 - 2:50 PM George Matar Biological Sciences Oral Session II Newport Beach A 3:00 PM Mahyar Malekan Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session I Newport Beach B 9:50 AM Alex Matlock Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Moss Cove B 4:00 PM Meena Malik Comparative Literature Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Samantha Matsumoto Dance-Choreography/ Dance, Performance Oral Session I Crescent Bay B 9:30 AM Asad Malim African-American Studies Poster Session ~ #161 1:30 - 2:50 PM Justin Matsuura Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #210 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kent Mayzel Biomedical Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 84 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kal McDowd Informatics Alexander Mercado Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach C 3:20 PM Margaret McDuffee Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Poster Session ~ #146 1:30 - 2:50 PM Fergie Anne Mercado Biological Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach C 4:20 PM Lucus McKenzie Sociology Poster Session ~ #320 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shannon Merrell Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #153 1:30 - 2:50 PM Melissa McManus Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #274 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jason Merz Materials Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #155 1:30 - 2:50 PM Melissa McManus Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #332 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christina Metropoulos Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session II Crescent Bay C 3:40 PM Esther Mealy Anthropology Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 10:10 AM Indrani Mikkilineni Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 4:40 PM Anaya Mekonnen Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #239 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mason Minot Chemical Engineering/ Chemistry Poster Session ~ #279 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anaya Mekonnen Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 10:10 AM Kenny Miranda Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #42 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bozhao Men Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #63 1:30 - 2:50 PM Armin Miresmaili Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #252 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alan Mendoza Civil Engineering Roya Mirilavassani Biological Sciences Oral Session I Newport Beach B 8:50 AM Kathleen Mendoza Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Newport Beach A 3:20 PM Poster Session ~ #58 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jasmine Mistry Biological Sciences Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 4:00 PM Leslie Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Woods Cove A 9:10 AM James Mitchell Physics Poster Session ~ #96 1:30 - 2:50 PM Leslie Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior Sara Mizuno Dance/ Public Health Policy Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:50 AM Nicole Mendoza Biomedical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Zoe Moacanin English Oral Session I Crescent Bay C 9:50 AM Yoselinda Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Zoe Moacanin English Poster Session ~ #321 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yoselinda Mendoza Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Poster Session ~ #334 1:30 - 2:50 PM Janki Merai Anthropology/ Psychology Poster Session ~ #226 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephen Mock Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 85 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Grant Moe Psychology Poster Session ~ #54 1:30 - 2:50 PM Poster Session ~ #233 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jacob Moebius Biomedical Engineering Karen Munoz Public Health Policy/ Public Health Sciences Oral Session I Woods Cove B 9:10 AM Lubna Mohammad Criminology, Law & Society/ Social Ecology Poster Session ~ #131 1:30 - 2:50 PM Paige Murata Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Poster Session ~ #150 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alexander Nam Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #276 1:30 - 2:50 PM Verenice Mojica Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Jason Nanez Aerospace Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Shelby Monson Dance Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dena Nasir Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Janine Montag Dance Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Raymond Naval Business Management/ Dance Poster Session ~ #300 1:30 - 2:50 PM Geovani Montoya Chemistry Poster Session ~ #236 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrea Navarro Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #273 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Moodie Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:50 AM Andrea Navarro Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Austin Moore Mechanical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Keely Moore Dance Oral Session I Crescent Bay C 8:50 AM Samantha Navarro Global Cultures/ Literary Journalism Leila Nazemi Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #349 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lourdes Morales Psychology Oral Session I Newport Beach B 8:50 AM Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brian Morey Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Lawrence Ng Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alex Morishita Studio Art Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:50 AM Amanda Ngo Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Balboa Island A 8:50 AM Jessica Motherwell Biomedical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Gin Ngo Dance Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Marcus Munguia Criminology, Law & Society Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 8:50 AM Huylong Ngo Biomedical Engineering/ Chemistry/ Biology Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Marcus Munguia Criminology, Law & Society Poster Session ~ #268 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patrick Ngo Chemical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove A 8:30 AM Adrienne Nguyen Anthropology/ History Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 86 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #191 1:30 - 2:50 PM Adrienne Nguyen Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #212 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Nguyen Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #45 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ai-Thuan Nguyen Pharmaceutical Science Katherine Nguyen Informatics Oral Session II Woods Cove C 4:00 PM Alan Nguyen Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:10 AM Poster Session ~ #85 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 4:20 PM Amanda Nguyen Political Science/ Public Health Policy Kevin Nguyen Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Poster Session ~ #57 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amanda Nguyen Political Science/ Public Health Policy Kevin Nguyen Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Khang Nguyen Biological Sciences Oral Session II Balboa Island A 4:00 PM Baolong Nguyen Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Woods Cove C 3:00 PM Poster Session ~ #345 1:30 - 2:50 PM Monica Nguyen Political Science Poster Session ~ #284 1:30 - 2:50 PM Baolong Nguyen Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #285 1:30 - 2:50 PM Baolong Nguyen Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Balboa Island B 9:50 AM Phoebe Nguyen Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Oral Session II Newport Beach A 4:20 PM Brian Nguyen Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #41 1:30 - 2:50 PM Phuongchi Nguyen Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sophia Nguyen Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #189 1:30 - 2:50 PM Cammie Nguyen Public Health Sciences Sophia Nguyen Business Economics Poster Session ~ #190 1:30 - 2:50 PM Catherine Nguyen Biological Sciences Oral Session I Crescent Bay A 8:30 AM Poster Session ~ #171 1:30 - 2:50 PM Emily Nguyen Biological Sciences Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:40 PM Stephanie Nguyen Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Eric Nguyen Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #247 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tam Nguyen Chemistry Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:10 AM Eric Nguyen Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #159 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tan Nguyen Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 3:40 PM Hoang Nguyen Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #147 1:30 - 2:50 PM Therese Nguyen Biological Sciences Truman Nguyen Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #157 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jenny Nguyen Biological Sciences Oral Session I Newport Beach B 8:30 AM Poster Session ~ #294 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jenny Nguyen Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Crescent Bay A 3:00 PM Y Nguyen Sociology Poster Session ~ #232 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Nguyen Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #316 1:30 - 2:50 PM Y Nguyen Sociology Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 87 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM She Nie Computer Science Poster Session ~ #93 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nadia Nikroo Anthropology Oral Session II Woods Cove B 4:20 PM Sarah Ottone Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #56 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nadia Nikroo Anthropology Oral Session II Crescent Bay A 4:20 PM David Ou Political Science Poster Session ~ #47 1:30 - 2:50 PM Payum Noshiravan Public Health Policy Nina Ozbardakci Psychology Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Brian Notosubagyo Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:20 PM Aaron Paff Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #126 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Nuno Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:20 PM Seyed Pairawan Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #296 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jessica O’Neill Chemistry Oral Session I Emerald Bay B 10:10 AM Federico Palacios Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #68 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michelle Oei Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Poster Session ~ #128 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lia Pallivathucal Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Newport Beach A 3:40 PM Eunice Oh Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #47 1:30 - 2:50 PM Yu-Fang Pan Sociology Poster Session ~ #212 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oluchi Okafor Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Crescent Bay B 3:20 PM Amrit Panjabi Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #274 1:30 - 2:50 PM Erik Olson Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #111 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Andrea Ordaz Dance Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM John Parcell Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering John Parcell Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #262 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dean Orellana Chemical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #199 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ethan Parker Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #152 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amanda Orozco Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:30 AM Poster Session ~ #342 1:30 - 2:50 PM Divya Parmar Economics Poster Session ~ #143 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alfonso Ortiz Public Health Sciences Akash Patel Aerospace Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:40 PM Sandy Ortiz Philosophy Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 9:10 AM Anish Patel Biological Sciences Oral Session I Newport Beach A 9:30 AM Veronica Ortiz Developmental & Cell Biology Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 4:20 PM Poster Session ~ #138 1:30 - 2:50 PM Avinash Patel Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 88 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 4:00 PM Bhavika Patel Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Poster Session ~ #98 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patrick Penalosa Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #96 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bhavika Patel Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 3:20 PM Junyan Peng Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #108 1:30 - 2:50 PM Hinal Patel Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #132 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michael Peng Chemistry Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 8:50 AM Hinal Patel Neurobiology Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 4:00 PM John Peralta Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #237 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kishan Patel Biomedical Engineering Amanda Peronto Drama/ History Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:40 PM Monil Patel Biological Sciences Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 8:30 AM Elliot Persico Physics/ Studio Art Poster Session ~ #62 1:30 - 2:50 PM Pooja Patel Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Policy Oral Session I Doheny Beach D 9:30 AM Poster Session ~ #62 1:30 - 2:50 PM Purvee Patel Public Health Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Joseph Petrilli Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Ravi Patel Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #203 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amy Pham Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #167 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Pham Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #60 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sonam Patel Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Crystal Pham Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #338 1:30 - 2:50 PM Thea Patterson Dance/ English Poster Session ~ #216 1:30 - 2:50 PM Poster Session ~ #327 1:30 - 2:50 PM Hillary Patton Criminology, Law & Society/ Psychology Hiep-Huy Pham Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Poster Session ~ #256 1:30 - 2:50 PM James Pham Computer Engineering Poster Session ~ #207 1:30 - 2:50 PM Akshay Paul Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #99 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Pham Biological Sciences Oral Session II Balboa Island A 3:40 PM Edgar Pena Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Oral Session I Moss Cove A 8:50 AM Michelle Pham Biological Sciences Oral Session I Newport Beach B 8:50 AM Edgar Pena Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 3:20 PM Thuy Quyen Pham Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #56 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jeniffer Pena Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #85 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tommy Pham Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #347 1:30 - 2:50 PM Maria Pena Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #208 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tram Pham Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 89 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #293 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vyvy Pham Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Sina Popal Public Health Sciences Oral Session I Balboa Island B 9:30 AM Hyung Phouasalit Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:10 AM Natalie Poppa Psychology Poster Session ~ #121 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andrew Phung Biological Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach D 3:40 PM Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 4:40 PM Lineker Phuong Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #10 1:30 - 2:50 PM Boss Povieng Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #271 1:30 - 2:50 PM Poster Session ~ #279 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lineker Phuong Mechanical Engineering Simon Pun Aerospace Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:30 AM Saharat Pinyo Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #321 1:30 - 2:50 PM Deepa Puthran Psychology & Social Behavior Ramsha Qasim Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #205 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chelsea Pittman Genetics Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Poster Session ~ #328 1:30 - 2:50 PM Patricia Place Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Woods Cove A 9:50 AM Christine Quach Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 4:00 PM Patricia Place Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #112 1:30 - 2:50 PM Janey Quach Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Charles Poblete Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #25 1:30 - 2:50 PM Johnny Quan Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Poster Session ~ #321 1:30 - 2:50 PM Daniel Poissant Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Moss Cove A 9:30 AM Tiffany Quebral History/ Political Science Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:30 AM Hugo Polanco Informatics/ Medical Informatics Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Samantha Quesada Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #181 1:30 - 2:50 PM Miah Pollack Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Crescent Bay B 4:20 PM Jessica Quintana Sociology Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brian Polson Chemical Engineering Clare Quirk Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #211 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brian Polson Chemical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 3:20 PM Clare Quirk Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #235 1:30 - 2:50 PM Aswini Ponnaluri Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #12 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ramita Rahimian Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Robinne Ponty Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #194 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sina Popal Public Health Sciences Reaz Rahman Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #101 1:30 - 2:50 PM Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:10 AM Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 90 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #95 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joel Ramirez Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 3:00 PM Taylor Rogers Computer Science Poster Session ~ #214 1:30 - 2:50 PM Miranda Ramirez Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #105 1:30 - 2:50 PM Armaan Rowther Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #72 1:30 - 2:50 PM Diksha Ramnani Public Health Sciences Armaan Rowther Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #256 1:30 - 2:50 PM Raymund Theodore Ramos Computer Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:30 AM Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alison Rufo Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #74 1:30 - 2:50 PM Pooja Rana Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #30 1:30 - 2:50 PM Brittany Raynor Neurobiology Oral Session I Moss Cove B 9:50 AM Sasha Sabherwal International Studies/ Political Science/ Women’s Studies Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Katie Reed Drama Poster Session ~ #25 1:30 - 2:50 PM David Sahagun Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #88 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tanjot Saini Biological Sciences Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Katie Reed Drama Oral Session II Crescent Bay D 3:00 PM Stella Sakhon Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Samuel Reyes Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #267 1:30 - 2:50 PM Merna Salama Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #133 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jerry Richo Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jesse Salas Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Benjamin Ridge Drama Poster Session ~ #81 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lorena Salcedo Psychology Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Benjamin Ridge Drama Poster Session ~ #63 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gabriel Sanchez Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #306 1:30 - 2:50 PM Arnel Sancianco Drama Poster Session ~ #352 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kendy Rios Gonzalez Psychology Michelle Sangalang Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 4:20 PM Natalie Rivadeneira Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:00 PM Tanishia Santana Sociology Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Roi Rivera Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Crescent Bay B 3:40 PM Poster Session ~ #227 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Santiago Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #329 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christian Rodriguez Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #223 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Santiago Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #311 1:30 - 2:50 PM Melissa Rogers Psychology Poster Session ~ #226 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Santiago Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 91 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Karen Santoyo Public Health Sciences Dustin Semark Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 3:40 PM Naira Sargsyan Biological Sciences Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 3:00 PM Ronica Senores Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #247 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nicholas Sarif Biological Sciences Oral Session I Doheny Beach C 8:50 AM Poster Session ~ #47 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christine Sarkisyan Public Health Sciences Oral Session I Newport Beach B 8:50 AM Steven Serna Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:10 AM Princeton Saroha Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Newport Beach B 3:20 PM Naomi Setiawati Biological Sciences Oral Session II Newport Beach B 4:20 PM Amin Sarraf Biological Sciences/ Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #238 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jigar Shah Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Balboa Island A 4:00 PM Kimberly Sarrisin Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shailin Shah Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #71 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sunit Shah Biological Sciences Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 8:50 AM Vladmir Satchouk Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #139 1:30 - 2:50 PM Tejas Shah Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #258 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jessica Satterlee Environmental Engineering Oral Session I Crescent Bay A 8:50 AM Mehwish Shakeel International Studies Poster Session ~ #332 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sarah Savino Psychology & Social Behavior Dahnish Shams Social Ecology Poster Session ~ #282 1:30 - 2:50 PM Thomas Sayles Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Doheny Beach D 8:50 AM Poster Session ~ #283 1:30 - 2:50 PM Thomas Sayles Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #158 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Shannon Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #66 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jonathan Schilling Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #343 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kriti Sharma International Studies Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Diana Schoenfield Dance-Choreography Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:00 PM Roshan Sharma Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jonathan Schreder Chemical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay D 8:30 AM Shivani Sharma Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #222 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ashley Scott Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Poster Session ~ #117 1:30 - 2:50 PM Shikha Sheth Developmental & Cell Biology Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christoph Seeliger Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #94 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Shiah Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 92 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session I Crescent Bay D 9:30 AM Bereket Shibeshi Sociology Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 4:40 PM Kiley Smith Psychology Poster Session ~ #289 1:30 - 2:50 PM David Shin Electrical Engineering/ Information & Computer Science Oral Session I Woods Cove C 9:50 AM Mika Smith Anthropology Oral Session II Doheny Beach D 3:00 PM Golroxan Shoa Biological Sciences Oral Session II Woods Cove A 4:20 PM Thar Soe Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #52 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nikita Shroff Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 3:00 PM Brian Song Mathematics Oral Session I Balboa Island B 10:10 AM Christopher Shum Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Poster Session ~ #76 1:30 - 2:50 PM Abraham Sosa Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #96 1:30 - 2:50 PM Cathy Shutaya Public Health Policy Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Franco Staub Mechanical Engineering Oral Session II Emerald Bay C 4:00 PM Cathy Shutaya Public Health Policy Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 3:00 PM Jonathan Stroud Computer Science Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:30 AM Abduallah Siddiqui Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #129 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dattanand Sudarshana Microbiology & Immunology Oral Session I Balboa Island A 10:10 AM Abdullah Siddiqui Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #3 1:30 - 2:50 PM Dongjin Suh Biological Sciences Oral Session II Emerald Bay D 4:00 PM Amandeep Singh Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay A 8:50 AM Lily Sung Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #24 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amandeep Singh Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #33 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rachel Sunico Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #101 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sohni Singh Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #281 1:30 - 2:50 PM Veronica Swanson Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:10 AM Sohni Singh Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Veronica Swanson Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #97 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sohni Singh Biological Sciences Oral Session II Crescent Bay B 4:00 PM Nayab Syeda Sociology Poster Session ~ #255 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Sison Computer Science & Engineering Oral Session I Woods Cove C 8:50 AM Nazanin Tadjbakhsh Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #114 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rene Slykhous Biological Sciences/ Earth & Environmental Science Poster Session ~ #153 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nazanin Tadjbakhsh Sociology Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 93 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #109 1:30 - 2:50 PM Keli Tahara Neurobiology Cassidie Thomas Nursing Science Oral Session I Emerald Bay D 9:50 AM Keli Tahara Neurobiology Oral Session I Emerald Bay A 9:30 AM Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:50 AM Keli Tahara Neurobiology Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:50 AM Jacqueline Thomas Aerospace Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Mike Thongsuk Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #95 1:30 - 2:50 PM Keli Tahara Neurobiology Timothy Tiambeng Chemistry Oral Session II Balboa Island B 4:40 PM Saniya Taher Comparative Literature/ Women’s Studies; International Studies Oral Session II Pacific Ballroom A 4:40 PM Poster Session ~ #89 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michelle Tien Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #331 1:30 - 2:50 PM Allison Tanaka Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Doheny Beach B 9:50 AM Tracey Tien Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #330 1:30 - 2:50 PM Allison Tanaka Psychology & Social Behavior Tracey Tien Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #82 1:30 - 2:50 PM Adeline Tang Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:50 AM Poster Session ~ #112 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lucinda Tang Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #323 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bonnie To Business Economics/ Psychology & Social Behavior Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Vincent Tangherlini Drama Poster Session ~ #246 1:30 - 2:50 PM Carine Todmia Materials Science Engineering Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Vincent Tangherlini Drama Poster Session ~ #212 1:30 - 2:50 PM Carine Todmia Materials Science Engineering Poster Session ~ #324 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alexandria Tong Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #325 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joy Tawadrous Psychology & Social Behavior Elaine Tong Criminology, Law & Society Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lee Tea Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Woods Cove B 8:30 AM Poster Session ~ #238 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bakr Teebi Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Newport Beach B 9:10 AM June Tong Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Poster Session ~ #224 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bakr Teebi Biomedical Engineering Allen Tran Political Science Oral Session I Crescent Bay D 8:50 AM Thao Thai Political Science Oral Session II Crescent Bay A 4:00 PM Poster Session ~ #134 1:30 - 2:50 PM Amy Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #59 1:30 - 2:50 PM Cassidie Thomas Nursing Science Poster Session ~ #46 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anthony Tran Biological Sciences Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 94 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 4:00 PM Brian Tran Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Poster Session ~ #335 1:30 - 2:50 PM Titania Tran Business Administration/ Psychology & Social Behavior Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Daniel Tran Dance Poster Session ~ #97 1:30 - 2:50 PM Trang Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #120 1:30 - 2:50 PM Daniel Tran Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #187 1:30 - 2:50 PM Truc Tran Biological Sciences Oral Session II Moss Cove A 3:40 PM Diana Tran Biological Sciences/ Chemistry Oral Session II Woods Cove A 4:40 PM Ivan Trang Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #8 1:30 - 2:50 PM George Tran Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:50 AM Ivan Trang Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Gerard Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #109 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ivan Trang Neurobiology Poster Session ~ #50 1:30 – 2:50 PM Jennifer Tran Psychology & Social Behavior/ Public Health Policy Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:30 AM Joseph Trevino Computer Science/ Mathematics Poster Session ~ #141 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jenny Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #103 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alex Trinh Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:30 AM Katherine Tran Computer Science & Engineering Poster Session ~ #192 1:30 - 2:50 PM Khoi Trinh Chemistry Poster Session ~ #263 1:30 - 2:50 PM Luan Tran Environmental Engineering Poster Session ~ #255 1:30 - 2:50 PM Vinh Trinh Computer Science & Engineering Poster Session ~ #56 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michelle Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #355 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jessica Trinidad English/ Political Science Oral Session I Emerald Bay A 9:10 AM Minh Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #297 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jonathan Trinidad Chemistry Poster Session ~ #172 1:30 - 2:50 PM Paul Tran Anthropology/ Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #341 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Tromberg Psychology Poster Session ~ #85 1:30 - 2:50 PM Linda Trondle Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:30 AM Phong Tran Biomedical Engineering/ Material Science Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Mason Trueblood Dance/ Film & Media Studies Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:00 PM Phong Tran Biomedical Engineering/ Materials Science Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:20 PM Albert Truong Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #169 1:30 - 2:50 PM Teresa Tran Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #86 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Truong Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #163 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephanie Truong Pharmaceutical Science Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 95 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #208 1:30 - 2:50 PM Steven Truong Biomedical Engineering Sheila Vilanilam International Studies Oral Session I Newport Beach A 8:30 AM Joel Trushinski Biological Sciences Oral Session II Crescent Bay A 3:40 PM Poster Session ~ #152 1:30 - 2:50 PM Leo Viray Psychology Poster Session ~ #318 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephanie Tsai Psychology & Social Behavior Poster Session ~ #111 1:30 - 2:50 PM Christopher Vo Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Yuder Tsai Drama Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:50 AM Jonathan Vo Biomedical Engineering Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Yuder Tsai Drama Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:50 AM Minhnhut Vo Computer Science & Engineering/ Informatics Poster Session ~ #320 1:30 - 2:50 PM Roobina Tsaturyan Psychology & Social Behavior Michael Vorobyov Computer Science Poster Session ~ #207 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jeffrey Tse Information & Computer Science Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 3:40 PM Poster Session ~ #223 1:30 - 2:50 PM Roger Tu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #182 1:30 - 2:50 PM Andy Vu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #225 1:30 - 2:50 PM Roger Tu Biological Sciences Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Bruno Vu Information & Computer Science/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #44 1:30 - 2:50 PM Anne Twardowsky Di Donato Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #195 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jennifer Vu Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 4:00 PM Christine Umali Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Katherine Vu Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #299 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kevin Vu Mathematics/ Physics Poster Session ~ #21 1:30 - 2:50 PM Rakhee Vaidya Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #51 1:30 - 2:50 PM Linh Vu Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #35 1:30 - 2:50 PM Joshua Valdez Biological Sciences Arman Walia Biological Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay B 9:50 AM Sarah Valles Biological Sciences Oral Session I Newport Beach A 10:10 AM Poster Session ~ #87 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kyle Wallace Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #247 1:30 - 2:50 PM Eriberto Vargas Chemical Engineering Yijiao Wang Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Crystal Cove Auditorium 3:00 PM Marjory Vazquez Criminology, Law & Society Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:00 PM Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Michael Vigliarolo Chemical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Knia Ward African American Studies/ Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #75 1:30 - 2:50 PM Melissa Ward Biological Sciences Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 96 - Session Student Session Student Oral Session II Doheny Beach B 3:40 PM Umer Waris Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #49 1:30 - 2:50 PM Alison Wong Public Health Sciences Poster Session ~ #200 1:30 - 2:50 PM Robert Watson Aerospace Engineering Poster Session ~ #137 1:30 - 2:50 PM Fiona Wong Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Poster Session ~ #145 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sabrina Wedee Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #336 1:30 - 2:50 PM Poster Session ~ #234 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sohan Weeraratne Biomedical Engineering Jazmine Wong Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Elmer Wei Chemical Engineering Oral Session I Woods Cove C 9:30 AM Jazmine Wong Anthropology/ Public Health Policy Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:10 AM Rachel Weiner Informatics Poster Session ~ #269 1:30 - 2:50 PM Jonathan Wong Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Andra Whipple Drama Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 10:10 AM Jonathon Wong Materials Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Oral Session I Crystal Cove Auditorium 9:10 AM Andra Whipple Drama Poster Session ~ #104 1:30 - 2:50 PM Samantha Wong Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Noelle White Dance Poster Session ~ #111 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sophia Wong Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #125 1:30 - 2:50 PM John Woolson Chemistry Oral Session II Crescent Bay C 3:00 PM Emily Whitley Sociology Poster Session ~ #248 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bernice Wu Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #204 1:30 - 2:50 PM Matthew Wiersma Biomedical Engineering: Premedicine Poster Session ~ #228 1:30 - 2:50 PM Chun Wu Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:00 PM Eric Wilde Biomedical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering Poster Session ~ #257 1:30 - 2:50 PM Kelvin Wu Computer Science Poster Session ~ #109 1:30 - 2:50 PM Maggie Wu Pharmaceutical Science Poster Session ~ #266 1:30 - 2:50 PM Elizabeth Wille Chemistry Maggie Wu Pharmaceutical Science Oral Session I Woods Cove B 8:50 AM Madison Wilson Psychology & Social Behavior Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:50 AM Michael Wu Biological Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Karen Wing Dance-Performance Oral Session I Newport Beach A 8:50 AM Tiffany Wu Biological Sciences Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 3:00 PM Alison Wong Public Health Sciences Oral Session II Emerald Bay E 4:20 PM Oral Session II Emerald Bay B 3:20 PM Vinnie Wu Psychology & Social Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 97 - Session Student Session Student Poster Session ~ #309 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lily Xiao Informatics Amanda Yoon Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #356 1:30 - 2:50 PM Sheila Xiao Sociology Oral Session II Emerald Bay A 4:00 PM Oral Session I Crescent Bay C 9:10 AM Sheila Xiao Sociology Poster Session ~ #165 1:30 - 2:50 PM Elyse Young Biological Sciences Daniel Youssef Biomedical Engineering Poster Session ~ #295 1:30 - 2:50 PM Bryan Xie Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 9:10 AM Grace Yu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #62 1:30 - 2:50 PM Lindsay Yamauchi Public Health Policy Oral Session II Newport Beach A 4:40 PM Oral Session I Emerald Bay B 8:30 AM Michelle Yancoskie Genetics Poster Session ~ #1 1:30 - 2:50 PM Philip Yu Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #38 1:30 - 2:50 PM Genesis Zamora Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #107 1:30 - 2:50 PM Allen Yang Biological Sciences Tara Zand Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #315 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ching-Wen Yang Public Health Sciences Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 8:30 AM Oral Session I Emerald Bay E 9:50 AM Ching-Wen Yang Public Health Sciences Dance Performance Performance Studio 1100 12:20 – 1:20 Jeremy Zapanta Dance-Performance Poster Session ~ #31 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ashley Yang-Halsey Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #40 1:30 - 2:50 PM Maryam Zarrabi Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #274 1:30 - 2:50 PM Hamid Yaqubi Materials Science Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom A 8:30 AM Robert Zavala Aerospace Engineering Oral Session I Pacific Ballroom B 8:30 AM Christopher Yeung Material Science Engineering/ Mechanical Engineering Poster Session ~ #265 1:30 - 2:50 PM Ben Zhou Chemical Engineering Poster Session ~ #23 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephen Yeung Public Health Policy Oral Session I Emerald Bay C 9:30 AM Nadia Zuabi Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #62 1:30 - 2:50 PM Stephen Yeung Public Health Policy Poster Session ~ #105 1:30 - 2:50 PM Nadia Zuabi Biological Sciences Poster Session ~ #236 1:30 - 2:50 PM Derya Yilmaz Biomedical Engineering Oral Session II Doheny Beach A 3:00 PM Kevin Yokota Biomedical Engineering Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 98 - Thanks & Acknowledgements Many thanks to the following individuals and groups for supporting faculty-mentored undergraduate research and creative activities at the University of California, Irvine. Chancellor Michael V. Drake Interim Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Susan V. Bryant Associate Dean Grace C. Tonner, School of Law Senior Associate Dean Rajeev Tyagi, The Paul Merage School of Business Vice Provost Michael P. Clark Vice Provost Herbert P. Killackey Vice Chancellor Wendell C. Brase, Admin. & Business Services Vice Chancellor John C. Hemminger, Research Vice Chancellor Gregory R. Leet, University Advancement Vice Chancellor Meredith Michaels, Planning & Budget Vice Chancellor Thomas A. Parham, Student Affairs UROP Faculty Advisory Board Dean Albert F. Bennett, School of Biological Sciences Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, School of Law Dean Ralph V. Clayman, School of Medicine Dean Barbara Dosher, School of Social Sciences Dean Kenneth Janda, School of Physical Sciences Dean Valerie Jenness, School of Social Ecology Dean Frances Leslie, Graduate Division Dean Joseph S. Lewis III, Claire Trevor School of the Arts Dean Gary Matkin, University Extension Dean Andrew J. Policano, The Paul Merage School of Business Dean Sharon V. Salinger, Division of Undergraduate Education Dean Hal Stern, The Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences Interim University Librarian Lorelei A. Tanji, Library Georges Van Den Abbeele, School of Humanities Dean Gregory N. Washington, Henry Samueli School of Engineering Associate Dean Stephen Barker, Claire Trevor School of the Arts Senior Associate Dean Mario L. Barnes, School of Law Associate Dean Rudi Berkelhamer, Undergraduate Education Associate Dean Susan Bibler Coutin, Graduate Division Associate Dean Sharon Block, School of Humanities Associate Dean Robin M. Bush, School of Biological Sciences Associate Dean Imran Currim, The Paul Merage School of Business Associate Dean Tony D. Givargis, The Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences Senior Associate Dean Alan L. Goldin, School of Medicine Associate Dean Carrie Louise Hempel, School of Law Associate University Librarian Carol Hughes, Library Associate Dean Jabbari Faryar, Henry Samueli School of Engineering Associate Dean John C. LaRue, Henry Samueli School of Engineering Associate Dean Michael Leon, School of Biological Sciences Senior Associate Dean Gerald Maguire, School of Medicine Associate Dean William M. Maurer, School of Social Sciences Associate Dean James Meeker, School of Social Ecology Associate Dean Glen Masato Mimura, School of Humanities Associate Dean Michael Mulligan, School of Biological Sciences Associate Dean Mark Petracca, School of Social Sciences Associate Dean James E. Rutledge, School of Physical Sciences Associate Dean William Tang, Henry Samueli School of Engineering Associate Dean Beatrice Anne Tice, School of Law Sally S. Dickerson, School of Social Ecology Alice Fahs, School of Humanities Samuel Gilmore, School of Social Sciences John C. LaRue, Henry Samueli School of Engineering Richard Lathrop, The Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences Shahram Lotfipour, School of Medicine Hartmut Luecke, School of Biological Sciences Lisa Naugle, Claire Trevor School of the Arts James Nowick, School of Physical Sciences Faculty Mentors Gregory Adams, Physiology & Biophysics Behnoosh Afghani, Pediatrics Dritan Agalliu, Developmental & Cell Biology Phyllis Agran, Pediatrics Anshu Agrawal, Medicine Mohammad Al Faruque, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Jonathan Alexander, English Timothy Allen, Neurobiology & Behavior Aileen Anderson, Anatomy & Neurobiology Dana Aswad, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Jacob Avery, Sociology Eman Azizi, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Mark Bachman, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science David Baglietto-Vargas, Neurobiology & Behavior Kenneth Baldwin, Physiology & Biophysics Lee Bardwell, Developmental & Cell Biology Cristobal Barrios, Surgery Lbachir BenMohamed, Ophthalmology Rimal Bera, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Jill Berg, Program in Nursing Science Zuzana Bic, Program in Public Health John Billimek, Epidemiology Bruce Blumberg, Developmental & Cell Biology Mathew Blurton-Jones, Neurobiology & Behavior James Bobrow, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Catherine Bolzendahl, Sociology Elliot Botvinick, Biomedical Engineering Geoffrey Bowker, Informatics Peter Bowler, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Alyssa Brewer, Cognitive Sciences Brandon Brown, Program in Public Health Donald Brown, Ophthalmology Tim Brown, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Jed Brubaker, Informatics Daniel Brunstetter, International Studies Michael Buchmeier, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 99 - James Bullock, Physics & Astronomy Kieron Burke, Chemistry Jorge Busciglio, Neurobiology & Behavior Diane Campbell, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Belinda Campos, Chicano/Latino Studies Maxime Cannesson, Anesthesiology Ron Carlson, English Paolo Casali, Medicine Jeanett Castellanos, Social Science Elizabeth Catchings, English Elizabeth Cauffman, Psychology & Social Behavior Albert Cerussi, Beckman Laser Institute Bharath Chakravarthy, Emergency Medicine Jefferson Chan, Pathology Carrie Chandwani, Emergency Medicine Susan Charles, Psychology & Social Behavior Vinayak Chaturvedi, History Chuansheng Chen, Psychology & Social Behavior Dongbao Chen, Obstetrics & Gynecology Phang-Lang Chen, Biological Chemistry Karen Cheng, Informatics James Chiampi, European Studies Bernard Choi, Biomedical Engineering Olivier Cinquin, Developmental & Cell Biology Olivier Civelli, Pharmacology Melanie Cocco, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry AnneMarie Conley, Education Dan Cooper, Pediatrics William Cooper, Civil & Environmental Engineering Pinar Coskun, Neurobiology & Behavior Karina Cramer, Neurobiology & Behavior Steven Cramer, Neurology Michael D’Zmura, Cognitive Sciences Nancy Da Silva, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Xing Dai, Biological Chemistry Nicole Danos, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Sohail Daulatzai, Film & Media Studies Elysia Davis, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Myrona Delaney, Drama Michael Dennin, Physics & Astronomy Louis DeSipio, Political Science Russell Detwiler, Civil & Environmental Engineering Sally Dickerson, Psychology & Social Behavior Diane Diefenderfer, Dance Michelle Digman, Biomedical Engineering Peter Ditto, Psychology & Social Behavior Hamid Djalilian, Otolaryngology An Do, Neurology Arlene Doria, Biomedical Engineering Derek Dunn-Rankin, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Anthony Durkin, Beckman Laser Institute James Earthman, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Sarah Eichhorn, Mathematics Ernie Esser, Mathematics Gregory Evans, Surgery Alice Fahs, History James Famiglietti, Earth System Science Raul Fernandez, Chicano/Latino Studies Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Chemistry Lisa Flanagan, Neurology Glenda Flores, Chicano/Latino Studies Michelle Fortier, Anesthesiology Norbert Fortin, Neurobiology & Behavior John Christian Fox, Emergency Medicine Ron Frostig, Neurobiology & Behavior David Fruman, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Dorothy Fujita-Rony, Asian American Studies Pietro Galassetti, Pediatrics Christine Gall, Anatomy & Neurobiology Anand Ganesan, Dermatology David Gardiner, Developmental & Cell Biology John Garman, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Jodie Gates, Dance Kelvin Gee, Pharmacology Jean Gehricke, Pediatrics Steven George, Biomedical Engineering Donovan German, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Samuel Gilmore, Sociology Richard Godden, English Wendy Goldberg, Psychology & Social Behavior Alan Goldin, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Alon Gorodetsky, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Celia Goulding, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Lisa Grant Ludwig, Program in Public Health Enrico Gratton, Biomedical Engineering Michael Green, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Judith Gregory, Informatics Anna Grosberg, Biomedical Engineering Steven Gross, Developmental & Cell Biology Zhibin Guan, Chemistry Gultekin Gulsen, Biomedical Engineering Yuqing Guo, Program in Nursing Science Zhiling Guo, Medicine Chad Hall, Dance Ian Harris, Computer Science Jered Haun, Biomedical Engineering Gillian Hayes, Informatics Jutta Heckhausen, Psychology & Social Behavior Alan Heyduk, Chemistry Gregory Hickok, Cognitive Sciences James Hicks, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Guy Hidas, Urology Ann Hironaka, Sociology Henry Hirschberg, Beckman Laser Institute Allon Hochbaum, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Matt Huffman, Sociology Brad Hughes, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Christopher Hughes, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Elliot Hui, Biomedical Engineering Alexander Ihler, Computer Science David Imagawa, Surgery Bryan Jackson, Studio Art Mahtab Jafari, Pharmaceutical Sciences Anthony James, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Larry Jamner, Psychology & Social Behavior Kenneth Janda, Chemistry Elizabeth Jarvo, Chemistry Paul Jesilow, Criminology, Law & Society James Jester, Ophthalmology Wangcun Jia, Beckman Laser Institute Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 100 - Sunny Jiang, Civil & Environmental Engineering Tibor Juhasz, Ophthalmology Kwang-Mook Jung, Anatomy & Neurobiology Peter Kaiser, Biological Chemistry Sunny Vijay Karnani, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Leda Katebian, Civil & Environmental Engineering Ketu Katrak, Drama Robert Katzer, Emergency Medicine Claudia Kawas, Neurology Hans Keirstead, Anatomy & Neurobiology Arlene Keizer, English Joyce Keyak, Radiological Sciences Banafshe Khalili, Program in Public Health Manaswitha Khare, Pediatrics Michelle Khine, Biomedical Engineering Antoine Khoury, Urology David Kilgore, Family Medicine Virginia Kimonis, Pediatrics Vincent Kirkpatrick, Surgery Zoe Klemfuss, Psychology & Social Behavior Eric Knowles, Psychology & Social Behavior Hiroyuki Koide, Chemistry Allen Kong, Surgery Jeffrey Krichmar, Cognitive Sciences Frithjof Kruggel, Biomedical Engineering Lawrence Kulinsky, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Fadi Kurdahi, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Frank LaFerla, Neurobiology & Behavior Kimberley Lakes, Pediatrics Jaime Landman, Urology Mark Langdorf, Emergency Medicine John LaRue, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Matt Law, Chemistry Rodrigo Lazo, English Abraham Lee, Biomedical Engineering Jennifer Lee, Sociology Michael Lee, Cognitive Sciences Frances Leslie, Pharmacology Jayne Lewis, English G. P. Li, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Guideng Li, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Min Li, Medicine Robert Liebeck, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Wendy Liu, Biomedical Engineering Eugenia Lo, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Melissa Lodoen, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Elizabeth Loftus, Psychology & Social Behavior Shahram Lotfipour, Emergency Medicine Annie Loui, Drama John Lowengrub, Mathematics Angelica Loza, Emergency Medicine Ulrike Luderer, Medicine Hartmut Luecke, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Angela Lukowski, Psychology & Social Behavior David Luo, Anesthesiology Andrej Luptak, Pharmaceutical Sciences Julia Lupton, English Cecelia Lynch, Political Science Gary Lynch, Anatomy & Neurobiology Salvatore Maddi, Psychology & Social Behavior Hossein Mahboubi, Otolaryngology Shaista Malik, Medicine Rachel Martin, Chemistry Adam Martiny, Earth System Science Jennifer Martiny, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Lyle Massey, Art History Richard Matthew, Planning, Policy, & Design Cheryl Maxson, Criminology, Law & Society Melissa Mazmanian, Informatics Sanjoy Mazumdar, Planning, Policy, & Design Michael McCarthy, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Christopher McCoy, Emergency Medicine Anne McDaniel, Education Vincent McDonell, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering James McGaugh, Neurobiology & Behavior Donald McKayle, Dance Joseph McKenna, History Kenneth Mease, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Martha Mecartney, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science David Meyer, Sociology Frank Meyskens, Pharmaceutical Sciences Ricardo Miledi, Neurobiology & Behavior Farghalli Mohamed, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Ali Mohraz, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Edwin Monuki, Pathology Patrick Morgan, Political Science Luis Mota-Bravo, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Jogeshwar Mukherjee, Radiological Sciences Keith Murphy, Anthropology Gifford Myers, Studio Art Wadie Najm, Family Medicine Bonnie Nardi, Informatics Lisa Naugle, Dance John Nelson, Beckman Laser Institute Zoran Nenadic, Biomedical Engineering Jane Newman, Comparative Literature Hung Nguyen, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Alex Nicolau, Computer Science Sergey Nizkorodov, Chemistry James Nowick, Chemistry Andrew Noymer, Program in Public Health Diane O’Dowd, Developmental & Cell Biology Oladele Ogunseitan, Program in Public Health Nicholas Olivas, Anatomy & Neurobiology Ellen Olshansky, Program in Nursing Science Betty Olson, Civil & Environmental Engineering Lawrence Patihis, Psychology & Social Behavior Donald Patterson, Informatics Julie Patterson, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Andrew Penner, Sociology Simon Penny, Studio Art Allison Perlman, History Kristin Peterson, Anthropology Daniele Piomelli, Anatomy & Neurobiology Adrien Ponticorvo, Beckman Laser Institute Thomas Poulos, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry JoAnn Prause, Psychology & Social Behavior Jennifer Prescher, Chemistry James Puckett, Emergency Medicine Jodi Quas, Psychology & Social Behavior Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 101 - Manuela Raffatellu, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Kathryn Ragsdale, History Davinder Ramsingh, Anesthesiology Jose Ranz, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Darren Raphael, Anesthesiology John Reager, Earth System Science Stephanie Reich, Education David Reinkensmeyer, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Maria Rendon, Planning, Policy, & Design Tyler Rice, Physics & Astronomy Gary Richardson, Economics Ana Rosas, History Michael Rose, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Mark Rosen, Medicine Emily Rosenberg, History Julie Rousseau, Program in Nursing Science Janet Rowe, Civil & Environmental Engineering Tim Rupert, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Scott Rychnovsky, Chemistry Ann Sakai, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Scott Samuelsen, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Margaret Schneider, Planning, Policy, & Design Sam Schriner, Pharmaceutical Sciences Donna Schuele, Criminology, Law & Society Tonya Schuster, Sociology Soleil Schutte, Developmental & Cell Biology Martin Schwab, Philosophy Caesar Sereseres, Political Science Kenneth Shea, Chemistry Barry Siegel, English Jennifer Simpson, Ophthalmology Jennifer Skeem, Psychology & Social Behavior Brian Smith, Surgery Charles Anthony Smith, Political Science David Smith, Sociology Jaymi Smith, Drama Dorothy Solinger, Political Science Ramesh Srinivasan, Cognitive Sciences Craig Stark, Neurobiology & Behavior James Steintrager, English Oswald Steward, Anatomy & Neurobiology Daniel Stokols, Planning, Policy, & Design Georg Striedter, Neurobiology & Behavior Yang Su, Sociology Christine Suetterlin, Developmental & Cell Biology Katumi Sumikawa, Neurobiology & Behavior Lee Swindlehurst, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Timothy Tait, Physics & Astronomy William Tang, Biomedical Engineering Katherine Tate, Political Science Andrea Tenner, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Siew Hong Teoh, Paul Merage School of Business Rei Terada, Comparative Literature Jennifer Terry, Women’s Studies David Timberlake, Program in Public Health Stephanie Tjen-a-Looi, Medicine Francesco Tombola, Physiology & Biophysics Bill Tomlinson, Informatics Shannon Toohey, Emergency Medicine Rodolfo Torres, Planning, Policy, & Design Bruce Tromberg, Biomedical Engineering Shiou-Chuan Tsai, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Susan Turner, Criminology, Law & Society Kristin Turney, Sociology Robert Uriu, Political Science Lorenzo Valdevit, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Ann Van Sant, English Joachim Vandekerckhove, Cognitive Sciences Vitaly Vasilevko, Neurology Jessica Vaughan, Pediatrics Joel Veenstra, Drama Vasan Venugopalan, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Benjamin Villac, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Luis Villarreal, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Thuy Vo-Dang, Asian American Studies Craig Walsh, Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Anne Walthall, History Szu Wang, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Zhiwei Wang, Pharmacology Mark Warschauer, Education Daniel Wehrenfennig, Political Science Gregory Weiss, Chemistry Stephen Weller, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Max Welling, Computer Science Marie Wencel, Pediatrics Marina White, Psychology & Social Behavior John Whiteley, Environmental Health, Science, & Policy Christopher Whytock, Political Science Alan Widgerow, Surgery Tim Wigal, Pediatrics Petra Wilder-Smith, Beckman Laser Institute Adrienne Williams, Developmental & Cell Biology Russel Williams, Surgery Samuel Wilson, Surgery Lisa Wingen, Chemistry Andrew Wong, Emergency Medicine Brian J. Wong, Otolaryngology Nathan Wong, Epidemiology Marcelo Wood, Neurobiology & Behavior Joseph Wu, Psychiatry & Human Behavior Jing Xia, Physics & Astronomy Lifang Xie, Cancer Center Xiangmin Xu, Anatomy & Neurobiology Zheyan Xu, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Guiyun Yan, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Haiou Yang, Medicine Albert Yee, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science Ilona Yim, Psychology & Social Behavior Keiichi Yoshimatsu, Chemistry Arthur Youssefian, Emergency Medicine Clare Yu, Physics & Astronomy Farzin Zareian, Civil & Environmental Engineering Fan-Gang Zeng, Anatomy & Neurobiology Hanxiang Zeng, Chemistry Arthur Zhang, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Weian Zhao, Pharmaceutical Sciences Yi-Hong Zhou, Neurosurgery Joanne Zinger, Psychology & Social Behavior Albert Zlotnik, Physiology & Biophysics Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 102 - Many Thanks to the Academic Counselors Chancellor’s Office Department Chairs Directors of Organized Research Units & Research Programs Division of Graduate Studies Division of Student Affairs Division of Undergraduate Education Faculty Moderators Honors Programs Office of Research Parents & Friends of Presenters UCI Communications Office UCI Community University Advancement UROP Team UROP Volunteers If you would like further information on how you can contribute to UROP, please contact: Said M. Shokair, Director Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Division of Undergraduate Education University of California, Irvine Student Services II, Suite 2300 Irvine, CA 92697-5685 Telephone: (949) 824-4189 Fax: (949) 824-1607 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.urop.uci.edu Undergraduate Research: Passion & Values - 103 - Symposium Student Center Map Student Center Parking Structure Dance Performance A B C A E D Visitor Center B Level Crystal Cove Auditorium 1 Poster Setup C The Hill (Bookstore) Crescent Bay A B C D Lido Isle D Emerald Bay Doheny Beach Stairs to Crystal Cove Auditorium Follow the signs to (Keynote Address & Lunch) Performance Studio 1100 A C A A Newport Beach B Balboa Island B s r ste tion P o n ta e es Pr Level v C e W Pacific Ballroom A ood s B Co A B B Mo ss C on ra ti ist Re g West Courtyard 4 B130B ov e Large Exhibits Graduate Resource Center Computer CSL Lab Patio Courtyard Study Lounge (CSL) Elevator to Level 4 D Elevator to Level 1 Stairs Elevator Disabled Ramp Restrooms Presentation Rooms Twentieth Annual UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium - 104 -