Intel Science Talent Search 2008 Finalists

Florida

Orlando

Raghavan, Avanthi (Lake Highland Preparatory School)
Characterization of Novel Protein Trafficking Pathways in Plasmodium falciparum

Georgia

Athens

Dong, Yihe (Cedar Shoals High School)
Maternal Effects of Dietary Restriction in Fruit Flies

Marietta

Hipsman, Nathaniel Edward (Lassiter High School)
Analysis of Entanglement-enhanced Quantum Time Standards

Hawaii

Mililani

Mocz, Philip (Mililani High School)
Dissecting the Nearby Universe: Monothetic Divisive Analysis Based on Voronoi Tessellations Reveals New Star Associations

Iowa

Iowa City

Zeng, Xiaomeng (West High School)
Crowding-out or Crowding-in? The Relationship Between Government and Private Funding for Public Libraries

Maryland

Derwood

Wasserman, Louis Eric (Montgomery Blair High School)
A Monotone Characterization of P

Potomac

Lu, Benjamin Brice (Richard Montgomery High School)
From the G-protein Gq to AP-1-Dependent Gene Expression: Mapping a Novel Signaling Pathway for Cancer Growth

Massachusetts

Arlington

Huggins, Jonathan Hunter (Middlesex School)
Performance Boosting Methods for Named Entity Recognition in Financial News

Michigan

Bloomfield Hills

Mikkilineni, Shravani (Detroit Country Day School)
Continued Fractions and Orbits of a Linear Fractional Transformation

Missouri

Jefferson City

Mirts, Evan Neal (Jefferson City High School)
Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy of Light-induced Volume and Surface Area Changes in Chloroplasts in vitro

New Jersey

Bayonne

Delgado, Eric Nelson (Bayonne High School)
Engineering a Novel Gram-negative Effective Efflux Pump Inhibitor

New Mexico

Los Alamos

Dozier, Benjamin Edward (Los Alamos High School)
Descriptive Complexity of Random Bit Strings

New York

Armonk

Blum, Jeremy Evan (Byram Hills High School)
Using Force Sensors to Effectively Control a Below-Elbow Intelligent Prosthetic Device

Brooklyn

Banks, Katherine Rose (Stuyvesant High School)
The Nonagon Anomaly

Dix Hills

Lisann, Lauren Rose (Half Hollow Hills High School West)
RNAi Against Dyslexia Genes Disrupts Neuronal Migration

East Setauket

Gudjonson, Herman (Ward Melville High School)
Reduced Taste in Drosophila melanogaster Mutated for an Obesity Syndrome Protein

Forest Hills

Yin, Xiaoyun (Stuyvesant High School)
The Effects of Maternal Separation on Adult Neurogenesis in the Dentate Gyrus of Mice

Great Neck

Mueller, Benjamin Julius (John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School)
The Neural Basis of the Decision to Reward or Punish in Parenting: An fMRI Investigation

Rosengarten, David Alex (John L. Miller-Great Neck North High School)
Rotation Curves in Five Dimensions

Kings Park

Sridhar, Hamsa (Kings Park High School)
A Novel Astigmatic Laser Mode Converter for Optical Vortex Tweezers

Little Neck

Hu, Olivia (Stuyvesant High School)
Cerebral Lateralization in Chinese-English Bilingualism

Nesconset

Chandran, Ashok (Smithtown High School East)
The Distinctive Molecular Signature of Nicotine in Breast Cancer Cells

New York

Serganov, Artem (Bronx High School of Science)
The Crystallization of Riboswitches: Potential Targets for Antibiotics

Port Washington

Muller, Stefan Klein (Paul D. Schreiber High School)
Computer Modeling of the Lateral Border Recycling Compartment in Endothelial Cells

Mychajliw, Alexis Marie (Paul D. Schreiber High School)
The Impact of Vegetative Coverage on Sex Ratios, Prey Availability and Predation Risk in Wetland Odonate Populations

Rego Park

Chang, Timothy Zuchi (Stuyvesant High School)
Kinetics of Bioremediation and Electricity Production in a Novel Microbial Fuel Cell

Roslyn Heights

Babazadeh, Evan Joseph (Roslyn High School)
Vascular Cells Support Maintenance and Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Functional Sca1+ Hematopoietic Cells

North Carolina

Durham

Sud, Shivani (Charles E. Jordan High School)
A Genomic Strategy to Refine Prognosis and Treatment of Early Stage Colon Cancer

Oregon

Hillsboro

McCarthy, Brian Davis (Liberty High School)
Photoactive Polymer Films from Interfacially Polymerized Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Derivatives

Pennsylvania

Bethlehem

Jain, Isha (Freedom High School)
Bone Growth in Zebrafish Occurs via Multiple Pulses of Cell Proliferation

Lancaster

Roda, Anastasia Nast (Lancaster Catholic High School)
Impact of a Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor on Water Quality and on the Benthic, Biofouling and Microbial Communities in the Reactor's Intake and Discharge Creeks

Newtown

Kao, Chun-Kai (George School)
Nanoparticle Enhancement of PEM Fuel Cell Power Output

Wexford

Kim, Clifford Byungho (North Allegheny Senior High School)
Capillary Action in Continuously Tapered Narrow Gap Space

South Carolina

Columbia

Van Schaik, Graham William Wakefield (Spring Valley High School)
Pyrethroids and Their Potential to Promote Breast Cancer and Neurodegeneration

Texas

Austin

Sen, Ayon (Westwood High School)
Dissipation of Geostrophic Oceanic Flows by Quadratic Bottom Boundary Layer Drag

Fort Worth

Ramasesh, Vinay Venkatesh (Texas Academy of Mathematics & Science)
Impact of Orbital Localization on One-Electron Basis Set Convergence

Plano

Huang, Alexander Chi-Jan (Plano Senior High School)
Mathematical Modeling of a Eukaryotic Circadian Clock

Virginia

McLean

Gilbert, Sappho Zoe (Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology)
Survivin Correlates with Prognosis and Inhibits Drug-induced Apoptosis in Ewing Sarcoma Family Tumors

Washington

Bellevue

Yuan, Qiaochu (Bellevue High School)
Explicit Equations in the Plane for Elliptic Curves Given as Space Quartics

Wisconsin

Appleton

Wage, Matthew Michael (Appleton High School East)
On Lehmer-type Questions for Special Classes of Arithmetic Functions