Intel Science Talent Search 2011 Finalists

Arizona

Chandler

Boisvert, Scott Paul (Basha High School)
Influences of Environmental Chemistry on Growth and Chemotaxis of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Aquatic Habitats: Implications for Amphibian Decline

California

Cupertino

Mahajan, Rohan (The Harker School)
The Effect of Doping on CdS Sensitized TiO₂ Nanowires for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Generation

Danville

O'Dorney, Evan Michael (Venture School)
Continued Fraction Convergents and Linear Fractional Transformations

Fair Oaks

Li, Selena Shi-Yao (Mira Loma High School)
A New Therapeutic Strategy for Liver Cancer: Metabolic Stress and Autophagy Modulation

Laguna Niguel

Li, Jonathan F (Saint Margaret's Episcopal School)
Effects of Cell Compressibility, Motility and Contact Inhibition on the Growth of Tumor Cell Clusters

Mountain View

Parthasarathy, Nikhil (The Harker School)
A Morphological Analysis of z~3 Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field

Palo Alto

Liu, Andrew Bo (Henry M. Gunn Senior High School)
Accounting for Cross-talk between Signaling Pathways Identifies Novel Model for Early and Late Post-transplant Acute Rejection

Rancho Palos Verdes

Tang-Quan, David Kenneth (Palos Verdes Peninsula High School)
Evaluating the Role of the HOG1 and ESCRT Pathways in Host/Cell Interaction and Stress Response of Candida albicans

San Diego

Cao, Xiaoyu (Torrey Pines High School)
Novel Synthesis and Spectroscopic Characterization of Versatile Polymer Nanostructures Constructed Using Porous SiO₂ Templates for Chemical Sensing

Santa Clara

Voss, Chelsea Sierra (Cupertino High School)
Applying Fast/Slow Asynchrony and Boolean Minimalism to the Computational Modeling of C. elegans Signaling Pathways

Saratoga

Aggarwal, Amol (Saratoga High School)
Repeated Distances in a Convex Polygon

Walnut

Lei, Bonnie Rae (Walnut High School)
Cryptic Species and Synonyms: A Reclassification of the Spurilla Genus Based on Morphological and Molecular Phylogeography

Connecticut

Avon

Saha, Shubhro (Choate Rosemary Hall)
Modeling Proton Reduction Catalyzed by a Novel Nickel Electrocatalyst with Density Functional Theory

Orange

Liu, Jenny Jiaqi (Amity Regional High School)
Emotional Models Improve Human-Robot Interaction

Florida

Tallahassee

Atolia, Eta (Rickards High School)
Preferred Polar Lipids of Marine Eustigmatophyte, Nannochloropsis oculata: Assessing Potential as Biofuel Feedstock and Eicospentaenoic Acid Producer

Winter Park

Zhou, Elaine (Lake Highland Preparatory School)
Shape-Dependent Catalytic Activity of Size-Selected Platinum Nanoparticles in 2-Propanol Oxidation

Illinois

Naperville

Leung, Krystle M. (Naperville Central High School)
Exposure to Concentrated Ambient Particles of Rural Central California Induces Pulmonary Inflammation in Healthy Mice

Massachusetts

Lexington

Cho, Sung Won (Groton School)
An Analysis of Effects of Habitat Structure on the Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Communities of Two Sites in Eastern Massachusetts, USA

Michigan

Novi

Arora, Shubhangi (Novi High School)
Investigating Multidrug Resistance and Cross-Pathway Gene Expression Changes in Candida albicans Conferred by Gene IPT1

Minnesota

Woodbury

Mukhopadhyay, Prithwis Kumar (Woodbury High School)
Distinct Cellular Signaling Mechanism of Carrageenan-Induced Premalignant Transformation of Mammary Epithelial Cells

Nebraska

Omaha

Chen, Emily Li (Brownell-Talbot School)
A Novel, Dual Role of Cytokine-mediated Activation of STAT3 in Brain Inflammation and Neural Progenitor Cell Differentiation

New Jersey

Belle Mead

Cao, Wenyu (Phillips Academy)
On the Second Eigenvalue and Expansion of Bipartite Regular Graphs

Plainsboro

Bocarsly, Joshua David (Lawrenceville School)
Nanoscale Coating of PLLA for Use in Soft Tissue Implants

Short Hills

Bick, Alison Dana (Millburn High School)
Fabrication and Evaluation of Cell Phone Based Water Testing Apparatus

New York

Garden City

Gong, Jan Jiawei (Garden City High School)
The Effect of High Glucose Levels on Morphine Signaling in Mytilus edulis: Novel Implications for the Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes

Great Neck

Hackman, Michelle Abi (John L. Miller Great Neck North High School)
Communication Underload: Validating the Existence of Disconnect Anxiety

Larchmont

Phillips, Grace Eleanor (Mamaroneck High School)
A Study of HCAA Conjugates in the Context of the Evolutionary History of S. melongena

Loudonville

Rangwala, Alydaar (The Albany Academies)
Dendritic Cell Migration towards UVA1 Light: Novel Basis for Potential Beneficial Phototherapy Treatment of Autoimmune Disease

Old Westbury

Lam, Matthew (Jericho High School)
Pain Education: Overcoming Barriers to Pain Control and Improving Quality of Life Among Chinese American Cancer Patients

Plainview

Goldman, Jonathan Aaron (Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy High School)
Evidence for Link between Native Reading Language and Internal/External Scanning Processes

Williamsville

He, Bryan Dawei (Williamsville East High School)
Compact Binary Code of Mosaic Floorplans

North Carolina

Charlotte

Lee, Si-Yi Ryan (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics)
Random Occurrence of Amphiphilic Α-Helical Potential Solves the Protein Evolution Quandary

Elon

Miller, Matthew (Western Alamance High School)
The Impact of Vortex Generators on Wind Turbine Efficiency and Sound Output

Oregon

Portland

Rumker, Laurie Ann (Oregon Episcopal School)
Biodegradation of Quaternary Ammonium Surfactants by Straight-Chain Hydrocarbon Degraders and Implications for the Long-Term Stability of Organoclay

Wang, Yushi (Sunset High School)
Applications of Quantum Ternary Algorithms and Oracles

Pennsylvania

Hazleton

Monks, Keenan (Hazleton Area High School)
On Supersingular Elliptic Curves and Hypergeometric Functions

Lancaster

Clark, Benjamin Mathias (Penn Manor High School)
The Close Binary Fraction: A Bayesian Analysis of SDSS M Dwarf Spectra

Texas

Dallas

Ball, Madeleine Amanda (Ursuline Academy of Dallas)
Assessment of the Predatory Freshwater Copepod Macrocyclops albidus as a Non-traditional Reservoir for Viable-but-not-culturable V. cholerae 01 and 0139

Houston

Pai, Sunil Kochikar (The Kinkaid School)
Electrochemistry at the Quantum Level: A Novel, Inexpensive, Nanotechnology-Based Approach to Determine Quantum Energies of Superoxide

Plano

Joardar, Rounok (Plano West Senior High School)
Development of a Novel High Efficiency Photo-Thermovoltaic Concentrator Solar Cell