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Intel Science Talent Search 2008 Finalists

Florida

 

Orlando

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

Georgia

 

Athens

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

 

Marietta

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

Hawaii

 

Mililani

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

Iowa

 

Iowa City

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

Maryland

 

Derwood

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

 

Potomac

Lu, Benjamin Brice (Richard Montgomery High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Performance Boosting Methods for Named Entity Recognition in Financial News

Michigan

 

Bloomfield Hills

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

Missouri

 

Jefferson City

Mirts, Evan Neal (Jefferson City High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Engineering a Novel Gram-negative Effective Efflux Pump Inhibitor

New Mexico

 

Los Alamos

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

New York

 

Armonk

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

 

Brooklyn

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

 

Dix Hills

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

 

East Setauket

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

 

Forest Hills

Yin, Xiaoyun (Stuyvesant High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Rotation Curves in Five Dimensions

 

Kings Park

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

 

Little Neck

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

 

Nesconset

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

 

New York

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

 

Port Washington

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

   

Mychajliw, Alexis Marie (Paul D. Schreiber High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Kinetics of Bioremediation and Electricity Production in a Novel Microbial Fuel Cell

 

Roslyn Heights

Babazadeh, Evan Joseph (Roslyn High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
A Genomic Strategy to Refine Prognosis and Treatment of Early Stage Colon Cancer

Oregon

 

Hillsboro

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

Pennsylvania

 

Bethlehem

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

 

Lancaster

Roda, Anastasia Nast (Lancaster Catholic High School) Full Bio
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) Full Bio
Nanoparticle Enhancement of PEM Fuel Cell Power Output

 

Wexford

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

South Carolina

 

Columbia

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

Texas

 

Austin

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

 

Fort Worth

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

 

Plano

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

Virginia

 

McLean

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

Washington

 

Bellevue

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

Wisconsin

 

Appleton

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

 

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