Natural Science Summer Student Researchers 2006

Asad Ahmed

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aldrich
Major: Health Science

Research:
1) High-throughput DNA extraction technology.
2) Linguistic analysis of person and voice in scientific research reports.
Kristyn Bales

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Wig
Majors: Biology/Physics

Research:
Macroscale experimental modeling and analysis of photon scanning tunneling microscopy
 
Amy Boruta

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Muntean
Major: Molecular Biology

Research:
Oxygen17 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and variable temperature Phosphorous31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy of phospholipids complex fluid.
Joseph Briguglio

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aldrich
Major: Molecular Biology

Research:
1) Forest fragmentation and genetic bottleneck effects on variation at the cytochrome P450 multigene family in the tropical tree Symphonia globurlifera.
2) Geopraphic analysis of U.S. population structure of invasive plant species with special reference to Ailanthus altissima.
 
Anthony Brusa

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aldrich
Major: Biology graduate

Research:
Pollination and visitation of Ailanthus altissima flowers in the suburban Chicago area.
David Faber

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Schreiner
Major: Physics/Molecular Biology

Research:
Measurement of the atmospheric muon charge ratio in the 1.5-6.0 TeV energy range using the MINOS Far Detector.
 
Jennifer Gaskin

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Tischler
Major: Biology

Research:
Antibiotic resistance in bacterial isolates from resident Canadian geese goslings and adults.
Shakil Hafiz

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Kaur
Major: Mathematics

Research:
Molecular computing and its evolution in technique and application.
 
Pablo Marquez

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Nadolski
Major: Mathematics

Research:
Outlier detection in the presence of a singular covariance matrix.
Angela Peverly

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Ronkainen
Major: Chemistry

Research:
Development and optimization of a biosensor on a rotating disk electrode platform.
 
Katarzyna Pituch

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Smith
Major: Biochemistry

Research:
Effects of alcohol (ethanol) and caffeine on Drosophila melanogaster.
Alan Rich

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Mascarenhas
Major: Health Science

Research:
Organocatalysis via heterocyclic secondary amines.
 
Abrar Salam

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Aldrich
Major: Molecular Biology

Research:
1) Cytochrome P450 variation in the U.S. populations of the invasive tree Ailanthus.
2) Linguistic analysis of person and voice in scientific reports.
Kushal Shah

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Marin
Major: Biochemistry

Research:
Simple computer based model for vibrational relaxation using mathcad software.
 
Scott Toth

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Heinz
Major: Chemistry

Research:
Comparative chemistry of umbellifers.
Debra Witczak

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Comar
Major: Mathematics

Research:
Existence of regular stick numbers of (2,9) – torus knots.

  
  
  

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