1. Functional Characterization of the Ynq8 Protein Inthat Boonpongmanee, Daniel Cui 2. Hunting Huntington's History - A Phylogenetic Analysis of the Huntingtin Gene Sam Bronckers 3. Optogenetic Study of Induced Seizure in Drosophila melanogaster Nicole Da Costa and Ashley Manning 4. The Guardian of the Cell: Tumor Protein p53 Saadhya Bahudodda and Acy Cai 5. Optogenetic Activation of Channelrhodopsin-2 in Drosophila melanogaster Induction of Seizure Antagonized by Caffeine Melisa Gurkan and FJ Marsh 6. Exploration & Bioinformatic Analysis of the HPV E6 Gene: Cervical Cancer Through Systematics Sofia D. López 7. Optigenetic Study: Seizure Susceptibility of Transgenic Drosophila melanogaster Gemma Bishop, Lily Davy, Max Geraci and Anna Mishchenko 8. Functional Characterization of the 3DS8 Protein Alexia Baker, Rian Bogle, Emily Stonestreet 9. Mitigating Induced Epileptic Seizure in Drosophila melanogaster via GABOB Colin Olson, Caroline Skillman, Cameron Heard, and Raegan Hill 10. A Phylogenetic Analysis of Proto-oncogene Raf-1 Ellia Chiang 11. Functional Characterization of the 3L1W Protein Nadia Jo, Orlee Marini-Rapoport 12a. An Historic Constellation of Infant Physical Abuse Symptoms: Notes from Caffey (1946) Francis Dooley and Jackson Selvala 12b. Computer Vision-Based Characterization of Nanoscale Lamina Daniel Cui 13. The MAOA Gene Helen Niles and Angélique Alexos 14. The Inner Workings of a Finite State Machine Clock: Timing, Wiring, and Designing Brigid Stoll 15. Dipeptidyl Peptidase IV Inhibitors: Phylogenetically Associated with Type-2 Diabetes Victoria Patterson 16. Phylogeny of Cholera Toxin Brigid Stoll

16. Phylogeny and Evolution of Antifreeze Proteins in Winter Flounder Mariachiara Giudici 17. Phylogeny of the Hemagglutinin Gene: A Core Component in the Influenza Virus Darrel Dartey 18. A Phylogenetic Study of the CASP8 Gene Sam Laur and Will Savage 19. Acetylcholine Receptor Phylogeny: Revealing Clues to Physiological Addiction Jill O’Connor 20. Project RINDA: Retinoid Isomerase Samara Cummings and Nikita Pelletier 21. Investigating Serotonin Receptor 5HP6Phylogeny Given its Function in Behavior Olivia Geraci 22. The Luciferase Gene: What Fireflies’ Glow Tells Us About Their Evolution SethThayumanavan 23. Heaven's Bouncer for Cells – Apoptosomes Chloé Monty and Kareena Bhakta 24. Phylogenetic Analysis Examines Critical Evolving Regions of PER2 Gene Sarah Jung 25. Human Insulin Gene Phylogeny and Exon Conservation Schuyler Bacon 26. Phylogeny of Acetylcholinesterase Jared Faux 27. An Analysis of ADH1B Phylogeny Links Alcohol Metabolism Between Humans and Gibbons Shangyi Zhu 28. FPGA Integration with an LED Matrix Display Ian Gordon 29. A Molecular Miracle Worker: Tp53 Tumor Suppressor Gene in Humans Monet Meyer 30. Azo-Dye Synthesis: 1-(4-hydroxyphenylazo)-2-naphthol Sydney Cox and Ian Gordon 31. Inquiry into Kinetics of Crystal Violet and NaOH Chem I 32. A Phylogenetic Analysis of Circadian Clock Rhythms Through the PER1 Gene Lilia Brooker 33. Redox Potential and Oxidative Byproducts of Beta-Carotene Susan Li, Beth Wang

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Symposium Talks 11:10 Colin Olson Mitigating Induced Epileptic Seizure in Drosophila melanogaster via GABOB 11: 25 Ian Gordon Building a Stored Program Computer: trials and lessons 11:40 Inthat Boonpongmanee, Daniel Cui, Susan Li Functional Studies of Uncharacterized Hydrolases in the Protein Data Bank 11:55 Valerie Hetherington Designing Addressable Computer Memory 12:10 Kishor Bharadwaj Exploration of Fluorescein and other Xanthene dyes 12:25 Neil Designing and building a self-driving golf cart: lessons from a personal journey

34. Evolutionary Analysis of Influenza Virus Neuraminidase Jazmine Ramos 35. Functional Characterization of the 2I3D Protein Aminata Ka, Susan Li 36. Synthesis & Analysis of Fluorescein Ryan Welch and Kishor Bharadwaj 37. A Phosphorescence Study: the Manipulation of Luminol’s Glow Nicholas Ortega and Jack Bill 38. Synthesis and Analysis of Malachite Green Abby Bracken and Gabe Moos 39. An Examination of Artificially Induced Light Seizures in Drosophila melanogaster: Effects of Alcohol Withdrawal on Survival and Motility of Transgenic Flies Chenelle Jones and Nicholas Ortega 40. Phylogenetic Analysis of AURKB: An Insight into Aging? David Chen 40b. Aquaporin Phylogeny: Analysis of a Water Channel Protein Throughout Vertebrate Sarah Wright 41-46: Robotic Demonstrations Including: All Terrain Tank Garrett Alexander Automotive Steering and Gearing Frederick Boulton Firefighting Robot Matt Brosseau Skittles Sorting Robot Teddy Durfee Robotic Hand Will Kolman Object Tracking with Machine Vision JJ Siritantikorn Coin Sorting Machine Dylan Skov Drawing Robot Grace Stenger 47a. The Queen Loves Mazes Dylan Skov and Nathan Hu 47b. How to Sort: Selection, Insertion, and Merge Chait Shah and Andy Han 48. if(must_present ==true); return DEPTH FIRST SEARCH Isabella Geraci and Bayard DeMallie 49. Let's Get This Breadth Kian Sorhaindo and Grace Mazur 50. Poster.setTitle("Depth First Search") Henry Bonnie and Alex Yuk 51. Making a 16-Bit Single-Cycle Processor with a Field-Programmable Gate Array Neil Nie 52. Autonomous Vehicle Mapping, Path Planning, and Behavior Control Neil Nie 53. Semantic Segmentation for Self-Driving Vehicles Neil Nie 54. TinyFPGA Implementation of an LED Clock Val Hetherington 55. Phylogenetically Exploring the Emergence of the Apis mellifera’s Complementary Sex Determination Gene Morgane Dackiw 56. Glucagon: A Gene that Differentiates Thermoregulation Between Endotherms and Ectotherms John Chung

57. Phylogenetic Analysis of PD-1: An Essential Regulator of Immune Response Annabel Gerber 58. A Phylogenic Study of a Serotonin Receptor Reveals the Link To Primitive Behavior Emma Jaskolski 59. A Phylogeny of Opioid Receptor Mu-1 Tessa Mannix 60. Welcome to the (Digital) Jungle Mathew Panikar and Zane Smith 61. Exhausting the Mind, Exhausting the Search Young Gun Lee and Gerry Alexandre 62. Three Way Search Extravaganza Michelle Zimmerman and Isabella Rolfe 63. Exploring All Options Will Dale and Jeffrey So and Noah Jung 64. The Code of Life – Using Cellular Automata to Model Living Systems Margaret Williams and Soomin Lee 65. Game of Life Rocky Xia and Kevin Gu 66. Depth First Searches: An Exploration Through a Maze William Chang, Cosmo Hunt, Bennett Stankovits 67. A Java Implementation of a Breadth-First Search Janis Chen and Marwan Gedeon Achi 68. System.out.print(“Exploration of MergeSort”); Rian Bogle and Tyler Kelly 69. Implementing the Simon Game using Verilog on an FPGA Ethan Chen 70. Breadboard Implementation of a Binary Adder Eli Ji 71. Coding Clocks with Verilog HDL Owen Louis 72. Frames of Time Michael Makridis 73. Developing a Shadow-Based Clock with Verilog HDL Elven Shum 74. Driving a VGA Monitor Using a Field Programable Gate Array (FPGA) Justin Tang 75. Climbing the Word Ladder: A Breadth-First Search of a Graph Mia Burch 76. Hash Tables and Applications Tom Dillon 77. Sudoku Solver using Breadth-First and Depth-First Searches Simon Lam 78. Analytical and Experimental Comparison of Sorting Algorithms Steven Li 79. Map Routing: Finding the Shortest Path Using Dijkstra’s Algorithm Joshua Fang and Kimberly Stafford 80. Forward and Backward Propagation in Neural Networks Ryan Welch 81. Finding the Shortest Path Through an Undirected Graph of English Words Nolan Zusi