SURP Research Day
SURP Research Day
SURP Student Research Day 2025
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2025 Presentations:
Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #1: Development of a genomics pipeline for yeast identification using galaxy
Blackford, Shayna; Blair, McKenna; Gonzalez, Devon; Libby, Brian; Modi, Aaryan; Moore, Rosalind
Faculty Advisor(s): Carone, Benjamin; Farber, Matthew; Randa, Mark
Station #2: Identification and Biodiversity of Fermenting Yeast on Oak Trees in South Jersey
Blackford, Shayna; Blair, McKenna; Gonzalez, Devon; Libby, Brian; Moore, Rosalind
Faculty Advisor(s): Farber, Matthew
Station #3: Oncogenic E-cadherin dependent metastasis
Cano, Paige; Daus, Kevin; Modi, Aaryan; O'Reilly, Meghan; Obiadazie, Chimnecherem; Patalivo, Olivia; Pradhan, Prisha; Prendergast, Taylor; Rao-Pothuraju, Rahul; Santana, Brandon
Faculty Advisor(s): Alpaugh, Mary
Station #9: The effects of quinic acid on mutant huntingtin expression in Drosophila melanogaster
Boltz, Lillian; Bongiorno, Gabriella; Dillon, Ava; Patel, Yami; Williams, Dawn
Faculty Advisor(s): Pearce, Maggie
Station #19: Glial expression of GFP-tagged ribosomes in adult Drosophila brains
Boltz, Lillian; Raval, Rishima
Faculty Advisor(s): Pearce, Maggie
Station #20: Investigating a role for the Parkinson's disease risk factor LRRK2 in a Drosophila model of Huntington's disease
Patel, Palak; Williams, Dawn
Faculty Advisor(s): Pearce, Maggie
Station #34: 10 Year Stability of Song Dialects in the Atlantic Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus)
Buono, Nicolas
Faculty Advisor(s): Hough, Gerald
Station #40: Decoding Information Flow Channels Across the Fly Brain Connectome
Witherspoon, Chase
Faculty Advisor(s): Chen, Yong
Station #43: Ants Self-Medicate Using Probiotics
Cummings, Jack; Thomas, Taylor; Woody, Liliana
Faculty Advisor(s): Kruse, Svjetlana
Station #44: Modeling and Optimizing Network Flow of Combinatorial Drug Effects on Cellular Dynamics
Yadav, Abhijit
Faculty Advisor(s): Chen, Yong
Station #45: Utilization of peptides in the inhibition of HSV-1 and HSV-2 in Vero cells
Akin, Fatima; Davis, Jocelyn; Surgan, Andrew
Faculty Advisor(s): Krummenacher, Claude
Station #46: LPS induces TLR6 expression in mouse primary glia
Hamad, Taleen; Loguidice, Olivia; Morshed, Tangim; White, Abigail
Faculty Advisor(s): Manners, Melissa
Station #47: Work in progress: digital segmentation of vertebrae from a fossil mammal
Chavez Lopez, Evelyn
Faculty Advisor(s): Holbrook, Luke
Station #48: Peptide-mediated Inhibition of Feline Herpesvirus 1 (FeHV) in Crandell-Rees Feline Kidney (CRFK) cells
Beharie, Shania; DeLeon, Christian; Le, Elizabeth; Patel, Anmol
Faculty Advisor(s): Krummenacher, Claude
Station #50: Testing novel sigma ligands in the search for new analgesics
Gunupudi, Rithvika; Nguyen, Norman
Faculty Advisor(s): Keck, Thomas
Station #51: Overexpression of CTCF leads to embryonic lethality in a mouse model
Alimenti, Julianna; Catron, Maya; Kolb, Sarah; Rozier, Lege; Strosser, Jenna
Faculty Advisor(s): Carone, Benjamin
Station #52: Wind-driven zooplankton export from a polymictic lake
Hakimi, Seung June; Klemowitz, Samantha; Patel, Priya; Raggio, Rachel; Tannucilli, Danica; Valencia Marin, Iris; Willis-Carroll, Kai
Faculty Advisor(s): Grove, Michael
Station #53: Behavioral and physiological consequences of CTCF overexpression in mice
Ortiz Ramirez, Amy; Patel, Vidhi
Faculty Advisor(s): Carone, Benjamin; Keck, Thomas; Manners, Melissa
Station #54: Observing Polar Localization of the PdhS Sensor Kinases of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Begum, Mosa Asia; Reynolds, Mei
Faculty Advisor(s): Heindl, Jason; Meadows, Laurie
Station #58: Role of the accessory plasmid, pAtC58, in VtlR-dependent phenotypes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
Adeyemi, Iteoluwakisi
Faculty Advisor(s): Heindl, Jason
Station #62: Tiny Bubbles, Big Questions: Investigating the Thermodynamics of Protein Unfolding in Reverse Micelles
Sahm, Teagan
Faculty Advisor(s): Nucci, Nathaniel
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #4: Evolution of Membrane Interactions and Permeabilization of Daptomycin
Cortes, Maggie; Fox, Emmaleigh; Pennock, Samuel; Salecha, Megha
Faculty Advisor(s): Caputo, Gregory
Station #6: Synthesis of Heterocycles
Bhlon, Bidhya; Finneran, Steven; Hartpence, Lauren; Martorano, Anthony; Morris, Madison; Wheeler, Savannah
Faculty Advisor(s): Moura, Gustavo
Station #7: Thermodynamic analysis of Myoglobin with Fatty Acid Ionic Liquids (FAILs)
Fox, Emmaleigh; Litostansky, Sarah; Pennock, Samuel; Spencer, Dante
Faculty Advisor(s): Caputo, Gregory
Station #8: Characterization of metal ion antimicrobial activity across varied growth media
Boeckle, Kaleygh; Cortes, Maggie; Eosso, Chloe; Guarino, Angelina; Hicks, Luke; Maurer, Hailey; Romero, Anthony; Urban, Matthew; Vinod, Deekshitha
Faculty Advisor(s): Caputo, Gregory; Hettinger, Jeffrey
Station #13: Novel Peptide Coupling Methods
Doran, Jenna; Finneran, Steven; Hassan, Eshal; Palakarska, Iva
Faculty Advisor(s): Moura, Gustavo
Station #14: Novel Cascade Reactions
Blackwell, Alexander; Brown, Morgan; Finneran, Steven; Singer, Alyssa
Faculty Advisor(s): Moura, Gustavo
Station #15: Finding Alternatives to Opioids: Synthesis of Dermorphin Derivatives
Sandhu, Simerdeep; Wheeler, Savannah
Faculty Advisor(s): Quarels, Rashanique
Station #26: Detection of PTSD biomarkers in human plasma with capillary LCMS
Neuls, Dakota
Faculty Advisor(s): Grinias, James
Station #28: Excited state energetics of optically active qubit sensing candidates
Dahal, Prashant; Gabriel, Julia; Kroenke, Kale
Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik
Station #29: Low-cost platform to assay bacterial biofilm formation in flow
Montiel, Lesslie
Faculty Advisor(s): Grinias, James
Station #31: Derivatization of the Vancomycin Linear Heptapeptide
Restrepo, Raul; Vossler, Autumn
Faculty Advisor(s): Quarels, Rashanique
Station #38: Electrode effects on anti-ohmic conductance in petroleum-derived electronics
McGowan, Grace; Tran, Thao
Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik
Station #39: Photocatalytic reduction of Aryl Sulfonates toward the synthesis of Benzofurans
Fischbach, Alexander; Nottingham, Tyla; Osinowo, Olayinka
Faculty Advisor(s): Quarels, Rashanique
Station #41: Electron transport in high energy molecular devices
Harden, Jordan; Karim, Rezaul; Sanawed Wala, Abbas
Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik
Station #42: Automated Solid-Phase Extraction Capillary HPLC for Trace Analysis of Drugs of Abuse
Boughton, John; Tran, Angelina
Faculty Advisor(s): Grinias, James
Station #49: Characterization of Lysozyme stability in presence of ionic liquids
Hammel, Patience; Obeid, Daniel; Scheeper, Jacob; Scott, Madison
Faculty Advisor(s): Caputo, Gregory
Station #55: Synthesis of Oxaziridines and Nitroalkanes from Imines via Mg-Al Based Catalysis
Mapitigama, Chrishene; Patel, Prinsee
Faculty Advisor(s): Quarels, Rashanique
Station #64: Quantum Transport from First Principles: A Self-Consistent DFT+NEGF Implementation in Python
Dwivedi, Sarvagya; Kumar, Adarsh
Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik
Station #66: Photoluminescent behavior of Na3AlCl6: Analysis of emission spectra, thermal behavior, and structural properties
Balamurugan, Isai
Faculty Advisor(s): Ramanujachary, Kandalam
Computer Science
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #25: Restoration of Partially Forgotten Non-Alphanumeric Private Key
Zappone, Harper
Faculty Advisor(s): Ivanov, Nick
Station #30: Immersive learning through WebXR: Web-based extended reality in education.
Akulapally, Vivek Srujan; Jaber, Wesam; Jawanda, Mehakpreet; Milshteyn, Gary
Faculty Advisor(s): Rabbitz, Richard
Station #35: A Framework for Empirical Evaluation of Distributed Protocols using Datalog
Goldeck, Madison
Faculty Advisor(s): Ivanov, Nick
Station #56: Towards low-latency and high-reliability WiFi 7 through MLO link management
Rhodes, Alaina
Faculty Advisor(s): Gomes Santos Goncalves, Andre Vinicius
Geography, Planning, & Sustainability
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #32: Fiscal and climate hazards in Southern New Jersey and Eastern Shore Maryland
Bilgrav, Noah
Faculty Advisor(s): He, Qian
Station #57: Unequal Burdens: Exploring the Intersection of Air Quality, Built Environments, and Asthma Prevalence in the Greater Philadelphia Metroplex
Olcese, Sean
Faculty Advisor(s): He, Qian; Meenar, Mahbubur
Geology
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #37: Geochemical analysis of the Pennsylvania Piedmont
Revas, Angelena
Faculty Advisor(s): Barth, Aaron; Pfeifer-Johnson, Lily
Mathematics
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #5: Drone AI: Accurate monitoring of blueberry bushes
Falcone, Ryan; Grehlinger, Michael; Segrest, Anthony; Tonon, Luke; Vu, Alexander
Faculty Advisor(s): Lee, Ik; Nguyen, Hieu
Station #10: Drone AI: Ground control GUI for intelligent missions using radio telemetry
Tonon, Luke
Faculty Advisor(s): Lee, Ik; Nguyen, Hieu
Station #11: A New Efficient Decoding Algorithm for Helberg Error-Correcting Codes
Segrest, Anthony
Faculty Advisor(s): Nguyen, Hieu
Station #12: From Drone To Web: Precision Mapping of Blueberry Fields and Automation of Orthophoto Processing
Falcone, Ryan; Twomey, Sean
Faculty Advisor(s): Christman, Zachary; Lee, Ik; Nguyen, Hieu
Station #24: Ecosystem Resilience and Resistance
Jones, Isabella
Faculty Advisor(s): Huntley, Helga
Station #27: Detection and mapping of Carolina redroot in cranberry bogs using AI and drones
Ham, Duwon; Neupane, Bishal
Faculty Advisor(s): Nguyen, Thanh; Nguyen, Hieu
Station #33: Partially-Steady Solutions to Kinematic Property Equations
Turbett, James
Faculty Advisor(s): Huntley, Helga
Station #63: Patterns and trends in New Jersey temperature records
Clemente, Patrick
Faculty Advisor(s): Huntley, Helga
Physics & Astronomy
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #16: Establishing the equivalence of short tests of physics quantitative literacy
Campbell, Riley; Clark, Nathaniel; Goodman, Michelle
Faculty Advisor(s): Smith, Trevor
Station #17: Comparative Gelation Analysis of Methacrylate Resins with Varying Functionalities
Capitillo-Villasmil, Sofia; Jess, Zachary
Faculty Advisor(s): Chimenti, Robert
Station #18: Evaluating the Efficiency of a new SERS substrate
Jess, Zachary; Vetrecin , Madeline
Faculty Advisor(s): Chimenti, Robert
Station #21: Defining a partial credit scoring model for the Physics Inventory of Quantitative Literacy (PIQL)
Abdulkader, Colvin; Weslager, Natalie
Faculty Advisor(s): Smith, Trevor
Station #22: Characterization of In Situ High Temperature X-ray Diffraction of Na(0.9)Co(1-x)Ni(x)O(2)
Weslager, Natalie
Faculty Advisor(s): Scabarozi, Theodore
Station #23: Self-Driving Labs for Accelerated Materials Discovery
Goodman, Michelle; Jones, Brooke; Nanni, Juliana; Schossig, John; Taylor, Landon
Faculty Advisor(s): Lofland, Samuel
Station #36: Investigating the Relationship Between Carbon Quantum Dots and Nuclear Spin Relaxation
Grandal, Makaylab; Soper, Cody
Faculty Advisor(s): Whiting, Nicholas
Station #59: Compositional and cargo-driven effects on exchange dynamics in CTAB based reverse micelles
Finley, Erin; Williamson, Jahni
Faculty Advisor(s): Nucci, Nathaniel
Station #60: Thin film extended gate field effect transistor integrated sensor system: from F- ions to PFAS detection
Shimp, Drew
Faculty Advisor(s): Dong, Dongmei
Station #61: Multiphysics Mechanical and Electrical Modulation in Charge Storage Thin Films via AFM Characterization
Bunn, Jonathan
Faculty Advisor(s): Dong, Dongmei
Station #65: Electrochromic Thin Films via PVD for Visible–Infrared Dual-Band Modulation
Greene, Edward; Sharma, Manobin; Verma, RaJz
Faculty Advisor(s): Dong, Dongmei
Statistics
Note: Student contributors to each poster are listed alphabetically by last name. Odd number stations will present 2:00 - 3:00. Even number stations will present 3:00 - 4:00.
Station #67: Mixtures of factor analyzers for clustering high-dimensional data
Rippman, Jessica
Faculty Advisor(s): Tong, Hung
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Index by Student Last Name
Adeyemi, Iteoluwakisi - Station #58
Akin, Fatima - Station #45
Akulapally, Vivek Srujan - Station #30
Alimenti, Julianna - Station #51
Balamurugan, Isai - Station #66
Begum, Mosa Asia - Station #54
Beharie, Shania - Station #48
Bhlon, Bidhya - Station #6
Bilgrav, Noah - Station #32
Blackford, Shayna - Station #1
Blackford, Shayna - Station #2
Blackwell, Alexander - Station #14
Blair, McKenna - Station #1
Blair, McKenna - Station #2
Boeckle, Kaleygh - Station #8
Boltz, Lillian - Station #9
Boltz, Lillian - Station #19
Bongiorno, Gabriella - Station #9
Boughton, John - Station #42
Brown, Morgan - Station #14
Bunn, Jonathan - Station #61
Buono, Nicolas - Station #34
Campbell, Riley - Station #16
Cano, Paige - Station #3
Capitillo-Villasmil, Sofia - Station #17
Catron, Maya - Station #51
Chavez Lopez, Evelyn - Station #47
Clark, Nathaniel - Station #16
Clemente, Patrick - Station #63
Cortes, Maggie - Station #8
Cortes, Maggie - Station #4
Cummings, Jack - Station #43
Dahal, Prashant - Station #28
Daus, Kevin - Station #3
Davis, Jocelyn - Station #45
DeLeon, Christian - Station #48
Dillon, Ava - Station #9
Doran, Jenna - Station #13
Dwivedi, Sarvagya - Station #64
Eosso, Chloe - Station #8
Falcone, Ryan - Station #5
Falcone, Ryan - Station #12
Finley, Erin - Station #59
Finneran, Steven - Station #6
Finneran, Steven - Station #14
Finneran, Steven - Station #13
Fischbach, Alexander - Station #39
Fox, Emmaleigh - Station #4
Fox, Emmaleigh - Station #7
Gabriel, Julia - Station #28
Goldeck, Madison - Station #35
Gonzalez, Devon - Station #1
Gonzalez, Devon - Station #2
Goodman, Michelle - Station #16
Goodman, Michelle - Station #23
Grandal, Makaylab - Station #36
Greene, Edward - Station #65
Grehlinger, Michael - Station #5
Guarino, Angelina - Station #8
Gunupudi, Rithvika - Station #50
Hakimi, Seung June - Station #52
Ham, Duwon - Station #27
Hamad, Taleen - Station #46
Hammel, Patience - Station #49
Harden, Jordan - Station #41
Hartpence, Lauren - Station #6
Hassan, Eshal - Station #13
Hicks, Luke - Station #8
Jaber, Wesam - Station #30
Jawanda, Mehakpreet - Station #30
Jess, Zachary - Station #17
Jess, Zachary - Station #18
Jones, Brooke - Station #23
Jones, Isabella - Station #24
Karim, Rezaul - Station #41
Klemowitz, Samantha - Station #52
Kolb, Sarah - Station #51
Kroenke, Kale - Station #28
Kumar, Adarsh - Station #64
Le, Elizabeth - Station #48
Libby, Brian - Station #1
Libby, Brian - Station #2
Litostansky, Sarah - Station #7
Loguidice, Olivia - Station #46
Mapitigama, Chrishene - Station #55
Martorano, Anthony - Station #6
Maurer, Hailey - Station #8
McGowan, Grace - Station #38
Milshteyn, Gary - Station #30
Modi, Aaryan - Station #1
Modi, Aaryan - Station #3
Montiel, Lesslie - Station #29
Moore, Rosalind - Station #1
Moore, Rosalind - Station #2
Morris, Madison - Station #6
Morshed, Tangim - Station #46
Nanni, Juliana - Station #23
Neuls, Dakota - Station #26
Neupane, Bishal - Station #27
Nguyen, Norman - Station #50
Nottingham, Tyla - Station #39
O'Reilly, Meghan - Station #3
Obeid, Daniel - Station #49
Obiadazie, Chimnecherem - Station #3
Olcese, Sean - Station #57
Ortiz Ramirez, Amy - Station #53
Osinowo, Olayinka - Station #39
Palakarska, Iva - Station #13
Patalivo, Olivia - Station #3
Patel, Anmol - Station #48
Patel, Palak - Station #20
Patel, Prinsee - Station #55
Patel, Priya - Station #52
Patel, Vidhi - Station #53
Patel, Yami - Station #9
Pennock, Samuel - Station #4
Pennock, Samuel - Station #7
Pradhan, Prisha - Station #3
Prendergast, Taylor - Station #3
Raggio, Rachel - Station #52
Rao-Pothuraju, Rahul - Station #3
Raval, Rishima - Station #19
Restrepo, Raul - Station #31
Revas, Angelena - Station #37
Reynolds, Mei - Station #54
Rhodes, Alaina - Station #56
Rippman, Jessica - Station #67
Romero, Anthony - Station #8
Rozier, Lege - Station #51
Sahm, Teagan - Station #62
Salecha, Megha - Station #4
Sanawed Wala, Abbas - Station #41
Sandhu, Simerdeep - Station #15
Santana, Brandon - Station #3
Scheeper, Jacob - Station #49
Schossig, John - Station #23
Scott, Madison - Station #49
Segrest, Anthony - Station #5
Segrest, Anthony - Station #11
Sharma, Manobin - Station #65
Shimp, Drew - Station #60
Singer, Alyssa - Station #14
Soper, Cody - Station #36
Spencer, Dante - Station #7
Strosser, Jenna - Station #51
Surgan, Andrew - Station #45
Tannucilli, Danica - Station #52
Taylor, Landon - Station #23
Thomas, Taylor - Station #43
Tonon, Luke - Station #5
Tonon, Luke - Station #10
Tran, Angelina - Station #42
Tran, Thao - Station #38
Turbett, James - Station #33
Twomey, Sean - Station #12
Urban, Matthew - Station #8
Valencia Marin, Iris - Station #52
Verma, RaJz - Station #65
Vetrecin , Madeline - Station #18
Vinod, Deekshitha - Station #8
Vossler, Autumn - Station #31
Vu, Alexander - Station #5
Weslager, Natalie - Station #21
Weslager, Natalie - Station #22
Wheeler, Savannah - Station #6
Wheeler, Savannah - Station #15
White, Abigail - Station #46
Williams, Dawn - Station #9
Williams, Dawn - Station #20
Williamson, Jahni - Station #59
Willis-Carroll, Kai - Station #52
Witherspoon, Chase - Station #40
Woody, Liliana - Station #43
Yadav, Abhijit - Station #44
Zappone, Harper - Station #25