Schedule of Events
March 17, 2015
Please note that this schedule is subject to change
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Graham Center Ballrooms
8:00 – 10:00 am
Registration
10:00 – 4:00 pm
Recruitment Fair
10:00 – 11:00 am
Poster Session #1
GC 243
11:00 – 12:00 pm
Serena Magrogan
The College Board
West Ballroom
11:00 – 12:00 pm
Dr. George Simms
FIU McNair Program
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch on your own
Graham Center Ballrooms
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Poster Session #2
GC 243
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Dr. Katrin Karbstein
Scripps Research Institute
West Ballroom
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Dr. Darcy Gentleman
American Chemical Society
Graham Center Ballrooms
3:00 – 4:00 pm
Poster Session #3
Wednesday, March 18
FIU Graham Center Ballrooms
Please note that this schedule is subject to change
Session A
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
East Ballroom
Biomedical and Biological Sciences I
Chair: TBD
1. Daniela Florit (Manuel Alejandro Barbieri)
“Genomic studies of HLA region gene expression during Pseudomonas
aeruginosa infection and Interferon gamma treatment”
2. Madiha Ahmed (Stanislaw Wnuk)
“Inhibition of S-ribosylhomocysteinase (LuxS) by SRH analogue”
3. Catalina Garzon (Sanjoy Bhattacharya)
“Mass Spectrometric Lipidomic analyses of human aqueous humor”
4. Eddie Ocasio (Manuel Alejandro Barbieri)
"The Role of RIN1, a Rab5 and Ras effector, in Migration and Invasion of
Cancer Cells"
Center Ballroom
Political Science
Chair: TBD
1. Maylin Hernandez (Meri-Jane Rochelson)
"Androgyny versus Patriarchy: A Historicist-Psychoanalytic Reading of
Hemingway's The Garden of Eden and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White"
2. Ian Iglesias (Umer Rahman)
“What is the face of anti-Indic discrimination in the Persian Gulf, and how
does it compare & contrast with anti-black discrimination in the United
States?”
3. Sarah Terrazas (Tudor Parfitt)
“The People of Gaza”
4. Gaetano Calagna (Astrid Arraras)
“Race in Venezuela”
West Ballroom
Psychology I
Chair: TBD
1. Thandi Lyew (Jeremy Pettit)
“The Influence of Anxiety on Verbal Memory in Multiracial and Monoracial
Students”
2. Andres Roque (Jeremy Pettit)
“The Effects of Attention Bias Modification Training on Cognitive Biases of
Perceived Threats in Children with Anxiety”
3. Ifrah Waheed (Shannon Pruden)
“Does Spatial Content Exposure affect Cognitive Strategy Selection?”
4. Ekson Dacius (George Simms)
“Mental Development; Stress Takes Over Our University”
Session B
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
East Ballroom Marine
Biology & Physics Chair:
TBD
1. Betsy Rodriguez (Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty & Dan Merselis)
“Epigenomic Acclamation of Chorals in Coastal Areas”
2. Leidy Gonzalez (Mauricio Rodriguez-Lanetty)
“DMSP driven bacterial swarming in reef building corals”
3. Valeria Paz (Michael Heithaus)
TBD
4. Edmundo Barriga (Joerg Reinhold)
“GlueX”
Center Ballroom
ENRICH Sweetwater Panel Discussion
Chair: TBD
This panel focuses on a seminar launched in Fall 2011 by the Honors College. Engaged
Research in the Community through Honors (ENRICH) uses a service-research approach to
address some of the social, cultural, economic, political, environmental, educational, and
health issues faced by the City of Sweetwater and its residents. Ten students selected topics
related to their majors and interests. Working with university faculty members or
administrators, city officials, non-profit leaders, and/or corporate agents, the students
designed creative solutions to problems and implemented them.
1. TBD (TBD)
TBD
2. TBD(TBD)
TBD
3. TBD(TBD)
TBD
West Ballroom
International Relations & History
Chair: TBD
1. Dianelis Lazo (Astrid Arraras & Jorge Duany)
The Other Face of Cuban Medical Diplomacy
2. David Ocampo (Markus Thiel)
International Institutions and Managing State Intervention
3. Gordon Kingston (April Merleaux)
TBD
Session C
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
East Ballroom Art
& Psychology
Chair: TBD
1. Luisa Isla (Joseph Patrouch)
The Contributions/Works made by People of Color towards European Art
History
2. Crystal Abreu (Janet McDaniel)
The Notoriety of the Borgia Name
3. Vesna Babarogic (Nadja Schreiber Compo)
“iLab”
4. Vanessa Yanek (Maricel Cigales)
TBD
Center Ballroom
Biomedical and Biological Sciences II
Chair: TBD
1. Oscar Gil (Ranu Jung)
Understanding and Improving Sensorimotor Control in People with
Neurological Disabilities or Limb-loss; Neuroprostheses; Neural Engineering
Devices for Interfacing with the Nervous System
2. Joseph Hernandez (J. Martin E. Quirke)
TBD
3. Ameer Quadri (Helen Tempest)
TBD
4. Josue Santana (Jorge Riera Diaz)
Modeling and Simulation of Light-Activated Ca (+2) Signaling in Astrocytes.
West Ballroom
TBD Chair:
TBD
1. TBD (TBD)
TBD
2. TBD(TBD)
TBD
3. TBD(TBD)
TBD
Session D
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
East Ballroom
Biomedical and Biological Sciences III
Chair: TBD
1. Anthony Giordano (Wei-Chiang Lin)
“Data Analysis on the Effect of Pilocarpine in Rats and their Effects in a
Maze”
2. Jiali Lei (Nikolaos Tsoukias)
“Gene Expressions on Freshly Isolated Endothelial Cells and Smooth
Muscle Cells from Rat Artery”
3. Grethel Miro (David Becker)
“Optimizing the Synthesis of AZN”
Center Ballroom Atmospheric,
Ecological, & Geo Sciences Chair: TBD
1. Dante DiGiacomo (Krisch Jayachandran)
"Using Permaculture Design to Save the World"
2. Arianna Aguilar (Guillermo Grenier)
“Social Impacts of Economic Development in the City of Sweetwater”
3. Brian Matilla (Haiyan Jiang)
“The Relationship Between Lightning and Precipitation in Tropical
Cyclones”
4. Szandra Peter (Robert Burgman)
West Ballroom
Business
Chair: TBD
1. Bernando Castro (Alan Gummerson)
“Analysis and Best Response to the U.S. Crisis of 2008”
2. Daniel Lazo (Robert Hacker)
“The Lack of a Structured Universal Healthcare System in the United
States: How this affects the lives of millions of Americans and what can
be done about it”
Session E
3:00PM – 4:00PM
East Ballroom Engineering &
Computer Science Chair: TBD
1. Stephen Ballesteros (Yiding Cao)
“Concentrated Solar Power to Produce Steam”
2. Cesar Villa-Garcia (Debra Davis)
“The Impact of Nanotechnologies in the Development of Computing
Devices”
3. Meilyn Planas (Nezih Pala)
“Terahertz Testing”
4. Erick Camacho (Ibrahim Tansel)
“Gesture Controls v. Analog and Digital Controls”
Center Ballroom
Education & English
Chair: TBD
1. Charles Benitez (JuanCarlos Espinosa)
“Middle Circle”
2. Shahinaz Elmahmoudi (JuanCarlos Espinosa)
“Middle Circle”
3. Adrian Suarez Avila (JuanCarlos Espinosa)
“On the Threshold of Paradise and Present: memory in contemporary
Cuban-American literature
West Ballroom
Dietetics & Nutrition
Chair: TBD
1. Aida Cardenas (Leslie Richardson)
“Patriarchy and Perceptions of Eating Disorders”
2. Katerine Diaz (Adriana Campa)
“Zinc Status, Alcohol Use and Liver Fibrosis in HIV mono-infection and
HIV/HCV co-infection”
3. Gabriela Goldberg (Douglas Kalman)
Do various snacks affect mood states? A prospective, randomized,
parallel group clinical trial
4. Ricardo Perez-Dulzaides (Laura Serbus)
Proteomic Analysis of Wolbachia in Response to Nutrition