SURP Student Research Day 2026

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

Chamberlain Student Center Commons (G51)

2:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m Biological & Biomedical Sciences Station #4: Development of Fluorescent Reporters to Monitor Nuclear Architectural Changes Mikhail, Junia Faculty Advisor(s): Carone, Benjamin Station #7: Oncogenic E-cadherin-dependent metastasis and potential therapeutic interventions Anand, Anjela; Duenas, Madison Faculty Advisor(s): Alpaugh, Mary Station #11: Effects of Scion and Rootstock on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization and Spore Communities in Vitis vinifera Vergara, Nicholas Faculty Advisor(s): Bentivenga, Stephen Station #16: The effects of Zymosan A-induced inflammation on a combined nestlet shredding and zones cleared assay Chowdhury, Maria; Ortiz Ramirez, Amy Faculty Advisor(s): Keck, Thomas Station #21: Trees of the Rowan Arboretum: A survey and assessment of the Glassboro campus Boudreau, Neve; Errickson, Tess Faculty Advisor(s): Wright, Sara Station #26: Development of fluorescent reporters to monitor nuclear architectural changes in cancer cells Sterner, Ruth Faculty Advisor(s): Carone, Benjamin Station #28: Roles of “eat-me” signals and autophagy components in mutant huntingtin spread in Drosophila Boltz, Lillian; Dillon, Ava Faculty Advisor(s): Pearce, Maggie Station #29: Building transgenic flies to model protein aggregate spread in neurodegenerative disease Arslan, Aysenur; Kasarla, Srija Faculty Advisor(s): Pearce, Maggie Station #31: Characterization of CRISPR-edited V5-rab10 alleles in Drosophila Harris, Arianna; Williams, Dawn Faculty Advisor(s): Pearce, Maggie Station #33: Designing deep learning–based methods for cell clustering of scHi-C data Bharati, Sneha Faculty Advisor(s): Chen, Yong Station #34: Evaluation of Antiviral Peptides Against Feline Herpesvirus in Cell Culture DeLeon, Christian; Le, Elizabeth Faculty Advisor(s): Krummenacher, Claude Station #38: A Survey of Fermenting Yeasts on South Jersey Oak Trees Gardiner, David Faculty Advisor(s): Farber, Matthew Station #50: Comparison of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Colonization and Spore Communities Between Trifolium repens-Dominated Cover Crop and Native Grass-Sedge Systems Vergara, Nicholas Faculty Advisor(s): Bentivenga, Stephen Station #66: Development of Fluorescent Reporters to Monitor Nuclear Architectural Changes in Response to Stress Wynne, Megan Faculty Advisor(s): Carone, Benjamin Station #67: Zooplankton biodiversity and abundance across a lake depth gradient Artis, Travis; Hughes, Brooke; Kleinhenz, Justin; Lewis, Sarah; Tomas, Gloria; Vaneekhoven, Emily Faculty Advisor(s): Grove, Michael Station #68: When does mCherry oligomerize? Dougherty, Anna Faculty Advisor(s): Nucci, Nathaniel Station #69: A Day in the Life of an Acorn Ant Blackford, Shayna; Cummings, Jack; Hassan, Alisha; Strehle, Brenna; Woody, Liliana Faculty Advisor(s): Kruse, Svjetlana Station #75: Phenotypic Characterization of CtrA Function in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Carvalho Mendes, Leticia; Dobaria, Harshkumar Anilkumar; Kopylkova, Amelie; Srivarshini, Mahima Faculty Advisor(s): Heindl, Jason; Lucci, Allison Station #76: The chronic stress response in male and female mice Hamad, Taleen; Loguidice, Olivia Faculty Advisor(s): Manners, Melissa Chemistry & Biochemistry Station #2: Amine Functionalization Via Oxidative Photoredox Catalysis Spencer, Dante Faculty Advisor(s): Perez, Lark Station #12: Novel Small Molecules as Anti-Cancer Agents Gee, Christian; Matarazzo, Christopher; von Suskil, Lukas; Wilson, Christopher Faculty Advisor(s): Jonnalagadda, Subash Station #18: Decoding the structural and functional impact of KRAS Q70 mutations on the RAS–RAF axis Pinarci, Meliha; Rosario, Gabriella Faculty Advisor(s): Wang, Zhihong Station #19: Pyridine-Phosphodiester Foldamer: A molecular dynamics study Chothani, Manushi; Desai, Hirvi; Jain, Khushi Faculty Advisor(s): Liu, Zhiwei Station #20: Novel Metal Hydride Complexes as Catalysts for the Isomerization of Substituted Allylamines Bhlon, Bidhya; Consiglio, Isabella; Wyatt, Adam Faculty Advisor(s): Moura, Gustavo Station #25: Investigating the Effect of Hypervariable Region on RAS Signaling Through BRAF Mensching, Pearce Faculty Advisor(s): Wang, Zhihong Station #30: Computational analysis of intersystem crossing rates and triplet state formation in organic dyes for quantum sensing applications Dahal, Prashant; Gabriel, Julia; Poudel, Ritika; Smith, Patrick Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik Station #32: How Fatty Acid Ionic Liquids Alter Enzyme Kinetics Othman, Barry; Singh, Soni; Siri, Luke Faculty Advisor(s): Vaden, Timothy Station #42: Using [3H]-methylspiperone competition binding to discover new treatments for substance use disorders and schizophrenia Delgado, Andres; Lopez, Saveley; Nieves, Elora; Strittmatter, Tess Faculty Advisor(s): Keck, Thomas Station #43: Using [3H]-DTG competition binding to discover novel treatments for pain and opioid use disorders Delgado, Andres; Lopez, Saveley; Nieves, Elora; Strittmatter, Tess Faculty Advisor(s): Keck, Thomas Station #46: Computational Insights into the Quantum Charge Transport Mechanics of Dye-Based Molecular Sensors Hyun, Noah; Poudel, Ritika; Smith, Patrick Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik Station #47: Computational investigation of molecular excited states using TD-DFT and MC-PDFT Dahal, Prashant; Gabriel, Julia; Poudel, Ritika; Smith, Patrick Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik Station #57: Understanding Electron Transport Through Acene-Based Molecular Junctions with Carbon and Metal Electrodes Tran, Thao Faculty Advisor(s): Hoy, Erik Station #59: Interaction of Daptomycin with Model Lipid Membranes Klein, Shannon; Pennock, Samuel; Roberts, Kaitlyn; Salecha, Megha Faculty Advisor(s): Caputo, Gregory Station #60: Accessing Highly Substituted 1,3-Aminoalcohols Scaffolds via Molybdooxaziridine Catalysis Bhlon, Bidhya; Consiglio, Isabella; Wyatt, Adam Faculty Advisor(s): Moura, Gustavo Station #61: Screening Small Molecules Disrupting the SHOC2-MRAS-PP1C Complex McSorley, Shane; Navale, Govinda Faculty Advisor(s): Wang, Zhihong Station #62: Development of an Open-Source Platform for ESI Sample Introduction Beard, Isabel Faculty Advisor(s): Grinias, James Station #64: Effects of Metal Ions and Daptomycin On Microbial Growth and Properties Song, Eugene; Tanious, Joseph Faculty Advisor(s): Caputo, Gregory Station #74: Analysis of PFAS Adsorption on Polymer Coated Nanomaterial using GCMS. Apeadu, Kwame; Bhimani, Nyla; Drayton, Jordon Faculty Advisor(s): Mugweru, Amos Computer Science Station #5: Self-Organized Criticality in Computer Networks Allsopp, Lukas; Ambati, Sushanth; Tenney, Andre; Tranz, Douglas Faculty Advisor(s): Ivanov, Nick Station #6: Feasibility of Digital Identity Brain Wallet with Cue-based Private Key Jablonski, Dylan; Zappone, Harper Faculty Advisor(s): Ivanov, Nick Station #13: Intelligent link management in WiFi 7 MLO Lux, Logan Faculty Advisor(s): Gomes Santos Goncalves, Andre Vinicius Station #36: Enhancing Education and Training Through Immersive AI-Powered MetaHumans Aryal, Anush; Bermudez, John; Jaber, Wesam; Jawanda, Mehakpreet; Tonelli, Evangelia Faculty Advisor(s): Rabbitz, Richard Station #37: Local, Course-Aware Artificial Intelligence Tutoring For CS Education Antony, Swetha; Bracelin, Noah; Cimoch, Gabriel; Dillman, Drew Faculty Advisor(s): Rabbitz, Richard Station #52: Drone AI Robotics: Mobile Charging for Autonomous Agricultural Monitoring Vu, Alexander Faculty Advisor(s): Nguyen, Hieu Station #55: Large language models as world models with verifiable uncertainty Preet, Anmol Faculty Advisor(s): Ho, Shen-Shyang Station #65: Uncertainty Quantification of World Model Yadav, Abhijit Faculty Advisor(s): Ho, Shen-Shyang Data Science Station #3: Autonomous AI for Agriculture: Smart Drones, Robots, and Precision Mapping Latoof, Derrick; Shekhar, Ujjawal; Vu, Alexander Faculty Advisor(s): Lee, Ik; Nguyen, Hieu Station #8: AI-Driven Robotic System for Weed Detection and Precision Spraying Shah, Karan Kumar; Yadav, Bivek Kumar; Yadav, Abhijit Faculty Advisor(s): Nguyen, Thanh Station #14: How AI chatbots see companies: A brand visibility index for optimizing digital marketing strategies in generative AI queries Aisa, Pedro; Brower, Ashley Faculty Advisor(s): Nguyen, Hieu Station #35: How Long Does News Matter? LLM-Estimated Signal Persistence for Daily Stock Prediction Czarnota, Robert Faculty Advisor(s): Thayasivam, Umashanger Environmental Science Station #10: Heavy metal contamination of Absecon Bay in Atlantic City, New Jersey Espin, David; Juliano, Anthony Faculty Advisor(s): Ariyarathna, Thivanka Station #71: Effects of seasonal conditions and weather on avian distribution at the Edelman Fossil Park Kerns, Lorenzo Faculty Advisor(s): Hough, Gerald Geography, Planning, & Sustainability Station #63: Spatial-Temporal Analysis of Healthcare Accessibility and Climate Vulnerability in Southern New Jersey McCutchan, Gabrielle Faculty Advisor(s): He, Qian Geology Station #58: Growing a sense of place: Bioregional terrariums as a public engagement framework for circular ecologies in South Jersey Cortes, Isaiah Faculty Advisor(s): Kitson, Jennifer; Pfeifer-Johnson, Lily Mathematics Station #15: Convergence and performance of derivative-free quasi-Netwon algorithms for minimization of smooth functions Winter, Peyton Faculty Advisor(s): Tran, Dat Physics & Astronomy Station #1: Validating computational techniques on Principal Component Analysis of Martian spectral data Goodman, Michelle; Weslager, Natalie Faculty Advisor(s): Klassen, David Station #22: Python-based interpolation of convolved G-type stellar spectra from SpeX to NSFCAM Ellis, Aidan Faculty Advisor(s): Klassen, David Station #23: Determination of the Limit of Detection of DTNB on SERS Substrates Campbell, Riley; Coggins, Charles Faculty Advisor(s): Chimenti, Robert Station #27: In situ high-temperature x-ray diffraction study of Na-Fe-Mn-Ni Sodium-ion battery cathode materials phillps, sevin; Vivar-Garcia, Osvan Faculty Advisor(s): Scabarozi, Theodore Station #39: Evaluation of accessibility for coatings with correlated pores deposited at varying angles DiSpirito, Steve; Edwards, Tristan-Michael; Hennayakage, Malavika; Kotha, Himani; Westhusin, Joseph Faculty Advisor(s): Hettinger, Jeffrey Station #40: Investigation of copper-ion movement in copper containing titanium nitride DiSpirito, Steve; Edwards, Tristan-Michael; Hennayakage, Malavika; Kotha, Himani; Westhusin, Joseph Faculty Advisor(s): Hettinger, Jeffrey Station #41: Investigation of silver nanoparticle and ion movement in silver containing titanium nitride Bennet, Kleinhans; DiSpirito, Steve; Edwards, Tristan-Michael; Hennayakage, Malavika; Kotha, Himani; Westhusin, Joseph Faculty Advisor(s): Hettinger, Jeffrey; Yu, Lei Station #44: Evaluating the Compatibility of GERQN Versions Through Response Filtering and Time-Based Analysis Celli, James; Godkin, Nicholas; Hansen, Matthew; Moshinsky, Daniel Faculty Advisor(s): Smith, Trevor Station #45: Optimizing GERQlet Testlet Combinations Across Institutions and Time Cutoffs Celli, James; Godkin, Nicholas; Hansen, Matthew; Moshinsky, Daniel Faculty Advisor(s): Smith, Trevor Station #53: Detecting emerging neutral PFAS using thin film gated transistor sensors Walker, Patrick Faculty Advisor(s): Dong, Dongmei Station #54: Longitudinal Study of Carbon Quantum Dot Degradation De Salas, Lilliana; Paramito, Albert Faculty Advisor(s): Whiting, Nicholas Station #56: Preparation and processing of sodium-based cathode precursors for use in coin-cell fabrication phillps, sevin; Vivar-Garcia, Osvan Faculty Advisor(s): Scabarozi, Theodore Station #70: Functional Thin Films for Electrochemical and Quantum Electronic Devices: From Redox Transport to Resonant Tunneling Brendle, Luke Faculty Advisor(s): Dong, Dongmei Station #72: Isotopically Enriched Carbon Quantum Dots for Enhanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies Khalandar, Shabhaz; Soper, Cody Faculty Advisor(s): Whiting, Nicholas Station #73: Development of a probe cleaning station for autonomous experimental studies Mercado, David; Taylor, Landon Faculty Advisor(s): Lofland, Samuel Psychology Station #9: Investigating Adolescents’ Open-Minded Behavior and its Links to Creativity, Curiosity, and Intellectual Humility Estep, Abigail Faculty Advisor(s): Porter, Tenelle Station #17: Learning to Trust the Machine: The Psychological Relationship Forming in Human-AI Language Learning Rakita, Esmerlin Faculty Advisor(s): Heitmayer, Maxi Station #24: The effects of acute stress on pedestrian time to arrival estimation in virtual reality Pereira Copara, Fatima Faculty Advisor(s): Pugliese, Brian Station #48: Learning to eat like grandma: A multi‑level Food is Medicine pilot program for employees and persons served at a federally qualified health center in Camden City, NJ Lanzi, Angelina Faculty Advisor(s): LoBuono, Dara Station #49: Developing and delivering a lunchtime nutrition program for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities in a day‑program setting Lanzi, Angelina; Rowand, Cole Faculty Advisor(s): LoBuono, Dara Station #51: GoldenBytes: A Nutritional Education and eHealth Literacy Program for Community-Dwelling Older Adults Living in Rural New Jersey Pena, Monique Faculty Advisor(s): LoBuono, Dara