Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference

Am I Being Watched? The Hawthorne Effect Modulates Neural Responses in a Sequential Learning Task

Peyton Olivia Raley, Georgia State University
Ashley Lauterbach, Georgia State University
Joanne Deocampo, Georgia State University

Poster #96A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Attention Profiles of a Good Uber Driver?

Mikayla Rogers, Georgia State University
Melany Williams Love, Georgia State University
J. Antonio Salamanca, Georgia State University
Dr. David Washburn, Georgia State University

Poster #82A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Clothed Circuits

Braxton F. McLean, Georgia State University

Poster #39A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Comparing Methods of Measuring Chaos in the Symbolic Dynamics of Strange Attractors

James J. Scully, Georgia State University

Poster #51A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Correlation of BIS BAS and PSWQ Measures

Ahlam Awaid, Georgia State University
Alexis Breed, Georgia State University
Darryl Burnet, Georgia State University
Matthew Turner, Georgia State University

Poster #85A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Determining coercion: A qualitative study of online reactions to sexual assault

Yamini Patel

Poster #94A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Do microglia play an active role in developmental neuronal cell death?

Andrew Jacobs

Poster #64A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Does ingestion activate hippocampal proteins associated with synaptic plasticity?

Nicolette Barnett

Poster #56A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Does optogenetic inhibition of hippocampal neurons influence intake of a noncaloric sweetener?

Janavi Ramesh
Reilly C. Hannapel
Marise B. Parent

Poster #53A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

EEG Studies of Simple Problem Solving

Matthew Copello

Poster #92A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Effects of the Na/K pump on dynamics in Pre-Bötzinger Complex neurons

Alex M. Vargas, Georgia State University

Poster #61A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Evaluation of the Volume of Emails Received by a Student in a Semester

Daniel Croshaw

Poster #43A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Go If You Know: Using Actions to Test for Metacognitive Uncertainty

Samarah Kenol, Georgia State University
Carmen Shaw, Georgia State University

Poster #84A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Greek Organizations use of Social Media for Health Promotion

Zaria Blake
Pa Kou Vue

Poster #70A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

How Toddlers with and without Autism Share Music with their Parents

Dominique L. La Barrie, Georgia State University
Lauren B. Adamson, Georgia State University
Roger Bakeman, Georgia State University
Katharine Suma

Poster #83A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Identification of yeast deletions strains that alter the efficacy of antifungal drugs

Eudoxie Bataba

Poster #9A

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Implications of sexual scripts on people’s perception of sexual assault

Iman Bogoreh, Georgia State University
Marissa Evans, Georgia State University
Samantha Sabin, Georgia State University

Poster #95A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Inhibition of Preadipocyte Differentiation by Geranylgeraniol

Sophie T. Yount, Georgia State University

Poster #71A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Let's Do It Again!: The Role of Task Repetition in Foreign Language Pedagogy

SoYoung Park

Poster #8A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

"Make a Party" or "Make a Decision": The Role of Formulaic Sequences in the Second Language Acquisition of English Verbs

Kristina Michelle Sherrill, Georgia State University
Olivia Kate Higgins, Georgia State University
James Robert Garner, Georgia State University
Ute Roemer, Georgia State University

Poster #7A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Measuring self-directed behaviors in capuchin monkeys

Cindy F. Loarca

Poster #98A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Minimum inhibitory concentration of essential oils on Candida fungus

Geoffrey Elliot Lester, Glester4@student.gsu.edu

Poster #13A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Nucleus accumbens activation in reinstatement of heroin-seeking after adolescent vs. adult onset of heroin intake

Brett Daniel

Poster #62A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Overcoming Alterity, Establishing Empathy: The Function of Free Indirect Discourse in Jane Austen's Persuasion

David Revzin, Georgia State University

Poster #45A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Rate of Cortisol Decay in Convict Cichlids: “Water Hormone Collection Baseline and Effect of Sex & Subspecies on Rate”

Aric Gonter
Omolola Olaleye, Georgia State University
Adil F. Chaudhary, Georgia State University
Ryan Alevy, Georgia State University
Cheyenne J. Rodriguez, Georgia State University

Poster #11A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Regulation of Brown Adipocyte Gene Expression by the Histone 3 Lysine 4 Demethylase KDM1B

Vy P. Tran, Georgia State University

Poster #10A

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Relation Between EEG Measure of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Anger Regulation

alexis Breed, Georgia State University
Dominic J. Parrott, Georgia State University
Matthew Turner, Georgia State University
Matthew Copello
Darryl Burnet

Poster #97A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

“She asked for it” The support for and normalization of sexual assault against women

Naimah Daniels, Georgia State University
Julie Nguyen, Georgia State University
Wojciech Kaczkowski, Georgia State University
Kevin Swartout, Georgia State University

Poster #93A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Smart Signalling for Bicycles using User Riding Behavior

Nishant Tushar Sinha

Poster #40A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

The Best A Man Can Expect: UB2 What Men Seeking Men in Atlanta Expect from Each Other

Justin L. Fredericksen 3863222, student

Poster #5A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

The Effects of Punishment on Uncertainty Avoidance

Faith Dominie
Saima Aziz

Poster #37A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

The Learning of Adjacent and Nonadjacent Dependencies in Visuo-Spatial and Visuo-Verbal Sequencing Tasks

Gerardo E. Valdez, Georgia State University Department of Psychology

Poster #86A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

The PP2A serine/threonine phosphatase complex functions in regulating dendritic diversification

Uy Nguyen, Georgia State University
Shatabdi Bhattacharjee, Georgia State University

Poster #54A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

The Pretty Problem: A Look at The Presence and Effects of Attractiveness Bias

Jasmine Dearman

Poster #113A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

The Role of Age and Gender in Caudate Nucleus Volume Change

Avery Henning

Poster #99A

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Role of Strategic Attorney Behavior in the Increase in Federal Wage and Hour Litigation

Rwanda Smith
Sunmi Hirata
Monica Shen

Poster #112A

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

The Validity of a Holistic Scoring Rubric for Short Constructed Responses

Joanne Wu, Georgia State University

Poster #6A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Understanding Human Perception of Emotional intensity within Human-Robot Interactions

Tobi A. Ogunyale, Georgia State University
Ayanna Howard Dr., Georgia Institute of Technology

Poster #41A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Using Evidence-Based Practice to prevent the Incidence of Deep Vein Thrombosis in Postoperative Patients

Robbi Grier

Poster #69A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Using Imputation as a Method of Improving Genetic Data Analysis

Kimberly Diaz Perez

Poster #81A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Validating CRISPR Targets in B16 Mouse Melanoma Cells

Antoinette Charles

Poster #63A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Vital Sign Detection Hardware

Brian Cabigon Soliber

Poster #38A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

What topics achieve the greatest impact? Group Mentoring in Project Arrive: Topic Application and its Relationship to Student Resiliency

Nicole Guillen, Georgia State University
Renita Moore, Georgia State University

Poster #80A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Will Amtitlaniaa nigrofasciatum and Amtitlaniaa siquia Cortisol Levels Habituate to Stressor

Likhita Raparti, Georgia State University
NaKiera Evans, Georgia State University
Julia Cartwright, Georgia State University
Kimberli Madera, Georgia State University
Trisha Grewal, Georgia State University

Poster #12A

9:00 AM - 9:59 AM

Attention Bias as a Predictor of Depression in Early Childhood

Kyrsten A. Buote, Georgia State University

Poster #76B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Barriers to Housing Equality for the LGBT Community: A Literature Review

Carissa Lavin

Poster #106B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Behavioral Ecology: Cichlid in Lakes and Streams of Costa Rica Abstract

Trinh Dang, Georgia State University
Victoria Maclean-Jones, Georgia State University
Meghan Leigh Maxfield, Georgia State University
Kayla McGee, Georgia State University

Poster #22B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Brown Lung Induration: A Case Report of Pulmonary Hemosiderosis

Kenya Rodgers

Poster #108B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Characterization of Active Site Residues in Class I Nitronate Monooxygenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Christopher Aguillon

Poster #25B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Characterization of α-anomeric Damaged DNA in Complex with Endonuclease IV using Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)

Beatrice Edjah

Poster #30B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Chimpanzees’ and capuchin monkeys’ responses to inequity in a group setting

Eric Le, Georgia State University
Caleb G. Truscott, Georgia State University
Julia Watzek, Georgia State University
Mattea S. Rossettie, Georgia State University
Kelly L. Leverett, Georgia State University
Katie Hall, Chicago Zoological Society

Poster #100B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Cichlid Behavioral Ecology: Streams of Costa Rica

Ali Saheb, GSU
Erfan Ranjbar, GSU
Shannon Dieffenderfer, GUS
yazmeen Almutairri, GSU
nicole williams-ugula, GSU
Ella Brook Gray, GSU
Adel Pereira

Poster #16B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Clinical Manifestation of Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Superimposed on Invasive Aspergillosis

Marquita F. Thomas

Poster #107B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Correlated Cingulate and Insula Response during Negative Interpersonal Feedback in Socially Anxious Adults

Kendrick King

Poster #105B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Daphnia magna as a Model to Study the Obesogenic Effects of Environmental Pollutants: Development of Assays to Assess Changes in Lipid Production

Allison Georgescu
Roberta Attanasio
Asia Bright

Poster #19B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Detection of Carbapenemase Producing Organisms

Levy Mahoro

Poster #29B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Distancing Metacognitive and Perceptual Responses: Does Separation Improve Judgement

Brooke Jackson

Poster #77B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Do parents provide greater nonverbal support to their daughters than to their sons with their gestures?

Kadija Hamki
Seyda Özçalışkan, Georgia State University
Stephanie Baumann, Georgia State University

Poster #79B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Does emotional valence of personal events influence their recall in typical development and autism?

Sade A. Boyd-Johnson, Student

Poster #104B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Domain-General and Domain-Specific Brain Regions Involved in Statistical-Sequential Learning

Phillip Loan

Poster #89B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Effects of Dietary Emulsifiers on Vasopressin and Oxytocin in Mice

Krishna Mehta

Poster #68B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Effects of Environmental Factors on the Distribution of Coenobita clypeatus on St. John

Brandon Martinez

Poster #20B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Effects of systemic administration of 8-OH-DPAT on agonistic social behaviors in male Syrian hamsters

Corey Andrews

Poster #66B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Effects of the microbiota on early brain development

Lamiyah F. Mussaji, Neuroscience

Poster #57B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Enymatic function of D- Arginine Dehydrogenase

Nicholas Jones

Poster #24B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Functional Connectivity of the Supplementary Motor Area and the Caudate Nucleus in Prodromal Huntington’s Disease

Elizabeth Fall

Poster #72B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Gender specific associations among sexual sadism, narcissism, and sensation seeking

Sumer Coile

Poster #75B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Gluconeogenesis in C.fasciculata: Aspartate Aminotransferase proteins as parasitic resilience

Maurlia Upchurch

Poster #21B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Hormone response to isolation vs dynamic social environments in convict cichlids

Cayleigh Alhadeff, Georgia State University
Yale Davis, Georgia State University
Behafarin Arbasi, Georgia State University
Diana Castillo-Oritz, Georgia State University
Trisha Mccutchen, Georgia State University
Huyen Nguyen, Georgia State University

Poster #14B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Hydration Site of Cyclophilin A and its Allosteric Effects on the Enzyme's Function

Abdullah Shouaib
Jonathan Lopez, Georgia State University

Poster #28B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Identification of Mitochondrial Proteins in Crithidia fasciculate Implicating Fatty Acid Synthesis and Cellular Respiration

Vidya Chenji, Georgia State University

Poster #15B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Impact of Early Life Pain on Microglia Expression and Activation in the Periaqueductal Gray of Adult Male and Female Rats

Lauren Hanus

Poster #59B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Incorporating unnatural amino acid ThzLys/CysLys into ubiquitin via engineered pyrrolysine tRNA/pyrrolysine tRNA synthetase pair

Stacey K. Jones Jr, Georgia State University

Poster #27B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Is Cognitive Fatigue a symptom of Mitochondrial Dysfunction?

Madeline F. Oppenheim, Georgia State University

Poster #91B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Is Perceptual Learning Caused by Attentional Spotlighting or Representational Change?

Alexandria Nichole Williams, Georgia State University Department of Psychology
Gerardo Ernesto Valdez, Georgia State University Department of Psychology

Poster #87B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Key Barriers in providing care for children with Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder(ADHD): Healthcare Provider Views

Mary Onyinyechukwu Egbunike, Georgia State University

Poster #46B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Ludwig's Angina

Tanisha M. Stephens, Georgia State University

Poster #110B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Memory Strategies Explain Racial Differences in List Recall Performance

Tanya Panwala
Michelle Fox, Georgia State University

Poster #103B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Mental Illness Driven Amphetamine Overdose

Kierstin Siaca

Poster #109B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Military Death and Burial Rituals

Maurice Ynclan

Poster #2B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

: Modelling a Central Pattern Generator Controlling Paw-Shaking and Locomotion in Cats

Rashid Khwaja
Jessica Parker

Poster #65B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Neural Circuits for Source Memory and Imagination

Amber C. Grant, Georgia State University
Darryl Burnet, Georgia State University

Poster #78B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Novel Isotopic Labeling Strategy for Nucleic Acids: Less is More

sarah v. nguyen, Georgia State University

Poster #34B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Opossum Plants and Pichia, OPP, You down with OPP?

Holly M. Bowman
Cara Jones, Georgia State University
Julia Ngo, Georgia State University
Saleh Alhassan, Georgia State University
Grace Sado, Georgia State University
Tatenda Tracey Tela, Georgia State University

Poster #17B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Psychophysiological Correlates of Uncertainty and its Response

Marissa M. Evans, Georgia State University
Jorge Antonio Salamanca, Georgia State University
Megan M. Capodanno, Georgia State University

Poster #88B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Relapse: The Inability to Unlearn

Cassandra Alvarez, Georgia State University
Arya Kishor, Georgia State University
Jeanette Valleau, Georgia State University
Barbara Church, Georgia State University
J. David Smith, Georgia State University

Poster #90B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Cerebellar Lobules in Schizophrenia

Mia Martini

Poster #101B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Saving Lives Saving Life: Incorporation of Sustainability in Healthcare

Yelenny Argueta

Poster #36B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

SEDIMENTARY PYRITE MORPHOLOGY AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR AND EFFECTS ON OXIDATION RATES: NORTHERN AWASH VALLEY, ETHIOPIA

Saira Hamid, Georgia State University
David Davis, Georgia State University
Daniel Deocampo Ph.D, Georgia State University
Christopher Campisano, Arizona State University
Andy Cohen, University of Arizona

Poster #47B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Sorption of Radiocesium onto Weathered Micaceous Minerals

Dominique S. Moses, Georgia State University

Poster #48B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Structural Studies on HIV-1 Protease to Investigate Correlation Between Conformational Dynamics and Drug-Resistance

Rowan Brothers

Poster #31B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Student Perceptions of a Project-Based Laboratory Environment

Montana Nowak
Nikita Burrows, Georgia State University
Suazette Mooring, Georgia State University

Poster #35B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Sustainability in the Curriculum: Global Warming

Lori Dickey

Poster #26B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Synthesis of 1-phenyl-3,5-diaryl-4-bromopyrazoles, 1-phenyl-3-t-butyl-5-aryl-4-bromopyrazoles, and 1-phenyl-3-t-butyl-5-aryl-4-bromoisoxazoles.

Keren Antoine
Anne K. Jean, Georgia State University
Roseleen Almenord, Georgia State University
Sierra A. Fleming, Georgia State University
Titilope Akinwe, Georgia State University
Paula Garzon, Georgia State University
Julio C. Falcon, Georgia State University

Poster #32B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Synthesis of Cyanine Dyes and Their Use as Duplex DNA PhotoCleavage Agents

Hector Argueta-Gonzalez

Poster #23B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Temporal Structure in an Auditory Sequential Learning Paradigm

Tamika L. Crane, Georgia State University

Poster #74B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

The After Effects of the Olympics in Atlanta and Rio de Janiero

Sherlyn Avalos

Poster #4B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

The Map of Innervations of the Superficial Flexor Muscles in Abdomen of Procambarus clarkii

Khashayar Rahsepar

Poster #60B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Typology and Analysis of Ceramic Vessels and Pottery Shards found at the Long Swamp site: Lamar and Mary Folwer Holcomb Collection

Maxwell Mackenzie

Poster #3B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Utilizing biotinylated ubiquitin to identify brain-specific Nedd4 substrates

Bailey Cottrill

Poster #58B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Variations of Age of Suture Closure between Males and Females

Martin Bach

Poster #1B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

Ventral pallidum activation during reinstatement of heroin seeking after adolescent- versus adult-onset of heroin self-administration

Jillian Dawson, Georgia State University

Poster #67B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

What’s the point? Unexpected participant responses in a value-directed prospective memory task

Chelsi Battle, Student

Poster #73B

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM