AR Summer 2009 Student Projects

Student Researcher	School	Mentor	Faculty	Department	Project
Nate Charest	Santa Barbara High School	Kai Kristiansen	Jacob Israelachvili	Chemical Engineering Materials	Adhesion and Necking of Polymer/Steel Interface
Anina Cooter	Dos Pueblos High School	Carter De Leo	B.S. Manjunath	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Using Laser Projection to Find Correspondences in a Camera Network
Ellen Feldman	Dos Pueblos High School	Emre Sargin	B.S. Manjunath	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Extraction of Brain Region Interefaces in Structural MRI Images
Cari Hekhuis	San Marcos High School	Brian Ruttenberg	Ambuj Singh	Computer Science	Structural Representation of the Mammalian Retina
Seth Judson	Laguna Blanca School	Alice Nguyen	Armand Kuris	Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology	Host-Specifity of a Local Parasite
Bret Klopfenstein	Ventura High School (Teacher)	Stephen Gosnell	Steve Gaines	Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology	Important of Temperature to the Non-Comsumptive Effects of Predators in Intertidal Communities
Gabe Li	Dos Pueblos High School	Scott Wasko	Herb Waite	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry	Measuring Diffusion and Flux Across a Biological Membrane Capsule
Jordan Maron	Santa Barbara High School	Jamie Neilson	Daniel Morse	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology	Construction of Nanostructured Cobalt Oxide Thin Films
Oriane Matthys	Dos Pueblos High School	Shin Sik Choi	Joel Rothman	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology	RNAi-based Screening to Find Genes Involved in the Transport of Nanoparticles in the Nematode C. elegans
Lucas Oswald	Santa Barbara High School	Erin Calkins	Luc Jeager	Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry	Characterization of a Tetraloop-Binding Receptor
Azucena Perez	Dos Pueblos High School	Juliana Bernal Ostos	Galen Stucky	Materials Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry	Mimicking Sacrifical Bonds and Hidden Lengths
Missy Robertson	San Marcos High School	Hongbo Zeng	Jacob Israelachvili	Chemical Engineering	Preparation of Polymer Nano-films and Characterization of its Surface Properties
Nicole Schauser	Dos Pueblos High School	Juliana Bernal Ostos	Galen Stucky	Materials Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry	Mimicking Graded Properties in Cellular Materials
Rashi Singh	Dos Pueblos High School	Amanda Trent	Matthew Tirrell	Chemical Engineering Materials	Designing Peptide Amphiphiles to Facilitate Drug Delivery Through Endosomal Escape
Makeda Tekle-Smith	Santa Barbara High School	Rose Theisen	Alison Butler	Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry	Isolation and Characterization of Siderophores from Marine Bacteria
Emilia Wakamatsu	San Marcos High School	Shin Sik Choi	Joel Rothman	Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology	Identification of Toxicity of Nano-Size Fullerene (C60) Particles in Nematode C. Elegans
Matthew Welsh	San Marcos High School	Moriah Sandy	Alison Butler	Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry	Reactivity of Vanadium Bromoperoxidase
Natalie Williams	San Marcos High School	Swapna Joshi	B.S. Manjunath	Electrical and Computer Engineering	Psychopathic Brain MRI Image Processing and Analysis