3/15/13 - NCSAS winners

Congratulations to the winners of the NC Student Academy of Science state competition. The First Place winners in each category are invited to the AAAS 2014 Annual Meeting in Chicago http://www.aaas.org/meetings/. Second Place winners are invited to present posters at the NC Academy of Science Annual Meeting April 6th http://www.ncacadsci.org/NCAS/NCAS.html

Biological Science

1st Place - Ian Maynor - Effects of pre-sowing magnetic treatments on seed protein content and imbibition.

3rd Place - Nathaniel Putnam - Speed of sinistral Physa snails in high and low resource-density environments.

Biological Science Advanced

1st Place - Will Ge - Differential sequestration of TLR agonists: a novel mechanism by which apoE insoform regulates immunoresponse in humans.

1st Place - Kanan Shah - Genetic analysis of developental genes involved in the Ras-ERK signaling pathway i cancer using RNA interference techniques.

2nd Place - Tejas Sundaresan - Common targeting o fEpstein-Barr virus microRNA BART1-3p and human microRNA miR-29a: Impolications in EBV-linked lymphoma.

3rd Place - Christopher Yuan - Phenological phases, sap flux, and transpiration in urban Quercus alba

3rd Place - Elizabeth Tsui - The effect of substrate density on the rate of migratin of NIH-3T3 fibroblasts.

Chemistry Advanced

1st Place - Landon Carter - Design and synthesis of novel tetrphenylporphyrin-based metal-organic frameworks for photodynamic therapy and drug delivery.

1st Place - Saurin Kantesaria - A novel design of electrode surface morphology to improve water electrolysis efficiency.

3rd Place - Margaret Pan, Shraddha Rathod, Vany Nguyen - The optimization of dye-sensitized solar cell efficiency through analysis of anthocyanin and chlorophyll-based dyes.

Engineering and Technology Advanced

1st Place - Kavirath Jain, Maxwell Tucker, Christopher Zhen - The impact of early transition metal-based catalysts on the perfromance of I-/I3-redox couples in dye-sensitized solar cells.

2nd Place - Jaehyeong Lee - A novel design of electrode surface morphology to imporve water electrolysis efficiency.

3rd Place - Parth Thakker - The synthesis and analysis of novel Fe2O3 and sulfur catalyzed propellants within reloadable rocket motors.

Environmental Science Advanced

1st Place - Christie Jiang - Chitosan-modified cellulose as adsorbent to collect and reuse nitrate from groundwater.

Physics Advanced

1st Place - Halston LIm, Jason Liang - Detectability of neutrinos from failed supernovae and black hole-neutron star mergers.

2nd Place - Anna Dubovitskaya - In2Se3 nanowire growth and physical characterizatoin for photovoltaic use

3rd Place - Chris Panuski - Evaluation of polyvinyl-alchohol as an effective shielding mechanism against ionizing radiation induced degradation in COTS microcontroller.

Physics

2nd Place - Harish Pukukodu - Generation of electricity from the wind draft of cars.