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2004 Southern California Regional
Junior Science & Humaities Symposium Papers

The following were selected for presentation from 83 papers submitted for the competition.
Name Paper
Christopher Woo
St. Monica Catholic HS
Santa Monica
"The Amount of Signs Shown While Lying Verbally and in Written Form"
Maham Ahmad
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Identifying Neural Regions Responsible for Lifespan in Drosphila Melanogaster"
Angela Guo
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Effects of Estrogen on Galanin Innveration in the Basal Forebrain of the Rat"
Jasmin Hu
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"The Distribution and Binding Partners of Kinesin II in Rabbut Lacrimal Acini"
Kelly Kawashiri
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Competence of Escherichia Coli in the Transformation of Plasmid PBR322"
April Stephenson
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Xylem analysis and comparison of chaparral shrubs C. leucodermis, R. californica, and R. ilicifolia between
Santa Monica and San Bernardino mountain ranges"
Genevieve Williams
Redondo Union HS
Redondo Beach
"Food Preferences and Foraging Behavior of Argentine Ants"
Lauren Baize
La Reina HS
Thousand Oaks
"Can You "Catch" A Cavity? A Study of the Effect of Saliva pH and Oral Streptococcus mutans Levels on the
Development of Cavities"Risha R. Bera, Centennial HS, Corona; Engineering
Amreeta Gill
Troy HS
Fullerton
"A Structural Genomic Approach to Mycobacterial Drug Design Targeting Replicative Synthesis: Structure and
Function of dnaQ"
Richard Hsu
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Investigating A Novel Lifespan Gene In Drosophila Melanogaster"
Kimberly Kwong
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Correlation Between Levels of GCLC in Normal Liver and Liver Affected with Alcoholic Liver Disease"
Anna Lam
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Activities Characteristics of Drosophila Longevity Mutants 1101, 1130, and 2456"
Anum Sheikh
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Accessing the Effects of Sleep Deprivation in a Long Lived Drosophila Melanogaster Line"
Connie Tat
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Detecting Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Exon 1 of the HOXA10 Gene in Cryporchid Patients"
Priyanka Narayan
Westridge School
Pasadena
"The Effect of Non-Natural Amino Acid Incorporation on the Cleavage of Murine Dihydrofolate Reductase by Chymotrypsin"
Jennifer Dong
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Photo-oxidation of Cobalt-Bound Thiolato Ligands"
Henry Fong
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Singlet Oxygen Production by Square Planar Platinum(II) Complexes"
Allen Tran
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Quantum Yield Studies of Singlet Oxygen Production by Bis-cyclometalated Ir(III) Complexes"
Alison Wong
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Computer Simulation of Holliday Junction in Salt Solution (NaCl) "
Derek Yee
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Analysis of El Nino Event"
Risha R. Bera
Centennial HS
Corona
"A Comparison of Traffic Resulting in a Reduction in Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Emissions on the 91
Westbound"
Kowsigan Majuran
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Drought Tolerance Analysis of Family Rhamancea in Southern California Chaparral"
Laura Chanan
Tarbut V'Torah HS
Irvine
"Efficient Algorithm for Solving the Combinatorial Coin Problem"
Julie Finkelstein
Marlborough School
Los Angeles
"On the Price of Anarchy in Network Creation Games"
Connie Leung
Verdes Peninsula HS
Rolling Hills Estates
"A Robust Web-based Face Recognition System Based on Gabor Wavelets Matching"
Anson Wong
Temple City HS
Temple City
"Resource Allocation with Hybrid Dispatching Heuristics"
Tony Wu
University HS
Irvine
"Building A Category Oriented Search Engine Based On Analysis of Semantically Dervived Hierachy"
Serena Ann Lee
Alhambra HS, Alhambra
"Analysis of Ferritin Expression in Various Cell Lines with Flow Cytometry"
Sarah T. Silverstein
Patrick Henry HS
San Diego
"Temporomandibular Joint Health Related to Posture"
Stephanie Tse
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Detection of 410bp Region of the Methionine Synthase Reductase (MTRR) Promotor Region in Patients with Colorectal Adenomas"
Jana Yokoyama
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma (PPARr1) In Liopolysaccharide (LPS) - Induced
Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNFa) Release in Rat Hepatic Macrophages"
Robin Zhou
Alhambra HS
Alhambra
"Hippocampal mRNA Expression of BDNF 5' Exon in Aged Sprague-Dawley Rats"