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2004 Southern California Regional
Junior Science & Humaities Symposium Winners

1st
Place
Priyanka Narayan
Westridge School
Pasadena
Bioengineering/Protein Engineering
"The Effect of Non-Natural Amino Acid Incorporation on the Cleavage of Murine Dihydrofolate Reductase by Chymotrypsin"
2nd
Place
Amreeta Gill
Troy High School
Fullerton
Biochemistry/Microbiology
"A Structural Genomic Approach to Mycobacterial Drug Design Targeting Replicative Synthesis:Structure and Function of dnaQ"
3rd
Place
Julie Finkelstein
Marlborough School
Los Angeles
Mathematics and Computer Science
"On the Price of Anarchy in Network Creation Games"

1st
Runner-up
Connie Leung
Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
Mathematics and Computer Science
"A Robust Web-based Face Recognition System Based on Gabor Wavelets Matching"
2nd
Runner-up
Jana Yokoyama
Alhambra High School
Alhambra
Medicine and Health
"Role of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma (PPARr1) In Liopolysaccharide (LPS) - Induced Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNFa) Release in Rat Hepatic Macrophages"

1st
Alternate
Connie Tat
Alhambra High School
Alhambra
Biochemistry/Microbiology
"Detecting Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Exon 1 of the HOXA10 Gene in Cryporchid Patients"
2nd
Alternate
Laura Chanan
Tarbut V'Torah High School
Irvine
Mathematics and Computer Science
"Efficient Algorithm for Solving the Combinatorial Coin Problem"