Conference Schedule

8:00 – 9:15       Check-In and Continental Breakfast

Adirondack Hall- Northwest Bay Conference Center

9:00 - 9:15        Welcome Address

Dr. Kristine Duffy, President SUNY Adirondack

Adirondack Hall- Northwest Bay Conference Center

9:30 – 10:50     Presentation Session I

Poster Session I: Adirondack Hall- Northwest Bay Conference Center

Oral Session Ia: Bryan Hall- Room 146

Oral Session Ib: Bryan Hall- Room 148

Oral Session Ic: Bryan Hall- Room 151

11:00 – 11:45     Keynote Address - Tod A. Laursen

Senior Vice Chancellor & Provost of the State University of New York

Scoville Hall: Room 206

12:00 – 1:30      Professional Development & Lunch

Student Group A

12:00 – 12:40 Lunch Session A: Northwest Bay Conference Center

12:50 – 1:30 Student Session B1– Workforce Readiness: Dearlove Hall – Miller Auditorium

12:50 – 1:30 Student Session B2– Preparing for Graduate School: Bryan Hall 128

Student Group B

12:00 – 12:40 Student Session A1– Workforce Readiness: Dearlove Hall – Miller Auditorium

12:50 – 1:30 Student Session A2– Preparing for Graduate School: Bryan Hall 128

12:50 – 1:30 Lunch Session B: Northwest Bay Conference Center 12:50 – 1:30

Faculty Lunch and Learning

12:00 – 12:30 Lunch – Adirondack Hall 215

12:30 – 1:30 Dr. David Dai - Research Students: Adirondack Hall 215

1:45 – 2:45        Poster and Oral Presentation Session II

Poster Session II: Adirondack Hall- Northwest Bay Conference Center

Oral Session IIa: Bryan Hall- Room 146

Oral Session IIb: Bryan Hall- Room 148

Oral Session IIc: Bryan Hall- Room 151

3:00 – 4:00       Poster and Oral Presentation Session III

Poster Session III: Adirondack Hall- Northwest Bay Conference Center

Oral Session IIIa: Bryan Hall- Room 146

Oral Session IIIb: Bryan Hall- Room 148

Oral Session IIIc: Bryan Hall- Room 151

4:15 – 5:00        Closing Reception

Dr. Stephen Danna, Dean SUNY Plattsburgh at Queensbury Branch Campus

Adirondack Hall- Northwest Bay Conference Center 

Oral Session Ia

Bryan Hall Room 146

Moderator: Carlisle D’Souza

Wildlife Response to Wildfire at the Altona Flat Rock Pine Barren in Northern NY

Mr. Matthew Adams¹, Mr. Lloyd  Staats¹, Dr. Danielle Garneau¹, Dr. Mark Lesser¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Center for Earth and Environmental Science, Plattsburgh, United States

The Snowball Chamber: A Supercooled Approach to Dark Matter Detection

Mr Joshua Martin¹

¹State Univ Of Ny - Albany, Albany, United States

Inaugurating a US General Data Protection Regulation:

The Last Stand Against Invasive, Omnipresent Government and Corporate Surveillance

Roberto Matamoros¹

¹SUNY Sullivan Honors Program, Loch Sheldrake, US

Cationic Cellulose Nanocrystals: Synthesis, Characterization & Potential Biomedical Application as Vaccine Adjuvants

Ms. Beza Tuga¹, Mr.  Alexander Rabideau¹, Mr. Christopher Smith¹, Ms. Hannah  Despres¹, Dr.  Karina  Ckless¹, Dr.  Rajesh  Sunasee¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

Oral Session Ib

Bryan Hall Room 148

Moderator: Joyce Miller

Decline in Growth and Productivity of Sugar Maples in the Northeastern Adirondacks

Mr Patrick Bly¹

¹Center For Earth And Environmental Science, Plattsburgh, United States

Why Zoos Are Ethical

Ms. Krista Chilson¹

¹Suny Sullivan, Loch Sheldrake,

Multistep Synthesis of Lignin Model Compounds for Isomeric

Hydrolysis Rate Comparison

Ms Sneha Mohan¹, Mr Dexter Criss¹, Ms Devangi Patodiya¹, Mr Napoleon Shand¹, Ms Vanshika Patel¹, Mr Barrett Waling¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

Estimating Deer Populations in Northern Adirondack Forests

Jesse Pruden¹, Danielle Garneau¹, Mark Lesser¹

¹Suny Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh,

Oral Session Ic

Bryan Hall Room 151

Moderator: Naftali Rottenstreich

Effects of Snow Cover on Temperature and Seedling Survival

Helena Mueller¹, Mark Lesser¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

A “Quant” Approach to Predicting Revenue Growth

Maksim Papenkov¹

¹University at Albany, Albany, United States

"Life Stripped of Humanity”: The 1913 Buffalo Department Store Strike as a Case Study of Abused Female Department Store Workers

Mr. Kyle Thaine¹

¹University at Albany, Albany, United States

Poster Session I

1. A Mild and Green Esterification Method of Carboxylated Cellulose Nanocrystals

Ms Hafsa Abid¹, Ms Caitrin Bodmer¹, Mr Michael Keating¹, Dr Rajesh Sunasee¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

1. Reading Rankine's Citizen: Research to Explain the Textual Event

Melissa Astafiev¹, Dylan Anderson¹, Maleia Batts¹, Heather Carmody¹, Emily Hein¹, Hannah Paciocco¹

¹SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury, Warren

2. Public Transportation Needs of SUNY Adirondack Students

Ms Bettina Beiersdorf¹

¹SUNY Adirondack, Queensbury, USA

3. The Jinx: Robert Durst on Trial

Mr. Tyler Bowman¹

¹SUNY Canton, Canton, USA

4. Where and When Do Turtles Cross The Road: The Case Of The NYS Threatened Blanding`S Turtle (Emydoidea Blandingii).

Mr Jase Briggs¹

¹SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, United States

5. Cellulose Nanocrystals as Promising Nanoplatform for the Removal of Toxic Cationic Dye

Mr Richard Chandradat¹, Mr Jeffrey K. Taylor², Dr Alexandre H. Pinto², Dr Rajesh Sunasee¹

¹Suny Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, , ²Ithaca College, Ithaca, USA

6. Daphnia Glyphosate Proteomic Investigation

Ms Kerri Corcoran¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

7. Catalase Expression and Activity in Serratia Marcescens (SM) Grown Under Static and Shaking Conditions

James Faraci¹, Faith Haley¹, Dr. Karina Ckless², Dr. José de Ondarza¹

¹Biology Department, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh , United States, ²Chemistry Department, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

8. Expressionism in the Works

Ms Cassandra Flower¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, United States

9. Eclipses and the Power of Prediction

Brycen Franek¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill,

10. The Effect of Beach Modification on Charadrius melodus Nesting in Cape May County.

Ms Emma Harrison¹

¹SUNY ESF, Syracuse, USA

11. The Effects of Estradiol on Hemoglobin Gene Expression in Daphnia dentifera

Abigail Hearns¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh,

12. Taurine Stimulation? How Does it Work?

Sharif Britt¹, Sophia Hutchens¹

¹Morrisville State College, Morrisville , United States

13. Impact of Endotoxin Contamination On the Immune Response Caused by Cellulose Nanocrystal (Cncs) Derivatives Designed for Potential Vaccine Adjuvants.

Ms Saejuti Kanungo¹, Ms Jennifer Crain¹, Mr Barrett Waling¹, Mr Jason Nguyen¹, Mr Christopher Smith¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

14. IGEN and the Future of Entrepreneurship

Ms. Hannah LaPlante¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

15. Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Illicit Drug Use and Alcohol Consumption in a SUNY Undergraduate Sample

Aubrey  LaRonde¹, Charlene Becker¹, Justin Blanchard¹, Sarah Culver¹, Stacey Fish¹, Veronica Giblin¹, Brad James¹, Loretta Lafferty¹, Francesca (Randy) Parillo¹, Brianne Pepper¹, Taylor Ryerson¹, Kaylin Scott¹, Kimberly Taylor¹, Sarah White¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh Branch Campus, Queensbury, US

16. The Effect of the Proteinase Inhibitor Aprotinin on Planarian Tumorigenesis

Yu-cheng Lin¹

¹SUNY Morrisville, Morrisville, U.S.

17. Exposure and Loss of Environmental Enrichment Mediates Ethanol Consumption in Adolescent Female Rats

Ms Natalie Lipari¹

¹SUNY Cortland, Cortland , United States

18. Investigation of Nonpoint Source Contamination on a Small Residential Lake

Zachary Miller¹

¹SUNY Adirondack, Hudson Falls, United States

19. Meta Spider Species Identification Using CO1 Gene

Ms Rokhiya Ngom¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, USA

20. Comparison of Different Methods of Sterilization On the Cytotoxicity of Cellulose Nanocrystal (Cncs) Derivatives Designed for Biomedical Applications

Mr Jason Nguyen¹, Mr Barrett  Waling¹, Ms  Jennifer  Crain¹, Ms Saejuti  Kanungo¹, Mr Christopher  Smith¹, Dr. Karina  Ckless¹, Dr. Rajesh  Sunasee¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, USA

21. The Migration Route of the Maya People to the Americas

Ms. Milagro Peters¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh,

22. Operational Code Analysis: Assessing Leadership Behavior in International Relations

Ms Hayley Peterson¹

¹University at Albany, Albany, USA

23. Synthesis of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules

Dr. Vijaykumar Ramalingam¹, Ms Maja Bajic¹

¹SUNY Polytechnic Instutite, Utica, USA

24. Feasibility of Affordable and User Friendly Prosthetic Hand

Nathaniel Rose¹, Jena Freese¹, Ryan McCarthy¹, Kenneth Greco¹, Douglas  Armstead¹

¹SUNY Cortland/Physics and Engineering Club, Cortland, United States

25. Investigation of Preparation and Storage Methods on the Antioxidant Content of Fresh and Frozen Berries

Samuel Sears¹

¹SUNY Adirondack, Granville, United States

26. Maternal Depression Effects on Toddler’s Sleep

Ms Peri Sosensky¹

¹SUNY Albany, Albany, United States

27. Serial Killer Typology: A Multi-National Approach to Understanding the World’s Worst Offenders

Jamie Vogt¹

¹SUNY Canton, Canton, United States

28. A Student's Perspective of Program Redesign

Ryan Wright¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, United States

Oral Session IIa

Bryan Hall Room 146

Moderator: Amy Macaluso

Normalizing Sustainable Entrepreneurship

William Ang¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, PLATTSBURGH, United States

Design and Prototyping of Electroporators for Transgenic Mice Production.

Mr Ali Khan¹

¹SUNY Oswego, Oswego, USA

Asian Influence in New Spain: The Biombo as a Representative of Cultural and Artistic Blending

Ms Emily Maicus¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

Oral Session IIb

Bryan Hall Room 148

Moderator: Robert Faivre

"I found myself within a forest dark": La Divina Commedia as a Psychological Odyssey

Freeman Eckles¹

¹SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, United States

Sustainability in the Everyday: Exploring Everyday Practices of Sustainability in Rural India

Taylor Held¹

¹SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, United States

Strategies Best Suited for Working Within a Dual-Processing Model of Cognition

Mr Nicolas Kiroy¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Morrisonville, United States

Oral Session IIc

Bryan Hall Room 151

Moderator: Rajush Sunasee

Influence of Environmental Variation on Epiphytic Bryophyte Assemblages on Acer saccarum Marsh. (Sugar Maple) in Northern and Central New York

Mr  Steven Grunwald¹

¹SUNY ESF, Greenville, United States

Oligomers of MORE: Molecular Organometallic Resists for EUV

Ms. Shaheen Hasan¹

¹SUNY Polytechnic Institute CNSE, Albany, US

Making New Discoveries: Service Dog Teams and Handlers Participating in Science Research Laboratories at Colleges/Universities

Ms Nian Wan¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, USA

Poster Session II

1. The High Impact Practice in Agriculture: Biosecurity

Jennifer Anderson¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, United States

2. “The Story of the Sea-Divided Gaels. One in Name, And One in Fame…”: How Atlantic Newspapers Impacted the Irish

Ms Alanna Belanger¹

¹University at Albany, Albany, USA

3. Stream Water Toxicity Monitoring by Using Immobilized Bioluminescent Bacteria Photobacterium Phosphoreum as a Biosensor

Ms. Samatha Bowker¹, Dr. Kathleen  Gillespie¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, United States

4. Examining the Relationship between Self-Esteem and Social Conformity

Altaira Calen¹, Imani Maitland¹, Barbara Shaffer¹

¹Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, USA

5. Are Highly Religious Individuals Less Intellectual?

Christine Dempsey¹, Samantha Roggio¹, Barbara Shaffer¹

¹Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, United States

6. Examining the Relationship between Food Choice and Perceived Stress

Amanda Dudley¹, Nicole  Ramirez¹, Barbara Shaffer¹

¹Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, United States

7. Genetically Development of Drought-Tolerant Switchgrass Cultivar

by Agrobacterium-mediated Transformation

Ms Xin Fang¹, Ms Zian Wang¹, Mr Mingjie Yang¹, Mr Zitao Zheng¹, Mr Tianran Pan¹, Dr Lynda McMaster-Schuyler¹, Dr Peiyu Zeng¹

¹suny cobleskill, Cobleskill, US

8. Determining Donor’s Age Through Blood Analysis Using ATR FT-IR Spectroscopy

Ms. Samantha Giuliano¹

¹University at Albany, Albany,

9. Physiological Differences in Tuxedo Plumage Variant of Excalfactoria chinensis

Camille Holmes¹

¹SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, USA

10. Exploring Employee Motivation: An Analysis of Work Experiences that Fuel Employee Satisfaction

Robert Kochis

¹Schenectady County Community College, Schenectady, United States

11. Reading the Signs: Conflicting Perceptions of Sexual Consent Among College Students

Emily Lancia¹, Emily Mendelson¹, Kimberly Lenchner¹, Lillian Fok¹

¹Binghamton University/Human Sexualities Lab, ,

12. Improving the Resolution of ATLAS Detector Images

Ms. Chris Li¹

¹University at Albany, Albany, USA

13. Isolation and Genotyping of Dormant Yeast Retrieved from Beer off of the SS Oregon Shipwreck

Sabrina Long¹, Zachary Taylor¹, Nino Gagliardi¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, ,

14. Establishment of Tissue Culture System for Hop Genetic Engineering

Ms Xinya Lu¹, Mr Ruikang Zhang¹, Mr Tianran Pan¹, Mr Kyle Lentz¹, Ms Alexandra Smith¹, Mr Junpeng Xu¹, Mr Zhizhong Yan¹, Ms Peiyu Zeng¹, Ms Lynda McMaster-Schuyler¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, cobleskill, USA

15. Analysis of Ceramics at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence, A Hub of Albany’s Abolitionist Activities in the Mid-1800’s

Daniel Madigan¹

¹Albany/Department of Anthropology, Albany, United States

16. Maria van Rensselaer and the Power of Dutch Widowhood

Ms.  Shannon Mattice¹

¹Suny Potsdam , Potsdam, United States

17. Policy vs Reality: Consent Discrepancies in University Policy and Actual College Hookup Encounters

Emily Mendelson¹

¹Binghamton University, Binghamton,

18. Examining the Phase Transition Between Garnet and Spinel and Assessing its Impact on Seismic Velocities

Ms Sarah Nolan

¹SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, United States

19. Genetically Engineering Stress-Tolerant Switchgrass Cultivars by Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation

Mr Tianran Pan¹, Ms Zian Wang¹, Ms Mingjie Yang¹, Ms Xin Fang¹, Mr Zitao Zheng¹, Ms Lynda Schuyler¹, Ms Peiyu Zeng¹

¹Suny Cobleskill, cobleskill, United State

20. Influence of Cultural Variables on the Performance in the EMBRACED Matrices Task

Ms Erica Ruchlicki¹, Ms Alys Quattrocchi¹, Ms Ebunoluwa  Smith¹, Mr Dante Denardis¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

21. The Relationship between Sport and Exercise Participation and Perceptions of Social Isolation

Anne Schaffer¹, Barbara Shaffer¹

¹Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, United States

22. Human Behavioral Risk of Exposure to the Eastern Blacklegged (Deer) Tick, Ixodes scapularis

Ms Holly Smith¹, Ms Sofia Jordan¹, Mr Daniel Lyford¹, Ms Gabrielle Matolka¹, Mr Ethan Willis¹, Dr Tracy Curtis¹

¹SUNY Broome Community College, Binghamton, United States

23. Beer Recipes: Yeast Identification

Melissa Snare¹

¹SUNY Cobleskill, Cobleskill, United States

24. Comparative Quantification of Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal (PQS) and Outer Membrane Vesicles (OMVs) during PAO1 and PA14 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Development

Maria Carlucci¹, Nadia Mirza¹, Kayla Principe¹, Michelle Terry¹, Antonio Torlentino¹

¹Binghamton University, Binghamton, United States

25. Reconstructing African American Household Activities through Container Glass Analysis at the mid-1800's “Stephen and Harriet Meyers” Archaeological Site in Albany 

Ms. Kathryn Ting¹

¹University at Albany, Albany, USA

26. Development of Drought and Salt Tolerant Switchgrass Cultivar by Over-expressing CodA Gene via Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Method

Mr Mingjie Yang¹, Ms  Xin Fang¹, Ms Zian Wang¹, Mr Tianran Pan¹, Mr Zitiao Zheng¹, Dr. Lynda McMaster-Schuyle¹, Dr. Peiyu Zeng¹

¹SUNY cobleskill, Cobleskill, United state

27. Identification, Sequencing and Modeling of the 16S and 23S Secondary Structure rRNA Gene of Indigenous Microbes from Schenectady

Ms Hafsah  Zorqane¹, Ms Elizabeth Rivera¹

¹SUNY Schenectady County Community College, Schenectady, United State of America

Oral Session IIIa

Bryan Hall Room 146

Moderator: Naftali Rottenstreich

The Effects of Estradiol and Parasitism on Daphnia dentifera.

Shekina Moise¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, USA

An Autoethnographic Response to Death

Mr. James Stamos¹

¹SUNY Oneonta, HICKSVILLE, United States

Oneonta Voices: Investigating Identities through Podcast Media

Ms. Brianna Supensky¹, Ms. Miranda Cagliano¹

¹Oneonta Voices, Oneonta, United States

Oral Session IIIb

Bryan Hall Room 148

Moderator: Tim Scherbatskoy

A Tale of Two Trees: Climate Effects On Growth Trends of Pinus Banksiana and Pinus Rigida at Opposing Range Margins

Linh Le¹, Michael Hurban¹, Mark Lesser¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

The Role of DNA Repair Factors in Regulating mRNA Maturation

Morgan Skidders¹

¹SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, United States

Human Presence and Their Activities Do Not Influence Behavioral Responses in Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina) Under Human Care

Lauren Trifone^1,3, Kevin Woo^1,3, Kristy Biolsi^2,3, Nicole Izzo-McDonald^3,4, Candyce  Paparo

¹SUNY Empire State College, New York, USA, ²St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, USA, ³Center for the Study of Pinniped Ecology & Cognition , Brooklyn Heights, USA, ⁴Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center, Riverhead, USA

Oral Session IIIc

Bryan Hall Room 151

Moderator: Lale Davidson

Design of Cellulose Nanocrystal Based Antibacterial Agents

Mr Yusha Imtiaz¹, Ms Beza Tuga¹, Dr  Rajesh Sunasee¹, Dr Jose  de Ondarza¹

¹SUNY Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, United States

Assessing and Implementing Sustainability Related Policies Using Survey Data: Main findings of the Ecological Footprint Assessment Survey at SUNY Oneonta.

Ms Joanna Sosiewicz¹, Mr Rahul Rastogi¹

¹SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, United States

Effective Silences: A Theme-Analysis of Agrarian Distress and Farmer Suicides in India

Madison Young¹

¹SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, United States