The Sixteenth Annual Student Research Symposium
in Memory of Professor Stephan Berko
Monday, May 14, 2007, 9:00am-1:00pm
9:00-9:14 Refreshments
9:14-10:38 Welcome, and Session 1: Moderator – Bob Meyer
Samuel Rauhala* “D. Discoideum: The Not-So-Black Box”
Michael DeSantis* “Probing the Not-So-Black Box Using a Homemade Flow Chamber”
Ilya Okunov* “Genetically engineering yeast reveals the secrets of the DNA repair”
Jennifer Makridakis* “Quantifying dynamics of the DNA repair in single cells”
Avijit Bakshi “Behavior and Biomechanics of Human Standing Posture in a
Novel Force Field”
Hyun Jae Pi “The Synapse as a Multistable System”
10:38-10:53 Coffee Break and video of Professor Berko lecturing to
high school students
10:53-12:05 Session 2: Moderator – Craig Blocker
Ercan Kamber “Viral Assembly in a Box”
Fei (Phil) Huang “A Tale of Hairy Beads”
Dimitar Pachov “Conformational Transitions and Pressures - An Enzyme Subject to Experiments
and Simulations”
Eric Kuo* "Determining the Velocity Dependence of the Magnus Force on a
Baseball"
Jonathan Mizrahi* “A Model for the Magnetic Field in the Jet of the Quasar 3C 273”
Daniel Pomeroy “The Life Of Dan In Switzerfrance: With Side-notes on CERN, LHC,
ATLAS, SM, and other Silly Acronyms”
12:05-1:00 The Berko Awards, presented by Bulbul Chakraborty