International Scholar Research Exposition · de C.V. Research Discovery of organic repellents and...

2016 International

Scholar Research Exposition

11th Annual International Scholar Research Exposition

Opening ReceptionBricker Hall

November 18, 20164 – 5:30 p.m.

Welcome and Remarks

Gifty Ako-AdounvoAssistant Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International AffairsThe Ohio State University

Caroline WhitacreVice President for ResearchThe Ohio State University

Michael V. Drake, MDPresidentThe Ohio State University

Presentation of Certificates

Carina HansenDirector, International Students and ScholarsOffice of International Affairs

Group Photo

International Scholar Research Exposition

Edna Alfaro

BackgroundBS, Food Sciences, Escuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano, Honduras; Contralor de Procesos in La Salud, Cooperativa Ganadera de Sonsonate de R. L. de C.V.

ResearchDiscovery of organic repellents and insecticides against the mosquito vector of Zika virus (Aedes aegypti)

Home CountryEl Salvador

DepartmentEntomology

Faculty MentorPeter Piermarini

Lourdes Delta Arrueta

Home CountryBolivia

DepartmentHorticulture and Crop Science

Faculty MentorDouglas Doohan

BackgroundEscuela Agricola Panamericana, Zamorano, Honduras – Environmental and Socioeconomic Development Engineering

ResearchThe effect of Bordeaux mixture on soybean (Glycine max) injury due to simulated glyphosate drift

Gulnar Bayramoglu Barman

Home CountryTurkey

DepartmentCity and Regional Planning

Faculty MentorGulsah Akar

BackgroundBArch, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey;MSc, Urban Design, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

ResearchAnalysis and Design Tool for Planners to Achieve Sustainable Transportation Outcomes

Home CountryEgypt

DepartmentMedicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy

Faculty MentorChing-Shih Chen

BackgroundBS, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt;MS, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

ResearchHDAC1, a new role and a promising target for antifibrotic therapies

Randa Mamdouh Breikaa


Mauricio Bustamante

Home CountryPeru

DepartmentCenter for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics; Physics; Astronomy

Faculty MentorJohn Beacom

BackgroundPhD, Physics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; MSc, Physics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru; BSc, Physics, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima, Peru

ResearchSearching for new physics in the flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos

Hardy Zingalaoa Castada

Home CountryPhilippines

DepartmentFood Science and Technology; Animal Sciences

Faculty MentorMacdonald Wick and Sheryl Barringer

BackgroundPhD, Food Science & Technology, The Ohio State University;MS, Chemistry, The Ohio State University; BS, Chemistry, University of the Philippines – Diliman

ResearchCharacterization of Lamb Flavor using Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS)

Surinder Singh Chauhan

Home CountryIndia

DepartmentAnimal Science

Faculty MentorEric England

BackgroundPhD, Animal Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia; MVSC, Veterinary Physiology, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, India;BVSC and AH, CSK Himachal Pradesh Agriculture University, Palampur, India

ResearchElucidating the biochemical regulation during the transformation of muscle to meat

Home CountryUkraine

DepartmentSoil, Water and Bioenergy Resources

Faculty MentorRafiq Islam

BackgroundPhD, Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation, Kyiv, Ukraine; Scientific Researcher, Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation, Kyiv, Ukraine.

ResearchTransferring Science-based Knowledge to Adopt Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices in Ukraine

Nataliia Didenko


Laila Magid Salaheldin Farid

Home CountryEgypt

DepartmentOphthalmology

Faculty MentorMohamed H. Abdel-Rahman

BackgroundMBBCh, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; MSc, Pathology Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Assistant Lecturer, Pathology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

ResearchGenetic alterations in commonly utilized hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines: evidence of bias toward HBV background

Katherine Rose Hargreaves

BackgroundPhD, Microbiology, University of Leicester, Leicester, England; BSc, Biological Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, England

ResearchDiversity and strain ecology of Clostridium difficile prophages

Home CountryUnited Kingdom

DepartmentMicrobiology; Civil, Environmental andGeodetic Engineering

Faculty MentorMatthew Sullivan

Zixun Hua

BackgroundMS, Educational Technology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China; PhD student, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

ResearchImproving teachers’ Information Communication Technology (ICT) pedagogical practices by infusing gesture-based technology (GBT) into classroom teaching

Home CountryChina

DepartmentTeaching and Learning

Faculty MentorLin Ding

Bashirah Ibrahim

Home CountryRepublic of Mauritius

DepartmentTeaching and Learning

Faculty MentorLin Ding

BackgroundPhD and MSc, Physics Education, University of Cape Town, South Africa; BSc(Hons), Physics & BSc, Physics and Chemistry, University of Natal, South Africa.

ResearchScientific Reasoning – A Necessary Skill for Effective Scientific Practice


Xinmei Jiang

BackgroundMaster of Literature, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China; PhD student at Minzu University of China, Beijing, China

ResearchMongolian Language Teaching with Elementary and Secondary Education Institutes of Xinjiang

Home CountryChina

DepartmentLinguistics

Faculty MentorBrian D. Joseph

Keisuke Konno

Home CountryJapan

DepartmentElectroScience Lab

Faculty MentorRobert J. Burkholder

BackgroundPhD, Electrical and Communications Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Assistant Professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

ResearchNovel Numerical Analysis Method for Large-Scale Periodic Antenna Arrays

Kathrin Krause

Home CountryGermany

DepartmentMicrobial Infection and Immunity

Faculty MentorAmal O. Amer

BackgroundDiploma, Human Biology, University of Greifswald, Germany; PhD, Medical Microbiology, University of Greifswald, Germany ResearchCaspase-11 promotes autophagy during bacterial infection

Sarah Claire Laborde

Home CountryFrance

DepartmentAnthropology

Faculty MentorMark Moritz

BackgroundPhD, Anthropology and Environmental Engineering, University of Western Australia, Australia; Diplome d’Ingenieur, BEng, MEng, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Geologie, France

ResearchStudying interactions between human and natural processes in the Logone Floodplain of Cameroon


Jayanta Layek

Home CountryIndia

DepartmentFood, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences

Faculty MentorRattan Lal

BackgroundPhD, Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India

ResearchLand use model for sustainable production and climate resilience in Eastern Himalayas

Weiming Li

Home CountryChina

DepartmentChemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Faculty MentorShang-Tian Yang

BackgroundBS, Developmental Biology, Harbin Institute of Technology; BA, English, Harbin Institute of Technology; PhD student, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

ResearchCharacterization and overexpression of iron hydrogenase Ethha_0031 in Ethanoligenens harbinense Yuan-3 for higher hydrogen production

Yue Li

Home CountryChina

DepartmentSchool of Environment and Natural Resources

Faculty MentorRichard P. Dick

BackgroundMS, Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

ResearchNitrogen deposition shapes the composition and carbon utilization of a grassland soil microbial community in northern China

Yun Liu

Home CountryChina

DepartmentMoritz College of Law

Faculty MentorDaniel C.K. Chow

BackgroundDoctor of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China

ResearchThe Role of Technical Standards in the Modern Legal System


Hideki Miyachi

Home CountryJapan

DepartmentCardiothoracic Surgery, The Heart Center, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Faculty MentorToshiharu Shinoka

BackgroundMD, PhD, Cardiology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan

ResearchTransmural inflammatory cell migration in tissue engineered vascular graft promotes extracellular matrix formation more than host circulating inflammatory cell migration

Alaa Samir AbdelwakilMohamed Montaser

Home CountryEgypt

DepartmentNeurosurgery

Faculty MentorDaniel M. Prevedello

BackgroundMBBCh, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; MCh, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Assistant Lecturer, Department of Neurosurgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

ResearchExtended Endoscopic Endonasal Clipping of Intracranial Aneurysms: An Anatomical Feasibility Study


Asmita Murumkar

Home CountryIndia

DepartmentByrd Polar and Climate Research Center

Faculty MentorMichael Durand

BackgroundPhD, Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India

ResearchAssessing impacts of climate change on spatio-temporal variability of rainfall and temperature in the Logone River basin (Africa)

Yunjuan Nie

Home CountryChina

DepartmentDavis Heart & Lung Research Institute

Faculty MentorJohn Christman

BackgroundPhD student, School of Pharmacy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; MS, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

ResearchCritical Role of PKC-δ in Bleomycin-induced Pulmonary Fibrosis


Caglar Senaras

Home CountryTurkey

DepartmentBiomedical Informatics

Faculty MentorMetin Gurcan

BackgroundPhd, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey - Information Systems; Senior R&D Engineer, HAVELSAN Inc.

ResearchAutomated Otoscopy to Diagnose Ear Pathology

Padhuk GamaralalageGayan Senavirathne

Home CountrySri Lanka

DepartmentCancer Biology and Genetics

Faculty MentorRichard Fishel

BackgroundPhD, Wayne State University, Michigan - Chemistry; Assistant Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

ResearchDynamic Unwrapping of Nucleosomes by HsRAD51 that Includes Sliding and Rotational Motion of Histone Octamers

Geok Chin Tan

Home CountryMalaysia

DepartmentLaboratory Medicine/ Anatomic Pathology, Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Faculty MentorSamir Kahwash

BackgroundMBBS, Manipal University, India, Medicine; Pathology Degree, National University of Malaysia, Pathology; PhD, Imperial College London, England, MicroRNA

ResearchPseudothrombocytopenia Due to Platelet Clumping: A Case Report and Brief Review of Literature

Valentina Valentini

Home CountryItaly

DepartmentPsychology

Faculty MentorJohn P. Bruno

BackgroundPhD, University of Cagliari, Italy, ToxicologyAssistant Professor, University of Cagliari, Italy

ResearchCortical-subcortical regulations of neurotransmission: implications for schizophrenia and the discovery of cognition-enhancing drugs


Xiaowei Wang

Home CountryChina

DepartmentCivil, Environment and Geodetic Engineering

Faculty MentorAbdollah Shafieezadeh

BackgroundMS, Bridge and Tunnel Engineering, Tongji UniversityPhD student, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

ResearchFractional Order Intensity Measures for Seismic Response Estimation of Bridges in Liquefied and Laterally Spreading Ground

Lu Wang

Home CountryChina

DepartmentChemistry and Biochemistry

Faculty MentorDavid A. Nagib

BackgroundPhD, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry

ResearchAnomeric Activation Strategy for Ketyl Radical Reactivity: Polarity-Reversed Coupling of Aliphatic Aldehydes and Alkynes

Linlin Yang

Home CountryChina

DepartmentRadiation Oncology

Faculty MentorTerence Williams

BackgroundMD, Jena Friedrich University, Germany, OncologyGraduate Student, Guangzhou Southern Medical University

ResearchLCL161, a SMAC mimetic, induces preferential radiosensitization in human papillomavirus negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma through induction of apoptosis

Honggang Yi

Home CountryChina

DepartmentPediatrics

Faculty MentorJingzhen (Ginger) Yang

BackgroundPhD, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

ResearchLifetime History of Traumatic Brain Injury and Current Disability among Ohio Adults


Hui Zhang

Home CountryChina

DepartmentNanoprobe Lab for Bio/Nanotechnology and Biomimetics

Faculty MentorBharat Bhushan

BackgroundMS, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China; PhD candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

ResearchEvolutionary Kinetic Monte Carlo method for the simulation of anisotropic etching of Z-cut quartz

Xin Zhuang

Home CountryChina

DepartmentHistory

Faculty MentorChristopher A. Reed

BackgroundMA, Chinese Academic of Social Science, Literature Theory

ResearchWritten Empire: Reports of colonial knowledge of English newspapers and periodicals in Late Qing China

Supported by the Office of Research and the Office of International Affairs. The International Scholar Research Exposition is a showcase of some world-class research undertaken by the more than 1,600 international visiting scholars at The Ohio State University.

Special thanks to Larry Williamson, curator of the arts exhibits in Bricker Hall.

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