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Science Division

Summer Research

Poster Fair

Friday, October 21, 2016

12:30 pm—3:30 pm

DeVries Hall Atrium

2016 Student Research Conducted in Calvin Science Division Departments Biology

Chemistry & Biochemistry

Computer Science

Engineering

Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies

Mathematics & Statistics

Nursing

Physics & Astronomy

88 students funded (40 women and 48 men) working with

41 Calvin professors on

55 different projects

40% were externally funded by grants from outside of Calvin College

35% were funded by private donors

Refreshments served on Level 3

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2016 Science Division Summer Research Program Funding

The Andrew Family Foundation

The Michael and Cheryl Brandsen Student Research Fellowship

The DeKock Chemistry Summer Research Fellowship

The Thedford P. Dirkse Summer Research Fellowship

The William H. and Celia I. Dornbush DeVries Family Student Research Fellowship

The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation Student Research Fellowship

The Jansma Family Research Fund in the Sciences and Business

The Kanis Summer Research Fellowship

The Jack and Lois Kuipers Applied Mathematics Endowment

The Fritz and Carol Rottman Student Research Fellowship

The Luke and Pauline Schaap Summer Research Fellowship

The Clarence (Bud) Star and Arlene Talen Star Student Research Fellowship

The John Van Zytveld Summer Student Research Fellowship

The Hubert A. Vander Plas Memorial Student Research Fellowship

The Dr. Daniel J. Visser Student Research Fellowship in the Medical Sciences

The Ken and Marcia Wierda Summer Research Fellowship

The Enno Wolthuis Summer Student Research Fellowship

The Davis Young Research Fellowship in Geology

Calvin College Biology Department

Brummel Chair

Calvin College Alumni Association

Calvin College Clean Water Institute

Chemistry Pfizer Fellowship

McGregor Summer Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Sciences

Plaster Creek Stewards

Program for Sustainability Engineering; gift from Joel and Linda Zylstra

Calvin College Science Division

Calvin College Sustainability Initiative

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Scholars Program

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

Christian Schools International

The Dragt Family

Gladys and Ruth Wierenga

Hanes Foundation

Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital

Mackinac Technologies

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Toyota Technical Center

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Urban Waters Division

U.S. Fish & Wildlife

Van Raalte Institute, Holland, Michigan

2016 Student Research Conducted Off-Campus East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

Health Intervention Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Science Division Students Presenting Posters and their Locations

Numbering system:

1-12 indicates Level 1, poster 12; 2-3 indicates Level 2, poster 3, etc. S1 refers to the stairwell between

Levels 0 and 1, S2 to the stairwell between Levels 1 and 2, and S3 to the stairwell between Levels 2 and 3

Student

Number and

Location Student

Number and

Location

Aardema, Megan 3-13 Maitra, Shurjo 1-3

Abma, Aaron 2-16 McCormick, Kelly S1-3

Abma, Lydia 0-6 McKay, Elizabeth 0-7

Auyeung, Shamuel 2-7 Michmerhuizen, Anna 2-3

Baas, Leah 0-18 Naghtin, Benjamin 0-3

Barnes, Camille S3-1 Nederhood, Terryce 3-5

Blakemore, Daniel 2-10 Nykamp , Heidi 2-4

Boelens, Matthew 1-6 Oesman, Kimberly 2-8

Bogner, Alexandra 3-8 Ogunnoiki, Temitope 1-4

Bos, Nathaniel 2-10 Park, JuHye (Joyce) 2-6

Bosch, Timothy 1-5 Pèrez, Marianna 1-9

Bruce, Zachary 2-12 Raybaud, Matthew 2-9

Bruinius, Jacob 3-16 Rietberg, Cambrynne 3-6

Busscher, Brianna 2-2 Roloff, Emily S3-2

Cook, Evan 2-13 Romero, Evan 3-11

Crevier, Janaya 1-11 Rylaarsdam, Andrew 3-14

DeJong, Alicia 1-11 Sager, Jonathan 1-1

DeYoung, Maxwell 0-3 Schepers, Matthew S1-2

Dilley, Chris 1-7 Seper, Brian 2-15, 16

Ervin, Harry 0-5 Simonton, Philip S1-1

Ezenwelu, Chinelo 1-4 Stearns, Abigail 0-15

Folkerts, Andrew 2-15 Stockdale, Alan 0-6

Frndak, Abigail 3-10 Strikwerda, Sarah 2-6

Geels, Mackenzie 0-14 Strohbehn, Lauren 2-1

Granner, Josie 1-10 Swartz, Mason 3-3

Greene, Kenton 2-14 Tilma, Luke 0-5

Greidanus, Tom 0-19 Toering, Ryan 0-15

Hartman, Jacob 2-11 Tubergen, Philip 3-3

Hilbrands, Adam 3-4 Van Donselaar, Jenna 0-3

Hohlman, Robert 3-17 VanLaar, Lucas 3-12

House, Rachel 0-10 Veurink, Elise 1-8

Hughes, Sarah 0-17 Voogt, Rebecca 0-16

Ismond, Jonathan 0-8 Walters, Elianna 0-11

Jang, Byoungchan (Chris) 2-13 Warners, Micah 0-4

Jansen, Nathan 0-1 Warners, Rachel 0-17

Jonker, Patrick 0-2 Wassink, Lea 3-1

Kamp, Derrick 0-13 Wharton, Daniel 1-1

Kazmierczak, Nathanael 3-15 Wodarek, Jeremy 3-7

Kim, Bo Ram 0-12 Yoo, Joy 2-5

Kong, Jooyoung 2-4 Zerull, Emily 3-9

Kuipers, Alexandra S1-4 Zhang, Sherrice 3-2

Leerar, John 0-9 Zylstra, Isaac 2-8

Lew, Leira 0-4 Zylstra, Nate 1-2

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Summer Research Poster Fair

October 21, 2016

12:30 – 3:30 p.m.

De Vries Hall Atrium

(Level Zero)

0-1. Author: Nathan Jansen

Title: Phenology and Floral Inventory of Flat Iron Lake Preserve

Advisor : Professor Dave Warners, Biology

Support: The Fritz and Carol Rottman Student Research Fellowship

0-2. Author: Patrick Jonker

Title: Curb-Cut Rain Garden Research

Advisor: Professor Dave Warners, Biology

Support: Calvin College Biology Department Student Research Fund

0-3. Authors: Max DeYoung, Ben Naghtin, Jenna Van Donselaar

Title: Ecological Restoration of the Plaster Creek Watershed

Advisors: Professor Dave Warners, Biology and Deanna Geelhoed, Plaster Creek Stewards

Support: Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, The Michael and Cheryl Brandsen

Student Research Fellowship, and Calvin College Science Division

0-4. Authors: Leira Lew, Micah Warners

Title: The Green Team and the Restoration of Plaster Creek

Advisors: Professor Dave Warners, Biology and Professor Gail Heffner, Director of Community

Engagement

Support: USEPA Urban Waters Division and Plaster Creek Stewards

0-5. Authors: Harry Ervin, Luke Tilma

Title: Geographic and Taxonomic Sources of Fecal Microbes in the Plaster Creek Watershed

Advisor: Professor Randall DeJong, Biology

Support: The Jansma Family Research Fund in the Sciences and Business and Michigan

Department of Environmental Quality

0-6. Authors: Lydia Abma, Alan Stockdale

Title: 115 Years Later: Reassessing Grand Rapids' Flora

Advisors: Professor Dave Warners and Dr. Garrett Crow, Biology

Support: Hanes Trust and Calvin College Alumni Association

0-7. Author: Elizabeth McKay

Title: Origin of organic carbon as a driver of variability of carbon decomposition and

storage in lakes

Advisors: Dr. Grace Wilkinson, Cal Buelo, Jason Kurtzweil, Dr. Michael Cramer, Dr. Gary

Belovsky

Location: University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center (UNDERC-East Program),

University of Notre Dame, Indiana

Support: Bernard J. Hank Family Endowment

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0-8. Author: Jonathan Ismond

Title: Damaging Effects of Oxidative Stress, and Hyperlipidemia on Retinal Structure in

Animal Models of Diabetic Retinopathy

Advisors: Arul J. Duraisamy, Dr. Renu A. Kowluru

Location: Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

Support: National Eye Institute, Kresge Eye Institute, and The Thomas Foundation

0-9. Author: John Leerar

Title: The Effect of K+ on Caspase Activity of Corneal Epithelial Cells Exposed to UVB

Advisor: Professor John Ubels, Biology

Support: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

0-10. Author: Rachel House

Title: Chemical and mechanical isolation of mouse RPE

Advisor: Ning Wu, Ph.D.

Location: Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Support: Meijer Foundation

0-11. Author: Elianna Walters

Title: Effect of calcineurin inhibition on V2O5-induced pulmonary inflammation and fibrosis

in C57BL/6J mice

Advisor: Professor Dianne M. Walters, PhD.

Location: Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina

Support: East Carolina University

0-12. Authors: Bo Ram Kim, Derrick Kamp, Mackenzie Geels

Title: Lymphatic Endothelial Cells promote HIV infection of resting and memory CD4+ T

cells.

Advisor: Professor Anding Shen, Biology


0-13. Authors: Derrick Kamp, Mackenzie Geels, Bo Ram Kim

Title: IL6 secreted by EC increases HIV infection in resting CD4+ T cells without activation


Support: Clarence (Bud) Star and Arlene Talen Star Student Research Fellowship

0-14. Authors: Mackenzie Geels, Derrick Kamp, Bo Ram Kim

Title: Higher IL-6 Concentration Correlates with Higher HIV-1 Infection Rate in Resting

CD4+ T Cells



0-15. Authors: Abigail Stearns, Ryan Toering

Title: CancerEd: Investigating the Need for Cancer Curricula

Advisor: Professor Amy Wilstermann, Biology

Support: Ruth and Gladys Wierenga, Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital and the Calvin College

Alumni Association

0-16. Author: Rebecca Voogt

Title: Unlocking the secrets of urine: assaying urinary extracellular mRNA in healthy volunte

Advisor: J. Brian Byrd, MD, MS

Location: Byrd Lab, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Support: National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Esperance Family Foundation

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0-17. Authors: Rachel Warners, Sarah Hughes

Title: Great Lakes Restoration Initiative: Reassessment of Wildlife Reproduction and Health

Impairments in the Saginaw Bay and River Raisin Areas of Concern and Grand

Traverse Bay

Advisor: Professor Keith Grasman, Biology

Support: The William H. and Celia I. Dornbush DeVries Family Student Research Fellowship

and U. S. Fish & Wildlife

0-18. Author: Leah Baas

Title: Developing Investigative Labs for Biology 230

Advisors: Professors David Koetje, David Dornbos, Richard Nyhof, Biology

Support: Calvin College Biology Department

0-19. Author: Tom Greidanus

Title: Saving Avulsed Teeth for Reimplantation: Storage Solution Analysis

Advisor: Dr. Daniel Armstrong

Location: Health Intervention Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan

(Stairwell Landing between Levels Zero and One)

S1-1. Author: Philip Simonton

Title: Physiological Function of Two Invasive Buckthorn Species Site Various Habitats

Advisor: Professor David Dornbos, Biology

Support: Calvin College Science Division

S1-2. Author: Matthew Schepers

Title: Metabolic Congruence or Divergence in Ant Gut Bacteria?

Advisors: Professor John T. Wertz, Biology

Support: National Science Foundation (NSF)

S1-3. Author: Kelly McCormick

Title: Developing Bulk Wounding Methods to Study Plasma Membrane Repair in Skeletal

Muscle Fibers

Advisor: Dr. Daniel Michele

Location: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Support: Calvin College Biology Department

S1-4. Author: Alexandra Kuipers

Title: Hind Limb Form and Function in Terrestrial and Semi-aquatic Mammals: Insights into

Locomotor Evolution in Early Cetaceans

Advisor: Professor Ryan Bebej, Biology

Support: The Jansma Family Research Fund in the Sciences and Business

(Level One)

1-1. Authors: Daniel Wharton, Jonathan Sager

Title: Window Efficiency Research Project

Advisors: Professors Richard De Jong and Renard Tubergen, Engineering

Support: Mackinac Technologies

1-2. Author: Nate Zylstra

Title: Vehicle Wind Noise Reduction

Advisor: Professor Richard De Jong, Engineering

Support: Toyota Technical Center

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1-3. Author: Shurjo Maitra

Title: Design of Solar Power System Demonstration Unit

Advisor: Professor Yoon Kim, Engineering

Support: Calvin College Sustainability Initiative

1-4. Authors: Temitope Ogunnoiki, Chinelo Ezenwelu

Title: Applications of Piezoelectric Technology for Renewable Energy

Advisor: Professor Aubrey Sykes, Engineering

Support: Program for Sustainability Engineering

1-5. Author: Timothy Bosch

Title: Design of a water supply for Calvin Gardens


Support: Program for Sustainability Engineering

1-6. Author: Matthew Boelens

Title: Pressure Drop Through Tube Bundles



1-7. Author: Chris Dilley

Title: TSGL: A Thread-Safe Graphics Library for teaching students about parallel computing

Advisor: Professor Joel Adams, Computer Science

Support: The Kanis Summer Research Fellowship

1-8. Author: Elise Veurink

Title: Pregnancy suspicion and women's perceptions of being at risk of pregnancy

Advisor: Professor Adejoke Ayoola, Nursing

Support: Calvin College Science Division and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

1-9. Author: Mariana Pèrez

Title: A Review of Factors Contributing to High Attrition Rates in Home Visit Interventions



1-10. Author: Josie Granner

Title: A review of reasons for women’s contraceptive switching and discontinuation



1-11 Authors: Janaya Crevier, Alicia DeJong

Title: Recycling Industrial Land in Michigan

Advisor: Professor Mark Bjelland, Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies

Support: Calvin College Science Division, McGregor Summer Research Fellowships in

Humanities and Social Sciences

(Level Two)

2-1. Author: Lauren Strohbehn

Title: Exploring the Membrane Lipid Environment for Glucose Transporter 1

Advisors: Professors Larry Louters and Brendan Looyenga, Chemistry & Biochemistry


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2-2. Author: Brianna Busscher

Title: Exploring the inhibition of GLUT1 by caffeine and determining the mechanism of

GLUT1 activation by glucose deprivation

Advisor: Professor Larry Louters, Chemistry & Biochemistry


2-3. Author: Anna Michmerhuizen

Title: Characterization of the Histoplasma Capsulatum Glycans

Advisors: Dr. H. Robert Bergen III, Dr. Nancy L. Wengenack

Location: Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Support: Beatrice and Reymont Paul Foundation and the Department of Laboratory Medicine

and Pathology at the Mayo Graduate School

2-4. Authors: Jooyoung Kong, Heidi Nykamp

Title: Research-based teaching at Kathmandu University

Advisor: Professor Herb Fynewever, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The William H. and Celia I. Dornbush DeVries Family Student Research Fellowship

and The Thedford P. Dirkse Summer Research Fellowship

2-5. Author: Joy Yoo

Title: Fluorescence of Scopoletin and Other Related Coumarins

Advisor: Professor Mark Muyskens, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation Student Research Fellowship

2-6. Authors: Joyce Park, Sarah Strikwerda

Title: Pre-service Teachers’ Perspectives on Their Opportunities to Learn about Algebra

Advisor: Professor Hyunyi Jung, Mathematics & Statistics

Support: The Jansma Family Research Fund in the Sciences and Business and The Jack and Lois

Kuipers Applied Mathematics Endowment

2-7. Author: Shamuel Auyeung

Title: Homogeneous Sub-Finsler 3-Manifolds and their Geodesics

Advisor: Professor Christopher Moseley, Mathematics & Statistics

Support: The Jack and Lois Kuipers Applied Mathematics Endowment

2-8. Authors: Kimberly Oesman, Isaac Zylstra

Title: Moreno-Socías Conjecture in Three Variables

Advisor: Professor James Turner, Mathematics & Statistics

Support: The Jack and Lois Kuipers Applied Mathematics Endowment and National Science

Foundation (NSF)

2-9. Author: Matthew Raybaud

Title: The Development of CRC Schools in North America

Advisor: Professor Henk Aay, Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies

Support: Van Raalte Institute, Christian Schools International and Calvin College Science

Division

2-10. Authors: Daniel Blakemore, Nathaniel Bos

Title: Concentrations of Pb, Zn, and Ag Associated with Native Copper Deposition,

Keweenaw MI

Advisor: Professor Renee Sparks, Geology, Geography & Environmental Studies

Support: The Davis Young Research Fellowship in Geology

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2-11. Author: Jacob Hartman

Title: Optical measurements of polariton strong coupling in semiconductor microcavities

Advisor: Professor Ryan Balili, Physics & Astronomy

Support: The Jansma Family Research Fund in the Sciences and Business

2-12. Author: Zachary Bruce

Title: Distinguishing Multiple Stellar Populations of Glubular Clusters M56 and M13

Advisor: Professor Jason Smolinski, Physics & Astronomy

Support: The Hubert A. Vander Plas Memorial Student Research Fellowship

2-13. Authors: Evan Cook, Byoungchan Jang

Title: Recent Developments on the Mergeburst Prediction

Advisor: Professor Larry Molnar, Physics & Astronomy

Support: The Dragt Family and The John Van Zytveld Summer Student Research Fellowship

2-14. Author: Kenton Greene

Title: Dynamics of the Algol Triple Star System

Advisor: Professor Larry Molnar, Physics & Astronomy

Support: Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC), The Andrews Family Foundation and


2-15. Authors: Andrew Folkerts, Aaron Abma, Brian Seper

Title: Structural and kinetic studies of the cubic and hexagonal phases of MNd

Advisor: Professor Paul Harper, Physics & Astronomy

Support: Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) and Calvin College Science Division

2-16. Authors: Aaron Abma, Andrew Folkerts, Brian Seper

Title: Methylene Volume and Phase Transition Kinetics in Medium Chain Monoglycerides

and Alkanes

Advisor: Professor Paul Harper, Physics & Astronomy

Support: The Jack and Lois Kuipers Applied Mathematics Endowment

(Stairwell Landing between Levels Two and Three)

S3-1. Author: Camille Barnes

Title: The Roles of E-Cadherin and MET in Papillary Renal Cell Carcinoma

Advisor: Professor Brendan Looyenga, Chemistry & Biochemistry


S3-2. Author: Emily Roloff

Title: The Effects of Kifunensine on Renal Cell Lines

Advisors: Professors Brendan Looyenga and Larry Louters, Chemistry & Biochemistry


(Level Three)

3-1. Author: Lea Wassink

Title: Synthesis of Novel Antibacterial Agents Targeting Bacterial Topoisomerases: 8-Methyl

& 8-Desmethyl Fluoroquinolones

Advisor: Professor Michael Barbachyn, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: Brummel Chair

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3-2. Author: Sherrice Zhang

Title: Efforts Aimed at Potentiating the Gram-negative Activity of Fluoroquinolone

Antibacterial Agents: 1,8-Naphthyridones



3-3. Authors: Philip Tubergen, Mason Swartz

Title: Metal Ion Chelation and Oxidation Kinetics involving Synthetic Peptides

Advisor: Professor Chad Tatko, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The Enno Wolthuis Summer Student Research Fellowship and Chemistry Pfizer

Fellowship

3-4. Author: Adam Hilbrands

Title: Quantitative Detection of Cysteine-Tyrosine Crosslinks

Advisor: Professor David Benson, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The Luke and Pauline Schaap Summer Research Fellowship

3-5. Author: Terryce Nederhood

Title: X-Ray Diffraction Evidence for Cysteine-Tyrosine Crosslinks

Advisor: Professor David Benson, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The DeKock Chemistry Summer Research Fellowship

3-6. Author: Cambrynne Rietberg

Title: Isoform-Specific Regulation of Ras by Monoubiquitination

Advisor: Professor Rachael Baker, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The Dr. Daniel J. Visser Student Research Fellowship in the Medical Sciences

3-7. Author: Jeremy Wodarek

Title: Developing a New Biosensor for Ras Activation



3-8. Author: Alexandra Bogner

Title: The Role of Ubiquitination in Ras Signaling


Support: The Ken and Marcia Wierda Summer Research Fellowship

3-9. Author: Emily Zerull

Title: Synthesis of Substituted Indolizine Structures via Au(I) and Pt(II) Catalysis

Advisor: Professor Carolyn Anderson, Chemistry & Biochemistry


3-10. Author: Abigail Frndak

Title: Synthesis of N-Alkenylated 2-Pyridone Containing Isoquinoline Alkaloids



3-11. Author: Evan Romero

Title: Synthesis of N-Alkenyl 2-Pyridonyl Ethers via a Au(I)-Catalyzed Rearrangement of 2-

Propargyloxypyridines



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3-12. Author: Lucas VanLaar

Title: Atomic Screening Constants and Effective Nuclear Charge

Advisor: Professor Roger DeKock, Chemistry & Biochemistry

Support: The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation

3-13. Author: Megan Aardema

Title: Assembly Process of the Supramolecular Nanojar

Advisor: Professor Douglas A. Vander Griend, Chemistry & Biochemistry


3-14. Author: Andrew Rylaarsdam

Title: Aromatic Interactions and Metal Binding in β-hairpin Peptides



3-15. Author: Nathanael Kazmierczak

Title: Modeling Error in Equilibrium Restricted Factor Analysis


Support: Arnold and Mabel Beckman Scholars Program

3-16. Author: Jacob Bruinius

Title: Synthesis of Novel Antibacterial Agents Targeting Bacterial Topoisomerases: 8-

Methoxy & 8-Chloro Fluoroquinolones



3-17. Author: Robert Hohlman

Title: Synthesis of Novel Antibacterial Agents Targeting Bacterial Topoisomerases: 6,8-

Difluoro Fluoroquinolones

Advisors: Professors Michael Barbachyn and Ronald Blankespoor, Chemistry & Biochemistry


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