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2005 High School Poster Session at St. Joseph’s College

Posted on Sunday, October 30, 2005 by for Awards, St. Joseph's.

On Saturday October 29, 2005 St. Joseph's College held a High School Science Competition sponsored by the New York Section of the American Chemical Society. Midwood sent 9 students to the competition and brought home 3 Awards.

1st Place Winners Kerry Li & Jane Yee
Kerry Li & Jane Yee

2nd Place Winner Daria Zainullina
Daria Zainullina

Honorable Mention Winner Yuliana León
Yuliana León

  • Jane Yee and Kerry Li
    received a 1st place award for their team project "Identification of Receptor Dimerization of a Novel Platelet Cell Adhesion Molecule in Physiological Platelet Activation". They worked with Dr. Elizabeth Kornecki, of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
  • Daria Zainullina
    received a 2nd place award for her project "Biochemical Characterization of a Chromatin-Derived Ternary Complex and Its Implications on HIV-1 Expression". She worked with Dr. Camilo A. Parada of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center.
  • Yuliana Léon
    received honorable mention for her project "Computational Analysis of Myth4 Domains in Myosin Proteins". She worked with Dr. Shaneen M. Singh of the Biology Department at Brooklyn College.