Big list of published papers with Midwood Science coauthors

Science is a collaborative effort. No one works alone. The highest praise a mentor can give to a student is to include them as an author on a scientific paper. From 1998 to 2023, 36 Midwood Science students have seen the work they did while still in high school published in peer-reviewed journals. Four had their names appear first in the list of authors, which means they were recognized as contributing more than anyone else.

All efforts have been made to ensure this record is exhaustively complete. If anything has been overlooked, please let us know.

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998

2023

Fariha Ahmed from the class of 2021 was the first author on a paper published in the 2023 volume of Electrochimica Acta. (It is rare for high school students to be listed as the first author.) He also contributed to an abstract submitted to the 2023 meeting of the Electrochemical Society. Although these items were published in 2023 they are based on work Fariha started back in 2020.

Eric Zhang from the class of 2024 was a co-author of a paper published the the 2023 volume of Fossil Record — a bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. It is rare that students see their work officially recognized like this while still in high school. (Publication dates are frequently delayed.) Great job Eric.

• Fariha Ahmed
  • Ion transport in non-aqueous electrolyte mixtures of zinc chloride deep eutectic solvent (DES) and molecular solvents with Domenec Paterno and Gurneet Singh in the lab of Dr. Sophia Suarez at Brooklyn College in Electrochimica Acta. Vol. 462 (2023): 142784.
  • Dynamics of Novel Zinc Ion Electrolytes with Domenec Paterno, Tawhid Pranto, and Dr. Sophia Suarez of Brooklyn College published in ECS Meeting Abstracts. MA2023-02 (2023): 2720.
• Eric Zhang
  • Vertical Exaggeration When Using Unconverted LLS Data in Ontogenetic Sequences of Ammonite Sutures with Mai Tran, Winson Guo, and Dr. Katherine LoMedico Marriott of the American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn College in Fossil Record. Vol. 9 (2023): 11–15.

2022

Daelah is the first author of this paper, a position that is rare for high school students.

• Daelah Nicholas
  • Infant temperament: Exploring the potential role of maternal dietary choline and folate consumption during pregnancy in a Michigan pregnancy cohort with Chia-Lun Yang, Nicole Talge, and Dr. Jean Kerver of Michigan State University in Current Developments in Nutrition. Vol. 6, No. S1 (2022): 697. Daelah also presented this project at the American Society for Nutrition's virtual conference, Nutrition 2022, on the day this volume of the journal was released.

2021

• Jasmine Huang
  • Another look at the extinction of conditioned flavor preferences: Amount of training and tests for spontaneous recovery with Norman Tu and Dr. Andrew R. Delamater at Brooklyn College in Learning & Behavior. Vol. 49, No. 4 (2021): 405–421.
• Bintia Keita
  • A controlled, reproducible, and extensible experiment for evaluating the impact of Tor latency with Ashutosh Srivastava, Fraida Fund in the lab of Shivendra S. Panwar at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering presented at IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
• Daniel Shameti
  • Applying Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Cardiac Events with Eileen Deng, Eunice Lee in the lab of Yu Wang of the New York City College of Technology presented at the 2021 Fall ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Meeting.

2020

Nomon graduated in 2017, Jennifer in 2018, Toby in 2019.

• Nomon Mohammad
  • Aluminum ions speciation and transport in acidic deep eutectic AlCl₃ amide electrolytes with Domenec Paterno, Emma Rock, Andrew Forbes, and Rija Iqbala in the lab of Sophia Suarez at Brooklyn College in the Journal of Molecular Liquids. Vol. 319 (2020): 114118.
• Jennifer Duong
  • Solvent-assisted nanochannel encapsulation of a natural phase change material in polystyrene hollow fibers for high-performance thermal energy storage with Rawan Ghaban, Dev Patel, Harmann Singh, and Wenshuai Chen in the lab of Ping Lu at Long Island University in ACS Applied Energy Materials. Vol. 3, No. 10 (2020): 10089–10096.
• Rui Ting (Toby) Li
  • A double-blind test of blue-blocking filters on symptoms of digital eye strain with Nancy Kirsch and Dr. Mark Rosenfield at the SUNY College of Optometry in Work. Vol. 65, No. 2 (2020): 343–348.

2018

• Beien Lin and Kathy Mania
  • Soil and microbial properties of green infrastructure Technosols in stormwater management systems with Maha Deeb, Peter M Groffman, Jessica L Joyner, George Lozefski, Anna Paltseva, Donna L Cao, John McLaughlin, Theodore Muth, Bharath Prithiviraj, Jordan Kerwin in the lab of Zhongqi (Joshua) Cheng at Brooklyn College in Ecological Engineering. Vol. 125 (2018): 68–75.

2015

Kiara and Shadika graduated in 2014. Kahei graduated from Midwood in 2008 and was working with Dr. Rosenfield as student of SUNY Optometry when this experiment was conducted.

• Kiara Nuñez, Shadika Jahan, and Kahei Chan
  • Cognitive demand, digital screens and blink rate with Dr. Mark Rosenfield at the SUNY College of Optometry in Computers in Human Behavior. Vol. 51, No. A (2015): 403–406.

2014

Gabby is the first author of this paper, a position that is rare for high school students.

• Gabrielle Lynch
  • Attrition rates in neurosurgery residency: analysis of 1361 consecutive residents matched from 1990 to 1999 with Karina Nieto, Saumya Puthenveettil, Marleen Reyes, Michael Jureller, Jason H. Huang, M. Sean Grady, Odette A. Harris, Aruna Ganju, Isabelle M. Germano, Julie G. Pilitsis, Susan C. Pannullo, Deborah L. Benzil, Aviva Abosch, and Sarah J. Fouke in the lab of Dr. Uzma Samadani at the New York University School of Medicine in the Journal of Neurosurgery. Vol. 122, No. 2 (2014): 237–481.

2013

Francisca and Mercy graduated in 2011, Leo in 2013.

• Francisca Onyiuke and Mercy Palomeque
  • Determination of heart rate variability with an electronic stethoscope with Haroon Kamran, Isaac Naggar, Priya Chokshi, Louis Salciccioli, Mark Stewart and Dr. Jason M. Lazar at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Clinical Autonomic Research. Vol. 23, No. 1 (2013): 41–47.
• Jian Cong (Leo) Liao
  • Mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) Preference and Behavioral Response to Animated Images of Conspecifics Altered in Their Color, Aspect Ratio, and Swimming Depth with Giovanni Polverino in the lab pf Dr. Maurizio Porfiri at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in PLOS ONE Vol. 8, No. 1 (2013): e54315.

2012

• Nicole Ng and Zhao Na Wang
  • On the inverse temperature transition and development of an entropic elastomeric force of the elastin mimetic peptide [LGGVG]_3,7 with Jiaxin Huang, Cheng Sun, and Odingo Mitchell in the lab of Dr. Gregory S. Boutis of Brooklyn College in the Journal of Chemical Physics. Vol. 136, No. 8 (2012): 085101–09.

2011

• Kirill Grinberg
  • Multimode selective detection of mercury by chiroptical fluorescent sensors based on methionine/cysteine with Patrick Carney, Steven Lopez, Amanda Mickley, and Wenyao Zhang in the lab of Dr. Zhaohua Dai at Pace University in Chirality. Vol. 23, No. 10 (2011): 916–920.

2009

Two students who graduated in 2009 coauthored academic works.

• Regina Gurevich
  • Computer Vision Syndrome: Accommodative and Vergence Facility with Elizabeth Wickware, and Marc Lay in the lab of Dr. Mark Rosenfield of the SUNY College of Optometry in the Journal of Behavioral Optometry. Vol. 21, No. 5 (2010): 119–122.
• John Ferrara
  • The role of procalcitonin in the diagnosis of sepsis and patient assignment to medical intensive care with Arun Devakonda, Ester Engelman, Gitta Pancer, James Rucinski, Suhail Raoof, Liziamma George, and Lawrence Melniker in the lab of Dr. Larry Bernstein at New York Methodist Hospital in the Journal of Clinical Ligand Assay. Vol. 30, No. 3–4 (2007): 98–104. For his contribution to this paper, John received a Distinguished Abstract Award from the National Academy of Clinical Chemistry and was a presenter at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

2008

• Na Xue
  • Rationally Designed Anti-HIV Peptides Containing Multifunctional Domains as Molecule Probes for Studying the Mechanisms of Action of the First and Second Generation HIV Fusion Inhibitors with Zhi Qi, Weiguo Shi, Chungen Pan, Weiguo Jing, and Keliang Li in the lab of Shibo Jiang at theNew York Blood Center. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 283, No. 44 (2008): 30376–30384.
  • Novel anti-HIV peptides containing multiple copies of artificially designed heptad repeat motif with Weiguo Shi, Zhi Qi, Chungen Pan, Asim K. Debnath, Jiankun Qie, Keliang Liu in the lab of Shibo Jiang at the New York Blood Center. Published in Biochemical and biophysical research communications. Vol. 364, No. 4 (2008): 767–722.
• Vernon Wu
  • PNC-27 and PNC-28 anticancer peptides selectively kill cancer cells by pore formation dependent on the binding of these peptides to hdm2 in cancer cell membranes with Wilbur B. Bowne, Victor Adler, Kelley A. Sookraj, Hunaiz Patel, Vadim Shteyler, William Oxberry, Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, Robert L. Fine, Fred K. Friedman, Michael A. Zenilman, Josef Michl, Matthew R. Pincus and Dr. Ehsun Sarafraz-Yazdi at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Cancer Research Vol. 68, No. 9 (2008): LB–195.
• Ali Bokhari
  • Hypoxia and Elevated Interstitial Pressures Induce Tumor Cell Proliferation with Shigeki Kakunaga, Vamsi K. Kancherla, Gene R. Di Resta and Dr. John H. Healey of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society.

2007

Three students who graduated in 2007 coauthored academic works.

• Farhana Hoque
  • C-Reactive Protein for the Enhanced Evaluation of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS) with Gitta Pancer, Ester Engelman, Mohammed Alam, James Rucinski, and Dr. Larry Bernstein of New York Methodist Hospital. Published in The Open Clinical Chemistry Journal. Vol. 2011, No. 4 (2011): 1–9.
• Arif Hussain
  • Crystal Structure of the Putative Dephospho-CoA Kinase from Aquifex aeolicus, Northeast Structural Genomics Target QR72 with Dr. Farhad Forouhar, M. Hussain, J. Seetharaman, M. Wu, Y. Fang, K. Cunningham, L.C. Ma, R. Xiao, J. Liu, M. Baran, B. Rost, T.B. Acton, G.T. Montelione, J.F. Hunt, and L. Tong of Columbia University. Published in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB), 3 October 2006.
  • Molecular insights into substrate recognition and catalysis by tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase with Dr. Farhad Forouhar, J. L. Ross Anderson, Christopher G. Mowat, Sergey M. Vorobiev, Mariam Abashidze, Chiara Bruckmann, Sarah J. Thackray, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Todd Tucker, Rong Xiao, Li-Chung Ma, Li Zhao, Thomas B. Acton, Gaetano T. Montelione, Stephen K. Chapman, and Liang Tong of Columbia University. Published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Vol. 104, No. 2 (9 January 2007): 473-478.
• Wingyin Lo
  • Modulation of larval nutrition affects midgut neutral lipid storage and temporal pattern of transcription factor expression during mosquito metamorphosis with Dr. James T. Nishiura, Cynthia Burgosa, Samuel Ayaa, and Yekaterina Goryachevaa of Brooklyn College. Published in the Journal of Insect Physiology. Vol. 53, No. 1 (January 2007): 47-58.

2005

Four students who graduated in 2005 coauthored academic works.

• Munif Hussain
  • Crystal Structure of the Putative Peptidyl-arginine Deiminase from Chlorobium tepidum, NESG Target CtR21 with A.R. Befeler, S.M. Vorobiev, M. Ciano, T.B. Acton, G.T. Montelione, J.F. Hunt, L. Tong and lead researcher Dr. Farhad Forouhar of Columbia University. Published in the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB-PDB) (2004).
  • Crystal Structure of Human 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Lyase: Insights into Catalysis and the Molecular Basis for Hydroxymethylglutaric Aciduria with Zhuji Fu, Jennifer A. Runquist, Munif Hussain, John F. Hunt, Henry M. Miziorko, Jung-Ja P. Kim, and Dr. Farhad Forouhar. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 281, No. 11 (2006): 7526–7532.
  • Crystal Structures of Two Bacterial 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA Lyases Suggest a Common Catalytic Mechanism among a Family of TIM Barrel Metalloenzymes Cleaving Carbon-Carbon Bonds with Ramy Farid, Jordi Benach, Mariam Abashidze, William C. Edstrom, Sergey M. Vorobiev, Rong Xiao, Thomas B. Acton, Zhuji Fu∥, Jung-Ja P. Kim∥, Henry M. Miziorko, Gaetano T. Montelione, John F. Hunt, and Dr. Farhad Forouhar. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 281, No. 11 (2006): 7533–7545.
  • Molecular Insights into the Biosynthesis of the F420 Coenzyme with Mariam Abashidze, Huimin Xu, Laura L. Grochowski, Jayaraman Seetharaman, Alexandre Kuzin, Yang Chen, Weihong Zhou, Rong Xiao, Thomas B. Acton, Gaetano T. Montelione, Anne Galinier, Robert H. White, Liang Tong, and Dr. Farhad Forouhar. Published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Vol. 283, No. 17 (2008): 11832–11840.
• Olga Pikovskaya
  • Structural Basis for Discriminative Regulation of Gene Expression by Adenine-and Guanine-Sensing mRNAs with Alexander Serganov, Yu-Ren Yuan, Anna Polonskaia, Lucy Malinina, Anh Tuân Phan, Claudia Hobartner, Ronald Micura, and Ronald R. Breaker in the lab of Dr. Dinshaw Patel at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Published in Cell Chemical Biology. Vol. 11, No. 12 (2004): 1729–1741.
• Jerard Kneifati-Hayek
  • A model for automated screening of thalassemia in hematology (math study) with William Fleischman, Anthony Riccioli, Rita Bellevue, and his mentor Dr. Larry Bernstein of New York Methodist Hospital. Published in Laboratory Hematology. Vol. 13, No. 4 (2007): 119–123.
• Madeleine Schleffer
  • A simplified nutrition screen for hospitalized patients using readily available laboratory and patient information with Linda Brugler R.D., Ana K. Stankovic, and Dr. Larry Bernstein of New York Methodist Hospital. Published in Nutrition. Vol. 21, No. 6 (2005): 650–658.
• Madeleine Schleffer and Jerard Kneifati-Hayek
  • Enhancing the diagnostic performance of troponins in the acute care setting with Salman A. Haq, Morteza Tavakol, Steven Silber, Larry Bernstein, Lesan T. Banko, John F. Heitner, Terrence J. Sacchi, and Joseph A. Puma. Published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. Vol. 40, No. 4 (2011): 367–373.
  • The ACC/ESC Recommendation for 99th Percentile of the Reference Normal Troponin I Overestimates the Risk of an Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Novel Enhancement in the Diagnostic Performance of Troponin I with Salman A. Haq, Steven H. Silber, Lesan Banko, Salman Shah, Terrence J. Sacchi, Joseph A. Puma, and Dr. Larry Bernstein of New York Methodist Hospital. Published in Circulation. Vol 111, No. 20 (2005): e313.

2002

Jacquline graduated in 2001 and Jessica graduated in 1999.

• Jacquline Ling and Jessica Cepriano
  • Endocrine disruption caused by two common pollutants at "acceptable" concentrations with Lucia Magliuloa and Dr. Martin P. Schreibman at Brooklyn College in Neurotoxicology and Teratology. Vol. 24, No. 1 (2002): 71–79.

2000

• Imran Arif
  • Instrumentation and Calibration Protocol for Imaging Dynamic Features in Dense-Scattering Media by Optical Tomography with Christoph H. Schmitz, Harry l. Graber, Hengbin Luo, Jai Hira, Yaling Pei, Avraham Bluestone, Sheng Zhong, Randy Andronica, Ira Soller, Nestor Ramirez, San-Lian S. Barbour in the lab of Dr. Randall L. Barbour at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Applied Optics. Vol. 39, No. 34 (2000): 6466–6486.

1999

• Hui Kun Hao
  • Learning and memory in the FMR1 knockout mouse with Cathy Bakker, Ben A. Oostra in the lab of Dr. Gene S. Fisch at Yale University in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. Vol. 84, No. 3 (1999): 277–282.

1998

• George Sclavos
  • Solution structures of the 9-ketone and 9,12-hemiacetal forms of erythromycin A in 90% H₂O as determined by NMR and molecular modelling with Abdesslem Khiat and Yvan Boulanger in the lab of Dr. Fernando Commodari at Long Island University in the Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 2. Vol. 1998, No. 9 (1998): 1947–1956.