Chemistry
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 award.Additionally, a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEFAffiliated Fair they represent.
Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
Drug Synthesis: Braving Legendary Challenges
Raghavendra Ramachanderan, 16, St. John's International ResidentialSchool, Chennai, India
First Award of $3,000
Drug Synthesis: Braving Legendary Challenges
Raghavendra Ramachanderan, 16, St. John's International ResidentialSchool, Chennai, India
Kinetic Analysis of Nanometallic Catalyst in Reduction of Nitrophenol:Investigation of a New Class of "Super Catalyst"
Quoc-Bao Duy Nguyen, 16, Westwood High School and McNeil High School, Austin, Texas
Mai-Anh N. Vu, 15, Westwood High School and McNeil High School, Austin, Texas
Second Award $1,500
Modeling Hydrogen Production Catalyzed by a Novel Electrocatalyst with Density Functional Theory
Shubhro Saha, 18, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut
Polyfunctionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes as Novel Scaffoldsfor Multimodal Tumor-Targeted Therapyand Biological Imaging
Neil Pathak, 18, Herricks Senior High School, New Hyde Park, New York
Synthesis and Manipulation of Silver and Gold Nano-Mirrors
Michael Leonard Janner, 15, Redlands East Valley High School, Redlands,California
Third Award of $1,000
The Electrochemical Effects of Glucose and Sucrose on the Voltage Output of a Microbial Fuel Cell Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Jack Erdozain, Jr., 16, Westminster Christian School, Palmetto Bay, Florida
Lighting Insulin with Gold Nanodots
Yun-Chen Chien, 17, Taipei First Girls' High School, Taipei, Taipei City, Taiwan (R.O.C), Chinese Taipei
The Investigation of the Key Steps of Detoxinine Total Synthesis
Alexander Sergeevich Shved, 16, Moscow Chemical Lyceum 1303, Moscow,Russia
Optimization and Mechanistic Investigation of a User and Eco-Friendly Protocol for Oxidative Cleavage of Alkenes
Prem P. Thottumkara, 18, Macomb High School, Macomb, Illinois
From Dusk to Dawn: Contact Lenses in the Night Tear Proteome
Jack Huang, 17, Parkland High School, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Fourth Award of $500
Adventures in the Dendritric Crystallization of Potassium Bromide
Jack Daniel Francis McCann, 16, Loreto College, Coleraine, NorthernIreland, United Kingdom
Photostabilization of an Organic Dye via Adsorption to Clay Minerals
Maya Ellen Samuels, 17, Har Va'Gai Regional High School, Upper Galilee,Israel
Investigation of Ideal Conditions to Retain Ascorbic Acid in Common Cooking Methods
Alexander Scott Powers, 16, Bellarmine College Preparatory, San Jose,California
The Synthesis of Organometallic Complexes of Iridium (III) and Platinum(II) for OLED Applications
Marek Buchman, 18, School for Extraordinary Gifted Children,Bratislava, Slovakia
Asymmetric Total Synthesis of GlaxoSmithKline's Potent PhosphodiesteraseInhibitor
Yaroslav Dmitrievich Boyko, 17, Moscow Chemical Lyceum 1303, Moscow,Russia
A Study on the Photo-catalytic Disinfectant Effect ofSubstrate-Embedded, Annealed, and Anodized TiO2 Thin Films on E. coli
Pranav Nagaraj Haravu, 16, North Carolina School of Science andMathematics, Durham, North Carolina
Vipul Tushar Vachharajani, 17, North Carolina School of Science andMathematics, Durham, North Carolina
Biochemistry
Intel will present Best of Category Winners with a $5,000 award.Additionally a $1,000 grant will be given to their school and the Intel ISEFAffiliated Fair they represent.
Intel ISEF Best of Category Award of $5,000 for Top First Place Winner
Computational Analysis of Specific Missense Mutations in the SMN Tudor Domain
Dianna Hu, 18, Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
First Award of $3,000
Computational Analysis of Specific Missense Mutations in the SMN Tudor Domain
Dianna Hu, 18, Half Hollow Hills High School West, Dix Hills, New York
From Models to Medications: Identification of Medication Leads forTreating Methamphetamine Addiction
Yamini T. Naidu, 16, Valley Catholic High School, Beaverton, Oregon
Second Award of $1,500
The Effects of Methyl Jasmonate on Crown Gall Regression and ProteinProduction in Lycopersicon esculentum
Chad Lawrence Harris, 18, Palm Bay High School, Melbourne, Florida
Regulation of Nitric Oxide Expression as a Form of Neurotransmitter Plasticity
Vaishnavi Lakshminarasimha Rao, 15, Canyon Crest Academy, San Diego,California
Research on Functional Dietary Fibre of Wheat Bran
Fubin Li, 17, Zhengzhou No.11 Middle School, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Yakang Li, 18, Zhengzhou No.2 Middle School, Zhengzhou, Henan, China
Zhongning Hao, 15, Henan Experimental High School, Zhengzhou, Henan,China
Third Award of $1,000
Determination of Estrogen as a Trigger of Protandric Colony Formationof Amphiprion ocellaris
Emily Marie Crisp, 18, Loudoun County Academy of Science, Sterling,Virginia
Lipodystrophy Protein Seipin Functions in Lipid Droplet Biogenesis and Morphology
Anita Sanjay Chandrahas, 18, Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Denton, Texas
Genetic and Genomic Analysis of TOR1 Signaling in Initiation of Cell Quiescence
Lev Omelchenko, 18, Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York
Effects of Fatty Acids on Skeletal Muscle Proliferation and Development
Anji Li, 16, Pioneer High School, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Evaluation of Fusarochromanone 101a: A Novel Fungus-Derived Anti-Cancer Drug
Yoon Jee Kim, 18, Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana
Daniel Christopher Felty, 18, Caddo Parish Magnet High School,Shreveport, Louisiana
Fourth Award of $500
Grow Me Some Green!
Brooke Suzanne Conley, 15, Hardee Senior High School, Wauchula, Florida
Detection and Analysis of Point Mutations of the Oxidative Variety inthe K-ras Gene
Charles Preston Blakemore, 18, Academy for Math, Engineering and Science, Salt Lake City, Utah
Milkfish (Chanos chanos Forsskal) Serum as an Alternative Media Supplement for Culture of A549 (Human Lung) and HCT 116 (Colon) Carcinomas
Angeli Joyce Yap Dy, 16, Capiz National High School, Roxas, Capiz Province, Philippines
Inhibition of the ATPase Activity of the Hepatitis C Virus NS3 Proteinby Human Lactoferrin
Sabrina Bouchard, 17, Seminaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Gastro Microbial Fuel Cell: A Novel Implementation of a GMFC inCapsular Nanorobotics
Raja Selvakumar, 16, Milton High School, Milton, Georgia
The Use of Click-Chemistry and the Tetrazine-Norbornene Complex toSynthesize Herceptin Radiolabelled to Zr-89 and Ga-67
Gabriel Isaac Weissmann, 17, Horace Greeley High School, Chappaqua, NewYork
Priya Mohindra, 16, Yorktown High School, Yorktown Heights, New York
Note that additional details on these awards can be found at http://www.societyforscience.org/intelisef2011