St. Bonaventure University

Arts & Sciences Exposition 2022


Collage of students with their projects

After a two-year hiatus, the Arts & Sciences Exposition is back! Expo 2022 was held Thursday, April 28 and Friday, April 29. The event featured 35 participants and 32 projects.

For numerous photos of the reception, courtesy of Danny Bush, visit St. Bonaventure's Flickr account.

 

Participants, Projects, and Mentors

The projects are indexed by the mentors’ departments/programs.

The 2022 Arts & Sciences Exposition 
Biology
Courtney Fox ‘23 & Tharini Nagarkar ‘24: “The future with FEZ1: Overexpression in MLL-rearranged acute myeloid leukemias.”
Mentor: Dr. Kaitlyn Dykstra
Amelia Haley ’23 & Neeya Shetty ‘24: “Determining the role of autophagy during glutaminase inhibition in acute myeloid leukemias.”
Mentor: Dr. Kaitlyn Dykstra
Sonal Mahindroo ‘22, Nishtha Tripathi ‘24, & Tanvi Paritala ‘23: “The effect of 3,5-dichlorosalicylic acid (DCSA) on craniofacial abnormalities in Zebrafish.”
Mentor: Dr. Sean Ryan
Kira Dewey ‘24: Effect of Thieves Oil and Tea Tree Oil on Staphylococcus epidermis Biofilm Growth.
Mentor: Dr. Johanna Schwingel
Laurie Horsch ’23 & Shannon Heinig ‘24: “Generation of a narG-GFP construct for future applications in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.”
Mentor: Dr. Johanna Schwingel
Biochemistry
Arden Bui ‘23 & Xiao-Ning Zhang (with Christopher Chin, Mario Santos, Chandra Shekhar Misra, & Jörg D. Becker): “The Effects of a Splicing Regulator, Serine/Arginine-rich 45, on Arabidopsis thaliana Sperm Transcriptome.”
Mentor: Dr. Xiaoning Zhang
Arden Bui ‘23 & Xiao-Ning Zhang “Opening Up about SR45 and ATBBE8 in Arabidopsis thaliana Stomata Defense Against Bacteria.”
Mentor: Dr. Xiaoning Zhang
Claire Schaef ‘22, Courtney Fox ’23, & Xiao-Ning Zhang: “Don’t Be So Sensitive! Investigating SR45 Suppression of Immunity through Hypersensitive Induced Reaction Proteins.”
Mentor: Dr. Xiaoning Zhang
Katharina Heitzman ‘22 & Xiao-Ning Zhang: “Plants vs. Pathogens: How Does SR45’s Suppression of Salicylic Acid Pathway Genes Play a Role in this Molecular War?”
Mentor: Dr. Xiaoning Zhang
Leigha Haberly ‘23 & Xiao-Ning Zhang: “A Molecular Battleground: How SR45 Suppresses Protease SAP2 to Regulate Immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana.”
Mentor: Dr. Xiaoning Zhang
Chemistry
Michael LaRock ‘22: “Functional Group Comparison of Micellular Partition Coefficients for 8-Carbon Per- and Poly-Fluorinated Alkyl Acids.”
Mentor: Dr. Scott Simpson
Katherine Merkel ’23 & Michael LaRock ‘22: “Investigation of the Electronic Structure of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes.”
Mentor: Dr. Scott Simpson
William Wozniak ‘24: “Calculating the Effects of Corks on Single Atom Alloys Aggregation.”
Mentor: Dr. Scott Simpson
Aahana Kidambi ‘25, Hyunjin Kim ‘25, & Samay Saxena ‘25: “Calculating Octanol-Water Partition Coefficients for 4-Carbon & 6-Carbon Polyfluorinated Alkyl Acids.”
Mentor: Dr. Scott Simpson
Raj Patel ‘25: “Calculating Octanol/Water Partition Coefficients for 3-Carbon Polyfluorinated Alkyl Substances.”
Mentor: Dr. Scott Simpson
Computer Science
Emma Fox ‘22: “Tech Consulting in the Community: Database Design.”
Mentors: Dr. Chris Bopp
Austin Vennard ‘24, Brandon Nguyen ‘24, & Will Ainsworth ‘22: “Stock market prediction in machine learning.” Course project for CS 258 - Machine Learning.
Mentor: Dr. Remah Alshinina
John Groth ’23 & Gregory Frederick ‘23: “Hybrid Machine Learning Algorithm Applied to Credit Card Fraud Detection.” Course project for CS 258 - Machine Learning.
Mentor: Dr. Remah Alshinina
Mathematics
Erica Low ’22, Matthew Weimer ’22, & John “Jack” Steger ‘22: “The St. Bonaventure Prime Project.”
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Hill
Sociology and Criminology
Mary Sabatelle ‘23: “Survivors share their stories: The slacktivism of domestic violence as told by #MaybeHeDoesntHitYou via Twitter.”
Mentor: Dr. Samantha Gavin
Olivia Lattimer ‘22: “Colombia’sCollege students: Reporting victimization.” Honors Project.
Mentor: Dr. Samantha Gavin
Mary Esposito ‘22: “What Makes People Get the Covid-19 Vaccine?”
Mentor: Dr. Samantha Gavin
Visual and Performing Arts
Ellie Weidner: Two paintings of a pomegranate – oil; Landscape – acrylics on canvas; Abstract – completed in Adobe illustrated and produced into a tray through society6.com.
Mentor: Anne Mormile, M.F.A.
Abisek Saththiyasritharan: Three works – Pen and ink on paper.
Mentor: Anne Mormile, M.F.A.
Carolina Berlingieri ‘25: “Burning Dawn” (landscape – pastel on paper); “Inside My Mind” (abstract – mixed media).
Mentor: Anne Mormile, M.F.A.