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ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Lignification and lignin biosynthesis is an innate immune response in plants to pathogens attempting to enter the cell wall. When pathogens successfully penetrate the cell wall, it damages t…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Children with social and emotional learning suffer daily with conversation due to the lack of social interaction in the classroom setting. The purpose of the project was to create a robot to…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Determining neuronal identity in imaging data is an essential task in neuroscience, facilitating the comparison of neuronal activity across organisms. Cross-organism comparison, in turn, ena…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
With just 5% survival rates, pancreatic cancer continues to be one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Studies have discovered that an increase in polyamine concentration in biofluids cor…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
With atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations exceeding critical thresholds, the Earth’s climate and ecosystems face irreversible damage. To date, the power sector is responsible for 41% of…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Animal venoms consist of toxin peptides and proteins, and drugs derived from venoms are unique in their ability to interfere with key biological processes in the body, such as blood clotting…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Currently, there is no objective diagnostic tool for Parkinson’s disease, a progressive neurological disorder that affects more than ten million people globally. Specialists use visible symp…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ocean acidification is the evil twin of global warming! When carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, it shifts the pH of the water to neutral. This phenomenon leads to detrimental damage to…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Currently, long-distance jet engines emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, harming the environment and fueling the effects of climate change. Last year, we proposed an electric design for a…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Individuals with limited hand motor function after neurological injury are often unable to return to an independent lifestyle, even after rehabilitation. Using flexible PLA (fPLA) and PLA to…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Most drugs function by binding to a “target” receptor, activating or inhibiting the “target” signal transduction pathway, which, in ~50% of drug trials, fails to occur, leading to low effica…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry Second Award
Parkinson’s disease is a neurological disorder that impacts the movement control of patients due to the degeneration of neurons, reducing the dopaminergic levels in the brain. This causes sy…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI) holds the potential to greatly expand our understanding of the universe and our place within it. A planetary science-based approach for t…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have many real-world aircraft applications, including intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, search, and rescue, wh…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Over the last few decades, many breast cancer patients have become disease-free due to the advancements in detection, diagnosis, and treatment. However, cancer can come back for almost 30% o…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Quadcopters have many uses like delivering packages and search-and-rescue, due to easy maneuverability. However autonomous quadcopters are difficult to control since 4 motor inputs control 6…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Remote sensing technologies have revolutionized the ability to detect and classify tree species. This is vital for sustainable management and conservation, and especially early detection and…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Orbital debris are known to pose a severe threat of damage or destruction to orbital assets such as communications satellites and the International Space Station. NASA estimates that there a…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry First Award
Safeguarding food quality and safety is essential to people's livelihoods. Over recent years, the ingestion of food-borne pathogens and their related metabolic toxins increasingly affects pu…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) are a life-threatening condition with a ruptured mortality of 80-90% with no current drug-based therapies. They result from the thinning of media & adventit…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
By 2040, the global cancer burden will rise to 30 million new cases annually, with the greatest increases affecting low-to-middle-income countries. Current diagnosis methods, such as physica…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
This project presents a novel gait controller method, which generates real-time dynamic responses to efficiently operate complex legged systems. The proposed method uses a stance-swing propo…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
I designed an experiment testing if fluorescent-dyed silica nanoparticles could be used to identify leukemia biomarkers under UV imaging. I hypothesized that if fluorescent-dyed silica nanop…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Wildfires are a crucial problem that greatly affects many living things, especially the loss of many plants and animal species. Over the years, there have been more frequent wildfires. Self-…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Since the Kepler Space Telescope entered service in 2009, the data on exoplanets has increased significantly. Astronomers must manually analyze this data to identify which objects of interes…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Muons are less understood elementary particles that have applications such as interference-proof navigation and structural analysis through tomography. The goal of this project was to find a…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Second Award
Pebrine disease caused by Nosema bombycis is the most dreaded infectious disease in sericulture practice, accounting for 30% yield loss of silkworm with estimated economic loss of 10 million…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Present-day positioning systems, mainly Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and Local Positioning Systems (LPS) have proven useful in many applications. However, they also have some l…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Dysregulation of protein phosphorylation during cellular development and signal transduction is associated with a myriad of human cancers, Parkinson’s Disease, and Alzheimer’s Disease. Under…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Estuaries are wetlands where freshwater from streams mixes with salt water from sea. Also known as “kidneys of our planet”- they are extremely productive environments that filter pollutants,…