Research projects and participants from the 2014 Latin American Summer Research Program

1. #LASRP2014

2. ErickOrlando
Rodríguez Mazón
Universidad de Sonora
Mentor: Dr. Gondy Leroy, Management Information Systems
Title: Health Literacy
Major: Information Systems Engineering

3. LuisGustavo Lima
Nascimento
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Mentor: Dr. Donald Slack & Dr.Werner Zimmt, Agricultural and
Biosystems Engineering Department
Title: Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic components of Sweet Sorghum by
wild fungi
Major: Food Engineering.

4. Luis Felipe Padilla
Martínez
Universidad de Guanajuato
Mentor: Dr. Reyes SierraAlvarez, Department of Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
Title: Efficiency of micro-algal biomass (Chlorella sorokiniana)
as an electron donor for the removal of heavy metals from
contaminated water by sulfate-reducing bacteria.
Major: Experimental Biology

5. KathiaGissele
Ramos López
UniversidadTecnológica Centroamericana
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Lansey, Department of Civil Engineering &
Engineering Mechanics
Title: Investigating the Impact of System Simplification on
System Linearity
Major: Civil Engineering

6. AlejandraContreras
Calcáneo
Universidad Juárez Autónoma deTabasco
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Gosner, Department of History
Title:The logwood trade in the Spanish Colonial era
Major: History

7. Alan DaríoCampos
León
Universidad Juárez Autónoma deTabasco
Mentor: Dr. CholikChan,Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering Department
Title: Rayleigh Benard Convection using Lattice
Boltzmann Method
Major: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering

8. Ricardo Balam
CastroTorres
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mentor: Dr. Laura Lopez-Hoffman, Udall Center for Studies in
Public Policy and School of Natural Resources and the
Environment
Title: A Classification System for Payment for Ecosystem
Services Programs
Major: Geography

9. Andrés Ferriño Iriarte
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Cordes, Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry
Title: Influence of the helix-turn-helix subdomain on Cro proteins
structural evolution
Major: Biology

10. Camila Moreira
Batatinha de Souza
Universidade Federal doVale do São Francisco
Mentor: Dr. Kevin Lansey, Department Head, Civil Engineering &
Engineering Mechanics
Title: Flow Allocation Model for Prescott Active Management
Area
Major: Civil Engineering

11. Carla Lizbeth
SegoviaTrinidad
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mentor: Dr. Indraneel Gosh, Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry
Title: Progress toward developing
Major: Chemical Engineering

12. Clayton José de
Oliveira
Faculdade deTecnologia de Americana
Mentor: Dr. Mingfeng Lin, Department of Management
Information Systems
Title: Understanding the entrepreneurs who use microfinance
websites to fund their businesses
Major: Computer and InformationTechnology

13. José DavidGastélum
López
Universidad de Occidente
Mentor: Dr.Young-Jun Son, Department Head, Systems and
Industrial Engineering Department
Title: Consumers Purchase Decision-Making Modeling
Major: Industrial Engineering and Processes

14. José David Núñez Ríos
Universidad de Guanajuato
Mentor: Dr. Christopher Hulme, Department of Pharmacology
andToxicology
Title: Synthesis and Docking Studies of Potential HIV Reverse
Transcriptase Inhibitors Using Multicomponent Reactions
Major: Clinical Biochemistry and Pharmacy

15. DouglasAlves
Rodrigues
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Mentor: Dr.Young-Jun Son, Department Head, Systems and
Industrial Engineering Department
Title: GameTheory Based Machine Selection via Agent Based
Simulation
Major: Industrial Engineering

16. CamilleCarvalho de
Mendonça
Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Mentor: Dr. GeorgThomas Wondrak, Department of Pharmacology and
Toxicology
Title: Identification of the Quinone Methide Aurin as a Proteotoxic Stress
Inducer, Heat Shock ResponseActivator, and Protein Crosslinker
Major: Chemistry

17. Emerson Felipe
Brandão
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas
Mentor: Dr. Jeniffer G. Duan, Department of Civil Engineering
& Engineering Mechanics
Title: Experimental Studies of SedimentTransport in
Meandering River
Major: Civil Engineering

18. Jesús Joaquín
FigueroaZamudio
Universidad de Sonora
Mentor: Dr. Benjamin J. Renquist,, School of Animal and
Comparative Biomedical Sciences
Title: Efficient, Rapid Assay for Predicting the Growth Rate of
Aquaculture Species Based on Metabolic Rate of the Fertilized
Egg
Major:Agricultural Engineering

19. BriandaArmenta Navarrete
Universidad de Sonora
Mentor: Dr. Gondy Leroy, Department of Management Information Systems
Title: Health Literacy,
Major: Information Systems Engineering

20. Euclides Brandão Maluf
Instituto Federal Minas Gerais – Campus Bambuí
Mentor: Dr.Young Jun Son, Systems and Industrial Engineering
Department
Title: Consumer Purchase Decision-Making Modeling via Agent
Based Simulation
Major: Industrial Engineering

21. Eliziéle Nunes Paroli
Federal University of Santa Maria
Mentor: Dr. Chandra D. HolifieldCollins, USDA-ARS
SouthwestWatershed Research Center
Title: Assessing the effect of brush management on semiarid
rangelands in southeastern Arizona
Major: Geographic Information Systems

22. GabrielYoshida
Paukowski
UniversidadeTecnólogica Federal do Paraná
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Jacobs, Fluid Mechanic and Instability
Laboratory
Title: Rayleigh-Taylor Instability under the influence of
expansion waves
Major: Mechanical Engineering

23. Heloisa Senarese
Mininel
Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho”
Mentor: Dr. Kimberly Ogden, Department Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
Title: Microalgal cultures in waste water for biomass
production
Major: Food Engineering

24. Javier Israel Reynoso
Córdova
Universidad de Guanajuato
Mentor: Peter Loch, Associate Research Scientist, Department
of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences. Experimental Particle
Physics Department
Title: Searching for New Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions
at LHC
Major: Physics

25. Henan José Michelim
Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
Mentor: Dr. Eduardo Sáez, Department of Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
Title: Degradation of p-cresol under Solar light-UV lamp/Fe
Treatment
Major: Chemical Engineering

26. Fernando Martínez
Anguis
InstitutoTecnólogico de Sonora
Mentor: Dr. Saumya K. Debray, Computer Science Department
Title:Why is Malware different from ordinary Software
Major: Software Engineering

27. IsaacGabrielGarcía
García
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Mentor: Dr. Mohammad Poursina, Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering Department
Title: MATLAB: Introduction for Engineering Students
Major: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

28. João PauloVaz
FlorianoToledo
Universidade Federal de Lavras
Mentor: Dr. A. Elizabeth Arnold, School of Plant Sciences
Title: Fungal endophyte growth in plant extracts from Quercus
hypoleucoides and Juniperus deppeana: the effect of wildfire
wildfire and host plant chemistry
Major: Chemistry

29. JoséAltamirano
Bermúdez
InstitutoTecnológico Superior de Eldorado
Mentor: Dr. Chris Gniady, Computer Science & Dr.Thienne Johnson,
Computer Science
Title:At Home Health Monitoring System for Elderly Heart Surgery
Patients through the use of Android Applications with Wireless
Biomedical Sensors
Major: Computer Systems Engineering

30. Luciano Lara del
Hoyo
Universidad Juárez Autónoma deTabasco
Mentor: Dr. NimaToosizadeh, Department of Surgery,College
of Medicine
Title: Frailty and its relation in the wound healing process
Major: Medicine

31. Luana LottAlves
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Mentor: Dr.Young-Jun Son, Systems and Industrial
Engineering Department
Title: Consumers Purchase Decision-Making Modeling via
Agent Based Simulation
Major: Industrial Engineering

32. LucasCampos
Barreto
Universidade Federal doVale do São Francisco
Mentor: Dr. Jesse Little, Aerospace and Mechanical
Engineering Department
Title: Laser Energy Deposition for Aerodynamic Flow Control
Major: Mechanical Engineering

33. Luiz Henrique
Teixeira
Centro Universitário de Caratinga
Mentor: Dr. Reyes SierraAlvarez, Department of Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
Title: Inhibitory Effect of Metals and Metalloids in CdTe and
CdSe Leachates on the Methanogenic Activity of Microbial
Communities in Landfills
Major: Environmental Engineering

34. Maíra Saeger
Ruschmann daCosta
Universidade Federal Fluminense
Mentor: Dr. Luke Pangle- Biosphere 2, and Dr. PeterTroch-
Department of Hydrology and Water Resources
Title: Using Sulfur Hexafluroide to Quantify the Gas Leakage Rate
within the Landscape Evolution Observatory (LEO) and the
Diffusion Coefficient of the Crushed Basalt
Major: Civil Engineering

35. José MartínZapién
Macías
InstitutoTecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Zamora
Mentor: Dr. Barry M. Pryor, College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences
Title: Can Fungal Endophytes Improve the SaltTolerance of
Maize, Barley, and Millet?
Major: Food Processing Engineering

36. Matheus Marques
Barbosa
Universidade Federal de Itajubá
Mentor: Dr. Jonathan Sprinckle and Dr. HarisVolos,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
Title: Adaptive Multi-factor Routing with Constrained Data
Sets
Major: Electronic Engineering

37. Natielle Ferreira
França
Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz
Mentor: Dr. Keith Boesen, Arizona Poison and Drug
Information Center
Title: Lithium Intoxication Cases at the Arizona Poison and
Drug Information Center: Analysis of the Use of Hemodialysis
asTreatment
Major: Pharmacy

38. PerlaYazmín Sauceda
Oloño
Universidad de Sonora
Mentor: Dr. Salim Hariri, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department
Title: Smart BuildingTestbed for ResilientWireless
Communication through MovingTarget Defense
Major: Mechatronics Engineering

39. Rocío Idalia Rascón
Delgado
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
Mentor: Dr. Edwin Skidmore, Director of Infrastructure at the
BIO5/iPlant Collaborative Department.
Title: High Performance Data Sets
Major: Computer Systems Engineering

40. Sara deAndaTorres
InstitutoTecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Zamora
Mentor: Dr. Kim Ogden, Department of Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
Title: Microalgal cultures in waste water for biomass
production
Major: Food Engineering

41. Steffany Michell
Orellana Enríquez
UniversidadTecnológica Centroamericana
Mentor: Dr. Jeniffer G. Duan, Civil Engineering & Engineering
Mechanics
Title: Experimental Studies of SedimentTransport in
Meandering River
Major: Civil Engineering

42. Tatiana Santos
Andrade
Universidade Federal dosVales Jequitinhonha e Mucuri
Mentor: Dr. Eduardo Sáez, Department of Chemical and
Environmental Engineering
Title: Degradation of p-cresol under Solar light-UV lamp/Fe
Treatment
Major: Chemical Engineering

43. Thais Silva Roque
UniversidadeTecnológica Federal do Paraná
Mentor: Dr.Young-Jun Son, Department Head, Systems and
Industrial Engineering Department
Title: GameTheory Based Machine Selection via Agent Based
Simulation
Major: Industrial Engineering

44. Rommel Javã Lira
Gadelha
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Mentor: Dr. Mrinal Ghosh, Department of Marketing, Eller
College
Title: Franchising
Major: Engineering Management

45. Tonatiuh Munguía
Villanueva
Universidad Juárez Autónoma deTabasco
Mentor: Dr. Jordan, Michelle,Assistant Professor of
Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences,Arizona State
University
Title: UnderstandingYouth Collaboration: How learners
experience the design process in a collaborative context
Major: Biology

46. Carlos Ulises
GonzálezValle
Universidad de Guanajuato
Mentor: Dr. Peiwen Li, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Department
Title: 3D Numerical study to the Effects of
Geometry/Dimensions of Gas Flow Channels on High
Temperature PEM Fuel Cells
Major: Mechanical Engineering

47. YugoAraujo Martins
Universidade Federal do Ceará
Mentor: Dr.Todd D. Camenisch, Pharmacology andToxicology
Department
Title: Optimizing a HepG2 Liver Cell Model to Examine Lipid
Uptake
Major: Pharmacy

48. Zaid Ezequiel
GarcíaGuillén
Universidad de Occidente
Mentor: Dr.Young-Jun Son, Systems and Industrial
Engineering Department
Title: GameTheory Based Machine Selection via Agent Based
Simulation
Major: Systems and Industrial Engineering

49. Alejandra
Arguelles López
Universidad de Sonora
Mentor: Dr. Kirsten Limesand, Department of Nutritional
Sciences.
Title: Effects of the activation of the EDA/EDAR signaling
pathway on compensatory proliferation and amylase area in a
mouse model of radiation-induced salivary gland dysfunction
Major: Nutritional Sciences