In our second year of Independent Science Research, we spent our summers working in our labs and presented our work to our classmates in the Fall. Our research at the lab continued throughout the year as we began drafting our research papers. Finally, to finish off the school year, we prepared posters for the 2026 Independent Science Research Symposium. We are looking forward to continuing our lab work this summer.
Department: Engineering and Photonics
Research Institution: Voyant Photonics Inc.
Mentor: Mr. Dan Bush
Title of Research: LiDAR Ground Plane Segmentation Through Normal Analysis
Department: Nutritional Sciences
Research Institution: Brooklyn College
PI/Mentor: Dr. Xinyin Jiang
Title of Research: Testing the effectiveness of choline + DHA as supplements for metabolic outcomes in mice offspring
Department: Nanoscience Initiative
Research Institution: The City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center
PI/Mentor: Dr. Xi Chen (PI) & Dr. Walker MacSwain (Mentor)
Title of Research: Water Responsive Materials for Energy Generation
Department: Neuroscience
Research Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PI: Dr. Brian Sweis Mentor: Emma Andraka
Title of Research: Direct Social Interaction Shapes Partner-Choice in One-Shot Social Navigation Row
Department: Earth Sciences
Research Institution: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
PI/Mentor: Dr. Benjamin Cook
Title of Research: Extreme climate metrics as indicators of extreme urban flooding in Houston, Texas
Department: Microbiology
Research Institution: Brooklyn College
PI/Mentor: Dr. Anjana Saxena
Title of Research: Targeting DNA repair by PARP1 in TNBC to overcome resistance to chemotherapy
Department: Cardiovascular Molecular Biology
Research Institution: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
PI/Mentor: Dr. Gissette Reyes-Soffer / Nelsa Matienzo
Title of Research: Observing the relationship between apoproteins and extracellular vesicles
Department: Psychiatry
Research Institution: Mount Sinai
PI/Mentor: Dr. Cheen Ang
Title of Research: Improving MERFISH Using a Multi-Well Coverslip System
Department: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Institution: NYU Tandon
PI/Mentor: Dr. Sai Zhang
Title of Research: Exploring the Viability of Vision Transformers in Real-Time Eye Movement Analysis
Department: Hematology & Medical Oncology
Research Institution: Weill Cornell Medicine
PI/Mentor: Dr Guzman & Leandro Martinez
Title of Research: Implementing a novel In Vitro 3D Model to Mimic the Leukemia Microenvironment
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Department: Environmental Sciences
Research Institution: Advanced Science Research Center at CUNY
PI/Mentor: Nathalia Rodríguez Puntiel
Title of Research: Tracking the spread and progression of beech leaf disease (BLD) on beech leaf trees from a New York City to Catskills gradient
Department: Neurology
Research Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PI/Mentor: Dr. Fanny Elahi (PI) | Dr. Jennie Chen (Mentor)
Title of Research: The impact of TNF-α on CD31 expression intensity in induced endothelial cells
Department: Microbiology
Research Institution: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
PI/Mentor: Dr. Jose Clemente (PI), Maria Shabashkevich (Mentor)
Title of Research: ACTIVATE: The effect of the microbiome on infant allergies
Department: Department of Epilepsy
Research Institution: NYU Langone's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
PI/Mentor: Dr. Andrew J. Michalak
Title of Research: Training an unsupervised AI model to identify seizure onset with equal accuracy to board certified epileptologists