Magnet Alumni News: Summer 2022

Alumni, parents, students, teachers, and friends of the Blair Magnet are invited to a Blair Magnet Reunion on Saturday, August 27, 2022!

• Saturday, August 27, 2022, 1pm at Bohrer Park in Gaithersburg

• RSVP here: https://www.boostmyschool.com/orgs/mbhs-magnet-foundation/events/mbhs-magnet-reunion-2022

More Alumni In the News:

• Lorrie Cranor '89 discussed her research on privacy policies (Washington Post)

• Amir Caspi '96 completed a study on the success of CubeSat missions (Science)

• Alexandra Lockwood '03 shared the excitement of astronomers about the Webb Space Telescope (WBALTV)

• Journalist Jeff Guo '07 is a new co-host of Planet Money on NPR.

• Jared Duker Lichtman '14, a graduate student at Oxford, has proven a well-known conjecture about the Erdős sum of the set of prime numbers. (Quanta Magazine)

Scientific Journal Publications:

• Lorrie Cranor ‘89, Cookie Monster (Communications of the ACM)

• S. Liu, Maneesh Agrawala '90, et al., ZoomShop: Depth-Aware Editing of Photographic Composition (Computer Graphics Forum)

• L.I. Rathbun, C.A. Everett, and Dan Bergstralh '93, Emerging Cnidarian Models for the Study of Epithelial Polarity (Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology)

• S.W. Park, et al., incl. Joshua Weitz '93, The importance of the generation interval in investigating dynamics and control of new SARS-CoV-2 variants (Royal Society Interface)

• Y. Sun, et al., and Minjoo Lee '94, Delta-Doping for Enhanced III-V Tunnel Junction Performance (IEEE J. of Photovoltaics)

• S. Feng, et al., and Patricio Vela '94, Image-Based Trajectory Tracking Through Unknown Environments Without Absolute Positioning (IEEE Trans. on Mechatronics)

• J.H. Lubin, et al., incl. Grace Brannigan '96, Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 proteome in three dimensions (3D) during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic (Proteins)

• A.K. Shulz, et al., and David Hu '97, Skin wrinkles and folds enable asymmetric stretch in the elephant trunk (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

• H. Laurino Dos Santos and Jonah Berger '98, The speed of stories: Semantic progression and narrative success (Journal of Experimental Psychology)

• Aleta Quinn '01, Species in the Time of Big Data (Species Problems and Beyond)

• B. Zhang, et al., and Rahul Satija '02, Characterizing cellular heterogeneity in chromatin state with scCUT&Tag-pro (Nature Biotechnology)

• L. Leach, et al., and Kristina Cammen '03, Examining the impacts of pinnipeds on Atlantic salmon: The effects of river restoration on predator–prey interactions (Aquatic Conservation)

• Ning Bao '04, et al., Topological Link Models of Multipartite Entanglement (Quantum)

• N. Acharya, H. Aluie, and Jessica Shang '04, Numerical investigation of laser-driven shock interaction with a deformable particle (Physics of Plasmas)

• K.T. Prather, J.T. Stoffel, and Emily Tsui '04, Z-Type Ligand Coordination at Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals Modifies Surface Electrostatics (Chemistry of Materials)

• C.D. Needell and Wilma Bainbridge '05, Embracing New Techniques in Deep Learning for Estimating Image Memorability (Computational Brain & Behavior)

• O.W. Barber and Erica Hartmann '05, Benzalkonium chloride: A systematic review of its environmental entry through wastewater treatment, potential impact, and mitigation strategies (Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology)

• C. Camacho, et al., incl. Rachel Kirsch '06, Bounding the tripartite-circle crossing number of complete tripartite graphs (Journal of Graph Theory)

• A. Anderer, H. Bastani, and John Silberholz '06, Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs with Surrogates: When Should We Bother? (Management Science)

• Jordyn Wolfand '07, et al., Balancing water reuse and ecological support goals in an effluent dominated river (Journal of Hydrology X)

• N. Sapoval, et al., incl. Vicky Yao '07, Current progress and open challenges for applying deep learning across the biosciences (Nature Communications)

• K. Kato, et al., incl. Jonathan Gootenberg '09, Structure and engineering of the type III-E CRISPR-Cas7-11 effector complex (Cell)

• E.L. Murphy, Miranda Bernard '11, et al., A decision framework for estimating the cost of marine plastic pollution interventions (Conservation Biology)

• Melodi Anahtar '12, et al., Host protease activity classifies pneumonia etiology (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

• Jinhie Skarda '13, et al., Low-overhead distribution strategy for simulation and optimization of large-area metasurfaces (npj computational materials)

• S.M. Khaykin, et al., incl. Clare Singer '14, Persistence of moist plumes from overshooting convection in the Asian monsoon anticyclone (Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics)

• Michael Winer '15 and B. Swingle, Hydrodynamic Theory of the Connected Spectral form Factor (Physical Review X)

Medical Research:

• O. Altayar, R. Shah, Charissa Chang '91, et al., AGA Technical Review on Systemic Therapies for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Gastroenterology)

• J.L. Griffith, et al., and Arash Kimyai-Asadi '92, Double-Opposed Rhombic Flaps for the Closure of Mohs Micrographic Defects on the Anterior and Distal Lower Leg (Dermatologic Surgery)

• S. Sriramkumar, et al., and Heather O'Hagan '94, Platinum-induced mitochondrial OXPHOS contributes to cancer stem cell enrichment in ovarian cancer (J. Transl. Med.)

• Atish Choudhury '95, et al., A Phase I Study Investigating AZD8186, a Potent and Selective Inhibitor of PI3Kβ/δ, in Patients with Advanced Solid Tumors (Clinical Cancer Research)

• D. Khoujah and Wan-Tsu Wendy Chang '99, The emergency neurology literature 2020 (Am. J. Emerg. Med.)

• X. Hu, et al., and Ani Manichaikul '99, Polygenic transcriptome risk scores for COPD and lung function improve cross-ethnic portability of prediction in the NHLBI TOPMed program (Am. J. Human Genetics)

• Jennifer Caswell-Jin '02, et al., National claims data analysis of outcomes of hospitalized cancer patients without COVID-19 infection during versus prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (Journal of Clinical Oncology)

• Byron Drumheller '02, et al., Severe bradycardia from severe hyperkalemia: Patient characteristics, outcomes and factors associated with hemodynamic support (Am. J. Emerg. Med.)

• Ximena Levander '02, et al., Contraception and Healthcare Utilization by Reproductive-Age Women Who Use Drugs in Rural Communities: a Cross-Sectional Survey (J. Gen. Intern. Med.)

• E.D. Blue, et al., and Melodi Javid Whitley '03, Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma Arising in Immunosuppressed Patients: A Systematic Review of Tumor Profiling Studies (JID Innovations)

• Cynthia Xu '08, et al., Assessments of microvascular function in organ systems (Heart and Circulatory Physiology)

• A. Farhan, et al., incl. Elizabeth Partan '10, Clinical manifestations of patients with GDF2 mutations associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia type 5 (Am. J. Medical Genetics)

Public Policy:

• T.H. Baker, K. Judge, and Aaron Klein ‘94, Credit, Crises, and Infrastructure: The Differing Fates of Large and Small Businesses (Boston University Law Review)

• Miranda Mockrin '95, et al., A Tale of Two Fires: Retreat and Rebound a Decade After Wildfires in California and South Carolina (Society & Natural Resources)

• Sarah Oh Lam ‘00, A Review of ‘Big Tech’ Antitrust Litigation in the Federal Courts (Richmond Journal of Law and Technology)

• Jennifer Helgeson '02, et al., Natural hazards compound COVID-19 impacts on small businesses disproportionately for historically underrepresented group operators (International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)

In this newsletter:

• Startup Founder Nina Lu '12

• Class of 2021 College Check-In