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Eukaryon Volume 10

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An  UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL of  LIFE SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP  at  LAKE FOREST COLLEGE

Eukaryon  is an award-winning undergraduate research journal that publishes the very best of life science scholarship conducted at Lake Forest College within its research-rich classrooms and faculty labs. The journal is governed, peer-reviewed, and published by an undergraduate editorial board. 

VOLUME 10

Table of Contents

Editor's Corner

Year Ten: On the Origin of Eukaryon

Vicki Gerentes
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL 60045

Our Courses and Professors

Professor Robert B. Glassman’s Legacy on Lake Forest College

Fatima Hooda & Reshma Kurian
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

How Did We Get Here?

Kat Andrews
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Dr. Robert B. Glassman: A Man of Passion, Knowledge, and Friendship

Kim Diah, Alyssa Parr, and Carliann Pentz
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A New Addition to Lake Forest College Faculty Family

Kaya Cuper
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
News and Views

What KYNA Neuroprotection Do You Need?

Amanda Morais
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Stopping Protein Trouble 4 Good

Khadijah Hamid
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Abroad and In Our Backyard

My First Taste of Public Health Work: Dengue in Costa Rica

Victoria Egedus
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL 60045

Mysteries, Clouds, and Wonder

Luis Beltrán 
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Indeed the “world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” My Adventures and Studies in Sydney, Australia

Kaya Cuper 
Department of Biology 
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL 60045

Beyond the Classroom

My Four Years as a Forester: Advice to the Class of 2018

Amanda Allred
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

School Assignment Grows into Career Opportunity

Maria Basith
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Nu Rho Psi-ence

Katrina Campbell
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Day in the Life of an Orthopedic Surgeon

Alyssa Tunison
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Summer in the Lab

Fatima Hooda, Jyothis James, Keke Roberts
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Mental Illness and the Prison System: A Student’s Journey

Sarah Smolyansky
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Learning Beyond the Classroom

Devyn Lerner
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

From the Liberal Arts to an MD/PhD

Jyothis James
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Creative Writing

Hardwiring a Friendship

Joseph Bortolotti
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Self-Destructive Behavior

Peter Nesper
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL 60045

My Secret Role in True Happiness: A Story of a Neuron

Mallory Burney
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL 60045

Book and Film Review

Searching for Meaning in the Inevitable

Marina Rawlings
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Phantoms in the Brain and their Vanquishment by the Human Spirit

Amanda Allred
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL 60045

How to Govern Our Lives Through Neuroethics

Joseph Bortolotti
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Depictions of Autism in the Media: A Comparison of Autobiography Thinking in Pictures and Films Temple Grandin and Rain Man

Amanda Allred
Lake Forest College,
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Review Article

Painful, hot, and toxic secrets of TRP channels

Rachel Gonzales
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Myeloid Leukemia: Mechanisms of Stem Cell Mutation, Proliferation, and the Ensuing Treatments

Alexandra Reeder 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Changes in Behavior following Extinction: the Effects on Predator Species versus Prey Species

Jennifer Sojka
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

C. elegans Exposed to Calorie Restriction and Resveratrol Concurrently have Statistically Similar Lifespans to the Control

Tyler Kaplan 
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Assessing the Ecological Restoration of Motutapu Island, New Zealand

Samantha Zender
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Snapshot of Breast Cancer

Brianna Lemond 
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Remarkable Effects of Misfolded Proteins: Infection, Evolution, & Disease

Katrina Campbell
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL, 60045
The Role of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Antibiotic Resistance
Tyler Kaplan
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Historical Ocean Chemistry Changes in Relation to Modern Ocean Chemistry with the Addition of Anthropogenic Factors

Kristen Waltos
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Primary

The Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis and the Diversity of Bacteria on the Human Body

Patrick Hanes
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Senior Project

The Localization of PABPC1 in HeLa Cells

Emily Hampden-Smith
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Senior Thesis

The Developmental Disruptions of Ventral Hippocampal PV-Positive Interneurons by Early Adolescent Drug Exposure

Kim Diah
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Identifying a role for POT1 as a regulator of the telomeric end in Aspergillus nidulans

Tyler Hauer
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Co-regulation of miRNA biogenesis and alternative pre-mRNA splicing of host gene

Ashley A. Reich
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Characterization of Familial Mutants and Splice Variants of Parkinson’s Disease Protein α- Synuclein in Yeast Models

Natalie Kukulka
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Micronutrients in IBD

Kaila Stephens
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Adolescent Exposure to CB1 Receptor Agonist Elicits a Disinhibited PFC State in Adulthood- missing figures

Chanalee Hocharoen
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Effects of Savanna Restoration on Ant Communities

Nicole Vachter
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

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