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TABLE of CONTENTSVOLUME 12 | MARCH 2016
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ABOUT THE COVER ARTWORK
“Glacier Fracturing” BY ASHLEY ACKERMAN ’16
“A mixed media work that breaks down the different layers of ice sheet that make up glaciers. The work restructures these different kinds of ice to create a mysterious tertian.”
-ASHLEY ACKERMAN ’16
ISSN 1937-2604
About the Authors
| Editor’s Corner |
Year Twelve: Structure is Everything
Tyler Kaplan
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Accolades |
AWARDS, WINNERS, INDUCTEES, and SCHOLARS of 2015 |
| Our Courses and Professors |
Welcome New Environmental Studies and Psychology Department Professors
Josephine Masandika and Pegah Nabili
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 An Interview with Ken Weik: A Crusader for Nature
Hannah Samberg
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Scholar of the Third Floor
Rachel Granberg
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| News & Views |
Quinacrine: Therapeutic or Apoptotic? Certainly double-edged.
Michael Janecek
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Guardian Angel Enzyme
Zach Sekulich
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Search for Glioblastoma’s Achilles Heel
Cecilia Reyes |
| Abroad and In Our Backyards |
Reforestation in Costa Rica: Setting Precedents
Brittany Schweiger
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 At the Edge of the “Land of the Long White Cloud”
Alyssa Tunison
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Beyond the Classroom |
The Road to Crystallizing the hERG Pore
Lindsay Hartup
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Pills or Plants
Peyton Schrag
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Innovate Summer Experience: Examining alpha-Synuclein Nitration in Parkinson’s Disease
Yuliya Zayats
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Creative Writing |
A Footnote from a Singular Infinity
Kendra Fobert
Department Of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Neurological Disease for Dummies: A Comparative Critique
Olivia Dellomodarme
Department Of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Civil War of the Brain
Yulia Zayats
Department Of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Book/Film Review |
Peering into the Black Box of the Mind: The Ingenuity of Eric R. Kandel
Kayla Huber
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Buddha’s Brain
Sarah Chiren
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Brain that Changes Itself
Sarah Chiren
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Science News |
Summer with Sharks
Nicole Zygmunt
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Stomphia: The Swimming Anemone
Jeremy Berg
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Audi Creates Fuel from Only Raw Materials
Mohini Verma Alzheimer’s: Is there hope?
Agnieszka Pastwa
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Another Ebola Epidemic
Rosemary Thomas
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Siri’s Path to World Domination: When Our Minds Become their Minds
Aasimah Tanveer
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Review Articles |
A comparison of species richness, abundance, and diversity across the human microbe system: a parallel to the latitudinal diversity gradient
Olga Kutkovska and Peter Nesper
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Detecting the danger: How do moths and butterflies manage to escape their predators?
Joshua Spreng
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The pathway leading to the conformational change of reflectin to produce color change in cephalopods
Tyler Kaplan
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Analysis of the Invasion of the Asian Carp
Trevor Buhr
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The connection between psilocybin and dreaming
Sarah Pekar
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 A comparison of historical and current use of Salvia divinorum in the United States and Mexico
Melisa Cambron
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 A Comparison of Healing from Disease and Negative Energy through Ayahuasca Use and Prevention of the Evil Eye
Dianna Saakov
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Effects of Herbivory on Soil Composition in Tropical Rainforests
Hailey Broeker
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Plasticity of Adult Human Brains
Khadijah Hamid
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 The Dance of the Long-tailed Manakin
Keke Roberts
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Epilepsy: Don’t get too excited
Natalie Brusie and Alyssa Tunison
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Neurobandits: a runaway dopamine molecule that can’t be stopped
Logan Graham, Morgan Marshall, and Ruby Ortiz
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 A Go on NOGO: Promising Therapy for CNS Disease and Injury
Cecilia Reyes and Yaroslav Voronin
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 1 trillion odors, 1,000 genes, 1 nose: The “scent-sational” mysteries of smell
Kayla Huber
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Studying the Molecular Mechanism of Post-Translational Modification of Lamin A in Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
Tyler Kaplan
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Primary Articles |
Novel Mutations A53D, A53G, A53G, A53R, and H50D of α-Synuclein in Parkinson’s Dis- ease observed in budding yeast to deter- mine effects in aggregation by different amino acid properties
Viktoriya Georgieva & Julia Garcia A Defense of Neuroethics
Jyothis James
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Anandamide Prevents Nerve Growth Factor-Dependent Neurite Outgrowth in PC12 cells
Charles Alvarado, Khadijah Hamid, & Alexandra Roman
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Methods of Gene Replacement Therapy in Mouse and Sheep Models of Tay Sachs Disease
Sarah Chiren, Scott Johnston, & Morgan Marshall
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Senior Project |
Recombinant Expression and Purification of Latent Membrane Protein 1 of Epstein-Barr Virus: Potential Insights Into Oligomerization and Lipid Raft Association
Jason McAloon
Department Of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |
| Senior Thesis |
Ant Diversity in the Urban Mosaic
Jeremy Boeing
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 Post-Dispersal Seed Fate of Ocotea floribunda (Lauraceae) in Monteverde, Costa Rica
Luis Carlos Beltrán
Department of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL 60045 |