Eukaryon Volume 13

An  UNDERGRADUATE  JOURNAL of  LIFE SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP at LAKE FOREST COLLEGE

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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 13

Table of Contents

Primary Article

Attempting to make G51A, G51R, and H50N mutants and analyzing the effects of the A53D mutant on toxicity in α-synuclein 

Chelsea Evans and Paul Jones 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Creation of α-Synuclein C-terminus Truncations at Amino Acids 110, 100, 90, & 80, for the Use in Future Research Relating to Parkinson’s Disease in Budding Yeast 

Cade Brittain, Rebecca Shoup, and Anthony Zimmerman 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Hymenoptera as Indicators of the Diversity of Arthropods: Restoration of the Oak Savanna 

Nicholas Arthur 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Validation of Doublecortin Hippocampal Localization 

Logan Graham, Joseph Bortolotti, Krista Meuli, Michael Penn 
Department of Biology 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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News and Views

The Code of Climate Change 

Rosemary Thomas 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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The Turing Mechanism: How did the leopard get his spots? 

Joshua Dan Spreng 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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It’s Time to Focus 

Agnieszka Pastwa 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 
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Isotopes: Unconventional Tools in Illuminating Patterns of Animal Movement  

Emily Ong 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Connecting the Dots: The Benefits of Studying Patterns in Diseases of the Skin 

Michelle Dume 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Mentalizing the Machine 

Brett J. Palmero 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Geometric morphometrics: an overview using the African bat Scotophilus 

Brittany Schweiger 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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The Price for Pain 

Anna Sandler 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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OCD Breakthrough Finding from Sapap 3 Knockout Mice 

Samuel D. Curry 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Taking a Crack at the Microtubule Code 

Chisomo Mwale 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Creative Writing

A Translation for Laughter 

Emma Kuhr 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Another Type of Human 

Ariane Balaram 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Chance Encounter 

Sara Tallen 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Locked In 

Emma Kuhr 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Review Article

The immune response and its role in renal transplant rejection 

Kristofer L. Korth 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Type 1 Diabetes Research Proposal: Degradation of C3 in Subjects Shows Promise for a Cure 

Natalie Brusie 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Neurotoxins and the Effects on the Chamorro People of Guam 

Danielle J. Sychowski 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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The Effects of China’s Policy and Biodiversity Loss on Camptotheca acuminta 

Nicholas Italia 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Analysis of the differences between hallucinations caused by natural hallucinogens and schizophrenia 

Kristofer L. Korth 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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The Efficacy of Model Organisms for Hallucinogen Research 

Yuri Parasiuk 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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High Times: The evolution of the stigma on marijuana and attempts to tear it down 

Kaloyan Ivanov 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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The nose knows: MHC-dependent mate selection in humans through odor preference 

Alexandra Roman 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Book and Film Review

Memories Past 

Logan Graham 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Neuroethics: An objective look at our moral understanding 

Samuel Gascoigne 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Can a line be drawn? 

Anna Sandler 
Lake Forest College 
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 

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Identity Dilemmas: The lives of two people irrevocably altered by neurological disease 

Ariane Balaram 
Lake Forest College  
Lake Forest, IL 60045 

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