ABOUT THE COVER ARTWORK
“SUPERNOVA” BY MAGGIE LYNCH
“When I thought about chaos my first thought was space. Our universe is in constant flux and with that comes chaos. I don’t have a large knowledge of space or astrophysics, but as an artist I’ve always had a love affair with viewing the ever-changing sky above me. The definition of a supernova is literally, “dramatic and catastrophic destruction…marked by one final explosion.” From my understanding, a supernova disturbs the equilibrium of our so very complicated universe. Even though they disturb our universe, there are stars still sitting among the sky when a supernova occurs. To me that is a picture perfect example of chaos vs equilibrium. I am a digital illustrator so my immediate thought was to carefully illustrate a beautiful supernova to abstract it into art.”
- MAGGIE LYNCH
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About the Authors
Editor’s Corner |
Chaos and EquilibriumAasimah Tanveer |
Accolades |
AWARD WINNERS, INDUCTEES, and SCHOLARS of 2017 |
Our Courses and Professors |
The New Science CenterErica SaldanaLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Plant BiologyMax SpehlmannDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Interesting Class: Literature and MedicineZubair MohammedDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Beyond the Classroom |
The CSfN Conference: Research of the Best Minds in NeurosciencePhilip FreundDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Broken Gender Barrier in Scientific AcademicsMaggie LynchDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Optimizing my Summer InternshipPhilip FreundDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Brain Awareness Week: A Time of Stress and RewardAriane BalaramLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Abroad and In Our Backyards |
Abroad in ChinaCaitlin BrownDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Neuroscience and DenmarkNikki HeungLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Faculty in Focus |
“Everyone Should Love Neuroscience!”Danielle BerninzoniLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Crazy About ChemistryChisomo MwaleLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The End of an Era: Dr. Douglas Light Set to RetireMohini VermaDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
News & Views |
A New Map of Frontotemporal Dementia: Defining How Tau Mutations Cause FTDPhilip FreundLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Positive Effects of Brain Discoveries on a Lawyer CareerDaria PolyarskayaBiology Department Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Seizing The SeizuresBrett PalmeroLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Nitric Oxide: The Gaseous Culprit of NeurodegenerationAgnieszka PastwaLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Spreading InhibitionAnna SandlerLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Scanning the Skin With AI: Using Deep Learning Algorithms and Conventional Neural Network (CNN) to Diagnose Skin CancerJoshua SprengLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Could Mast Cells Partially Explain Female Prevalence of Autoimmune Disorders? A Closer Look at the Importance of Mast Cells in Multiple SclerosisSam CurryLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The emerging study of kinship theory in the honeybee, Apis melliferaJeanne McDonaldDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Lung TransplantSana ShariffDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 In Then Out of ControlRobin RedmondLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Climate Change the Silent KillerHamza MahmoodDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Half-Century Sharks of GreenlandEmily StauferLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Dengue in Sri Lanka: 80,000 & CountingNiam AbeysiriwardenaLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 How our Genes Lie: Honest and Dishonest Genes in Sexual SelectionSamuel GascoigneLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Restoring Balance: Tail regeneration in Eublepharis macularius and its implications for spinal cord treatmentJoshua SprengDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Creative Writing |
The Ages of a Neuron: My TribulationsPhilip FreundDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 A Brief History of Cranial Nerve VIISandra CamposDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Life of a Neuron: Parkinson’s and the Dopaminergic NeuronIsaac OrdonezDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Viennese ChildRachel HastingsDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 A Peculiar EncounterCourtney LevittDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Dining with DannyMolly SchulDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 When Worlds CollideMaddie StrejcLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 A Difference of HearingLexi DejnekaDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Schizophrenia: The Life of a Misplaced CellDana MidaniLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Death of a NeuronLexi DejnekaDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Heidi’s Favorite DayHannah GurholtLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Book/Film Review |
The Future of the Courtroom According to The Future of the MindRachel HastingsLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Plasticity: Importance of Use it or Lose itEmma LevineDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Another Voice in EthicsPeter SimmethLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Neuroethics: Should We or Shouldn’t We?Blakely DrakeLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Brains Behind the DilemmaAllison FairDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Brain Disease: A Lethal StoryMaddie StrejcDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Bravery To Go FarPeter SimmethLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Education: One For All, All For OneLauren GiuriniLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Secret Memories of Leaves: Hope Jahren’s Lab GirlEmily StauferLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Review Articles |
A Tale of Two Moods: Energy Deficiency in Bipolar DisorderHamza Mahmood, Rosemary Thomas, Danielle SychowskiDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Manipulations of Protective Post-Translational Modifications of Ataxin-3 as a Possible Treatment of SCA3Yoan Ganev, Trevor Buhr, Hamza MahmoodDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Epileptic Channels: Dysfunctional Trio of Excitable CellsYoan Ganev, Sam Plutchak, Parth TankDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Novel Insights into CTE Treatment and DiagnosisAlexander Blumfelt, Eliska Mrackova, Krista MeuliDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Unsuppressed Growth in NF: A Trio of Tumorigenic MutationsAlexander Blumfelt, Schuyler Kogan, Roxy SandorDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Neuroscience: Epigenetics and the “social” geneJeremy BergDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Lost and Found: Deletion of Zdhhc8 gene is associated with schizophreniaKristina KarapetyanDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 How the Right Path Can Go WrongBrittany AvontsDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Sweating Up a Storm: Areas of Regular Flooding Disturbance Modeled Through Human Skin Bacteria on Athletes and Non-AthletesDaniel BeintemaDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Invasion of Indo-Pacific Red Lionfish in Atlantic Coral ReefsEmily StauferDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Northern Snakehead, Channa Argus, as an Invasive SpeciesHannah StinsonDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 The Burmese Python: An Invasive Species Who Eats to Its Heart’s ContentIbtihaj KhanDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Rusty CrayfishJacob LevinDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Patterns of morphospecies richness, diversity, and community similarity across a hair density gradient in the human skin microbiomeJeanne McDonaldDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Evidence Found of a Learned Navigational Map in White Crowned SparrowsMattew McMahonLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Female Guppies’ Preference of Novel MalesAaron O’NeillDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Peacock CourtshipBritt DahlinDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 InSyncTed NowakDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Argentine Ant InvasionMegan CrapoDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Primary Articles |
Pur α and Hsp70 as Protective Agents Against RNA-mediated Toxicity in Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia SyndromeRosemary Thomas and Danielle ShawDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Molecular mechanism of OXT/OXTR pathway manipulation in mouse and iPSC hypothalamic neuron modelsJeremy Berg, Logan Graham, Scott JohnstonDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Complex Complement 4: Where the Immune System Ends and Schizophrenia BeginsMalia Hansen, Kristina Karapetyan, Dasha PolyarskayaDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Habitat Heterogeneity, Morphospecies Richness, and Niche Exploitation in the Human Skin MicrobiomeHailey BroekerDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Dissochaetus range is determined by precipitation, temperature, and elevationHaley BroekerDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Prediction and Comparison of Dissochaetus Distributions According to Biogeographical Realm, Country, and Trap TypeJeanne McDonaldDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Extinction, Invasion, Succession, and Climax Communities on the Human Hand: A Biogeographical Exploration at the MicroscaleMax SpehlmanDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 N-Terminal Truncations of α-Synuclein for Use in a Yeast Model of Parkinson’s DiseaseYoan Ganev and Ayesha QuraishiDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Creation of the K6R A53E and K6Q/K10Q A30P Novel Yeast Models of α-synuclein Mutations Linked to Parkinson’s DiseasePhilip Freund, Larissa Pentland, Arthur SimenasDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Acetylation Sites Lysine 6 and Lysine 10 are Potential Targets to Influence Alpha-Synuclein Toxicity in Six Mutants Known to Cause Familial Parkinson’s Disease: A30P, A53T, E46K, G51D, H50Q, and A53EAlex Biel and Nicole HedgerDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Mutating the α-Synuclein gene to examine the relationship between acetyation and glycation and familial mutations for future studies in S. cerevisiaeSam Gascoigne, Ariane Balaram, Tubanji WalubitaLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Shyness and boldness in squirrels: risk-taking while foraging depends on habitat typeTed Nowak, Sima Riahi and Mel WardLake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |
Senior Thesis |
Mutations Drive Evolution and Disease AlikeEmily OngDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 Observing the Functional Maturation of the Female Prefrontal Cortex Using Ventral Hippocampal StimulationLily VeldranDepartment of Biology Lake Forest College Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 |