Eukaryon Volume 16

Editor’s Corner

Year Sixteen: Form and Function

Ruqia Bibi
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Faculty in Focus

“Schooling” at Lake Forest College

Kyle Wallis
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Dr. Naomi Wentworth: An Amazing “Eye”-bility to Teach Statistics

Erica Saldana
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Lab in Focussting

Lab in Focus: Schwalbe Lab

Mathieu Norcross
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Alumni in Focus

Philip Freund: My Path to Graduate School

Philip Freund
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Beyond the Classroom

Hoodwinking “Tubercurelosis” with a Cancer Therapy

Esther Kim
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
From Mentee to Mentor

Blakely Drake
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Science Outside of the Classroom: The Richter Experience

McKinley Scheppler
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

News and Views

The Effect of Mecamylamine in the Prevention of Escalation of Cocaine Self-Administration in Rats

Nathaniel Kregar
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Australia’s Hellish Wildfires: A Climate Change Consequence

Sarah Stauber
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Empathetic Neurological Footprint of Racism

Stefania Tirado
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Inhibitory Neurons Control Sleep

Parker Police
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Laughing releases opioids for friendships

Ondine Berg
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Factors of Typhoid Fever: An Examination of the Causes, Effects, and Developments Regarding Enteric Fever

Nathaniel Kregar
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Ebola in Africa

Mark Kim
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Might and Fight of the Oligodendrocyte

Alexia Pickens-Desouza
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Zombie Elk Postponing Death

Jessica Day
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Porphyromonas gingivalis as a possible cause of Alzheimer’s Disease

Andrew Forrest
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Antimicrobial Abuse: The Unregulated Use of Antimicrobials in the Meat Industry

Brett Palmero
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Y10 phosphorylation of LDHA promotes cancer cell invasion and tumour metastasis

Ruqia Bibi
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Creative Writing

Game, Set, Match

Anna Sandler
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Book and Film Review

Ethically Speaking

Katelyn B. Holstein
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Crossroads of Neuroethics and Neuroemotions

Ondine Berg
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Neuroethics: A Useful Perspective on Life

Anthony Paul
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Who Knew so Much Could be Gained From Loss? Screen reader support enabled.

Parker Police
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
How Do They Feel About It? Alice and Jean Do’s Emotional Struggles

Anthony Paul
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
To Educate or to not Educate: A Look into Scientific Accuracy of Films

Sara Dabak
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Dive In: the Indelible Emotion for Science

Ondine Berg
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Her: Form and Function of Love

Casey Duel
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Plague and Patients: Relationships Developed in the Hot Zone and the Plague

Abby King
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Conference Roundup

CSFN Conference? More Like CSFUN Conference!

Maggie Kersting
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
A Peek into the Diversity of Neuroscience

Yeshi Tshering
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
BBB: Brain Bridging Business

Alexia Pickens-Desouza
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Meeting of the Minds

Zubair Mohammed
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Grant Proposal

Exploring possible mechanisms by which Intrinsically Disordered Proteins promote tardigrade desiccation survival

Olivia Dellomodarme, Emma Kuhr, Chisomo Mwale, Clarisse Pelaez
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Elucidating the Biological Mechanisms Underlying Resistance to PCB Toxicity in the Atlantic Killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus)

Cade Brittain, Sam Curry, Anna Sandler, Anthony Zimmerman
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Identifying Synergistic Combinations of α-PfCyRPA and α-PfCSP Antibodies

Philip Freund
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
DRD1 Thermostable Mutant Provides Insights into Drug Selectivity

Alejandro Rodriguez
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Antibody Targeting of Pb51 Protein Blocks Plasmodium falciparum Proliferation and Transmission of Malaria in Mice Model

Joe Mountain
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Review Articles

Studying Immune-System Based Trade-offs across Human and Animal Taxa

Noah Vanderhyde
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Investigating the Neuroanatomical Similarities of Emotional Dysregulation in the Amygdala, Anterior Cingulate Cortex, and Insula in Alexithymics and Psychopaths

Nena Fasbender
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Neuroscience link between Neuroticism and Social Media Addiction

Danielle Berninzoni
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex/Orbitofrontal Cortex: Insights into Emotional Dysregulation and Impulsivity in ASPD

Alexsandra Biel
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Forming the Functions: Neurogenesis of nerve cells in cancerous tumors

Jaleesa Lalani
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Cultural Context and the Beneficial Applications of Ayahuasca

Tubanji Walubita
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Telomere-Anchored PCR

Graeme Witte
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Prions: Form Determines Function

Augustana Houcek
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Out of the bag: Balance mechanisms during locomotion in cats

Felisa Umadhay
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Cosentyx (secukinumab), anti-IL-17A monoclonal antibody, a minireview

Ruqia Bibi
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Structural dynamics of opioid addiction: the μ-Opioid Receptor–Gi Protein Complex

Ayesha Quraishi
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Photographing Pharmacology: How Researchers Captured the GABAA Receptor using Cryo-EM

Anna Sandler
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Fight Against Transgressing Transposons

Alejandro Rodríguez
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Ethogram Report: Bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer sayi)

Emily Staufer
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Schizophrenia

Graeme Witte
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Primary Articles

Decitabine demethylates CDKN2A promoter region in HCT-116

Ruqia Bibi
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Creating A29S α-synuclein C-Terminal Truncations at Amino Acids 95 and 110 for Investigation of Parkinson’s Disease in Yeast

Kenna Bailey, Jessica Day, Josie Klein
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Evidence for TLX1 Hypermethylation and Decitabine-based Reversal in HCT116 Cells

Yoan Ganev
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Creation of Truncations at amino acid 1-54 and 1-113 of the C-terminus of γ-synuclein to study its function and relation to Parkinson Disease

Alexandra Morgan and Angelina Pronos
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The creation and transformation into a budding yeast vector of β-synuclein 1-60 and 1-74 truncation variants for Parkinson’s disease research

Kevin Duarte, Blakely Drake, and Ryan Oliver
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Truncations of ⍺-Synuclein at 1-65 and 1-125 Amino Acids in Yeast as a Model Organism to Study Parkinson’s Disease

Samantha Cosmo, Mariya Rodina, Tate Rosenhagen
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Investigating the Methylation Profile of DKK3 and its Implications in CRC

Anna Sandler
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Herpetofaunal Survey Using Drift Fence, Pitfall, and Funnel Traps at Melody Site

Tiffany Barnett, Tam Nguyen, Anna Odaini
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Distribution of reptiles and amphibians in the Melody Savanna, Lake County, IL

Katie Donaldson, Anissa Loyola, Emily Staufer, and Melissa Ward Lake Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Senior Thesis

Combinatorial Impact of α-Synuclein Post-Translational Modifications in Yeast

Yoan Ganev
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Effects of Prolonged Social Isolation: Sex Differences in Anxiety, Depression, and Sociability Behavior in Male and Female Rats

Eliska Mrackova
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Impact of the Social Environment on Reproductive Plasticity: The Role of Male Harassment and Larval Competition in Callosobruchus maculatus

Elisabeth Bacon
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

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