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.
A message from Tracey Nassuna, Editor-in-Chief
I am elated for the launch of the 19 th edition of Eukaryon, and I would like to sincerely thank everyone who has contributed to making it a reality. We received many incredible submissions this year and are honored to highlight and celebrate the academic contributions and success of the science community at Lake Forest College. I am inspired by the editorial board that has worked diligently to ensure the success of this edition and would like to recognize the board chairs that coordinated it all. Due to the pandemic, Eukaryon was restructured to have two members as the board chairs, a senior and a lower classman. This system has been instrumental in the journal’s success in that the leaders are trained through experience. Due to Eukaryon’s continued success, we will be having the Inauguration ceremony in person for the first time since 2019 with the theme of this edition “Beauty in Science.”
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Tracey Nassuna
Editor-in-Chief, Eukaryon, 2022-2023
Lake Forest College
VOLUME 19
Table of Contents
Alumni in Focus
Rayan Khalid
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Grant Proposal
Fighting for Accessible Education and Care with Parkinson’s Si Buko
Amanda Grassel and Tracey Nassuna
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Rationalization for research on Shank genes affecting differential PNS synaptic transmission
Katelyn Holstein
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Lab in Focus
Lateral Line System of a Juvenile Guppy: Poecilia reticulata
Amanda Grassel
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Ondine Berg
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Bacterium strain identification from soil sample from Lake Forest Beach, IL
Petra Urgacova
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
News and Views
LuRRKing danger in sporadic Parkinson’s
Anait Nalbandyan
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Sleeping your way to an “A” using smell
Becca Ray
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Bryce Zabat
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
MARK4 leaves its mark on your brain
Jasmin Montes
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Human Neurons in Rat Neural Circuits
Olivia Godek
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Absence of toxicity in killer proteins
Ilona Sergeeva
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Primary Article
Oviposition preference of dry over wet kidney beans in Callosobruchus maculatus
Maeve Barbera, Sarah Burchart, Nathaniel Kregar, and Nada Reffat
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Mia Tomic
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Go with the flow: The effect of flow rate on pitch with lateral line system inhibition
Amanda Grassel, Katelyn Holstein, and Ryan Osselborn
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Federica Bertolotti
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Nia Alfaro, Dariana Gomez, and Joy Shelton
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Helena Blumenau, Serenah Quiroga, Emma Tryder, and Hannah Turnage
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Bacterial Species Biodiversity in the Concha and Belly Button of Humans
David Cohen
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The impact of a 10% Ethanol Diet on Fertility of Aged Drosophila
Dani Herreweyers, Syed Zaidi, and Madeline Morland
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The success of captive breeding and rearing on Orinoco crocodile population revival
Kyle Lassen
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The effects of deforestation on the sloth and methods for its conservation
Muhammad Sheikh
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Allison Akins, Zahra Nadeem, McKinley Scheppler, and Syed Zaidi
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
Amy Tischler
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Dengue Infection: Burden in India
Kateryna Malkina
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
A contemporary review of the ecology and evolution of environmental sex determination
Callan Padron
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
How competing trade-offs affect parental care
David Cohen
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Systematic review Red queen hypothesis elucidates evolution of sexual reproduction
Alyssa Silva
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The evolution and fitness benefits of paternal care
Maeve Barbera
Department of Biology
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Raneem Samman
Department of Philosophy & Neuroscience Program
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
