Eukaryon Volume 2

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. 

VOLUME 2

Table of Contents

Editor's Corner

Year Two: Eukaryon Establishes Student Governance

Katrina Brandis  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Faculty in Focus

Dr. Douglas Light: A Window into Lake Forest College Biology

Alina Spivak  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Science of Teaching

Molecular Genetics: Discoveries with Your Own DNA

Lokesh Kukreja  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Beyond the Classroom

Summer Research: Exploring Careers, Strengthening Portfolios

Jessica Price and Michael Zorniak  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

News and Views

Yeast? Yes! A New Trend in Modeling Parkinson’s Disease

Katrina Brandis

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

‘Smells’ Producing Brain Activity: What Your Nose Really Knows

Kristen D. Endraske

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

CACNA1A: The Exciting Headache Gene

Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Novel Steroid Receptor Elucidates Non-Classical Signal Pathways

Chloe Wormser

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Book and Film Review

Fading in the Distance

Jaclyn Kobilka 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

It Might Just Kill You

Stephanne Levin

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Spectacular or Speculative

Jennifer Riddle 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Feeling That Does Not Happen

Michael Zorniak 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Review Articles

Oxidative Stress, a-Synuclein, and Apoptosis in Parkinson’s Disease

Katrina Brandis 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Pathways of Skeletal Muscle Atrophy: HIV as a Model System?

Chelsea Bueter, Michelle McKinzey, Chloe Salzmann, and Michael Zorniak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Heli-CASE of the Missing WRN Gene

Lisa Jeziorny, Lindsey McCurdy, Katie Michael, Jennifer Riddle, and Kim Silvers  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Atherosclerotic Assault

Crystal Lester, Karina Nikogosian, Ruja Shrestha, and Courtney Tucker  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Eating Disorders: Could They be Autoimmune Diseases?

Melissa Stevenson  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Remember the Protofibrils

Michael White  

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Primary Articles

Gauging the Ecological Health of a Costa Rican Cloud Forest: Birds as Bio-Indicators

Jessica Price 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Sex-Dependent Interactions between Humans and Dogs

Chloe Wormser

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Effects of Cystamine, a Transglutaminase Inhibitor, in a Mouse Model of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Michael Zorniak 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Senior Thesis

The Effect of Visual Obstructions on the Sexual Behavior of Guppies: The Importance of Privacy

Tamara Hibler 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Determination of Spatiotemporal Interactions Regulating Head/Trunk Axial Pattern in the Chick Embryo

David Mann

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

In Search of Telomeric Fusions in Telomere Mutants of Tetrahymena thermophila

Arun George Paul 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045