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Eukaryon Volume 3

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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. 

Eukaryon

VOLUME 3

Table of Contents

Editor's Corner

Year Three: Growing Up

Michelle McKinzey

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Faculty in Focus

The Translator between Two Extremes

Shaun Davis

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Studying Biology at a Liberal Arts Institution: Dr. Lynn Westley’s Approach to Undergraduate Science at Lake Forest College
Elizabeth Dean
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Dr. Pliny Smith: New Kid on the Block
Lisa Jeziorny
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Science of Teaching

Tropical Ecology: The Glories of Experiential Learning

Benjamin Larsen

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Evolution of the Student

Michelle McKinzey 
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Beyond the Classroom

Clinical Shadowing: A Worthwhile Experience for all Premeds

Lokesh Kukreja

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Series of Formal Talks Launched

Mithaq Vahedi

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Lake Forest Students Present Their Research at Regional and National Symposia


Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Life after Lake Forest College: Where are they now?

Michael Zorniak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

News and Views

Bone-derived microglia clear amyloid plaques

Lokesh Kukreja

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

α-Synuclein, and the Case of the Blocked ER-Golgi Pathway

Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Book and Film Review

Iris and Awakenings: Timeless Tear-Jerkers

Mohammed Ejaz Ali

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Dissecting the Ethical Brain

Benjamin Bienia

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Fact and Fantasy: The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner

Michelle McKinzey

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Healthy Marketing: The Only Solution

Jason Prendergast 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Thin Line Between Madness and Sanity

Stephanie Valtierra 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Ferocious Beauty: All Roar and Very Little Bite

Pete Wisnieff 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Review Article

History Tends to Repeat: FMR-1 Silencing in Fragile X Syndrome

Joshua G. Haas

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Ride with Listeria monocytogenes: A Trojan Horse

Joshua Haas, Krista Kusinski, Shruti Pore, Solmaz Shadman and Mithaq Vahedi

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Nanotechnology may replace existing treatments for cancer

Ethan Helm 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Coal Power: Providing Energy, Asthma, Cardiovascular Disease, and Free Abortions

Ethan Helm and Benjamin N. Larsen

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Guts & Glory H. pylori: Cause of Peptic Ulcer

Ashley Johnson, Bryan Kratz, Lorraine Scanlon, and Alina Spivak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Evolutionary Antibiotic Resistance as Documented in Multiple Strains of Staphylococcus


Michelle McKinzey

Lake Forest College 

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

α-Synuclein Misfolding and Aggregation in Parkinson’s Disease

Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Mitochondrial Deficiencies and Oxidative Stress in Parkinson’s Disease: A Slippery Slope to Cell Death


Michael Zorniak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Grant Proposal
Characterization of Membrane Permeability Alterations in Plasmodium-Infected Erythrocytes: Insight into Novel Mechanisms for Malaria Chemotherapy


Chloe Wormser

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA-1): Role in Plasmodium yoelii Infectivity


Michael Zorniak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Primary Articles

α-Synuclein Aggregation and Membrane Association in a Fission Yeast Model: Implications for PD Pathogenesis

Lokesh Kukreja

Lake Forest College 

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

α-Synuclein Causes Non-Specific Toxicity in vps34 Yeast

Mithaq Vahedi

Lake Forest College 

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Senior Thesis
Reduced Sexual Attractiveness of Redundant Males in the Maintenance of Guppy Color Polymorphism

Katherine J. Hampton

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Calcium-Stimulated Regulatory Volume Decrease in Salmo salar and Alligator mississippiensis Erythrocytes


Chloe Wormser

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Essays

Some Like it Hot: Astrobiology and Extremophilic Life

Elizabeth Birnbaum

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Agoutis and Seed Dispersal in Tropical Rainforest

Stephanne Levin

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045