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Eukaryon Volume 4

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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. 

VOLUME 4

Table of Contents

Editor's Corner

Year Four

Shruti Pore

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Alumni in Focus

How Lake Forest College Alumnae are Changing the World

Lavinia Sinitean

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Lab in Focus

A Unique Mix of Genetic Biology and Animal Behavior Offers an Irresistible Opportunity to Students


Terese Noe

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Faculty in Focus

Tangled Up in Science: Bringing a Fresh Perspective to LFC Department of Biology


Emily Pospiech

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Science of Teaching

Medical Mysteries: A Journey Through the Brain and College Life

Alexandra Ayala

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Where Law and Science Come Together - Introduction to Forensics

Shruti Pore

Lake Forest College 

Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Beyond the Classroom

Argonne Undergraduate Symposium: A New Challenge, Yet Another Success


Alexandra Ayala

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Day with a Leading Scientist: Susan Lindquist

Lokesh Kukreja

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Forester in Ghana: One Biology Student’s Experience Teaching Science to African Children


Jillian Olejnik

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Spring Seminar Series Educates Students on What’s New in Research


Jillian Olejnik

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

An Unconscious Bias Holds Women Back in Science

Laura Thilgen

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Book and Film Review

Migraine: The Book That Won’t Give You One!

Mithaq Vahedi

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Review Article

A Wrinkle in Time: Premature Aging in HGPS and RD

Danielle Clark, Nicole Fields, Spenser Hicks, Stephanne Levin, and Emily Pospiech

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Gene Mutations: One of the Many Roads to Deafness

Shaun Davis, Laura Hoholik, Kushal Modi, Lindsey Rockwell

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Apoptosis in Neurodegeneration: Programmed Cell Death and its Role in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s Diseases


Elizabeth Dean

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Review: An Examination of 131I Dosages for Treatment of Graves’Disease


Michael Fiske, Joseph Campagna and Clare Conlisk

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Effects of Algal Abundance in an Energy Sensitive Environment on the Galapagos Island Marine Iguana


Chris Georgen

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

The Evolution of Mimicry

Ethan Helm

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A One-sided Affair: a Look at Orchid’s Two-Faced Ways

Lisa Jeziorny

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Knowing Your Nose: Discovering How We Smell

Krista Kusinski

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Telomere Regeneration in Spermatogenesis and During Early Embryogenesis


Max Meltser

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

A Review of “Prospective Study of Risk Factors for Erectile Dysfunction” by Bacon et al.


David N. Piper

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Death & Fate: Nobel Lessons from an Elegant Worm

Mithaq Vahedi

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Progressive, Irreversible Loss of Vision: Gyrate Atrophy of the Choroid and Retina


Sina Vahedi 

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

α-Synuclein Phosphorylation and Nitration in Parkinson’s Disease

Stephanie Valtierra

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Williams Syndrome: The Costs and Benefits of Chromosomal Deletion


Stephanie Valtierra

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Satisfying the Immense Energy Demands of the Body, and the Effects of Mutation within the Mitochondrial ATP6 Gene


Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Primary Article

Insight into Parkinson’s Disease and α-Synuclein Degradation via the Lysosome: α-Synuclein Localization Changes in Vps28Δ

Alexandra Ayala

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Living the High Life: Sceloporus malachiticus from High Elevations Perform Better at Extreme Temperatures


Chelsea Bueter and Anne Haas

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Iodine Status in Individuals from a Rural and Urban Area in Bolivia

Lavinia R. Sinitean

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Grant Proposal

Does the N-terminus of BRCA1 Ubiquitinate Topoisomerase II?

Mithaq Vahedi

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Low Intracellular Proline: A Cause of Toxicity in Human RPE Cells?

Sina Vahedi

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Combining ROS Reduction and Allotopic ATP6 Expression in LS and NARP Patient Neurons to Increase ATP Synthesis

Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Essays

Integrative Medicine: Doctors Combine Conventional and Alternative Strategies when Patients Turn to Non-Traditional Therapy

Elizabeth Dean

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Distinguishing snRNPs (“snurps”) from Smurfs

Thomas Johns

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Senior Thesis

Speciation Patterns in Chewing Lice from Catharus Thrushes

Chelsea Bueter

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

An Examination of Spring Migration Timing in Songbirds

Anne Haas

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Fighting Demons, Fighting Cancer

Ethan Helm

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Calcium and Cell Volume Regulation in Alligator Mississippiensis Erythrocytes


Alina Spivak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Parkinson’s Disease Associated Protein α-Synuclein-E46K Demonstrates Strain and Ploidy-Specific Toxicity in Budding Yeast


Michael White

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

Evaluation of Mitochondrial Dysfunction and α-Synuclein Aggregation in Yeast Models of Parkinson’s Disease

Michael Zorniak

Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

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