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Eukaryon Volume 6

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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. 

Editor's Corner
Year Six: Expanding Our Horizons
Michael Fiske
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Campus Outreach
The Past, the Present, and the Future: Beta Beta Beta Seminar
Series 201
Madhavi Senagolage
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Kenneth L. Weik Undergraduate Life Science Symposium: A Professor Honored, A Tradition Begun
Paulius Kuprys
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Accolades
A Novel Award: Eukaryon is Recognized on a National Level
Ashleigh Porter
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Alumni in Focus
Academics, Research, Medical School Aspirations and How it All Came Together
Michael White
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
The Bolivian Experience
Lavinia Sinitean
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Oh, the Places Eukaryon Alumni Will Go…
Daniella Brutman
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Accolades
A Novel Award: Eukaryon is Recognized on a National Level
Ashleigh Porter
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Conference Roundup
Argonne National Laboratory: Experiencing the Life of a Scientist
Peter Sullivan
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Conference Roundup
ASPET: Science in the Sky
Natalie Simak
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Conference Roundup
ASCB: Lake Forest College Students at the Forefront of Biological
Research
Alina Konnikova
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Conference Roundup
Lake Forest Students Conquering the Neuroscience Frontiers
Alina Konnikova
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Conference Roundup
Ping Pong with PhD’s: My Experience at the Gordon Research Conference
Michael Fiske
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Science News
Chemical Wonders of Biological Processes Link Humans, Bacteria and Fireflies
Saajidha Rizvydeen
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Science News
Fizz! Crackle! Pop! Carbonation Reveals Its Taste
Saajidha Rizvydeen
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Science of Teaching
And The Winner Is… A New Senior Seminar Course Has Students Betting the Odds
Lauren Ferrell and Terese (Beth) Noe
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Science of Teaching
Lake Forest College: Red, Black, and Green?
Shabana Yusufishaq
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Beyond the Classroom
Biology Students Going Green: HFH Service Trip
Ashleigh Porter
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Beyond the Classroom
Prerequisite to a Career: Experiencing Careers through an Internship
Keith Solvang
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Beyond the Classroom
Cutting into the Medical Field: Shadowing Surgeons
Brittany Stern and Keith Solvang
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Beyond the Classroom
More than a Shadow: Entering the Medical Field as an EMT
Brittany Stern
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Book or Film Review
Barbara McClintock: A Paradigm of Dedication, Perseverance, and Love of Discovery
Will Press
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
The KIBRA Gene: Learning About Memory
Danielle Clark
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
The Induced Pluripotent Cell: Development & Clinical Applications
Lauren Ferrell
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
Spinal Cord Regeneration: Ready, Set, Nogo
Stephen Strittmatter and Michael Fiske
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
NOD2 Investigating IBD with Autophagy and Interleukins
Jonathan Flaksman, Alina Konnikova, Elizabeth
Pahomov, and Ashleigh Porte
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
Lung Cancer: The Breathtaking Battle of TKIs and EGFR Mutants
Robert Hodges, Elizabeth Ross, Natalie Simak,
Keith Solvang, Eliot Vildaver
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
SMN Deficiency in SMA: Splicing Gone Awry
Gideon Dreyfuss and Stephanie Levin
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
Leptin: The Satiety Hormone and its Influence on Obesity
Emily Pospiech
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
Melanic Coat Color Variation in Rock Pocket Mice (Chaetodius
intermedius)
Laura Thilgen
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
Speciation: The Genetics Responsible for Intrinsic Post-Zygotic Isolation
Christopher Tossing
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Review Articles
The Roles that age-1 and daf-2 Genes Play in Aging
Reema Upadhyaya
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Primary Articles
Genetic Evidence in Yeast Model Implicates Autophagy in the Degradation
of Parkinson’s Disease Protein α-Synuclein
Kayla Ahlstrand and Peter Sullivan
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Primary Articles
The Effects of Cyclopamine Administration on Chick Embryo Development
Daryn Cass and Christopher Jackson
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Primary Articles
Pre-ESCRT Step of Endocytosis Pathway Regulates Parkinson’s Disease
Protein α-Synuclein
Jaime Pérez and Michael Fiske
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Grant Proposal
Regulation of miR-9 by Ethanol and the Effects of miR-9 Inhibition
Ray Choi, Nicole Fields, and Stephanne Levin
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Grant Proposal
A Conditional KIBRA Knockout Mouse: Is Memory Affected?
Danielle Clark
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Grant Proposal
Assessing α-Synuclein Degradation through the MVB/Endocytosis Pathway
Jaime Pérez Pineda
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Grant Proposal
Applicability of Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor as a Means to Induce Weight
Loss in ob/ob Mice
Emily Pospiech
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
Insight Into Parkinson’s Disease: Does α-Synuclein Use the MVB/Endocytosis Pathway as a Route for Degradation in the Lysosome
Alexandra Ayala
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
An Allele on Chromosome I Affects C. elegans Muscle Cell Morphology
Alexandra Charron
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
Insight Into Parkinson’s Disease Using Yeast as a Model to Evaluate the Role of Autophagy Genes in α-Synuclein Toxicity
Ray Choi
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
Identification of the Telomerase RNA in the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus oryzae
Shaun Davis
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
Playing Your Cards Right: How Guppies, Poecilia reticulata, Alter Their
Courtship Tactics in Varying Social Environments
Melissa N. Schramm
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
The Effects of Restraint Stress on Anxiety-Like Behavior in Adolescent and
Adult Male Sprague-Dawley Rats: An Examination of the Effects of Early-Life Stress on the Development of Psychopathologie
Emily Venheim
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
Senior Thesis
Telomere Length in Meiotic Cells of Aspergillus nidulans
Nengding Wang
Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045

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