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TABLE of CONTENTSVOLUME 9 | MARCH 2013
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ABOUT THE COVER ARTWORK
Artwork by HUGH WATANABE ’15. The front cover illustrates our issues theme of “Harvesting the Fruits of Our Labor.”
“The inspiration behind this piece originates from the farmers and fishermen that have surrounded me throughout my childhood, in a remote town on the west coast of Japan. The medium is a scratchboard drawing, in which a variety of needles and brushes are used to carve onto a black board. It is because I was blessed with the opportunity to enjoy such fresh and organic ingredients, that I was truly able to get a better understanding regarding the importance of food sources. Watching my neighbors out in the fields from sunrise to sunset also allowed me to apprehend the work and efforts put into the food we consume on a daily basis.”
-HUGH WATANABE ’15
ISSN 1937-2604
About the Authors
| Editor’s Corner |
Year Nine: Harvesting the Fruits of Our Labor
Ashley Reich |
| Accolades |
Showcasing the Fruits of Our Labor
Ashley Reich |
| Science News |
Medicine Across Borders (Long distance medicine)
Alexandra Reeder |
| Conference Roundup |
Neuroscience in Chicago Gathers Undergraduate and Post-Docs Alike
Taylor Jones |
| Our Courses and Professors |
Bacteria: It’s a Love-Hate Relationship
Samantha Pinto Building Anatomical Foundations: Reflections on the Human Anatomy Course
Saajidha Rizvydeen |
| Alumni in Focus |
Lessons from our Alumni
Lani Leong |
| Campus Outreach |
Teaching the Next Generation
Emily Hampden-Smith and Ashley Reich |
| Abroad and In Our Backyards |
Living and Researching Aboard the Shedd Aquarium’s Research Vessel in the Bahamas
Hilary Wind The Traveling Scientist
Emily Hampden-Smith |
| Beyond the Classroom |
Leicester, Devons, and Bantams…Oh My!
Alexus Urbanik Overcoming fears, slithering to new heights, and having a blast!
Nicole Vachter The Quest in Dental Networking
Kyriaki Ades |
| Creative Writing |
A Mindful Vixen: Degradation Due to Methamphetamine
Heather Heitkotter A World Of My Own
Kayla Huber The Life of a Neuron: Fatal Habits
Michael Herriges |
| Book/Film Review |
Life in the Glass Case
Hannah Samberg Fruits of Empire: Exotic Produce and British Taste
Ryan Vlaar Innocence of Coelacanth through Evolution
Ayesha Khan Tapping into Ice Age Extinctions: the Megafauna is Us
Nichole Monhait Introduction to Field Biology
Sylwia Dakowicz Zoobiquity: bringing together human and animal medicine
Emily Hampden-Smith A Story of Memory Never to be Forgotten
Victoria Egedus Remembering the Forgotten: A Look at Alzheimer’s disease
Kimberly Diah Re-thinking the wiring of our brain: A response to The Brain that Changes Itself
Ashley Reich New Meaning to a “Mind of Its Own”
Victoria Egedus Why the Brain Fails: Using Ailments to Understand Normalcy
Sydni M. Cole |
| Grant Proposal |
The Role of Stimulatory Immunomodulator Adjuvants in Blood Stage MSP5 Plasmodium Faciparum Vaccines
Alex Reeder The use of algal chloroplasts to express Plasmodium falciparum Circumsporozoite Protein and Pfs25 surface antigens in a vaccine aimed to induce protective antibody responses in mice and mosquitoes
Christian Athens Developing multiple model systems to elicit PANK2 rescue for PKAN patients
Maria Basith and Kim Diah A New Protein Target: Finding Optineurin’s Role in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Daysi Vargas, Sydni Cole, and Shabana Yusufishaq Catalase overexpression rescues Friedreich’s Ataxia mouse models from oxidative stress and mitochondrial iron-loading
Daniella Brutman and Menzi Mhlanga Development of a Pre-Hepatocytic Stage Live Attenuated Malaria Vaccine
Kristen Waltos |
| Review Articles |
Lies, Lies, Lies…in nature?
Jennifer Sojka Invasive Flights of the Africanized Honeybees
Jeremy Boeing Tamarix Spread, Establishment, and Removal
Abby Brownell Biological Invasion of Lionfish in the Atlantic
Ryan Drake Stroke of Genius: Provoking Plasticity
Kristina Johnson Pathways from Psychosocial Stress to Risky Sexual Behavior Among Lowincome Inner City African American (AA) Women in Adolescence and Emerging
Alexus Edmonds Channeling epilepsy’s hyper-active potential
Victoria Egedus Uncovering the Mysteries of Alpha-Synuclein Natural Truncation Variants
Natalie Kukulka The Intruding Ways of NF1, NF2, and Glioma Tumors
Sydni Cole, Daysi Vargas, and Shabana Yusufishaq Firings of a Schizophrenic Mind: Faulty neurotransmission and genetics
Madhavi Senagolage and Peter Sullivan |
| Primary Articles |
The Relationship Between Academic Major, Personality Type, and Stress In College Students
Amanda Allred, Megan Granger, and Tyler Hogstrom The Effects of Simulated Competition on Foraging Behavior in Sciurus carolinensis
Luis Beltran and Jackie Meyer Effects of Risk Assessment and Energy Expenditure on the Foraging Patterns of Sciurus carolinensis
Jeremy Boeing, Michael Herriges, Galina Lipkin, and Johnathan Vinkavich Color preference in guppies
Ashley Reich and Emily Hampden-Smith The effect of group size on standing, walking, sleeping and foraging behaviours of black-winged stilts (Himantopus h. leucocephalus)
Natalie Kukulka |
| Senior Thesis |
The Effects of Part-Set Cuing in Object-Location and Order Memory
Sydni Cole Ecological Restoration of the Witchhazel/Seminary Ravine: Baseline Data and Future Plans
Susan Helford The Varieties of Environmental Management: Identifying Sectoral Comparative Advantages in Addressing Environmental Valuation Failures
Alexander Gilbert Identifying the Telomerase RNA of Aspergillus nidulans: the generation of a DNA construct and refinement of transformation procedures
Saajidha Rizvydeen Identification of the First Telomerase RNA from the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus oryzae and Related Organisms
Paulius Kuprys The Alternative Splicing of ApoER2 in Alzheimer’s Disease
Daniella Brutman Evaluation of α−Synuclein Degradation Pathways in a Budding Yeast Model
Madhavi Senegolage nNOS activity is decreased in the striatum of L-DOPA-treated Parkinson’s disease model
Peter Sullivan |