Scientia 2020

Editor-in-Chief Sean Ngo Student Editorial Board Shubhneet Warar, Arvind Muruganantham, Tiffany Luan, Sanjana Ade, Isha Thapar, Timothy Domashevich, Joshua George, Sinchana Basoor, and Tooba Haris Faculty Review Board Tamarah Adair, Ph.D., Patrick Farmer, Ph.D., Linda Olafsen, Ph.D., and Dennis Johnston, Ph.D. Publishing Advisor Rizalia Klausmeyer, Ph.D., Baylor Office of Undergraduate Research Design Team Arvind Muruganantham, Tiffany Luan, Sanjana Ade, Isha Thapar, and Sinchana Basoor Funding and Support Rizalia Klausmeyer, Ph.D., Baylor Office of Undergraduate Research About the Covers The visual on the front cover of Scientia is a Transmission Electron Microscopy image of a mouse cochlea. This image was taken by Preston Simpson as part of an experiment in Dr. Simmons’ lab, where they study aging brain function related to hearing, balance, neurodegeneration, and neuro-immune responses.

The visual on the back cover is an immunofluorescence stain of mouse kidney glomeruli and tubules taken by Arvind Muruganantham. The staining was done primarily to quantify VEGFR2, an endothelial cell proliferation inducing receptor, in varying tissue samples. It was done as part of a larger project to understand the mechanisms of white blood cell recruitment in the kidney.

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