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Lake Forest, Ill.- The Biology Department at Lake Forest College is pleased to announce the publication of the fifth edition of the journal Eukaryon. The 2009 online edition will be inaugurated to the College’s Web site on Tuesday, March 3, and a campus reception celebrating the collaborative work of the students and faculty will be held in the Reference Area in Donnelley and Lee Library at 4 p.m. that day. Dr. Robert Goldman, Ph.D., from Northwestern University Medical School will present a public lecture at 4:30 p.m. on “The Remarkable Story of the Nuclear Lamin A Gene and Premature Aging of Children.”

The public is welcome to attend free of charge. Please call 847-234-3100 for more information.

About Eukaryon

Eukaryon is an undergraduate research journal that publishes the best of life-science scholarship conducted by Lake Forest students. The journal’s goal is to celebrate and highlight the academic accomplishments achieved by these students within the research-rich classrooms and student-centered research labs of Lake Forest College faculty.

The word “Eukaryon” reflects the diversity of organisms that the faculty of the Biology Department are involved with through their scholarship.

The students and faculty of the Biology Department founded the peer-reviewed online journal in 2004 and published the inaugural issue in January 2005. In 2007, the journal also began publishing a limited print version. A student editorial board comprised of biology students peer reviews, copy edits, and publishes the journal annually. The board also authors all editorial policies of the journal, with the goal of making Eukaryon a true student-produced publication that maintains high scientific journalistic standards.

"I congratulate Eukaryon on its fifth anniversary,” says Dr. Douglas Light, chair of the Biology Department. Eukaryon is not only one of the few undergraduate life-science research journals published by a liberal arts college, it also has maintained an amazingly high degree of excellence. In fact, I continue to be impressed by the high quality and scope of its contents. Thus, Eukaryon is an outstanding testament to the active engagement in research at Lake Forest College and the high quality of scholarship conducted by our students. Kudos to its editorial staff and authors."

The articles highlight the best scholarship work in 2008-2009 from a wide range of biology classes, original student research, and the activities of Lake Forest College biology majors on and off campus. Demonstrating the depth of undergraduate talent, authors include students from all four current classes and recent alumni. As Eukaryon celebrates its five-year anniversary concurrently with the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, the editorial board formally assessed Eukaryon's impact on the biology curriculum and found a positive role in strengthening its community of students as scholars.

About Robert Goldman

Robert D. Goldman, Ph.D., is the Stephen Walter Ranson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Goldman received his B.A. and M.S. in zoology from University of Vermont, and Ph.D. in biology from Princeton University. His postdoctoral fellowships were at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School (London) and the MRC Institute of Virology (Glasgow). He served on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University and Carnegie-Mellon University, before being recruited to Northwestern in 1981 as department chair. In his 27 years as department chair, the department has risen to consistently rank in the top 10 of its peer departments among the 126 U.S. medical schools.

Dr. Goldman is a highly regarded authority on the structure and function of the cytoskeleton and has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His laboratory has done much of the basic research on both nuclear and cytoplasmic forms of intermediate filament proteins. Mutations in the lamin genes cause diseases, collectively known as the “laminopathies.” The most fascinating of the laminopathies is Hutchinson Gilford Progeria Syndrome – a rare premature aging disease of children that serves as a model for normal human aging, will be the subject of his seminar.

A champion of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral science education in the U.S. and abroad, Dr. Goldman’s leadership in education and research training has been global, while he served as councilor and outgoing 2008 President of the American Society of Cell Biology. His numerous honors include the 2004 Ellison Foundation Senior Scholar Award, presented for novel, innovative and high-risk studies in the area of human aging, and a MERIT award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. Dr. Goldman is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and served on its board of directors from 1997-2001.

Dr. Goldman’s other passion in science lies in the area of the public’s understanding of science and technology. With Boyce Rensberger, award-winning former science editor of the Washington Post and director of the Knight Scholar Program at MIT, Goldman founded and for many years directed the Science Writers Fellowship Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He also served for many years on the MBL Board of Trustees and is presently the director of the MBL’s Whitman Research Center.

Lake Forest College is a national liberal arts institution located 30 miles north of downtown Chicago. The College has 1,400 students representing 45 states and 68 countries.