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Week 14

Th is week on Monday, April 16, we presented our "Mental Illness in Young Adults" in the Health Science building. Overall, I believe the presentation went very well. We did not receive the audience we expected of parents and their children. Instead, the senior citizens from the Franklin Building came to hear our presentation. As for our first presentation with them, they were a perfect audience--attentive, genuinely interested in the topic, and applied the information to their personal lives. We divided the topics accordingly: I spoke about depression, Rondell spoke about anxiety, and Timi spoke about ADHD. For each mental illness, we discussed the definition of each mental illness, symptoms of the mental illness, risk factors of the mental illness, and finally, statistics of mental illness. We had intended to emphasize ways in which parents ought to notice changes in their child's behavior to notice the onset of mental illness if it arises. However, as this would be rela...
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Week 13

Next week is our presentation for Convention Day and our group will be discussing mental health. Our group plans to meet tomorrow to work on a poster and will also provide our listeners with a handout of slides we created that they may keep with them for future reference. We have yet to divide up the information and assign specific topics to each group member that they will research and present on. However, I plan on discussing symptoms and statistics for depression/anxiety in young kids so that the parents may acknowledge any warning signs their children may exhibit in the future. Concerning statistics, I believe it is important for parents, if their child belong to any of the demographics with high rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation (such as with LGBT youth) that they would ensure their child feels loved and supported in order to prevent such mental illnesses from occurring. If the parents understand the symptoms of such mental illness and statistics concerning these...
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Week 12

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Key Terms: Active transport Uniporter Facilitated diffusion Active transport - Channels that require ATP to transport molecules across the membrane against their concentration gradient. An example of active transport is the sodium-potassium pump, which uses ATP to pump three sodium ions outside the cell and pumps two potassium ions into the cell. This establishes a concentration gradient across the cell membrane and a net negative charge inside the cell and a net positive charge outside the cell.  http://schoolworkhelper.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sodium-pump.jpg Uniporter - A channel that allows for facilitated diffusion and transports one molecule at a time across the plasma membrane by undergoing conformational change. Uniporters transfer molecules at a rate faster than the rate of simple diffusion but slower than the rate of the transfer of molecules through ion channels.  Facilitated diffusion - Channel that transports molecules down t...
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Community Service Project & Dictionary - Reflection - Week 11

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We have been discussing our plan for Convention Day on April 16. Our topic is nutrition and exercise and our audience will be parents and their children. We plan on dividing into two groups--one group will work with the children and provide them with interactive activities (for example, a hand cleaning or teeth brushing station)  and the other group will work the parents. This is effective as we tailor the presentation to be exciting and beneficial to both groups and the parents will be able to learn free from any distractions. Key terms: Dynein  Desmin Hemidesmosome Dynein - Type of cytoskeleton motor protein that moves towards the minus end of microtubules using ATP and transports cargo such as vesicles, endosomes, and lysosomes. Dyneins are also important in centrosome assembly, in positioning the golgi complex, and for positioning the microtubules during mitosis.  https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Cytoplasmic_dynein.svg/248p...
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dictionary week 10

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Key terms: Actin Troponin complex M line Actin - Thin globular filament with the binding proteins tropomyosin and the troponin complex. This thin protein is involved in muscle contraction via its interaction with myosin. https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/content/dam/sigma-aldrich/life-science/metabolomics/enzyme-explorer/f-actin.gif Troponin complex - Complex of three proteins including tnl, TnC, and TnT bound to actin. Calcium binds to the troponin complex to allow for muscle contraction which moves tropomyosin from the binding site between actin and myosin.  https://www.hypermol.com/images/product_images/original_images/tropomyosin_troponin.png?XTCsid=5d01c310d7f6284214f030e2ff1eafc4 M line  - Region of sarcomere that is the region, which is the center of the A band and consisting of solely myosin fibers.  http://droualb.faculty.mjc.edu/Course%20Materials/Elementary%20Anatomy%20and%20Physiology%2050/Lecture%20outlines/sarcomere.jpg
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Week 9 - Definitions

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Key Terms: Matrix Processing Peptidase (MPP) Guidance Complex in Chloroplasts Tim9-Tim10 Complex Dictionary Matrix Processing Peptidase (MPP) - An enzyme in the matrix of mitochondria that cleaves signal sequences at the N terminal from the majority of mitochondrial proteins and deliver preproteins to the mitochondria.  Guidance Complex - Protein complex that is the initial recognition site of transit peptides and directs them to the TOC complex in chloroplasts  Tim9-Tim10 Complex - Complex of Tim chaperones that aid in the transport of hydrophobic precursor proteins across the intermembrane space in mitochondria.  http://jcs.biologists.org/content/joces/120/23/4099/F6.large.jpg
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Week 8 - Community Service Project

On March 13, our class will present our maternal health PowerPoint. I did research on the role of partners when carrying for their pregnant wives. This is an important topic as pregnancy can be emotionally over-bearing as well as physically demanding. Therefore, it is the partners role to ease the burden of their pregnant wife in order for the pregnant wife to remain calm, with hormone levels in safe fluctuations, and to easily follow with bed-rest when needed. To accomplish this, partners must have good communication with their wife--listening to her emotional and physical concerns and providing verbal and physical comfort. It is important for them to be patient with her. It would be helpful for the partner to research the effects of pregnancy on the wife such as mood swings and other behavioral changes in order for partners to anticipate and expect such changes to occur. Researching the aftermath of birth is also crucial for the parent to prepare for the coming of the newborn into th...
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