Publication Team Publication Editor I Ikram Muhammedsani, SOH ‘25 Cover Design I Alina Watson, CAS ‘26 Nesreen Shahrour, SOH ‘23 Rithvik Veeramachaneni, CAS ‘25 William (Will) DiGiovanni, CAS. ‘25 Katherine (Kate) Bohigan, SOH ‘25 Aanika Chandhok, CAS ‘25 Cecilio Sandoval Aguilar, CAS ‘26 Editorial Board Editor-in-Chief | Rithvik Veeramachaneni, CAS ‘25 and William (Will) DiGiovanni, CAS ‘25 Executive Editor | Katherine (Kate) Bohigan, SOH ‘25 Senior Editors Jacqueline ( Jackie) Chen, CAS ‘25 Leah Chen, CAS ‘25 Alexandria Sorensen, CAS ‘25 Philip Shraybman, CAS ‘25 Anna Tsioulias, CAS ‘25 Neha Gunda, SOH ‘26 Cate Gramelspacher, CAS ‘26 Zaynab Rashid, SOH ‘26 Zahra Izzi SOH ‘27 Anagha Konakanchi CAS ‘28 Shirley Zhang SOH ‘28 Junior Editors Rahul Banerjee, CAS ‘25 Caroline Palermo, CAS ‘25 Pallavi Bommareddy, CAS ‘26 Stephanie Park, CAS ‘26 Sara Medina, SOH ‘27 Copy Editors Zahra Izzi SOH ‘27 Anagha Konakanchi CAS ‘28 Shirley Zhang SOH ‘28 Faculty Reviewers Ronald Davis, PhD. I GU COL., Dept. of Chemistry Haiyan He, PhD. I GU COL., Dept. of Biology, Neurobiology Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, PhD. I GUMC, Dept. of Neuroscience Manus Patten, PhD. I GU COL., Dept. of Biology, Environmental Biology Michael Parker, PhD. I GU COL., Assistant Dean Special Thanks To the GSR Journal’s Executive and Content Board for their contributions to the publication. To Duke Vertices for their outside of institution peer-review. Acknowledgments 63