Action Potential
I made a TikTok to demonstrate how neurons carry a charge and release neurotransmitters. In this video, dopamine is being released.
Actin-Myosin Competition Rowers
My essay written in conjunction with my art piece is below. The link should direct you to a word document. Steam Essay Link
Taste Race Board Game
For my STEAM project I decided to make a board game out of the taste sensory reception pathway. The metabotropic pathway as well as the board game starts at a G protein and ends at the Gustatory cortex in the frontal lobe. We learned about this pathway briefly, but I …
Smoking Tobacco: How the Four Most Abundant Elements Can React
For my project, I discuss about how oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen can react to the smoke of tobacco. Like most things humans consume, tobacco and its smoke has species of those four elements. These species negatively effect the human body, such as, the lungs, liver, and heart. The oxygen, …
String Quartet – Jensen Zadra
I composed a short string quartet based on the ideas of how we hear. I used the four instruments to represent certain parts of the hearing process. The cello represents the initial sound, creating the first note you hear and the basis in which all other instruments react to. The …
Deeper Into Mitosis
This project dives deeper into the phases of mitosis. Specifically, what drives mitosis? There is such a vast wealth of information on the things that are driving it, and scientists still don’t know everything about it. It is incredible how intricate and compex it is at such a microscopic level! …
Bone Marrow
My drawing represents bone marrow inside of a long bone. The oval represents yellow marrow, but that it will not always look the same based on age differences. Other shaded portions are red marrow, but are also not exact representations, because age can vary the amount of red vs. yellow …
How Cells Change in Lungs to Cause Brain Metastases
My STEAM project is about how compromised lungs due to carcinogens, like smoking, have a change in cells. The change experienced in the cells makes it harder to fight off foreign matter to keep the lungs healthy. With that, lung cancer is the outcome and tumors will most likely form. …
MS and the Myelin Sheath
I made a picture to represent how the breakdown of the myelin sheath from MS affects the electrical impulses in our nerves. You can see one cell has full sheaths and the other doesn’t. The impulses are full and travel down the entirety of the axon in the healthy cell. …