Víctor D. Carmona-Galindo,^1,*,** Daryle Hinton-Hardin,^2,*** Jodi Kagihara,^3,**** Mary Rose T. Pascua<sup>4,*****

1</sup>1Biology Department Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA 90045
²2301 North William Street Columbia, Missouri 65201
³3John A. Burns School of Medicine University of Hawai'i at Manoa Honolulu, HI 96813
⁴4Department of Mathematics and Science St. Mary's Academy Inglewood, CA 90301

^*Corresponding author: vcarmona@lmu.edu; 310-338-1968
^**Dr. Victor D. Carmona-Galindo is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Biology at Loyola Marymount University and is currently a U.S. Fulbright Scholar with the Universidad de El Salvador in San Salvador, El Salvador.
^***Daryle Hinton-Hardin graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 2010 with a B.S. in Biology and completed a Post-baccalaureate biomedical research program in 2011 with the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Daryle is currently applying for graduate and medical school.
^****Jodi Kagihara graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 2010 with a B.S. in Biology and is currently a medical student with the John A. Burns School of Medicine in the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
^*****Mary Rose Pascua graduated from Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in 2010 with a B.S. in Biology. She participated in the program Partners in Los Angeles Catholic Education (PLACE Corps), a Catholic teacher service corps, with the LMU School of Education and received her Master's in Secondary Education and Preliminary Credential in Secondary Mathematics in 2012. Mary Rose is currently a Mathematics and Science teacher at St. Mary's Academy.