Here’s how to watch Biology students’ presentations in this year’s online CSUNposium

As part of CSUN’s larger effort to help slow spread of the novel SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus by reducing person-to-person contact, the annual CSUNposium showcase of student research and creative work has gone virtual, with student research talks presented over the Zoom videoconferencing platform.

As in more normal years, Biology Department graduate and undergraduate researchers are well represented in the online CSUNposium. Here’s a rundown of students who are presenting, when their talks will be streamed on Friday, and links to the Zoom sessions:

• Master’s student Matt Wallace will present work with Jonathan Kelber, "Function and mechanism of ITGA1-dependent adhesion during TERS in pancreatic cancer", at 8:30am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• BS student Alanis Hernandez will present work with Cristian Ruiz Rueda, "Probing interactions between genes of a vancomycin resistance system" at 9:50am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/868855062
• Master’s student Armen Khanbabaei will present work with Mariano Loza-Coll, "Characterization of downstream targets of intestinal stem cell master regulators" at 10:20am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Lina Segura will present work with Mariano Loza-Coll, "Effects of inhibiting the master regulator genes Escargot and Stat in Drosophila melanogaster intestinal stem cells" at 10:40am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Dulce Alvarado will present work with Cindy Malone, "Characterization of the EIF4B putative promoter region" at 11:00am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Cameron Geller will present work with Jonathan Kelber, "The role of eIF5A1/2 in breast cancer" at 12:50pm: https://csun.zoom.us/j/129204246

• Master’s student Juan Hector Aragon Traverso will present work with Robert Espinoza, "Widow wars: Does thermophysiology explain the invasion success and competitive dominance of Brown Widows on two continents?", at 8:50am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Elliot Bloom will present work with Fritz Hertel, "Ecomorphology and character displacement of sympatric penguins", at 9:10am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Jeffrey Esparza will present work with Fritz Hertel, "Niche segregation of armadillos in the southern Pantanal", at 9:30am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Trevor C. Ruppert will present work with Robert Espinoza, "Origins of an invasive amphibian in Southern California" at 10:00am — https://csun.zoom.us/j/207464085
• BA student Nicole Bisente will present work with Robert Espinoza, "A continental survey of morphological variation among invasive house gecko populations", at 10:30am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/291614377
• BA student Natalie Castillo will present work with Robert Espinoza, "A comparison of life-history strategies between native and invasive widow spiders in Southern California", at 10:36am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/291614377
• BS student Jesse Jones will present work with David Gray, "Methods for song analysis of local chorus frog" at 10:42am: https://csun.zoom.us/j/291614377
• Master’s student Jennica Moffat will present work with Casey terHorst, "Investigating the potential for evolutionary rescue by association using a model cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis" at 1:50pm — https://csun.zoom.us/j/129204246
• Master’s student Stephanie Menjivar will present work with David Gray, "Exploring effects of traffic noise on the advertisement calls of a local chorus frog" at 1:50pm — https://csun.zoom.us/j/773934258
• Master’s student Sarah Wenner will present work with Jeanne Robertson, "Estimating spatial patterns of gene flow in the Blainville’s horned lizard (Phrynosoma blainvillii) in an urbanized landscape at 2:20pm — https://csun.zoom.us/j/773934258

• Master’s student Jennifer Fields will present work with Nyssa Silbiger, "Cascading impacts of foundation species loss on ecosystem functioning within Oregon rocky intertidal" at 9:10am — https://csun.zoom.us/j/207464085
• Master’s student Demetra Panos will present work with Kerry Nickols, "In situ community contributions to benthic biogeochemistry in temperate rocky reefs" at 9:30am — https://csun.zoom.us/j/207464085
• Master’s student Brian Cohn will present work with Kerry Nickols, "Effects of an epiphytic bryozoan on the growth and primary production of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera" at 10:00am — https://csun.zoom.us/j/265235988
• Master’s student Kathryn Scafidi will present work with Mark Steele, "The effects of an invasive alga on the trophic dynamics of temperate rocky reefs" at 10:20am — https://csun.zoom.us/j/207464085
• Master’s student Benjamin Chubak will present work with Mark Steele, Evaluating the importance of reef-based resources for reproduction in a temperate reef fish" at 12:30pm — https://csun.zoom.us/j/129204246
• Master’s student Danielle Becker will present work with Nyssa Silbiger, "Investigating the influence of nutrient enrichment on coral thermal tolerance in a branching coral species" at 12:30pm — https://csun.zoom.us/j/773934258