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Spring Break is finally here, and CSUN Biologists are heading off campus for field trips and visits home; or else hunkering down for lab work or writing while classes are out of session. But before we depart, there are still funding opportunities to consider, and a colloquium revealing how RNA processing shapes a developing brain.
The Office of Undergraduate Research is still taking applications for the Travel Scholarship to support conference attendance, which closes March 15; the 2026 Summer JumpStart experience, which closes March 27; and the SUNRISE summer research program, which closes March 30.
The Southern California Garden Club annual scholarship, which offeres $1000 to students working in agricultural and horticultural fields, comes due March 27.
The Biology Colloquium seminar series continues this week with Derrick Morton, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences and Gerontology at USC. Dr. Morton studies the role of post-transcriptional RNA processing factors in neurodevelopment, and his talk will be titled, “How RNA Surveillance Shapes Neuronal Development and Disease”. Colloquium seminars are held this semester at 2:30pm in Chaparral Hall room 5125.