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El Niño’s very wet winter arrives in force with a forecast “atmospheric river” on Friday and more next week. CSUN Biologists will be battening down the hatches, staying warm and dry, and learning about the search for useful biological processes in some of the world’s weirdest microorganisms.
The CIRM N-COMPASS program of virtual seminars with CSUN alumni speaking about their paths into Biology careers after graduation continues next Wednesday, Nov 18 at 6pm, with Umu-Hawa Rogers, a CSUN Biochemistry alumna who has gone on to earn a Master’s of Public Health and is now pursuing her MD at UC San Diego. You can register for Rogers’s presentation at this link.
The Biology Colloquium Seminar Series continues Friday with a talk by Michelle O’Malley, the Cliff R. Scholle Professor of Chemical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara. Dr. O’Malley is the Director and a PI with UCSB’s ExFAB Biofoundry, which identifies industrial applications for extremophile fungi, archaea, and bacteria. Her talk, “The ExFAB Biofoundry: Accelerating the discovery pipeline from extreme organisms”, is sponsored by the Microbiology Students Association. Colloquium seminars are held Fridays this semester at 2:30 pm in Chaparral Hall 5122; after her talk, Dr. O’Malley will join a meet-the-speaker gathering with students in Chaparral Hall 5201.