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Tropical Biology students present research projects from a semester abroad
Students in the CSUN Tropical Biology Semester develop and conduct research projects as part of a six-week trip through the diverse ecosystems of Ecuador, and…
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This week’s final seminar in the 2022 Biology Colloquium series features David Enard, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at…
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Among the winners of this year’s CSUN Faculty awards are two members of the Biology Department, Associate Professors Nyssa Silbiger and Casey terHorst. Silbiger, who…
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CSUN RSCA supports octocoral surveys by marine biology grad students
CSUN graduate students Kiran Reed and Elizabeth Burns are conducting octocoral population surveys in along the Coast of Southern California as part of a CSUN…
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For this week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series, Biology alumnus Megan Agajanian, now a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, returns to discuss her research.…
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Colloquium: Seet on stem cell-derived immunotherapy
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series features Christopher Seet, Assistant Professor-in-Residence of Medicine at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Seet studies…
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CSUN plant biologists track tomato plants’ heat stress at the molecular level
If you’ve ever smelled the minty scent of a breeze passing over a flowerbed full of salvia, or caught a whiff of creosote in the…
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CSUN biologist discusses plans to protect Joshua trees in report for “Planet Possible” series
CSUN Assistant Professor of Biology Jeremy Yoder was among the experts interviewed for a recent report on plans to protect Joshua trees against climate change…
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Colloquium: Samarasinghe on in vitro models of neural circuit formation
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series features Ranmal Samarasinghe, Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Neurology at UCLA. Dr. Samarasinghe studies neural network formation and function,…
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