Combing through over 50,000 records of animals visiting flowers, biologists at CSUN have found evidence of a pattern botanists have discussed since before the days…
View More CSUN biologists help demonstrate that a flower’s shape determines who visits
Image: The green-backed firecrown, a hummingbird found in Argentina and Chile, and on islands off the Chilean coast (Wikimedia Commons: Felipebernala)
View More Colloquium: Hertel on the diversity of hummingbirds on Chilean islands
Earlier this summer the National Science Foundation awarded over $1.5million in funding support for a project to sequence the Joshua tree genome and learn how…
View More Yoder Lab receives NSF funding as part of the Joshua Tree Genome ProjectEarlier in August, the National Science Foundation hosted a webinar on strategies for online learning in the coming semester, with alumni of the Presidential Awards…
View More Oppenheimer contributes to NSF webinar on online teachingA new grant from the National Institutes of Health R13 mechanism will fund a meeting of cancer researchers across the California State Univeristy system this…
View More NIH grant provides new support for upcoming CSU Interdisciplinary Cancer Meeting
CSUN plant biologist Chhandak Basu and colleagues at Alabama A&M University have received funding to continue a project developing turmeric as a cash crop for…
View More USDA funds Basu Lab in project to develop turmeric as a cash crop
CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Gilberto Flores received a big new grant from the National Institutes of Health this summer, which will support his lab’s…
View More CSUN microbiologist Gilberto Flores receives NIH funding to study how bacteria help us get the most out of milk
CSUN Biology concludes a spring semester reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic with a virtual graduation and student awards recognition ceremony this afternoon. The ceremony, to…
View More CSUN Biology holds virtual graduation and awards ceremony
The CSUN Biology Department is pleased to announce the winners of student awards and scholarships for the 2019/2020 school year. Graduate students From the College…
View More CSUN Biology celebrates award-winning students
Scientific societies have an important role to play in broadening the diversity of people who participate in research, and their potential impacts can be substantial,…
View More Zavala contributes to assessment of diversity efforts at the American Society for Cell Biology