The 2019 K-12 Research Symposium, organized by Emeritus Professor of Biology Steven Oppenheimer, filled the Northridge Center on Sunday, March 10. Elementary and high school…
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This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Gretchen Gerrish, visiting from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Gerrish studies…
View More Colloquium: Gerrish on tiny crustaceans that light up the sea
One rarely-mentioned aspect of NASA’s mission to explore the Solar System is planetary protection, the protocols the space agency uses to protect other worlds from alien…
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Microbiologists in the CSUN Department of Biology have carefully sifted the microbial community living in permafrost — the permanently frozen layer of soil below Arctic tundra…
View More CSUN microbiologists separate the quick and the dead in frozen Arctic soil
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Erica Larson, visiting from the University of Denver. Dr. Larson studies sexual…
View More Colloquium: Larson on the genetics of reproductive isolation in house miceThe Biology Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations and applications for the 2018-2019 school year, due by next Friday, March 15. The Committee administers a…
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Dr. Polly Schiffman will give a presentation, illustrated with lots of her photos, about biodiversity and conservation in Sabah, Borneo in the Behavior, Ecology, and…
View More Schiffman to present on biodiversity and conservation in Borneo
An image of cells in a fruit fly ovary from a CSUN Biology undergraduate course, which was recently recognized in the annual FASEB BioArt competition,…
View More NIH Director’s Blog highlights CSUN students’ BioArt
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Susan Brawley, visiting the Department from the University of Maine. Brawely studies…
View More Colloquium: Brawley on the evolutionary power of seaweedUndergraduates interested in laboratory and bioinformatics methods for high-throughput “next generation” DNA sequencing have a well supported new opportunity at one of CSUN’s sister campuses…
View More Summer undergraduate research in next generation sequencing at CSU San Marcos