In an article published in the open-access journal PeerJ, Professor of Biology Robert Espinoza and colleagues at La Sierra University, the University of Kansas, Universiti Sains Malaysia,…
View More New geckoes described by CSUN Biology professor and colleagues
CSUN Today reports that honey from beehives maintained on the CSUN campus by Associate Professor of Biology Rachel Mackelprang will soon be available for sale…
View More Mackelprang’s beehives now producing honey for sale
This week’s seminar in the Biology Department colloquium series will be presented by CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Casey terHorst. terHorst studies the ecological impacts of…
View More Colloquium: terHorst on the limits of eco-evolutionary interactions
The invasive wildflower Medicago polymorpha has evolved to grow more rapidly in its new range, but this change is not associated with stronger competitive ability against…
View More Invasive wildflower grows bigger, but not more competitive, in new territory
The Richard Duenckel Garden Club Scholarship from the Toluca Lake Garden Club provides up to $1,500 for undergraduate and graduate students studying the biology of plants,…
View More Richard Duenckel Garden Club Scholarship offers $1500 for students on #TeamAutotroph
The Microbiology Student Association (MSA) would like to welcome you to our first event of the Fall 2018 semester. This Friday, September 21st we will…
View More Discover the microbes behind your Merlot at Wine 101
Experiments with the invasive wildflower Medicago polymorpha show that the plant evolved to be a tougher competitor as it established itself in new habitats, including California.…
View More This invasive plant succeeds by evolving to compete
This week’s Biology Colloquium series seminar will be given by Greg Pauly, Curator of Herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Pauly will…
View More Colloquium: Pauly will discuss citizen science
The American Society of Plant Biologists is seeking applications for its 2019 Transforming Education in Plant Biology grant, which provides up to $4500 for faculty teaching…
View More ASPB seeks proposals for projects “Transforming education in plant biology”
Biology alumnus Sam Fleischer, now a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, has published results from his undergraduate research with Associate Professor Casey terHorst in the…
View More terHorst Lab alumnus publishes model of predator-prey dynamics