The Fall 2024 Biology Colloquium Series continues Friday with a seminar featuring three short talks by newly-arrived faculty, introducing themselves and their research interests to…
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Check out the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest
The votes are in, and congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest: First place goes to Angelina Piette’s view of two-toed…
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Ruiz Rueda wins funding to support new studies of bacterial antibiotic resistance
CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Cristian Ruiz Rueda has received a $1-million, four-year NSF grant to study the molecular mechanisms of how bacteria coordinate efflux,…
View More Ruiz Rueda wins funding to support new studies of bacterial antibiotic resistanceColloquium: Balrich-Gonzalez on the molecular messages that pass between plants and microbes
The Fall 2024 Biology Colloquium Series continues Friday with a seminar by Patricia Balrich-Gonzalez, the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Funding at the UC Davis…
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CSUN biologists reconstruct more than a century of Joshua tree flowering events to reveal the impacts of recent climate change
Climate change has already shifted global temperatures and precipitation patterns from historical conditions, but tracking how these changes have impacted vulnerable species and ecosystems is…
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CSUN biologist helps demonstrate a new way to take genes into space
Modern molecular biology needs DNA, and molecular biology in space requires a way to get that DNA into orbit. Transporting bio-molecules above the Earth’s atmosphere…
View More CSUN biologist helps demonstrate a new way to take genes into spaceColloquium: Mooney on the uses of genetic data in conservation
The Fall 2024 Biology Colloquium Series kicks off this Friday with a seminar by Jazlyn Mooney, Assistant Professor in Quantitative and Computational Biology Department at…
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CSUN biologist proposes gene expression could be the key to finding Martian life
The study of possible life on worlds beyond Earth is somewhat complicated by the fact that we have yet to find life on worlds beyond Earth. As…
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CSUN Biology welcomes new faculty
The Biology Department begins this new academic year with four new faculty members setting up labs and starting up in the classroom. The new hires…
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CSUN Biology faculty and staff celebrate promotions and service anniversaries in the new academic year
Fall 2024 marks career milestones for multiple CSUN Biology faculty and staff members: Congratulations to everyone, and welcome back for 2024-25! Image: Chaparral Hall (Photo…
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