Many diverse groups of organisms — from butterflies to beetles to beneficial bacteria — spend their lives intimately associated with host organisms, and evolutionary biologists have long…
View More CSUN biologists trace a link between intimate ecological interactions and the evolution of new speciesThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature James L. Nuñez, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley. Dr.…
View More Colloquium: Nuñez on editing the “epigenome” with CRISPR
One of the best-known beneficial symbioses in the ocean is the mutualism between corals and photosynthetic algae. Coral polyps provide shelter and nutrients for algae…
View More CSUN biologists find that hosts need the right symbiont when the heat is onThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature James Golden, Professor of Molecular Biology at UC San Diego. Dr. Golden studies genetic transformation…
View More Colloquium: Golden on out-of-this world engineering of cyanobacteriaThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Casey terHorst. Dr. terHorst studies the mechanistic links between ecological…
View More Colloquium: terHorst on the vital evolutionary importance of genetic variationThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Arnab Mukherjee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara.…
View More Colloquium (Corrected): Mukherjee on methods to make ‘invisible’ molecular processes visible
Three years ago, CSUN Marine Biology graduate students Emily Ladin and Elizabeth Burns were surprised by the arrival of hundreds of baby giant sea bass,…
View More CSUN marine biologists’ “baby giants” are returned to the seaThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Ashwana Fricker, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Gilberto…
View More Colloquium: Fricker on the human microbiome’s taste for mucinThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Erica J. Hutchins, Assistant Professor of Cell and Tissue Biology in the School of Dentistry…
View More Colloquium: Hutchins on post-transcriptional regulation of neural crest developmentThis week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Richelle Tanner, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Chapman University. Tanner is an…
View More Colloquium: Tanner on the unavoidable link between science and politics