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
Climate change has warmed ocean temperatures, increasing the risk and frequency of coral bleaching, a stress response in which corals expel the colorful algal symbionts…
View More CSUN biologists test whether coral symbionts can beat the heatBacteria engineered to produce and deliver drug compounds could be a new powerful new tool for cancer therapy and many other medical applications. A new…
View More Bermudes Lab discovery could aid in engineering cancer-fighting bacteria
Natural selection is very good at finding solutions to the challenges organisms face in varying environments. Often, selection acting on different species that face the…
View More CSUN botanists find 10 different ways that Dudleyas do all right in dry conditionsThis week’s presentation in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Brandie Cross, who studies the pharmacological benefits of cannabinoids, the active ingredients…
View More Colloquium: Cross on the benefits of cannabis derivatives
CSUN biologists have traced interactions between Cripto, a signaling protein associated with development and stem cell regulation, and other molecules that direct tissue regeneration. The…
View More Kelber Lab dissects a protein’s role in regeneration
CSUN Biology faculty and students are in San Diego, California, for the 2018 American Society of Cell Biology Meeting. Assistant Professor of Biology Crystal…
View More Rogers, Manohar, and Kelber to present in ASCB annual meeting in San Diego
CSUN Biology Professor Emeritus Steve Oppenheimer was among those honored at the CSUN Volunteer Service Awards last Friday, receiving the Dean Ed Peckham Award for…
View More Professor Emeritus Oppenheimer honored for service to the university
A promising new tool for cancer therapy may be bacteria engineered to attack tumor cells, according to a review article recently published in the journal…
View More Bermudes considers tumor-fighting bacteria in Nature Reviews Cancer
Coral populations’ recovery from disturbances is facilitated by increased success of juvenile corals after the loss of competing adults, according to a new study from…
View More CSUN marine biologists examine how corals reassemble reefs in new paper