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CSUN Biology inspects crime scenes and takes the temperature with an RNA motif
CSUN biologists hit the stride of the spring semester this week, with a full schedule of lectures and labs. Prospective Master’s students applying to labs…
View More CSUN Biology inspects crime scenes and takes the temperature with an RNA motifBiologists (and Biosphere) return for Spring 2026
Classes started this week for CSUN’s Spring 2026 semester, and Biology Department labs and lecture halls are welcoming back hundreds of students returning from winter…
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Matador Microbiologists Merge Mycology with Mahjong
Do toxic, glowing fungi play Mahjong? Mycologists Rudy Diaz, Resident Mycologist of the Los Angeles Mycological Society, and CSUN Professor of Biology David Bermudes didn’t…
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Biology students are presenting their science at the 2025 CSUNposium
The annual CSUNposium showcase of student research and creative work returns this Friday, and as in previous years, the Biology Department is well represented. Undergraduate…
View More Biology students are presenting their science at the 2025 CSUNposiumCSUN molecular biologists find how two proteins set skin cancer cells on the move
The many negative effects of cancers are amplified by migration of cancerous cells from their point of origin, a first step to metastasis and establishment…
View More CSUN molecular biologists find how two proteins set skin cancer cells on the moveApplications for the 2025 CSUNposium come due next week!
Applications are open for students and postdocs interested in presenting research results at the annual CSUNposium, to be held Friday, April 4, 2025. The CSUNposium…
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CSUN plant biologists document effects of drought stress on a spice-cabinet staple
Turmeric, the fragrant and colorful spice used in a number of cuisines, has also had uses in traditional medicine, which are increasingly under investigation by…
View More CSUN plant biologists document effects of drought stress on a spice-cabinet stapleCSUN Biology students shone in the 2024 Sigma Xi campus research symposium
Last Friday the CSUN Chapter of Sigma Xi held its 24th Annual Student Research Symposium, in which 26 students across the College of Science and Math…
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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,…
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