CSUN marine biologist Kerry Nickols is among the scientists supported by $6 million in grants recently awarded by the Ocean Protection Council for research to…
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Category: Research
CSUN marine biologists examine how corals reassemble reefs in new paper
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…
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CSUN Biology professor’s quest for singing sea bass
Professor of Biology Larry Allen was recently featured in a long-form profile by UC Santa Cruz ScienceNotes, which delves into Allen’s long history spent studying the…
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CSUN graduate research presented at AAUS annual meeting
Biology graduate student George Jarvis presented results from his Master’s thesis research in the lab of Mark Steele earlier this month at the annual symposium…
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Apply for Master’s research in Ecology and Evolution at CSUN
The Ecology & Evolution section of the Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge is accepting applications to the Master’s of Science program for…
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CSUN Biology Herbarium receives funding to support digitization of specimens
Earlier this month, Drs. Jim Hogue and Paul Wilson attended a conference of museum and herbarium curators who are publishing information about their specimens online.…
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Boosting expression of a key gene may help plants survive a soaking
Plants engineered to produce more of a key growth-regulating hormone tolerated flooding for almost twice as long siblings without the boost, CSUN biologists report in…
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New geckoes described by CSUN Biology professor and colleagues
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,…
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Mackelprang’s beehives now producing honey for sale
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…
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Invasive wildflower grows bigger, but not more competitive, in new territory
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…
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