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…
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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 on
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,…
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has awarded almost $3 million to CSUN Biology faculty Dr. Cindy Malone, with Drs. Gilberto Flores and Gabriela Chavira,…
View More New N-COMPASS program sets CSUN Biology students on course for careers in regenerative medicineNatalie Castillo, a CSUN Biology major working in Professor Robert Espinoza’s Laboratory of Integrative and Comparative Herpetology, spent her summer on a unique research internship…
View More CSUN undergrad researcher spent summer studying how bees beat the heat
Emily Ladin and Elizabeth Burns, Marine Biology graduate students from the Allen-Franklin lab, presented papers based on their Master’s theses at the Joint Meeting of…
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CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Kerry Nickols joined a large team of marine biologists at institutions across the U.S. and Australia in developing a sweeping…
View More CSUN marine biologist contributes to systematic evaluation of US marine protected areas
Humans have, deliberately and accidentally, moved many species into habitats far from their original homes — and some of these introduced species become invasive, out-competing local…
View More CSUN biologists pinpoint evolutionary changes that help this weed invade new territoryStudents in the CSUN Tropical Biology Semester develop and conduct research projects as part of a six-week trip through the diverse ecosystems of Ecuador, and…
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CSUN graduate students Kiran Reed and Elizabeth Burns are conducting octocoral population surveys in along the Coast of Southern California as part of a CSUN…
View More CSUN RSCA supports octocoral surveys by marine biology grad students