CSUN Assistant Professor of Biology Cristian Ruiz Rueda received a new grant from the National Science Foundation this summer, which will support his lab’s continuing…
View More NSF funds Ruiz Rueda’s quest to understand how bacteria spit out antibiotics
Combing through over 50,000 records of animals visiting flowers, biologists at CSUN have found evidence of a pattern botanists have discussed since before the days…
View More CSUN biologists help demonstrate that a flower’s shape determines who visits
Earlier this summer the National Science Foundation awarded over $1.5million in funding support for a project to sequence the Joshua tree genome and learn how…
View More Yoder Lab receives NSF funding as part of the Joshua Tree Genome ProjectA new grant from the National Institutes of Health R13 mechanism will fund a meeting of cancer researchers across the California State Univeristy system this…
View More NIH grant provides new support for upcoming CSU Interdisciplinary Cancer Meeting
CSUN plant biologist Chhandak Basu and colleagues at Alabama A&M University have received funding to continue a project developing turmeric as a cash crop for…
View More USDA funds Basu Lab in project to develop turmeric as a cash crop
CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Gilberto Flores received a big new grant from the National Institutes of Health this summer, which will support his lab’s…
View More CSUN microbiologist Gilberto Flores receives NIH funding to study how bacteria help us get the most out of milk
Scientific societies have an important role to play in broadening the diversity of people who participate in research, and their potential impacts can be substantial,…
View More Zavala contributes to assessment of diversity efforts at the American Society for Cell BiologyCancer cells have different properties in groups than they do solo, including greater risk of metastasis — establishing in parts of the body far from a…
View More Oppenheimer and students publish large-scale experiment in cellular de-clumping
Every spring semester class at CSUN has had to retool to cope with the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic; but Biology Professor David Bermudes’s…
View More CSUN biology research immersion class tackles COVID-19 vaccine design
Knowing specific cancer-causing mutations offers the possibility to nip cancer in the bud — detecting and treating it before a tumor can proliferate and threaten…
View More CSUN biologist develops new method to detect cancer in its earliest stages