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    CSUN Biology students take the prize at the 2025 CSUNposium

    The Biology Department was well represented at last week’s 2025 CSUNposium, with undergrad researchers and Master’s students presenting their research in dozens of talks and…

    Biosphere Editor 17 April, 2025
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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…

    Biosphere Editor 17 April, 2025
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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…

    Biosphere Editor 14 November, 2024
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    Check out the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest

    The votes are in, and congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest: First place goes to Angelina Piette’s view of two-toed…

    Biosphere Editor 20 September, 2024
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    CSUN biologists reconstruct more than a century of Joshua tree flowering events to reveal the impacts of recent climate change

    Climate change has already shifted global temperatures and precipitation patterns from historical conditions, but tracking how these changes have impacted vulnerable species and ecosystems is…

    Biosphere Editor 12 September, 2024
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California poppies bloom in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 2009 (Flickr: Michael Huey)
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CSUN Biology Herbarium receives funding to support digitization of specimens

Biosphere Editor 18 October, 2018 herbariumJim HoguePaul Wilson

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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Moorpark College seeks instructional lab tech

Biosphere Editor 12 October, 2018 lab techMoorpark College

Moorpark College in Ventura County seeks a full-time technician to support instructional labs, maintaining supplies and setting up teaching labs. Minimum requirements are a bachelor’s…

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A golden eagle released with a tracking device (USGS)
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Colloquium: Fisher on the “three Fs” challenging conservation in SoCal

Biosphere Editor 12 October, 2018 Robert N FisherUS Geological Survey

This week’s seminar in the Biology Department Colloquium series will be given by Robert N. Fisher, a conservation biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey’s Western…

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Education Jobs Opportunities

Teaching internship offered at Coast Community Colleges

Biosphere Editor 8 October, 2018 Coast Community Colleges

The Coast Community College District seeks applicants for its Teaching Internship with Experienced Support program in the the 2018-19 school year. TIES offers graduate students…

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Scarlet gillia in Stanislaus National Forest (Flickr: Mike LaBarbera)
Jobs Opportunities

2019 summer positions with the US Forest Service open for applications

Biosphere Editor 5 October, 2018 botanyStanislaus National Forest

Stanislaus National Forest is seeking Botany Crew staff for summer 2019. Positions will last from three to six weeks, and pay at least $14.30 per…

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Coral reef
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Colloquium: Fong to report on human impacts on aquatic communities

Biosphere Editor 5 October, 2018 Caitlin Fong

This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Caitlin Fong, a postdoctoral researcher with Professor Robert Carpenter. Dr. Fong works…

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Opportunities

Registration open for 2018 Southwestern Regional Meeting of Organismal Biologists

Biosphere Editor 5 October, 2018 SICB SWOB

Registration is now open for this year’s SICB Southwestern Regional Meeting of Organismal Biologists. The meeting will be held at California State University, San Marcos on Saturday, 10 November…

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Un-engineered Arabidopsis (left) and Arabidopsis engineered to over-express ACC oxidase (right) in flooded conditions in a climate-controlled growth chamber, compared over time since their roots were submerged in water.
Publications Research

Boosting expression of a key gene may help plants survive a soaking

Biosphere Editor 2 October, 2018 Arabidopsis thalianaChhandak BasuDinesh GuptafloodingNiveditha Ramadoss

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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McGraw Tower, Uris Library and Ho Plaza in fall, shot from Barnes Hall.
Education Opportunities

Cornell University offers Graduate Student Preview Weekend

Biosphere Editor 1 October, 2018 Cornell University

The Cornell University Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Entomology, and School of Integrative Plant Science are pleased to announce our second annual…

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Allen receives Meritorious Teaching Award

Biosphere Editor 28 September, 2018 Larry Allen

The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, the American Elasmobranch Society, and the Meritorious Teaching Award in Ichthyology Selection Committee, selected CSUN Professor of Biology…

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