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…
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The CSUN Biology Department is pleased to announce the winners of student awards and scholarships for the 2021-2022 school year, who will be recognized in…
View More CSUN Biology celebrates award-winning studentsStudents 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…
View More Tropical Biology students present research projects from a semester abroadThis week’s final seminar in the 2022 Biology Colloquium series features David Enard, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at…
View More Colloquium: Enard on the evolutionary history of host-virus coevolutionAmong the winners of this year’s CSUN Faculty awards are two members of the Biology Department, Associate Professors Nyssa Silbiger and Casey terHorst. Silbiger, who…
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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 studentsFor this week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series, Biology alumnus Megan Agajanian, now a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, returns to discuss her research.…
View More Colloquium: Agajanian on WNT signaling in cellular processes and cancer progression
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series features Christopher Seet, Assistant Professor-in-Residence of Medicine at the UCLA Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Seet studies…
View More Colloquium: Seet on stem cell-derived immunotherapy
If you’ve ever smelled the minty scent of a breeze passing over a flowerbed full of salvia, or caught a whiff of creosote in the…
View More CSUN plant biologists track tomato plants’ heat stress at the molecular level
CSUN Assistant Professor of Biology Jeremy Yoder was among the experts interviewed for a recent report on plans to protect Joshua trees against climate change…
View More CSUN biologist discusses plans to protect Joshua trees in report for “Planet Possible” series