Climate change challenges global agricultural systems with hotter temperatures and altered rainfall patterns, and understanding how plants cope with heat and drought stresses has direct…
View More CSUN plant biologists describe gene expression changes that could help biofuel trees beat the heatThis week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series launches will be presented by Tawaun Lucas, a postdoctoral research fellow at Genetech, and an alumnus of…
View More Colloquium: Lucas on the genetics of glial development in the spleen
Assistant Professor Eduardo Amorim, the newest member of the Biology Department faculty, is launching his CSUN lab with a big boost from the National Institutes…
View More Amorim Lab opens at CSUN with $1.7 million in NIH funding to study ancient epidemicsBiology MSci. student Roland Lacap received a COAST Graduate Student Research Award for 2021 over the summer. The award, from the CSU Council on Ocean…
View More Lacap wins COAST award supporting thesis research in the oceanThe Biology Colloquium seminar series launches for the fall semester with CSUN’s own professor of Biology María Elena Zavala. Dr. Zavala studies the genetics of…
View More Colloquium: Zavala on studying plant development and making sure no one is left behind
New research by CSUN Professor of Biology Jonathan Kelber and a team of students, postdocs, and international collaborators shows how a gene Kelber first examined…
View More Tumor-associated tissue can promote breast cancer progression and drug resistance through a key gene, CSUN Developmental Oncogene Lab finds
CSUN Professor of Biology Ray Hong is seeking undergraduate research assistants for work on an NIH-funded study of neuron development in a model nematode, Pristionchus…
View More Hong Lab seeks undergraduate researchers to study developing neurons
The CSUN Biology Department is pleased to announce the winners of student awards and scholarships for the 2020-2021 school year, recognized in an online awards…
View More CSUN Biology celebrates award-winning studentsThe Department of Biology will hold its annual awards and honors ceremony, recognizing student accomplishments in the 2020-21 school year, next Monday, May 24, at…
View More Here’s how to join the Biology Department’s online awards and honors ceremony on Monday afternoon