One rarely-mentioned aspect of NASA’s mission to explore the Solar System is planetary protection, the protocols the space agency uses to protect other worlds from alien…
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CSUN microbiologists separate the quick and the dead in frozen Arctic soil
Microbiologists in the CSUN Department of Biology have carefully sifted the microbial community living in permafrost — the permanently frozen layer of soil below Arctic tundra…
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Colloquium: Larson on the genetics of reproductive isolation in house mice
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Erica Larson, visiting from the University of Denver. Dr. Larson studies sexual…
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The Biology Awards Committee is currently accepting nominations and applications for the 2018-2019 school year, due by next Friday, March 15. The Committee administers a…
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Schiffman to present on biodiversity and conservation in Borneo
Dr. Polly Schiffman will give a presentation, illustrated with lots of her photos, about biodiversity and conservation in Sabah, Borneo in the Behavior, Ecology, and…
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NIH Director’s Blog highlights CSUN students’ BioArt
An image of cells in a fruit fly ovary from a CSUN Biology undergraduate course, which was recently recognized in the annual FASEB BioArt competition,…
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Colloquium: Brawley on the evolutionary power of seaweed
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be given by Dr. Susan Brawley, visiting the Department from the University of Maine. Brawely studies…
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Undergraduates interested in laboratory and bioinformatics methods for high-throughput “next generation” DNA sequencing have a well supported new opportunity at one of CSUN’s sister campuses…
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Colloquium: Coffroth on corals and their microbes
This week’s seminar in the Biology Colloquium series will be presented by Dr. Mary Alice Coffroth, who is visiting the department from the University at…
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CSUN biologists test whether coral symbionts can beat the heat
Climate change has warmed ocean temperatures, increasing the risk and frequency of coral bleaching, a stress response in which corals expel the colorful algal symbionts…
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