More than a decade of results from a summer program designed to prepare incoming CSUN freshmen for university-level classwork has closed much of the “achievement…
View More CSUN Biology faculty report on summer program’s success in closing achievement gaps
Engineering bacteria to produce complex organic molecules that can be processed into biofuel may be a key to removing fossil fuels from the global energy…
View More CSUN microbiologists track the genes that could turn cyanobacteria into biofuel factories
Nutrients and sediment that wash into the ocean from agricultural lands and lawns may impact the stress tolerances of reef-building corals and their algal symbionts,…
View More CSUN marine biologists measure runoff’s effects on coral reefs
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 Project
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
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