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…
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CSUN microbiologists track the genes that could turn cyanobacteria into biofuel factories
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 factoriesCSUN microbiologists find bacteria resistant to a “last-resort” antibiotic throughout Los Angeles soils
Antibiotic resistance factors carried by environmental bacterial can provide a reservoir of resistance to disease-causing bacteria, via horizontal gene transfer. This risk is thrown into…
View More CSUN microbiologists find bacteria resistant to a “last-resort” antibiotic throughout Los Angeles soilsCSUN marine biologists measure runoff’s effects on coral reefs
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$2.2 million NIH grant provides “Bridges to the Doctorate” for CSUN students
The National Institutes of Health has awarded more than $2.2 million in support for a project linking CSUN Master’s students to PhD programs at Stanford…
View More $2.2 million NIH grant provides “Bridges to the Doctorate” for CSUN studentsNSF funds Ruiz Rueda’s quest to understand how bacteria spit out antibiotics
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 antibioticsCSUN biologists help demonstrate that a flower’s shape determines who visits
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 visitsYoder Lab receives NSF funding as part of the Joshua Tree Genome Project
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 ProjectNIH grant provides new support for upcoming CSU Interdisciplinary Cancer Meeting
A new grant from the National Institutes of Health R13 mechanism will fund a meeting of cancer researchers across the California State Univeristy system this…
View More NIH grant provides new support for upcoming CSU Interdisciplinary Cancer MeetingUSDA funds Basu Lab in project to develop turmeric as a cash crop
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…
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