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Category: Research

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Publications Research

CSUN biologists help demonstrate that a flower’s shape determines who visits

Admin 9 September 2020 Jeremy Yoderpollination

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…

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Projects Research

Yoder Lab receives NSF funding as part of the Joshua Tree Genome Project

Admin 2 September 2020 Jeremy YoderJoshua treeJoshua 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…

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Opportunities Projects Research

NIH grant provides new support for upcoming CSU Interdisciplinary Cancer Meeting

Admin 27 August 2020 CSU-ICMDaniel TamaeDavid BermudesJonathan KelberMaria Elena de Ballard

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…

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Projects Research

USDA funds Basu Lab in project to develop turmeric as a cash crop

Admin 26 August 2020 Chhandak BasuCucurma longa

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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Projects Research

CSUN microbiologist Gilberto Flores receives NIH funding to study how bacteria help us get the most out of milk

Admin 26 August 2020 AkkermansiaGilberto Flores

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…

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Publications Research

Zavala contributes to assessment of diversity efforts at the American Society for Cell Biology

Admin 14 May 2020 broadening participationMARCMariaElena ZavalaRISE

Scientific societies have an important role to play in broadening the diversity of people who participate in research, and their potential impacts can be substantial,…

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Publications Research

Oppenheimer and students publish large-scale experiment in cellular de-clumping

Admin 14 May 2020 cancer biologySteven Oppenheimer

Cancer cells have different properties in groups than they do solo, including greater risk of metastasis — establishing in parts of the body far from a…

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Classes In the news Projects Research

CSUN biology research immersion class tackles COVID-19 vaccine design

Admin 13 May 2020

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…

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Publications Research

CSUN biologist develops new method to detect cancer in its earliest stages

Admin 30 April 2020 cancer biologyChristian Ruiz Rueda

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…

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Conference Events Research

Here’s how to watch Biology students’ presentations in this year’s online CSUNposium

Admin 27 March 2020 CSUNposium
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