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Category: Research

A giant sea bass at the California Academy of Sciences aquarium (Flickr: Caitlin Childs)
In the news Research

CSUN Biology professor’s quest for singing sea bass

Admin 6 November 2018 giant sea bassLarry Allen

Professor of Biology Larry Allen was recently featured in a long-form profile by UC Santa Cruz ScienceNotes, which delves into Allen’s long history spent studying the…

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Bluebanded gobies near San Clemente Island, California (Wikimedia: Clark Anderson)
Conference Events In the news Research

CSUN graduate research presented at AAUS annual meeting

Admin 24 October 2018 George JarvisMark Steele

Biology graduate student George Jarvis presented results from his Master’s thesis research in the lab of Mark Steele earlier this month at the annual symposium…

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California live oak (photo by Jeremy Yoder)
Education Opportunities Research

Apply for Master’s research in Ecology and Evolution at CSUN

Admin 23 October 2018 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Ecology & Evolution section of the Department of Biology at California State University, Northridge is accepting applications to the Master’s of Science program for…

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California poppies bloom in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 2009 (Flickr: Michael Huey)
Jobs Opportunities Projects Research

CSUN Biology Herbarium receives funding to support digitization of specimens

Admin 18 October 2018 herbariumJim HoguePaul Wilson

Earlier this month, Drs. Jim Hogue and Paul Wilson attended a conference of museum and herbarium curators who are publishing information about their specimens online.…

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Un-engineered Arabidopsis (left) and Arabidopsis engineered to over-express ACC oxidase (right) in flooded conditions in a climate-controlled growth chamber, compared over time since their roots were submerged in water.
Publications Research

Boosting expression of a key gene may help plants survive a soaking

Admin 2 October 2018 Arabidopsis thalianaChhandak BasuDinesh GuptafloodingNiveditha Ramadoss

Plants engineered to produce more of a key growth-regulating hormone tolerated flooding for almost twice as long siblings without the boost, CSUN biologists report in…

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Cyrtodactylus meersi sp. nov., one of the new species described in the article. (Grismer et al. 2018, Figure 7.)
Publications Research

New geckoes described by CSUN Biology professor and colleagues

Admin 25 September 2018 CyrtodactylusgeckoRobert Espinoza

In an article published in the open-access journal PeerJ, Professor of Biology Robert Espinoza and colleagues at La Sierra University, the University of Kansas, Universiti Sains Malaysia,…

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A honeybee collects nectar from ornamental sage in a planting along Lindley Avenue
In the news Projects Research

Mackelprang’s beehives now producing honey for sale

Admin 24 September 2018 honeybeesRachel Mackelprang

CSUN Today reports that honey from beehives maintained on the CSUN campus by Associate Professor of Biology Rachel Mackelprang will soon be available for sale…

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Medicago polymorpha (Carol Witham, via CalPhotos)
Publications Research

Invasive wildflower grows bigger, but not more competitive, in new territory

Admin 20 September 2018 Casey TerHorstMedicago polymorphaspecies invasions

The invasive wildflower Medicago polymorpha has evolved to grow more rapidly in its new range, but this change is not associated with stronger competitive ability against…

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Closeup of Medicago polymorpha flowers. (Steve Matson, via CalPhotos.)
Publications Research

This invasive plant succeeds by evolving to compete

Admin 17 September 2018 Camdilla WirthCasey TerHorstMedicago polymorphaspecies invasions

Experiments with the invasive wildflower Medicago polymorpha show that the plant evolved to be a tougher competitor as it established itself in new habitats, including California.…

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Fleisher et al. (2018), detail from Figure 7
Alumni Publications Research

terHorst Lab alumnus publishes model of predator-prey dynamics

Admin 13 September 2018 Casey TerHorstcoevolutionJing Lipredator-preySamuel Fleischertheory

Biology alumnus Sam Fleischer, now a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, has published results from his undergraduate research with Associate Professor Casey terHorst in the…

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