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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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Cells of a bacterium under the microscope, and a diagram of its interaction with the human gut.
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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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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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CSUN marine biologists help restore “baby giants” to the Santa Monica Bay

Admin 13 March 2020 giant sea bassLarry Allen

Image: Some of the baby sea bass. (Photo by Michael Couffer, via CSUNshine Today)

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Twin “flumes” placed over patches of coral reef to allow manipulation of the water chemistry
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CSUN marine biologists launch new rig to study climate change under the sea

Admin 27 February 2020 Bob CarpenterGriffin SrednickPeter Edmunds
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California poppies bloom in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 2009 (Flickr: Michael Huey)
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Statewide coalition will study plants’ responses to climate change using pressed flowers

Admin 13 February 2020 CAP TCNPaul Wilsonphenology

Image: California poppies bloom in the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve, 2009 (Flickr: Michael Huey)

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Alumna’s gift supports CSUN journal of K-12 student science projects

Admin 6 February 2020 New Journal of Student AbstractsSteven Oppenheimer
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Carpenter receives NSF support to study a recent, severe coral bleaching event

Admin 10 September 2019 Bob Carpenterclimate changecoral reefs

Image: Bleached coral, which has lost its algal symbionts. (Coffroth Lab)

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Silbiger funded to study groundwater … under water

Admin 3 September 2019 coral reefsgroundwater

Image: Silbiger (left) and collaborators float equipment to a study site in Mo’orea (Photo via Nyssa Silbiger)

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CSUN Women in Science launch fundraiser for after-school science outreach

Admin 24 April 2019 Ruth GramajoWomen in Science

The CSUN Women in Science club have launched an online fundraiser to support GIST, their after-school science outreach program for girls at a local middle…

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