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    CSUN Biology students take the prize at the 2025 CSUNposium

    The Biology Department was well represented at last week’s 2025 CSUNposium, with undergrad researchers and Master’s students presenting their research in dozens of talks and…

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    Matador Microbiologists Merge Mycology with Mahjong

    Do toxic, glowing fungi play Mahjong? Mycologists Rudy Diaz, Resident Mycologist of the Los Angeles Mycological Society, and CSUN Professor of Biology David Bermudes didn’t…

    Admin 17 April 2025
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    CSUN plant biologists document effects of drought stress on a spice-cabinet staple

    Turmeric, the fragrant and colorful spice used in a number of cuisines, has also had uses in traditional medicine, which are increasingly under investigation by…

    Admin 14 November 2024
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    Check out the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest

    The votes are in, and congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Biosphere Summer Photo Contest: First place goes to Angelina Piette’s view of two-toed…

    Admin 20 September 2024
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    CSUN biologists reconstruct more than a century of Joshua tree flowering events to reveal the impacts of recent climate change

    Climate change has already shifted global temperatures and precipitation patterns from historical conditions, but tracking how these changes have impacted vulnerable species and ecosystems is…

    Admin 12 September 2024
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Colloquium (Corrected): Mukherjee on methods to make ‘invisible’ molecular processes visible

Admin 14 October 2022 Arnab Mukherjee

This week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Arnab Mukherjee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UC Santa Barbara.…

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A giant sea bass at the California Academy of Sciences aquarium (Flickr: Caitlin Childs)
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CSUN marine biologists’ “baby giants” are returned to the sea

Admin 13 October 2022

Three years ago, CSUN Marine Biology graduate students Emily Ladin and Elizabeth Burns were surprised by the arrival of hundreds of baby giant sea bass,…

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Alumni Colloquium Departmental Events

Colloquium: Fricker on the human microbiome’s taste for mucin

Admin 7 October 2022 Ashwana Frickermicrobiome

This week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Ashwana Fricker, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of CSUN Associate Professor of Biology Gilberto…

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Modified visualization of an IF-stained tumor section (Courtesy of the Kelber Lab).
Campus Conference Departmental Events

CSUN to host interdisciplinary cancer research conference meeting October 21

Admin 6 October 2022 cancerCSU ICMJoan Brugge

The newly NIH-funded California State University Interdisciplinary Cancer Meeting will be held Friday, Oct 21 in the Orchard Conference Center. The day’s schedule will include…

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Alumni Colloquium Departmental Events

Colloquium: Hutchins on post-transcriptional regulation of neural crest development

Admin 30 September 2022 BRIDGESdevelopmentErica J. HutchinsURISE

This week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Erica J. Hutchins, Assistant Professor of Cell and Tissue Biology in the School of Dentistry…

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Alumni Colloquium Departmental Events

Colloquium: Tanner on the unavoidable link between science and politics

Admin 23 September 2022 advocacyclimate changeRichelle Tanner

This week the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series will feature Richelle Tanner, Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Chapman University. Tanner is an…

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Rachman accepts PhD research position to map sagebrush communities from the air

Admin 22 September 2022 Richard Rachman

CSUN Biology Master’s student Richard Rachman has solidified plans for after graduation, accepting a PhD research position at Boise State University working with Assistant Professor…

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New N-COMPASS program sets CSUN Biology students on course for careers in regenerative medicine

Admin 22 September 2022 Cindy MaloneGabriel ChaviraGilberto FloresN-COMPASSstem cells

The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has awarded almost $3 million to CSUN Biology faculty Dr. Cindy Malone, with Drs. Gilberto Flores and Gabriela Chavira,…

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Alumni Colloquium Departmental Events

Colloquium: Vincent on the study of (possible) life on other worlds

Admin 16 September 2022 astrobiologyLena Vincent

This week in the Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series, CSUN alum Lena Vincent, Ph.D., returns to campus to discuss her postdoctoral research at NASA Jet…

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CSUN undergrad researcher spent summer studying how bees beat the heat

Admin 13 September 2022 Natalie Castillopollinationthermal ecology

Natalie Castillo, a CSUN Biology major working in Professor Robert Espinoza’s Laboratory of Integrative and Comparative Herpetology, spent her summer on a unique research internship…

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