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    Celebrating student accomplishments at the end of the academic year, this week in CSUN Biology

    This is the last Biosphere of Spring 2026 — but you can send in your updates with the new streamlined contribution form — scholarship and grant opportunities,…

    Biosphere Editor 15 May, 2026
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  • Awards Campus Events Featured

    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…

    Biosphere Editor 17 April, 2025
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  • Featured Publications Research

    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…

    Biosphere Editor 17 April, 2025
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  • Featured Publications Research

    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…

    Biosphere Editor 14 November, 2024
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  • Awards Departmental Events Featured

    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…

    Biosphere Editor 20 September, 2024
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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

Biosphere Editor 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

Biosphere Editor 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

Biosphere Editor 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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People

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

Biosphere Editor 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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Opportunities Projects

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

Biosphere Editor 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

Biosphere Editor 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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Projects Research

CSUN undergrad researcher spent summer studying how bees beat the heat

Biosphere Editor 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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Opportunities

CSUN Biology Advising Office builds new online resource for students seeking careers in healthcare

Biosphere Editor 9 September, 2022 CSU Pre-Health

The Biology Advising Office have created a new Canvas page, called CSUN Pre Health, to assemble a wealth of info for students preparing to enter…

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Alumni Colloquium Departmental Events

Colloquium: Tawackoli gives a cell’s eye view of the skeletal system

Biosphere Editor 9 September, 2022 orthopedic medicinestem cellsWafa Tawackoli

The Fall 2022 Biology Colloquium series officially launches this week with a talk from Wafa Tawackoli, a Research Assistant Professor in Biomedical Sciences at Cedars…

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

CSUN graduate students present Giant Sea Bass studies at JMIH

Biosphere Editor 7 September, 2022 Elizabeth BurnsEmily Ladingiant sea bassJMIH

Emily Ladin and Elizabeth Burns, Marine Biology graduate students from the Allen-Franklin lab, presented papers based on their Master’s theses at the Joint Meeting of…

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