Antibiotic resistance factors carried by environmental bacterial can provide a reservoir of resistance to disease-causing bacteria, via horizontal gene transfer. This risk is thrown into…
View More CSUN microbiologists find bacteria resistant to a “last-resort” antibiotic throughout Los Angeles soils
CSUN Assistant Professor of Biology Cristian Ruiz Rueda received a new grant from the National Science Foundation this summer, which will support his lab’s continuing…
View More NSF funds Ruiz Rueda’s quest to understand how bacteria spit out antibiotics
Image: Detail of Ruiz et al (2019) Figure 1
View More Ruiz-Rueda Lab probes the genetics of drug resistance in an emerging pathogen
Biology Lecturer Dana Harmon, Assistant Professor of Biology Cristian Ruiz Rueda and a team of CSUN graduate and undergraduate students trace the presence of antibiotic-resistant…
View More CSUN researchers find antibiotic-resistant bacteria in ponds and lakes across Los Angeles