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Search on for Genomics professor. Please come to job talks—Monday 18 March; Wednesday 20 March; and Wednesday 3 April—all at 11:00 in EH 2132.

Walk-in tutoring is available most days of the week. Also, you can email the tutors: biotutor@csun.edu. Spring 2013 tutoring schedule more ...

Spotlight on Student Research


Angelica Zavala Lopez Angelica Zavala Lopez is studying the effect of a warming climate on flatworms in Carpinteria Salt Marsh. Her flatworms are parasites with a complex life cycle moving from snail hosts to fish hosts to bird hosts and back to snails. Angelica has found that a little bit of warming makes the parasite emerge from the snail faster than normal but more warming tends to halt emergence. After the parasites have emerged and are free-living, their survival is also temperature dependent, with an intermediate optimal temperature bracketed by temperatures that are too cool or too hot. Finally, the probability that a parasite will be able to infect a fish is also temperature dependent. Angelica is studying three species of flatworms. She hypothesizes that the three have different responses to temperature, so if the salt marsh warms, the composition of the parasite community will change correspondingly ... archives of Spotlight

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CSUN offers many field courses in marine and terrestrial environments providing opportunities for hands-on research experience... details...