Upcoming Seminar Title Generating Population-scale Phylogenies Using an 850,000-processor Agent-based Evolution Simulation Speaker Matthew Andres Moreno, Ph.D. Postdoc – Research Scientist LSA Complex SystemsUniversity of Michigan Bio Date Monday, December 2, 2024 • 12:00 PM Location Donald P. Shiley BioScience CenterAlan & Debbie Gold Auditorium for the Life Sciences Zoom https://SDSU.zoom.us/j/84414375160 […]
SDSU Alumnus Dedicated to Promoting Fellow Athletes with Disabilities and Improving Healthcare
Peter Phillips uses microbiology and business degrees, plus a passion for athletics and sailing, to give back to the community
Don’t Lose Your Head Over It!
“We could see the whole bodies of the nematodes, but the head was just like detached from the body,” said chemistry major Yesenia Rodriguez Reyes, a workshop participant. She says no one in the Luallen lab had ever seen this before.
Preparing the Next Generation of Sustainable Scientists
SDSU scientists received $5 million from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture for growing and increasing diversity among researchers who are contributing to sustainable food systems along the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Why Biology at SDSU?
The Department of Biology at San Diego State University has excellent degree programs with courses taught by over 50 full-time, research-active faculty members. We serve and mentor approximately 1,300 undergraduate majors in Biology and Microbiology, 80 minors, 150 graduate students, and thousands of students from other departments. SDSU offers various coursework in cellular and molecular biology, ecology, evolution, and related fields. In a typical semester, undergraduates have access to over 50 courses. Nearly all of these classes are small, with fewer than 30 students, or have associated laboratory sections with fewer than 25 students.
1,287
Enrollment: Spring 2024
1,142
Bachelor's
73
Master's
72
Doctoral
311
Degrees Awarded: 2023-2024
281
Bachelor's
21
Master's
9
Doctoral
Major Areas of Study
Thesis Defenses
-
Predation Pressure is Inversely Related to Abalone Recovery on the Channel Islands
Jessica Patzlaff | Thursday, December 5, 2024
-
Resilient Restoration: Drought Resilience Amongst Southern California Populations of Quercus Agrifolia on Tribal Lands
Allie Hoff | Thursday, December 5, 2024
-
Understanding the Role of the Alternative NF-ĸB and MAPK Pathways in Regulating Quiescence in Ovarian Cancer Stem-Like Cells
Cecilia Gallo | Friday, November 22, 2024
-
Cataloging Telomeric Variation Across Diverse Human Populations, and its Utility in Predicting Cancer Using Supervised Machine Learning
Priyanshi Shah | Thursday, November 21, 2024
-
Floaters-Coupled-to-Sinkers (FloCS): FloCS and the Fight Against Microbialization at Depth
Andrew Barrows | Thursday, November 14, 2024
Announcements
Molecular Biology Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Yiqun Wang
Upcoming Seminar Title Spatial Transcriptomic Teconstruction of Spiralian Embryonic Patterning Speaker Yiqun Wang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral ScholarCenter for Marine Biotechnology and BiomedicineScripps Institution of Oceanography UC San Diego Bio Dr. Wang conducted seminal work on cellular trajectories in zebrafish embryogenesis for her doctoral research with Dr. Alex Schier (including groundbreaking studies published […]
Molecular Biology Institute Seminar Series: Dr. Ahmed H. Badran
Expanding the Chemical Space of Cellular Protein Translation | November 21, 2024 • 4:00 PM | Dr. Ahmed H. Badran
Seminar Series in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: Dr. Emily Taylor
What do animals REALLY do in the wild? We spy on them with secret cameras to find out | November 18, 2024 • 12:00 PM | Dr. Emily Taylor
2024 James Crouch Memorial Seminar
Charting the Spatiotemporal Landscape of Species’ Responses to Climate Change | October 28, 2024 • 4:00 PM | Dr. Morgan W. Tingley
Robert Luallen Awarded as a Presidential Research Fellow
Robert Luallen’s research focuses on understanding the beneficial and pathogenic interactions between natural microbiota and their hosts, using small nematodes as model animals. By combining outreach, ecological sampling, and laboratory research, he and his students aim to uncover the molecular interactions occurring between hosts and bacteria, and explore potential applications […]
Pardon the Dust, We Just Launched our New Website
Welcome! Pardon the dust as we unveil our brand-new website! We’re delighted to have you explore our updated online home. If you’re searching for something specific, please check the menu, which now features enhanced navigation to assist you in finding information more efficiently. Exciting new features and content are on […]
Cristal Zuniga Recognized at U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Scientists Awards
Funding for the Early Career Research Program (ECRP) Supports the Next Generation of America’s Scientific Workforce The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $138 million in funding for research covering a wide range of topics including […]