Author: eric

Doctoral Student, Tucker Heptinstall, Wins 2025 Best Student Paper Award 

Second-year Evolutionary Biology JDP student, Tucker Heptinstall, won the 2025 Best Student Paper Award in the journal Integrative and Organismal Biology for his M.S. thesis on Garter snake venom evolution! Tucker did this venom work in Chris Parkinson’s lab at Clemson and has several big papers in the pipeline for […]

New Life Sciences Building Cements a Family Legacy

San Diego State University’s new Life Sciences building will be more than a state-of-the-art facility to support biological research and training — it is already a symbol of legacy going back generations.

Zoom: Fueling Change

SDSU researchers are exploring a novel way to combat climate change: methane-eating bacteria. By Bryana Quintana with global temperatures climbing, seas rising and natural disasters wreaking havoc worldwide…