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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 […]

The Time Machine

SDSU biologists have collected specimens from every corner of the Earth for decades: It’s all in the Biodiversity Museum.

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 […]

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.