Read the latest news and updates from the Biology department.

The Biology department was prominently featured in an article about the 19th Undergraduate Research Conference. Check it out here!

Several Oxy Biology students and faculty attended the Southern California Academy of Sciences (SCAS) conference on Friday, May 4, 2018.

Professor Shana Goffredi was featured in a Los Angeles Times article last weekend! You can read it online here:

The Spring 2018 Biology Seminar Series concludes with Andrea Bonisoli-Alquati’s talk, "Oxidative stress and life history: Ecological and evolutionary lessons from nuclear accidents."


Her grant proposal to the Southern California Academy of Sciences was selected to be fully funded! She is studying the symbiotic bacteria of deep sea mussels from Costa Rica (in Prof Goffredi's lab).

The Spring 2018 Biology Seminar Series continues with Dr. Shannon J. Sirk’s talk, "Engineering Commensal Microbes."
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Madeline Gillman The impact of overparameterization and sampling bias on modeling the future distribution of California’s endemic Quercus lobata Née
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The Spring 2018 Biology Seminar Series continues with Case Prager’s talk, "Impacts of climate and multiple dimensions of biodiversity on arctic and alpine ecosystem carbon dynamics."
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