For two years, Corazon Lara has worked in Innovation Village as a laboratory intern at Titan Oil Recovery, analyzing bacteria samples from different oil wells to develop nutrients that could one day aid in oil production.The internship complements the learn-by-doing education the first-generation high school graduate and college student is receiving at Cal Poly Pomona, where she is double-majoring in microbiology and anthropology. Read more |
The research focuses on Huntington’s disease, a degenerative disorder that usually strikes people in their late 30s and early 40s. It causes a progressive deterioration in mental abilities and uncontrollable muscle movements that get worse as time goes by. Individuals in the late stages of the disease are completely unable to care for themselves. For years, the scientific and medical communities have assumed that the debilitating movements associated with the disease were the result of neurons degenerating, primarily in the brain. Read more |
Faculty in the Deparment of Biological Sciences are active in original research and involve their graduate and undergraduate students in their research projects.
This section contains the latests publications by the department's faculty and research students along with descriptions of their relevance. Read more |
