Explore SFSU: Admitted Students Day is an opportunity for admitted students and their families to visit campus, explore their prospective departments, and meet faculty and staff.
The Department of Biology will offer building tours, a meet and greet with faculty, and information about our curriculum, research, and the opportunities a biology major affords. Read more here!
Explore SFSU: Admitted Students Day is an opportunity for admitted students and their families to visit campus, explore their prospective departments, and meet faculty and staff.
The Department of Biology will offer building tours, a meet and greet with faculty, and information about our curriculum, research, and the opportunities a biology major affords. Visit the Prospective Students page for more details.
If you are an admitted or prospective student, you can register for the campus-wide event here. Among the many activities planned, you can tour the residence halls and dining facilities, explore campus, participate in activities in the main quad throughout the day, and visit us in Hensill Hall. We will be open during the afternoon "Explore your College and Department" session.
The images in the banner above showcase organisms actively studied within our department. At Explore SFSU on April 11, you’ll get an inside look at how these species are investigated in our Biology Department’s research labs.
As an undergraduate in Biology at SFSU, you can move beyond the classroom and gain hands-on research experience. Through BURP (Biology Undergraduate Research Program), students participate in original research alongside faculty. This means you could be working directly with organisms like these, including animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms, in our labs.
From bacterial protein synthesis to the cellular structures that make vision possible, and from tracking how diseases move through ecosystems to understanding how plants stabilize soil, our research spans every scale of life. We study interactions between plants and animals and investigate how organisms evolve across time and space. The Biology Department is home to a wide range of research programs and offers many ways to get involved and make discoveries of your own.
Explore SF State Day is for admitted students and their families to come and visit campus, see their prospective departments and meet with faculty and staff.
The Department of Biology will be offering building tours, meet-and-greet with faculty, and information about our curriculum, our research and the opportunities a biology major affords. Check out Prospective Students page for more details.
If you are an admitted or prospective student, you can register for the campus-wide open day here. Among the many activities planned, you can visit the dorms and dining options, see the campus, partake in activities all day in the main quad, and come and see us in Hensill Hall. We'll be open during the afternoon "Explore your College and Department" session.
The images in our homepage banner are all from our labs or classrooms, so you can learn about how these animals are studied in our department research labs on April 5th. All undergraduate students have the opportunity to take part in original research as part of our BURP program, so you could be working with these animals (or plants, fungi, or microorganisms) if you join the department.
From L-R: Dusky-footed woodrats (Neotoma fuscipes) are reservoirs of the Lyme disease pathogen (photographed in the field by Anand Varma). Research in the Swei lab focuses on the ecology and transmission dynamics of tick-borne pathogens.
Next column, top: A human eye model from our Human Anatomy collection; we are one of the few CSU Biology departments offering a cadaver-based Human Anatomy curriculum, complemented by many wonderful anatomical models like this one. Alongside, a close-up of a Drosophila eye. The Riggs Lab uses Drosophila as a model to study cell division and development. Bottom: A Little Skate, Leucoraja erinacea, from the Anastassov Laboratory. The Anastassov lab studies visual neuroscience, using Little Skates to understand retinal circuits for low-light vision.
Middle panel; A student at a microscope in one of our Microbiology teaching labs.
Right top: an octopus, Octopus bocki, photographed in the Crook Lab. The Crook Lab studies sensory neurobiology, behavior and welfare of cephalopods. Right bottom; a closeup of an amphibian eye. The Vredenburg Lab studies amphibian conservation and the chytrid fungus disease that has devastated frog populations world-wide.