State University of New York at New Paltz: Biology Department

Could Eating Dirt be Good for You? Inquiring Students in Microbiology Want to Know.

04/14/2011 It is estimated that each gram of soil has about 1 billion bacterial cells. In the Microbiology class, the students searched through soil to find antibiotic producing bacteria. Bacteria of the genus Streptomyces live in soil and are famous for producing antibiotics, so the students grew and then tested these bacteria. Streptomyces also... Read more

Sex in the Developmental Biology Lab.

03/07/2011 Did you know that 70% of sea urchin genes have a human counterpart? Ask us about it. Sea Urchin Day... Read more

Snakes on a Pane! (OK, they can't ALL be winners) Watch out for rattlesnakes on the first floor of CSB!

01/29/2011 The new installment of the Biology Club’s educational display, located just outside of the Biology Club Room (CSB 114), will feature specimens and information highlighting North America’s most charismatic venomous snake groups – the rattlesnakes. The display will feature a 10” long, anatomically accurate sculpture of an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake fang created... Read more

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