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Resources
Current Graduate Students
Resources
- Graduate Handbook - A comprehensive overview of the Master's programs
- Classification Application - To change status to classified graduate student
- Graduate Advisor Declaration
- Bio 299 form
- Employment
- Field Biology Group
- Lockers
- Scholarships
- Student Policies at CSUS
Advancement
- Advancement to Candidacy Checklist
- Graduate Committee Members' Schedules(Fall, '12)
- Request for Advancement to Candidacy Meeting (Form)
- Application for Advancement to Candidacy (Guidelines and Form)
- Thesis Proposal Abstract Form for Advancement
Thesis
- Sacramento State ScholarWorks Repository: A resource to view successfully submitted theses.
- Request for Scheduling the Thesis Seminar (form)
- Graduate Committee Members' Schedules(Fall, '12)
- Thesis Formatting Workshops Office of Graduate Studies REQUIRED
- Thesis Format Requirements Office of Graduate Studies
- Thesis Format Guidelines Dept. of Biological Sciences (rev. 3/10)
- Sample Thesis Title Pages Template (rev. 3/10) New Requirements to be posted soon
- Sample Thesis Title Pages Template + Copyright pg (rev. 3/10)
Graduate Calendar
Graduate Students
| Name & Email | Web | Lab group | Room | Advanced | Thesis | |
| Ian Anderson | Kneitel | Effects of tadpoles in vernal pools |
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Atwal, Interdeep |
Peavy | |||||
| Bakhtiari, Fazeah | Ewing | SQU 205 | ||||
| Boyce, Robert | Ewing | SQU 18 | ||||
| Angela Calderaro | Kneitel | Vernal pool ecology | ||||
| Camphor, Sunchae | Nguyen | SQU 18 | ||||
| Michael Cardwell | Kneitel | Rattlesnake ecology | ||||
| Christensen, Jared | Landerholm | SQU 18 | ||||
| Contino, Colin | Holland | SQU 38 | Sexual Selection | |||
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Crain, Patrick | Coleman | Hmb 119 | No | Reproductive Biology of the Sacramento perch | |
| Russell Croel | Kneitel | Tadpole shrimp bioturbation effects in vernal pools | ||||
Karen Gehrts |
Kneitel | Species Invasions along environmental gradients |
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Helminski, Simon | Peavy | ||||
| Hopkins, Michelle | Lindgren | |||||
Kharla Chavez-Perez |
Vernal pool ecology |
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| Larson, Donica | Lindgren | |||||
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Lasko, Gena | Coleman | Hmb 119 | No | Salmonid biology | |
| Marquez, Katherine | Sacks | Yes | Connectivity of two urban coyote (Canis latrans) populations (Sacramento and San Francisco) to surrounding rural populations. |
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| Morris, Melissa | Lindgren | |||||
| Myashige, Yukiharu | Holland | SQU 38 | Sexual Selection | |||
| Olvera, David | Ewing | SQU 205 & 210 | Yes | Understanding the role of plasma membrane H+-ATPases in the control of plant growth and development | ||
| Parker, Katherine | Metcalf | |||||
| Rickner-Schmidt, Shannon | Roberts (Chemistry) | Yes | ||||
| Shahi, Hurshbir | Datwyler | SQU 120B | ||||
| Andrea Shea | Kneitel | Vernal pool ecology | ||||
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Teigen, Geoff | Coleman | Hmb 119 | Yes | Will the Interoceanica Highway restrict gene flow in Amazonian Peru?: A study of Two Frog Species | |
| Thomas, Ishtar | Lancaster | SQU 32 | Forensic science | |||
| Williamson, Lionel | Metcalf | |||||
Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA)
Notices & Upcoming Events:
Next meeting: TBA
Suggestions:
If you have any comments or suggestions about the graduate program, please send them to one of the officers below.
Officers
- President (Interim), Carrie Lessin
- Treasurer Molecular Biology Rep., Open
- Conservation Biology Rep., Open
- Unclassified Graduate Student Rep., Open
- Faculty Advisor, Dr. Ron Coleman





