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Current Graduate Students
Resources
- Graduate Handbook - A comprehensive overview of the Master's programs
- Classification Application - To change status to classified graduate student
- Faculty Recommendation Form for Student Applications
- Major Professor Declaration
- Bio 299 form
- Biology Graduate Student Association (BGSA)
- Employment
- Field Biology Group
- Lockers
- Scholarships
- Student Policies at CSUS
Advancement
- Advancement to Candidacy Checklist
- Request for Scheduling Advancement to Candidacy Meeting (Form)
- Application for Advancement to Candidacy (Guidelines and Form)
- Advancement to Candidacy Application Sample
- Thesis abstract form for Advancement
Thesis
- Request for Scheduling the Thesis Seminar (form)
- Thesis Formatting Workshops (Office of Graduate Studies) REQUIRED
- Thesis Format Requirements (from Office of Graduate Studies)
- Thesis Format Guidelines (from Biological Sciences, rev. Feb 2009)
- Sample Thesis Title page, abstract page, etc
Graduate Calendar
Graduate Students
| Name & Email | Web | Lab group | Room | Advanced | Thesis | |
| Atwal, Interdeep | Peavy | |||||
| Bakhtiari, Fazeah | Ewing | SQU 205 | ||||
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Bommarito, Bianka | Coleman | Hmb 119 | Yes | Behavior | |
| Boyce, Robert | Ewing | SQU 18 | ||||
| Branch, Lisa | Ballard | |||||
| Calder, Lee | ||||||
| Camphor, Sunchae | Nguyen | SQU 18 | ||||
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Carr, Chris | Kneitel | SQU 38 | Yes | Community level effects of plant-insect Interactions | |
| 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 | |
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Fehm-Sullivan, Elif (Akaaboune, Elif) |
Kneitel | SQU 38 | Food-web ecology in the phytotelmata of the carnivorous plant, Darlingtonia californica | ||
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Helminski, Simon | Peavy | ||||
| Hopkins, Michelle | Lindgren | |||||
| Kachorek, Emily | Kneitel | SQU 38 | No | Conservation | ||
| Larson, Donica | Lindgren | |||||
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Lasko, Gena | Coleman | Hmb 119 | No | Salmonid biology | |
| Lessin, Carrie | Kneitel | SQU 38 | Yes | |||
| 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 | |||
| Naderi, Elena | Holland | SQU 38 | ||||
| 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 | ||||
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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 | |||
| Kneitel | SQU 38 | Trophic cascades; conservation biology; invasion of New Zealand Mud Snail | ||||
| Williamson, Lionel | Metcalf | |||||
| Worth, Dan | Coleman | Hmb 119 | No | |||
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








