Welcome to Biology at SSU!
The Department of Biology offers a dynamic learning environment, exciting research and training opportunities and intensive mentoring of students at all levels. Our faculty are not only dedicated educators but also active scholars who engage in primary research to address diverse topics in the biological sciences.
The overall mission of our undergraduate and graduate programs is to educate the next generation of scholars, professionals and citizens so that they are prepared to meet the biological, environmental and technological challenges of the future.
Areas of educational and research activities include ecology, conservation and evolutionary biology, genetics, molecular and cell biology, and physiology.
Please feel free to contact any of the department faculty or staff if you have questions about our programs, or email biology@sonoma.edu.
Sunflower Stars!
Former Research Technician in the Hughes Lab, Rachael Karm shared this video she took of the newly rediscovered Sunflower Star. Thought to be extinct from the California coast, Sunflower stars have made a slow but hopeful reappearance. Rachael and Dr. Brent Hughes were featured in this edition of Nat Geo about this creature once known as the "Sasquatch of the Sea".