Sonoma State University Biodiversity Outreach program will utilize funding to enhance its community education efforts through the purchase of six new compound microscopes equipped with LCD viewing screens.

The goal of this project is to uncover how human cells regulate their chromosome organization during cell division throughout normal, and disease states. Chromosomes are packaged DNA structures that consist of an individual’s genetic information. During cell division, chromosomes will duplicate, and divide equally among two daughter cells. Abnormalities that occur during cell division in humans can lead to detrimental consequences, and disease.