Boz Research Capabilities
Boz Institute occupies over 3,500 ft2 of teaching space and research laboratory in the San Diego Science Center.
Example Partnership Opportunities
- Sponsored research (with the opportunity to include a research immersion experience for students)
- A customized research immersion experience for student groups
- Employee engagement through career panel discussions and student seminars
- Life science company internship hosted at Boz
Our current research/teaching projects involve:
- Biodiversity – DNA sequencing and phylogenetics (Irish strawberry)
- Metagenomics and 16S rRNA Seq profiling of soil, sediment, water, and gut microbes (fruit flies)
- Sex-specific gene brain transcriptomics (RNA-Seq) in flies
- Embryology – invertebrates (abalones, mussels, urchins), fish (medaka)
- Ecological risk assessment / water and sediment quality – sea urchin, bay mussel toxicology, sediment chemistry (GC-MS, HPLC via collaboration), eDNA, SNP analysis, RFLP, qRT-PCR
- Human health risk assessment / Environmental Epidemiology: COVID and other human pathogen testing in municipal wastewater, biomarkers of waterborne diseases