In collaboration with the Pharos Institute, our Summer 2026 Croatia Science & Culture Program is launching soon! High school and college students will conduct marine molecular ecology research, including sea water quality assessment via analytical chemistry, genome sequencing and regenerative ...

Boz Institute Awarded Prebys Foundation Grant to Expand Youth Workforce Pathways Aug 2025 | The Boz Life Science Research and Teaching Institute has been awarded a grant from the Conrad Prebys Foundation as part of its $6 million Youth Workforce: ...

Oct 2024 | In late summer 2024, Pharos Institute and Boz Institute completed fieldwork for a Hvar-based environmental chemistry and marine biology research project. Croatian high school students from the island of Hvar and scientists from Boz Institute deployed environmental ...

Boz has a new home: our new lab research location is in La Jolla Cove - 505 Coast South Boulevards.  While our priorities are compelling life science research and education, it helps to sneak out occasionally and catch a few waves in front ...

Boz Institute is proud to announce the publication of a new paper, Locomotion and brain gene expression exhibit sex-specific non-monotonic dose-response to HFPO-DA during Drosophila melanogaster lifespan. The paper was published in Neurotoxicology, volume 96, and examines the potential sex-specific ...

Recently, during the STEM Seminar Symposium on June 1st, 2023, Boz launched their metagenomics database, presented by Flannery McLamb. The database gives global access to student collected data for researchers and students alike. Regular updates and international research will continue ...

On Thursday, June 1st, Boz Institute - in collaboration with UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies, hosted their annual Innovative STEM Symposium. More than 150 students, researchers, and scientists gathered at UC San Diego Park and Market to learn ...

Within a span of four weeks in Spring 2022, four Boz researchers completed their Master of Science programs: Armando Vazquez – UCSD M.S. / B.S.; Thesis Title: “A network approach to investigating the role of the Sorghum bicolor transcription factor SbWRKY86 in promoting ...

In collaboration with National Park Service (NPS) and National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boz Institute is implementing eDNA methodology to investigate the distribution of endangered black and white abalone populations along the Southern California Coast.  Recently in May 2022, ...

Boz Institute research team, including scholars Katie O’Connell, Natalie Olander, and Sora Haagensen, have published their work about pre-COVID-19 ADHD childhood and adolescence trends in U.S. in the journal Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio). The team analyzed public health and socioeconomic ...