Monthly Archives: April 2011

BEACON Researchers at Work: The Role of Environment in the Evolution of Cooperation

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Brian Connelly. Cooperation is something that most people take for granted.  It’s woven into just about every part of our lives.  Our societies have even developed a wide … Continue reading →

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Evolution podcast by BEACON faculty member Randall Hayes

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

Check out NC A&T BEACONite Randall Hayes’ weekly evolution podcast, Variation Selection Inheritance. You can access it at http://variationselectioninheritance.podbean.com/ or you can subscribe on iTunes. This week’s topic: the similarities between graduate school and marathons. As Randall notes, “They both … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Using digital evolution to understand host-parasite co-evolution

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman. Enjoy! We’ve all been stuck in stand-still traffic on the highway. Slowly people start exiting to use a newly found alternate route. Unfortunately, this detour … Continue reading →

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Postdoctoral opportunities in the Ellington lab

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

The Ellington lab at the University of Texas at Austin has several post-doctoral positions available to work on DNA circuitry (ala Winfree and Pierce), in particular the development of methods for executing and analyzing computations with DNA molecules in vitro and … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Facial recognition software improved by evolutionary computing

Posted on April 11, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

Here is the second installment of the new BEACON Researchers at Work series, from North Carolina A&T graduate student Joseph Shelton. Biometric security systems use biometric identification to determine whether or not an individual is allowed access to a resource … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Tropical crickets hitchhike their way to rapid evolution

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Danielle Whittaker

This week we are introducing a new feature on the BEACON Blog: BEACON Researchers at Work! Please enjoy the first post from Michigan State University postdoc Robin Tinghitella. What would happen if all the lions suddenly lost their manes, or … Continue reading →

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