Tag Archives: experimental evolution

BEACON Researchers at Work: The Origin of a Species?

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Zachary Blount. I love big questions. I tend to walk around, my head in the clouds, questions flitting through my head. I admit that I have walked into … Continue reading →

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Goldilocks and the Three Mutators

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This blog post is by MSU graduate student Mike Wiser. Many things in life seem to follow the Goldilocks principle: both too much and too little of something can be worse than striking a balance somewhere in between. Goldilocks saw … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Cheaters never win

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Adam Waite. Why do we cooperate? It’s easy enough to understand the benefits of cooperation. When we pay taxes, for example, we are contributing to … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The not-so-inscrutable HIV

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Aditi Gupta. It all started in 1981. A few patients suffering from unusual opportunistic infections, that immune system normally easily takes care of, walked into doctors’ offices and nobody … Continue reading →

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Rich Lenski explains the Long Term Evolution Experiment [VIDEO]

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

In episode 61 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Vancouver, Canada on February 17th, 2012, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with BEACON’s Richard Lenski Ph.D., Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State … Continue reading →

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