Monthly Archives: December 2011

BEACON Researchers at Work: Deciphering Avian Aromas

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by BEACON Managing Director Danielle Whittaker. The sense of smell is one we often take for granted in our own lives. However, even though we may not be conscious of it, odor … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Robotic Fish

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Jianxun Wang. Have you ever imagined that you could swim with robotic fish someday? This may happen in the near future. More surprisingly, these robots would be capable … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of Higher Mutation Rates

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Tasneem Pierce. When I started as an undergraduate in BEACON a year ago, I kept hearing about Avida and how powerful it is to study … Continue reading

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BEACON's Kalyanmoy Deb wins Cajastur Mamdani Prize for Soft Computing

Professor Kalyanmoy Deb has been awarded the Fifth Edition of the Cajastur Mamdani Prize for Soft Computing by the European Centre for Soft Computing, in consideration of his contributions to the development and application of Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization. (Press release, … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Experimenting with predation

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Michael DeNieu.  The Dworkin lab is like a certain popular energy drink…it gives you wings. There’s a wide range of topics ongoing in the lab spanning functional … Continue reading

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BEACONites generating more data than we can handle

It sounds like a good problem to have, but it is still a very real problem: we are now producing genomic and metagenomic data much faster than we can analyze it. Two of BEACON’s own scientists are quite familiar with … Continue reading

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