Monthly Archives: October 2012

BEACONites around the blogosphere

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

The BEACON blog moderator is taking a brief hiatus to finish compiling our annual report to the National Science Foundation. For your weekly dose of evolution blogging, we recommend checking out some other BEACON-related blogs: Variation Selection Inheritance: a blog … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Synthetic Biology

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 blog post is by UW graduate student Bryan Bartley. Synthetic biology is a new frontier in biological research where scientists and engineers are creating living systems out of molecular chemistry.  In the last half century, the … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Fitness Landscapes

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 blog post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze and MSU graduate student Randy Olson. While fitness landscapes are generally thought to be more of a theoretical construct, they are in fact quite tangible and underly every … Continue reading →

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BEACON High School Summer Program

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

In the summers, BEACON hosts a week-long residential high school program at Kellogg Biological Station. Students develop, carry out, and report on a research project focusing on evolution in action. 30 students participated this year, including two from Utica Community … 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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Best practices for scientific computing

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

BEACON’s Titus Brown co-authored a paper now available as a pre-print on arXiv: Best Practices for Scientific Computing D. A. Aruliah, C. Titus Brown, Neil P. Chue Hong, Matt Davis, Richard T. Guy, Steven H. D. Haddock, Katy Huff, Ian Mitchell, Mark Plumbley, Ben Waugh, Ethan P. White, Greg Wilson, Paul … Continue reading →

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Evolution 101: Natural Selection

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s Evolution 101 post is by an interdisciplinary group of BEACONites, all of whom rely on the principles of natural selection in their research: MSU graduate student Nikki Cavalieri (Zoology), MSU postdoc Prakarn Unachak (Evolutionary Computation), and NC A&T … Continue reading →

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