Monthly Archives: March 2013

BEACON Researchers at Work: The Origin of a Species?

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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BEACON Researchers at Work: Testing Phylogenetic Inference with Experimental Evolution

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Cory Kohn. Skepticism. This is generally an important characteristic of scientists. Why would an attitude that is to be avoided in polite conversation act as a useful, … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Digital Macroevolution

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho faculty member Luke Harmon. I am a researcher who typically studies evolution over very long time scales – tens to hundreds of millions of years. For example, we’ve … Continue reading

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Genome Libraries

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Peter Enyeart.  I love bacteria. That may seem like a strange thing to say, but I really do. When most people think of bacteria, … Continue reading

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Evolved Art Competition: Evolve the new BEACON logo!

Want to experience evolution first-hand? We are happy to announce that the NSF BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action is hosting an evolved art competition running from March 1st through May 31st, 2013. The goal of this … Continue reading

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