Monthly Archives: May 2013

BEACON Researchers at Work: To What Place Workflowmics?

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T faculty member Scott Harrison. A practical challenge in genomic studies has been for students to conceive of different outcomes concerning variation, and to test these outcomes against data … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: The Structure of Coevolution

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman.  In my first BEACON blog post, I wrote about how we study the diversity producing effects of host-parasite coevolution in Avida. I used a traffic jam … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: When Cooperating Means Just Saying No

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington postdoc Brian Connelly. Evolutionary biologists often talk like economists, particularly when the topic is cooperation. Instead of dollars, euros, or pounds, the universal currency in evolution is fitness. A species that … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Addressing the Next Generation Science Standards

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate students Melissa Kjelvik and Liz Schultheis. The current landscape of K-12 science education is shifting – moving away from memorization of science facts to an approach based on the … Continue reading →

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