Monthly Archives: June 2013

BEACON Researchers at Work: Omics beyond model organisms

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Gaurav Moghe. There are an estimated 9 million eukaryotic species on our planet, of which only 1.2 million (~15%) have been catalogued so far. Of these 1.2 … Continue reading →

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Wiley Practice Prize awarded to BEACON's Multi-Criterion Decision Making team

Posted on June 21, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

Good news for BEACON and our Multi-Criterion Decision Making team (BEACON faculty Kalyan Deb, Erik Goodman, and BEACON collaborator Dr. Oliver Chikumbo, of Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute). In January, the team submitted a paper for the prestigious … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Using evolutionary computation to discover fakes

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T undergraduate Joi Carter and graduate student Henry Williams. Have you ever read a document that you thought was forged?  Perhaps you’ve received an email from your friend, but … Continue reading →

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BEACON Evolved Art Competition Results

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

For the past three months, participants in BEACON’s evolved art competition have been using evolution to create art pieces that resemble the BEACON lighthouse. “How is that possible?” you ask? Each entry started as a random image that looked something … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at work: Changing environments / changing organisms

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Peter Conlin. Natural selection produces an organism whose phenotype is well matched to its environment. Under a constant environment there should be a single optimum, … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving division of labor

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Anya Johnson. Have you ever looked around you and thought about the amazing feats that organisms accomplish together? The most obvious examples are of course everything that humans … Continue reading →

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