Monthly Archives: May 2015

BEACON Researchers at Work: The Many “Arms-and-Eyes” of Retinoblastoma Family Proteins

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Yiliang Wei. Hello BEACON members, I’m Yiliang Wei, a graduate student in the Arnosti Lab at Michigan State University (https://arnostilab.natsci.msu.edu). For my first blog at BEACON, I’m … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. How do you know that you understand a scientific concept? When you can explain it to a four-year-old. While this is not a … Continue reading →

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Tortoises, hares, and topography: how fitness landscape structure affects the speed of adaptation

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

Hello fellow BEACONites and interested members of the public, I’m Josh Nahum, a postdoctoral fellow, who was at the University of Washington during the early years of the Beacon Center, but now I’m doing research at Michigan State University (more … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Perspectives on Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health

Posted on May 11, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

MSU LBC Students Attend Inaugural Meeting of the International Society for Evolutionary Medicine and Public Health Tempe, AZ, March 19-21, 2015 On Thursday March 19, 2015, six MSU Lyman Briggs College students, accompanied by Dr. Jim Smith (LBC Biology), traveled … Continue reading →

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