Monthly Archives: October 2015

BEACON Researchers at Work: The grasshopper mouse versus venom

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Abhijna Parigi. Of all the bizarre animals that live in the deserts, grasshopper mice are, objectively, the cutest. These cinnamon-colored rodents are small enough to fit in … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: A foreigner’s forays into experimental evolution

Posted on October 19, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Carina Baskett. When I spent a semester of college in Buenos Aires, Argentina, we American students were endlessly fascinated by cultural differences between the US and Argentina. As … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Are Electric Fish Magic?

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by postdoc Will Pitchers from the Gallant Lab at MSU. The fishes in our lab — African freshwater fish called Mormyrids — seem pretty magical when one first hears about them; … Continue reading →

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BEACON Researchers at Work: Female vision-related genes are more plastic in Bicyclus anynana

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Danielle Whittaker

This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of California at Irvine graduate student Aide Macias-Muñoz. My interest in biology began when I was very young with my fascination in living things. My exposure to diverse plants … Continue reading →

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