Monthly Archives: March 2016

A Mighty Mouse and a Scientist in Training: A Story of Physiological and Personal Evolution

Posted on March 28, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by Okemos High School student Maddie Stover working in Dr. Ashlee Rowe’s lab in the Neuroscience Program & Department of Integrative Biology at MSU. A particularly effective nervous system makes the four-inch grasshopper mouse quite a fearsome … Continue reading →

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Deputy Director Charles Ofria Receives College of Engineering Withrow Distinguished Scholar Senior Award

Posted on March 24, 2016 by hageyt

BEACON is very excited to congratulate our Deputy Director Charles Ofria on his selection for the College of Engineering Withrow Distinguished Scholar Senior Award. This is the MSU College of Engineering’s highest award for research and a significant achievement. The … Continue reading →

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A niche in time: adaptations in sensory processing associated with temporal niche

Posted on March 21, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by MSU graduate student Andrea Morrow. People often associate certain physical adaptations with an animal’s temporal niche, i.e. daily activity pattern. For example, some nocturnal animals have larger eyes, larger corneas, or higher concentrations of rod cells than … Continue reading →

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How lemur social networks shape microbial transmission

Posted on March 14, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by UT Austin graduate student Amanda Perofsky. Primates exhibit diverse ecological and behavioral patterns, ranging from solitary foragers to several hundred individuals, as in the multi-level societies of hamadryas baboons [1]. Many wild primates live in social … Continue reading →

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3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School

Posted on March 9, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by UT Austin graduate student Rayna Harris The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host the 3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School May 23–26, 2016. The 2016 … Continue reading →

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Introducing BEACON’s New Science Outreach and Communication Postdocs

Posted on March 8, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by MSU postdoc Wendy Smythe. Dr. Wendy F. Smythe is an environmental scientist who came to BEACON from CMOP who looks at how microbes influence their environment, by examining geochemistry, microbial ecology, microbial diversity, and biomineralization of iron … Continue reading →

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