Monthly Archives: May 2016

4th Annual Big Data in Biology Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin

Posted on May 31, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by University of Texas at Austin grad student Rayna Harris On Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics hosted the 4th Annual Big Data in Biology Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin. … Continue reading →

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Evolving antimutator microbial machines

Posted on May 27, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by University of Texas at Austin grad student Dacia Leon (Twitter: @leondacia) Fluorescence microplate readers are really exciting. These instruments are a staple in any synthetic biology lab given that they allow for high-throughput quantification of microbial growth and fluorescence … Continue reading →

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Anonymity. Does anyone have it?

Posted on May 22, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by North Carolina A&T grad student Siobahn Day Greetings! My name is Siobahn Day. I’m currently a PhD student in the Computer Science at North Carolina A&T State University. I work as a graduate researcher in the … Continue reading →

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Evolving Deep Neural Networks

Posted on May 10, 2016 by hageyt

This post is by UT Austin grad student Jason Liang Deep learning has revolutionized the field of machine learning in many ways. From achieving state-of-the-art results in many benchmarks and competitions to effectively exploiting the computational power of the cloud, … Continue reading →

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Mass Extinctions, Evolution, and…. Robots?

Posted on May 3, 2016 by hageyt

Check out this great video produced by the UT Alumni Association talking about research by BEACONites Joel Lehman and Risto Miikkulainen at UT Austin. Lehman and Miikkulainen published an awesome paper in PLOS ONE looking at evolution after a mass extinction.  I, for one, … Continue reading →

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