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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Individual and Population Variation Pop-Up Institute at UT Austin
This post is written by UT Austin grad student Rayna Harris and postdoc Tessa Solomon-Lane Innovative science is increasingly interdisciplinary. With our Pop-Up Institute in May 2017, we aim to expand beyond the traditional scope of interdisciplinary collaboration to make meaningful … Continue reading
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Marvelous microbes: Embracing our beneficial neighbors
This post is written by MSU grad student Shawna Rowe 450 million years ago, plants began to colonize land and grow into the wonderful forms we see today. During this process, the picked up a partner in crime: the mycorrhizal symbiosis— … Continue reading
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Richard Lenski wins 2017 Friend of Darwin award
Richard E. Lenski, the Michigan State University John Hannah Distinguished Professor and evolutionary biologist renowned for his E. coli Long-Term Experimental Evolution Project, has received a 2017 Friend of Darwin award from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Lenski … Continue reading
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Making lemonade out of lemons: the genetics of yeast cell clumping in continuous culture experiments
This post is written by UW postdoc Elyse Hope. There is a lot of genetic complexity that can contribute to what an organism looks like. Far from a single gene controlling a single trait (e.g. a gene for height or … Continue reading
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Judi Brown Clarke receives Excellence in Diversity Award
We are proud to congratulate BEACON’s Diversity Director Judi Brown Clarke for receiving the Individual Sustained Effort Toward Excellence in Diversity. The Excellence in Diversity Award program recognizes outstanding efforts of faculty, students, and staff at MSU who are committed … Continue reading
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Evolving Evacuation Plans for Urban Areas
This post is written by UI grad student Keith Drew The team at University of Idaho currently consists of four people, Dr. Robert B. Heckendorn, Keith Drew, Homaja Marisetty, and Madhav Pandey. Our team also includes researchers at the Michigan State … Continue reading
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Charles Ofria named one of the 2017 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty
We are proud to congratulate BEACON’s Deputy Director Charles Ofria for being named a 2017 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award winner. Charles Ofria is recognized internationally for his research at the interface of computer science and evolutionary biology. He … Continue reading
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Indigenous Evolutionary Knowledge Survey
This post is written by MSU postdoc Wendy Smythe For the purpose of this survey we are asking Native American, Alaska Native, Pacific Islanders, and Hispanic individuals to take this 15-minute survey as a means to give voice to the … Continue reading
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Studying the Evolutionary Dynamics of Emergent Phenotypes
This post is written by MSU faculty Mark Reimers and Arend Hintze Let us marvel about the complexity of life for a moment. We have DNA transcribed into mRNA, just to get that translated into proteins, which metabolize, catabolize, or process … Continue reading
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