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Author Archives: Danielle Whittaker
BEACON Researchers at Work: Poisons and Microbes
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Patric Vaelli. Few animals can strut around the woodlands of the Pacific Northwest with as much poise and confidence as the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa). While opportunistic … Continue reading
Discussing evolution on reddit: Interview with Bjørn Østman
Cross-posted from Randal Olson’s blog. As a followup to my previous blog post about using reddit AMAs as a form of science outreach, I thought it’d be helpful to interview a few scientists who are already doing science outreach on … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, evolutionary biology, Outreach, reddit, social media
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BEACON Researchers at Work: BEACON on the Beach
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Bryan Bartley. Like some kind of planktonic larva, I drifted through my formative years, until I finally settled in Seattle 14 years ago. Seattle belongs to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Bio-Inspired Robots
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by Michigan State University graduate student Jared Moore(@j_redmmoore). If you had asked me during my undergrad years what a computer scientist did, I’m not sure I would’ve been able to give you … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: What's a Genetic Algorithm?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Matt Ryerkerk. A genetic algorithm is a method often used for optimization, or finding the best solution to a particular problem. When I first heard of genetic … Continue reading
Kalyanmoy Deb receives the World Academy of Sciences Prize in Engineering Sciences
Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb, a Beacon researcher and Koenig Endowed Chair Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, received the TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences from The World Academy of Sciences in a meeting held in Buenos Aires, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Electrical Life
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Ben Liebeskind. All life stores energy in the form of electrochemical gradients. These gradients drive nutrient uptake in bacteria, water uptake in plants, … Continue reading
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Tagged BEACON Researchers at Work, Biological Evolution, ion channels, nervous system, signaling, TTX
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Ecology and evolution of scent production in PNW Sasquatch
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington students Sarah Hammarlund and Katie Dickinson. The existence of the Sasquatch (also referred to as Bigfoot) has been debated for centuries. Alleged witnesses have described the forest-dwelling … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Networked Brain
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Sean Maguire. The Networked Brain The brain has long been viewed as being composed of isolated regions controlling specific functions. Modern neuroscience has … Continue reading
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Teaching computing to biologists
This week at BEACON, two different computing workshops are being taught: Bootcamp for Biologists, covering the entry-level basics needed for people interested in taking BEACON’s Computational Science for Evolutionary Biologists Software Carpentry: Software Carpentry‘s aim is to teach researchers basic computing … Continue reading
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