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BEACON Researchers at Work: Males have no taste… at least if you are a Heliconius butterfly
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by BEACON Faculty Affiliate Adriana Briscoe, from University of California, Irvine. Males have no taste… at least if you are a Heliconius butterfly Unlike their male counterparts, female Heliconius butterflies have taste … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Bioinformatics tools
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Ilya Zhbannikov. I graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University, Russia) with a Masters Degree in Information Systems in 2009. After a year … Continue reading
Evolving ecosystems can change more than previously thought
Cross-posted from MSU grad student Randy Olson’s blog. For decades, whenever ecology researchers used computer models to study how ecosystems change over time, they often assumed that the species in any given ecosystem are more-or-less fixed. The abundances of each … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Expanding the Genetic Code
This week’s post is by UT Austin graduate student Michael Hammerling. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to philosophical questions about the nature of life and its relationship to the physical world. While it became clear … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The páramos – understanding a hyperdiverse ecosystem one genus at a time.
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho graduate student Simon Uribe-Convers. I am always amazed by the huge diversity around us. Taking it for granted, it seems humans only remember the world’s diversity when watching a … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Finding hidden flaws and features in evolutionary computing
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Brian Goldman. For me, some of the most enjoyable moments in research are when I’m outsmarted by my own creation. Anyone who’s spent enough time with Evolutionary … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Visualizing and understanding ‘context dependence’ in evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Sudarshan Chari. Have you ever wondered about the relative contribution of nature vs. nurture? Or why certain individuals are more susceptible to a disease, or respond better … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Omics beyond model organisms
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Gaurav Moghe. There are an estimated 9 million eukaryotic species on our planet, of which only 1.2 million (~15%) have been catalogued so far. Of these 1.2 … Continue reading
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Wiley Practice Prize awarded to BEACON's Multi-Criterion Decision Making team
Good news for BEACON and our Multi-Criterion Decision Making team (BEACON faculty Kalyan Deb, Erik Goodman, and BEACON collaborator Dr. Oliver Chikumbo, of Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute). In January, the team submitted a paper for the prestigious … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Using evolutionary computation to discover fakes
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T undergraduate Joi Carter and graduate student Henry Williams. Have you ever read a document that you thought was forged? Perhaps you’ve received an email from your friend, but … Continue reading