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BEACON Researchers at Work: The tale of the tail-less sea squirt
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Max Maliska. I have found my work as a PhD. candidate in Billie Swalla’s lab at University of Washington in Seattle to be highly integrative; spanning … Continue reading
BEACON Summer REU Students Shine
BEACON’s summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program is a 10-week intensive residential program targeting the recruitment of underrepresented students to conduct research with a faculty mentors. This past summer, BEACON funded sixty-seven students across the partner schools at six … Continue reading
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Tagged diversity, Research Experiences for Undergraduates, REU
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Reproducing the evolutionary path to human-level intelligence
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Randal Olson. For well over a decade, I have been fascinated with the idea that computers could achieve the same level of intelligence as humans. I would often … Continue reading
BEACONites around the blogosphere
The BEACON blog moderator is taking a brief hiatus to finish compiling our annual report to the National Science Foundation. For your weekly dose of evolution blogging, we recommend checking out some other BEACON-related blogs: Variation Selection Inheritance: a blog … Continue reading
Evolution 101: Synthetic Biology
This week’s Evolution 101 blog post is by UW graduate student Bryan Bartley. Synthetic biology is a new frontier in biological research where scientists and engineers are creating living systems out of molecular chemistry. In the last half century, the … Continue reading
Evolution 101: Fitness Landscapes
This week’s Evolution 101 blog post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze and MSU graduate student Randy Olson. While fitness landscapes are generally thought to be more of a theoretical construct, they are in fact quite tangible and underly every … Continue reading
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BEACON High School Summer Program
In the summers, BEACON hosts a week-long residential high school program at Kellogg Biological Station. Students develop, carry out, and report on a research project focusing on evolution in action. 30 students participated this year, including two from Utica Community … Continue reading
Rich Lenski explains the Long Term Evolution Experiment [VIDEO]
In episode 61 of MicrobeWorld Video, filmed at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting in Vancouver, Canada on February 17th, 2012, Dr. Stan Maloy talks with BEACON’s Richard Lenski Ph.D., Hannah Professor of Microbial Ecology, Michigan State … Continue reading
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Tagged E. coli, experimental evolution, long term evolution experiment, video
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Best practices for scientific computing
BEACON’s Titus Brown co-authored a paper now available as a pre-print on arXiv: Best Practices for Scientific Computing D. A. Aruliah, C. Titus Brown, Neil P. Chue Hong, Matt Davis, Richard T. Guy, Steven H. D. Haddock, Katy Huff, Ian Mitchell, Mark Plumbley, Ben Waugh, Ethan P. White, Greg Wilson, Paul … Continue reading
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Evolution 101: Natural Selection
This week’s Evolution 101 post is by an interdisciplinary group of BEACONites, all of whom rely on the principles of natural selection in their research: MSU graduate student Nikki Cavalieri (Zoology), MSU postdoc Prakarn Unachak (Evolutionary Computation), and NC A&T … Continue reading
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Tagged crossover, Evolution 101, mutations, natural selection, speciation
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