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Author Archives: Danielle Whittaker
BEACON Researchers at Work: How the cricket lost its song
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Robin Tinghitella. Last April I had the pleasure of writing the very first BEACON Researchers at Work blog post. I shared a story about how a tropical field cricket, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Deciphering Avian Aromas
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by BEACON Managing Director Danielle Whittaker. The sense of smell is one we often take for granted in our own lives. However, even though we may not be conscious of it, odor … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Robotic Fish
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Jianxun Wang. Have you ever imagined that you could swim with robotic fish someday? This may happen in the near future. More surprisingly, these robots would be capable … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolution of Higher Mutation Rates
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Tasneem Pierce. When I started as an undergraduate in BEACON a year ago, I kept hearing about Avida and how powerful it is to study … Continue reading
BEACON's Kalyanmoy Deb wins Cajastur Mamdani Prize for Soft Computing
Professor Kalyanmoy Deb has been awarded the Fifth Edition of the Cajastur Mamdani Prize for Soft Computing by the European Centre for Soft Computing, in consideration of his contributions to the development and application of Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization. (Press release, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Experimenting with predation
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Michael DeNieu. The Dworkin lab is like a certain popular energy drink…it gives you wings. There’s a wide range of topics ongoing in the lab spanning functional … Continue reading
BEACONites generating more data than we can handle
It sounds like a good problem to have, but it is still a very real problem: we are now producing genomic and metagenomic data much faster than we can analyze it. Two of BEACON’s own scientists are quite familiar with … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Effects of rapid environmental change on evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Jenna Gallie. Life has existed on Earth for nearly four billion years. Given that organisms have been evolving continuously, why are they still not perfectly adapted … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Teaching Computational Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Art Covert. My name is Art Covert and I’m a teacher. Specifically, I teach the “Computational Evolution Stream” in the Wilke Lab as part of … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: How do geckos stick to the wall?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Idaho graduate student Travis Hagey. I am a fourth year grad student in Dr. Luke Harmon’s lab at the University of Idaho. My thesis looks at how geckos (and … Continue reading