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Author Archives: Danielle Whittaker
BEACON Researchers at Work: Making synthetic viruses to study evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Martina Ederer. After working on many different projects in a number of different labs, I always seem to come back to the study of evolution. Hence, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Experimental co-evolution in a virus and its host
A bonus Wednesday blog post! Today’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Justin Meyer. For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated by the natural world. Whether it is the chameleon with its … Continue reading
2011 BEACON Annual Report
The 2011 Annual Report is now available, describing all the great research, education & outreach, knowledge transfer, and diversity initiatives that BEACONites have been doing over the past year! Click here to download the PDF.
BEACON Researchers at Work: Preventing accidents with evolutionary computation
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Andres Ramirez. Recently, I found myself driving on the wrong side of the road. No, I did not fall asleep. I drove through some parts of New Zealand, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Video game control with evolved neural networks
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by UT Austin graduate student Jacob Schrum. I often find myself running wildly through the darkened corridors of some decommissioned mining facility, rocket launcher in hand, leaping madly about the hostile … Continue reading
Announcing BEACON Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Interested in joining BEACON as a postdoc? BEACON Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellows Program BEACON is an NSF Science and Technology Center headquartered at Michigan State University with partners at North Carolina A&T State University, University of Idaho, University of Texas at … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Hyena Poop Patrol
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Andy Booms. For the past few months I’ve been searching Kenyan protected areas for spotted hyenas and their poop, which I collect. Each time I arrive at a … Continue reading
TED Talk: Christoph Adami – Finding life we can't imagine
Watch the new TED talk by BEACON’s Chris Adami!
BEACON Researchers at Work: Using evolutionary computation to enhance breast tumor recognition in microwave images
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Blair D. Fleet. In 2010, I received my B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University. During a college visit for graduate school, I became introduced to … Continue reading