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Evolution podcast by BEACON faculty member Randall Hayes
Check out NC A&T BEACONite Randall Hayes’ weekly evolution podcast, Variation Selection Inheritance. You can access it at http://variationselectioninheritance.podbean.com/ or you can subscribe on iTunes. This week’s topic: the similarities between graduate school and marathons. As Randall notes, “They both … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Using digital evolution to understand host-parasite co-evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman. Enjoy! We’ve all been stuck in stand-still traffic on the highway. Slowly people start exiting to use a newly found alternate route. Unfortunately, this detour … Continue reading
Postdoctoral opportunities in the Ellington lab
The Ellington lab at the University of Texas at Austin has several post-doctoral positions available to work on DNA circuitry (ala Winfree and Pierce), in particular the development of methods for executing and analyzing computations with DNA molecules in vitro and … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Facial recognition software improved by evolutionary computing
Here is the second installment of the new BEACON Researchers at Work series, from North Carolina A&T graduate student Joseph Shelton. Biometric security systems use biometric identification to determine whether or not an individual is allowed access to a resource … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Tropical crickets hitchhike their way to rapid evolution
This week we are introducing a new feature on the BEACON Blog: BEACON Researchers at Work! Please enjoy the first post from Michigan State University postdoc Robin Tinghitella. What would happen if all the lions suddenly lost their manes, or … Continue reading
Predicting Plasmid Promiscuity Could Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance
A recent paper by BEACON researcher Eva Top and colleagues in the Journal of Bacteriology was highlighted as one of the five “Journal Highlights” in the December 2010 issue of Microbe magazine, the news magazine of the American Society for … Continue reading
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Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality
Tom Getty and 136 colleagues have published a Brief Communication Arising in Nature that clarifies the role of inclusive fitness theory in guiding our understanding of the evolution of social behavior (Abbot, P. et al. 2011). Most biologists think that … Continue reading
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Selection for Evolvability
In a new Science paper, BEACON faculty Jeff Barrick, Rich Lenski and their co-authors show that greater evolutionary potential can sometimes overcome a short-term fitness disadvantage. Taking advantage of the ‘frozen fossil record’ from a long-term evolution experiment with bacteria, … Continue reading
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Larger hyenas have more cubs
A new paper in Proceedings B by BEACON graduate student Eli Swanson, and faculty members Ian Dworkin and Kay Holekamp uses a new method of measuring body size to show that larger female spotted hyenas have higher lifetime reproductive success. … Continue reading
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Evolution Park
BEACON scientists Philip McKinley, Xiaobo Tan, and Janette Boughman have been awarded an NSF grant to construct Evolution Park, an evolutionary robotics testbed! The Evolution Park provides an experimental testbed for applying evolutionary computation to the development and control of … Continue reading