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BEACON's NSF grant renewed for another 5 years
From the press release at MSU Today Michigan State University has been awarded $22.5 million by the National Science Foundation to continue the research, education and outreach activities of the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. Since … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Combining Evolution and Engineering in Aquatic Robots
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU Visiting Scholar René Draschwandtner. Guten Tag, god dag, and good day to all readers. I am René Draschwandtner, a visiting scholar from Salzburg, Austria, although I came to Michigan State … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Age of Phage
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Kristin Parent, with John Dover. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the discovery of viruses that infect bacteria—the bacteriophages. One may think (as many do) that … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: An Adventure in Thailand
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Eben Gering. I. The Land of the Leech This spring I received a last-minute invitation to join a French film crew in Thailand, which left me a) totally … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Social Lives of Bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Chris Waters. “Nature red in tooth and claw”-Lord Alfred Tennyson Tennyson’s famous phrase eloquently describes the adversarial nature (pun intended) that arises from Darwin’s concepts of natural … Continue reading
3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Symposium at UT Austin
Summary by UT Austin graduate student and symposium organizer Rayna Harris. The 3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Symposium on May 15, 2015 was hosted by the Center for Computational Biology at UT Austin and organized by some BEACON members. … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: What ice cream and biofuels have in common: vanillin and the microbes that eat it
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Jessica Audrey Lee. Greetings, BEACON fans. I’m writing from beautiful Moscow, ID, where I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Marx Lab at the University … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Many “Arms-and-Eyes” of Retinoblastoma Family Proteins
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Yiliang Wei. Hello BEACON members, I’m Yiliang Wei, a graduate student in the Arnosti Lab at Michigan State University (https://arnostilab.natsci.msu.edu). For my first blog at BEACON, I’m … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. How do you know that you understand a scientific concept? When you can explain it to a four-year-old. While this is not a … Continue reading
Tortoises, hares, and topography: how fitness landscape structure affects the speed of adaptation
Hello fellow BEACONites and interested members of the public, I’m Josh Nahum, a postdoctoral fellow, who was at the University of Washington during the early years of the Beacon Center, but now I’m doing research at Michigan State University (more … Continue reading