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Category Archives: BEACON Researchers at Work
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Encoding Scheme based on Anchors for Scalable Multi-Objective Clustering Algorithms
This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Dr. Shuwei Zhu, Prof. Lihong Xu and Prof. Erik D Goodman. BEACON’s Greenhouse research team, led by Prof. Lihong Xu (from Tongji University, China) and Prof. Erik D Goodman, has been … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: The “(M-1)+1” Framework of Generalized Pareto Dominance for Evolutionary Many-objective Optimization
This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by Dr. Shuwei Zhu, Prof. Lihong Xu, Prof. Erik D Goodman and Dr. Zhichao Lu. BEACON’s Greenhouse research team, led by Prof. Lihong Xu (from Tongji University, China) and Prof. Erik D Goodman, … Continue reading
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Evolutionary AI site with expert podcasts and a COVID-19 intervention demo
The Evolutionary AI research group at Sentient has moved to Cognizant Technology Solutions. The group includes several current and past BEACONites, including Risto Miikkulainen, Elliot Meyerson, Jason Liang, and Santiago Gonzalez, and past interns Aditya Rawal and Khaled Talukder. The group … Continue reading
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Engaging Galápagos Students and Educators in Evolutionary Activities
This blog post is by Madison Bovee, Alexa Warwick, John G. Phillips, Brant G. Miller, and Christine Parent. Evolutionary research is conducted across the globe, yet no location may be as emblematic as the Galápagos Islands (Figure 1). Made famous by … Continue reading
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How Claire from the BA test kitchen made me rethink our scientific role models
This blog post is by MSU faculty member Arend Hintze. I love making stuff, let it be wood crafting or building cosplay Halloween costumes for my kids. However, I also like to do things the right way. Consequently, I have … Continue reading
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Goodman Extends BEACON’s Collaborations in China
This post is by BEACON’s Executive Director Erik Goodman. On Oct. 19, 2019, I left East Lansing for China, with stops in Shantou, Guangzhou and Shanghai. I received a warm and wonderful reception everywhere I went, in spite of tariffs, … Continue reading
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Using lessons from Facebook and fence-building to understand the evolution of deadly bacteria
This blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Clinton Elg. Evolution of a Deadly Bacteria Vibrio cholerae is bacteria that resides in water and causes deadly cholera disease. While areas of the world with functional sewage and potable … Continue reading
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Fish, You are the Father!
By: Isaac Miller-Crews, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin My job would be much easier if CVS sold paternity testing kits for fish instead of humans! I am interested in the evolution of the neural regulation of reproduction, which requires … Continue reading
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A Fly’s View of Retinoblastoma-Family Protein Conservation
By: Dhruva Kadiyala (Undergraduate Student at Michigan State University) How do evolutionary perspectives illuminate cancer-related biochemistry? As a high school student, I was involved in a project to find targets to attack cancer cells. That project really inspired me to work … Continue reading
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CONSTAX: a tool to simplify and improve taxonomic classification of community sequences
By: Natalie Vande Pol (PhD Candidate, Michigan State University) I am a 5th year PhD student in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program at Michigan State University. This is the story of a side project that has been one of the … Continue reading
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