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Category Archives: BEACON Researchers at Work
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Structure of Coevolution
This BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Luis Zaman. In my first BEACON blog post, I wrote about how we study the diversity producing effects of host-parasite coevolution in Avida. I used a traffic jam … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: When Cooperating Means Just Saying No
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington postdoc Brian Connelly. Evolutionary biologists often talk like economists, particularly when the topic is cooperation. Instead of dollars, euros, or pounds, the universal currency in evolution is fitness. A species that … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization to Allow Greenhouse Production/Energy Use Tradeoffs
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student José R. Llera. My name is José R. Llera, and I received my B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. I learned about … Continue reading
How and why do animals evolve grouping behavior?
This blog post is reposted from MSU graduate student Randal Olson’s blog. In the concluding remarks of their book Living in Groups, Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton highlighted “understanding how and why animals evolve grouping behavior” as one of the … Continue reading
Bacterial warfare using antibiotics and communication
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington research assistant professor Josephine Chandler. Bacteria can compete with one another by making antibiotics Competition occurs all around us, between people and institutions, and in plants and animals. … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Playing games in evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Jory Schossau. Have you ever played the game Rock, Paper, Scissors? Did you know you were mimicking the same sort of interactions that happen in communities of … Continue reading
Sun, Sand Dollars, and the Huts: My Summer at Friday Harbor Labs
This piece is reposted from the Friday Harbor Laboratories newsletter. by Ceri Weber Expected B.S. in Biology at the University of Washington, June 2013 Undergraduate researcher in the Swalla lab 2012 FHL BEACON/BLINKS/NSF REU Intern I had the wonderful opportunity … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Shampa M. Ghosh. It has been four decades since Thedosius Dobzhansky wrote “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” It soon became a favorite … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Trying to Bottle Natural Evolution's Creativity
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas at Austin postdoc Joel Lehman. Something that both fascinates me and drives my research is the creativity of natural evolution. If you asked me to solve a particular … Continue reading