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Goldilocks and the Three Mutators
This blog post is by MSU graduate student Mike Wiser. Many things in life seem to follow the Goldilocks principle: both too much and too little of something can be worse than striking a balance somewhere in between. Goldilocks saw … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: In Search of The Perfect Password
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by NC A&T graduate student Joshua Adams. Passwords are a problem. They are easy to forget and if you write them down, they can be stolen. If you’re like me, you probably … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Cheaters never win
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Adam Waite. Why do we cooperate? It’s easy enough to understand the benefits of cooperation. When we pay taxes, for example, we are contributing to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The not-so-inscrutable HIV
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Aditi Gupta. It all started in 1981. A few patients suffering from unusual opportunistic infections, that immune system normally easily takes care of, walked into doctors’ offices and nobody … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: A Tyrannosaurus and a virus walk into a bar…
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Alita Burmeister. … the scientist asks “Hey, what do you two have in common?” This summer I met Sue the T. rex. Her fossil remains are the largest, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Going Viral
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Sonia Singhal. As a junior in college, I fell in love with viruses. That September, I joined Dr. Paul Turner’s virus evolution lab. I had … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work – Teaching Evolution: The Ladybug Game
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Joshua Rubini. Hi, my name is Joshua Rubini, and I am a graduate (master’s) student in computer science at the University of Idaho. I’m a … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Journey from Microbiology to Microsoft
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Michelle Vogel. Since this is the tale of how I ended up as an intern and future employee of Microsoft, I guess I should tell you a bit … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: The tale of the tail-less sea squirt
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Max Maliska. I have found my work as a PhD. candidate in Billie Swalla’s lab at University of Washington in Seattle to be highly integrative; spanning … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Reproducing the evolutionary path to human-level intelligence
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Randal Olson. For well over a decade, I have been fascinated with the idea that computers could achieve the same level of intelligence as humans. I would often … Continue reading