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Category Archives: Member Announcements
3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School
This post is by UT Austin graduate student Rayna Harris The Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host the 3rd Annual Big Data in Biology Summer School May 23–26, 2016. The 2016 … Continue reading
2nd Active LENS Workshop: June 2016
This post is by MSU postdoc Mike Wiser The 2nd annual Avida-ED Active LENS Workshop will be held at Michigan State University June 9-11, 2016 in East Lansing, MI. The purpose of this workshop is to train instructors in the use … Continue reading
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BEACON Announces Search for the John R. Koza Endowed Chair in Genetic Programming
A generous gift to BEACON and MSU by Dr. John R. Koza, the acknowledged founder of the field of genetic programming and author of four books on that subject, has endowed this chair, aimed at recruiting one of the leaders … Continue reading
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Introducing BEACON Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Joshua Nahum
We are pleased to announce that Joshua Nahum is the first recipient of the BEACON Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship. He will be co-sponsored by Rich Lenski and Charles Ofria. First, a little about Josh’s unusual background. Since early grade school, Josh … Continue reading
Final 2011 Congress Schedule
See the final version of the agenda for the 2011 BEACON congress: PDF File
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Second Annual All-BEACON Congress
The second All-BEACON Congress is being held August 10-12 at Michigan State University. Look to this space for more information. For current BEACON members who want to suggest meeting/tutorials ideas or present research results, please go to our internal wiki. … 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
Announcing BEACON's new Diversity Director, Judi Brown Clarke
We are pleased to introduce our newest BEACON team member, Diversity Director Judi Brown Clarke. She has an extensive background in diversity, including her most recent position as Director of Multicultural Affairs and Inclusion in the College of Communication Arts … Continue reading
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Extended until February 14th — Call for Nominations New Graduate Student BEACON Top-Up Recruiting Fellowships
Sponsored by The BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action An NSF Science and Technology Center One goal of BEACON is to initiate and support research and training activities that involve the study of actively evolving systems and … Continue reading
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Announcing BEACON's new Education Director, Louise Mead
We are very pleased that Louise Mead is joining the BEACON team, in the role of Education Director. Louise is an accomplished evolutionary biologist with a broad range of teaching and administrative experience; she has spent the past four years … Continue reading
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