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Extending Genetic Programming for use in Big Data Analytics: BEACON alum Amir Gandomi
Former BEACON Distinguished Postdoc Amir H. Gandomi has received a 2021 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council. Amir was a BEACON postdoc from 2015-2017, and is now a Professor of Data Science at University of Technology Sydney in … Continue reading
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The evolution of academic posters: from Poster 1.0 to Better Poster 2.0 to Hybrid Poster 1.5
By: Natalie Vande Pol (PhD Candidate, Michigan State University) This week marks the start of my 6th year as a PhD student in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics program at Michigan State University. I have been extremely fortunate to attend a … Continue reading
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The devil in the closet
By: Dr. Wenying Shou – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Sometimes in science, a seemingly straightforward journey can take an enormous amount of time. Our paper in PLoS Biology (Hart et al., 2019) was one such journey. The question seemed easy … Continue reading
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200 Years of Developmental Hourglass: Using Big Data to Increase Our Understanding of Vertebrate Embryogenesis from a Trickle to a Flood
By: Megan Chan, Undergraduate Student, University of Texas – Austin When I started college at The University of Texas at Austin a couple of years ago, I enrolled as a biochemistry/pre-pharmacy major. I didn’t know anything about computational biology back then … Continue reading
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Team yEvo goes to National Association of Biology Teachers
By: Bryce Taylor, Alexa Warwick, and Ryan Skophammer Hi BEACONites! We are Ryan Skophammer of the Westridge School for Girls, Bryce Taylor of University of Washington, and Alexa Warwick of Michigan State University. We’ve been collaborating on a BEACON-funded grant … 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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Hyenas & Microbes
By: Connie Rojas, PhD Candidate at Michigan State University It has been a year of traveling! Earlier this year, I traveled to the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya (MMNR) to conduct my field work, and currently, I am in Mexico … Continue reading
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NCAT Research Excellence Award
We are very excited to congratulate Dr. Joe Graves and the entire BEACON team at NCAT for receiving this year’s Research Excellence Award for Interdisciplinary Team. Every spring, NCAT celebrates outstanding accomplishments and efforts of faculty innovators, mentors and dynamic … Continue reading
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Evolution is the New Deep Learning
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A CRAL-TRIO domain gene involved in butterfly vision
This post is written by UCI grad student Aide Macias Butterflies have extremely diverse wing color patterns which cause us to wonder, what do these brightly colored insects see? The Briscoe lab at the University of California, Irvine aims to study the … Continue reading
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