BEACON is a consortium of
-
- BEACON 2021 Annual Report
- BEACON 2020 Annual Report
- BEACON 2019 Annual Report
- BEACON 2018 Annual Report
- BEACON 2017 Annual Report
- BEACON 2016 Annual Report
- BEACON 2015 Annual Report
- BEACON 2014 Annual Report
- BEACON 2013 Annual Report
- BEACON 2012 Annual Report
- BEACON 2011 Annual Report
- BEACON 2010 Annual Report
- Strategic Plan (Updated November 2018)
Member Resources
animal behavior antibiotic resistance Avida bacteria BEACON Researchers at Work big data bioinformatics Biological Evolution communication Computer Science Cooperation development Digital Evolution diversity Drosophila E. coli ecology Education Engineering Evolution 101 evolutionary algorithms Evolutionary Applications Evolutionary Computation experimental evolution Field Biology fitness fitness landscapes genetic algorithms genetics genomics hyenas Kellogg Biological Station long term evolution experiment mate choice mutations Outreach phylogenetics plant biology predator-prey Research Experiences for Undergraduates sexual selection speciation Synthetic biology video Viruses
Tag Archives: bacteria
Kombucha: More Than Meets the Eye
This post is written by UT Austin undergrad researchers Katelyn Corley, Matthew Hooper, and Zachary Martinez “What starts here changes the world.” This is the motto that we as students at the University of Texas at Austin have come to embrace and strive towards … Continue reading
Posted in BEACON Researchers at Work
Tagged bacteria, BEACON Researchers at Work, Biological Evolution, Education, genetic engineering, Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Comments Off on Kombucha: More Than Meets the Eye
How lemur social networks shape microbial transmission
This post is by UT Austin graduate student Amanda Perofsky. Primates exhibit diverse ecological and behavioral patterns, ranging from solitary foragers to several hundred individuals, as in the multi-level societies of hamadryas baboons [1]. Many wild primates live in social … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Evolution of Cooperation by the Hankshaw Effect: A Big Thumbs Up for Cooperation!
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate students Katie Dickinson and Sarah Hammarlund and postdoc Brian Connelly. Hold your hand out in front of you and examine it closely. Five digits, four fingers … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The Social Lives of Bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU faculty member Chris Waters. “Nature red in tooth and claw”-Lord Alfred Tennyson Tennyson’s famous phrase eloquently describes the adversarial nature (pun intended) that arises from Darwin’s concepts of natural … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: What ice cream and biofuels have in common: vanillin and the microbes that eat it
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Jessica Audrey Lee. Greetings, BEACON fans. I’m writing from beautiful Moscow, ID, where I work as a postdoctoral researcher in the Marx Lab at the University … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Coach, Put me on the bench! A Novice’s Journey into Old-Fashioned Experimental Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog is by MSU graduate student Jay Bundy. As a kid I played a lot of basketball. I loved almost everything about the game. But there was one thing I hated: spending time riding … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The big picture of virulence factors and bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by NC A&T graduate student Alshae Logan. My name is Alshae Logan and I am a master’s student in the Department of Biology at North Carolina A&T State University. My project … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Studying drug resistance in bacteria
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Silvia Smith. Humans, like any other organism, impact their environment as their natural history unfolds. As the result of selection for increased brain size and improved … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Poisons and Microbes
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Patric Vaelli. Few animals can strut around the woodlands of the Pacific Northwest with as much poise and confidence as the rough-skinned newt (Taricha granulosa). While opportunistic … 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