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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
BEACON Researchers at Work: Searching for Innovation
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas graduate student Erkin Bahceci. In this blog post, I will describe my research (with Risto Miikkulainen) on competitive multi-agent search, and in particular how I used evolutionary … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Does sociality influence disease resistance?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Katy Califf. I’m generally interested in how genetic diversity and behavior influence each other in wild populations of mammals, particularly in the realm of disease ecology. More … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Evolving Robot Behavior
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Chad Byers. I have always been fascinated by the mechanisms that drive both the molecular and digital systems of our world and have been fortunate enough, through … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Phylotastic!
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Emily Jane McTavish. In early June several BEACONites participated in a hackathon at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), in Durham, NC. I … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Speciation and genetic incompatibilities in digital organisms
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU graduate student Carlos Anderson. This blog post is a follow up to one I wrote last year about my research on speciation with digital organisms. One of my projects tested … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Linking microbial interactions to disease
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho graduate student Daniel Beck. I am interested in microbial communities for a number of reasons. First, microbial communities are found nearly everywhere, from soil to the surfaces … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Applying evolution to telecommunications
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Matt Rupp. As a researcher, I have never been completely comfortable dedicating myself to a single field of study. My formal background in both computer science and evolutionary … Continue reading