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BEACON Researchers at Work: Students Become the Teachers – Teaching Evolution in the Classroom
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Texas postdoc Gwen Stovall. The Student Connection So, maybe the students didn’t have a good idea of “evolution” in the beginning. As far as they knew, they were unable … Continue reading
"The Man Who Bottled Evolution"
A new Science paper from the Lenski lab is generating lots of buzz! Facebook’s popular page “I F*ing Love Science” sums up the Long-Term Evolution Experiment in this infographic: From the MSU press release: There’s no peak in sight – … Continue reading
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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: BEACON on the Beach
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Bryan Bartley. Like some kind of planktonic larva, I drifted through my formative years, until I finally settled in Seattle 14 years ago. Seattle belongs to … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Electrical Life
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin graduate student Ben Liebeskind. All life stores energy in the form of electrochemical gradients. These gradients drive nutrient uptake in bacteria, water uptake in plants, … Continue reading
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the Rarest
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Noah Ribeck. We are all taught the basic tenet of evolution by natural selection: occasionally an individual is born with a mutation that improves its chances of having … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Visualizing and understanding ‘context dependence’ in evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Sudarshan Chari. Have you ever wondered about the relative contribution of nature vs. nurture? Or why certain individuals are more susceptible to a disease, or respond better … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at work: Changing environments / changing organisms
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington graduate student Peter Conlin. Natural selection produces an organism whose phenotype is well matched to its environment. Under a constant environment there should be a single optimum, … Continue reading
How and why do animals evolve grouping behavior?
This blog post is reposted from MSU graduate student Randal Olson’s blog. In the concluding remarks of their book Living in Groups, Jens Krause and Graeme Ruxton highlighted “understanding how and why animals evolve grouping behavior” as one of the … Continue reading
Bacterial warfare using antibiotics and communication
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington research assistant professor Josephine Chandler. Bacteria can compete with one another by making antibiotics Competition occurs all around us, between people and institutions, and in plants and animals. … Continue reading