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Tag Archives: Biological Evolution
BEACON Researchers at Work: Lessons in bacterial evolvability from eventual winners
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Texas at Austin faculty member Jeffrey Barrick. For a long time, I thought that I’d become a synthetic organic chemist. Synthesizing intricate molecules would be a natural next … Continue reading
Evolution keeps sex determination flexible
There are many old wives’ tales about what determines a baby’s sex, yet it is the tight controls at the gene level which determine an organism’s sex in most species. Researchers at Michigan State University have found that even when … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Portrait of a Damsel
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Idelle Cooper. If damselflies were painters, they would surely be watercolorists, and probably impressionists, too. As soon as the morning sun strikes the vegetation along the riverbank, the damselflies … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Survival of the weakest – when doing poorly does best
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by University of Washington graduate student Joshua Nahum. “Survival of the fittest” is a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer upon his reading of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species to describe the … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Measuring fitness in the Long Term Evolution Experiment
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by Michigan State University graduate student Mike Wiser. If there’s one thing you can really depend on about life, it’s that it’s constantly changing. Many of us learned in our biology classes … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Hemichordate Global Biodiversity and Evolution
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Washington postdoc Charlotte Konikoff. Research in the Swalla lab broadly focuses on elucidating chordate origins and evolution. If you are reading this, you are a chordate. More specifically, … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Microbial communities, huh, yeah! What are they good for?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of Idaho postdoc Mitch Day. Many labs in BEACON and beyond study microbial communities. There are many ways to approach the problem, but the first is always deciding what … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: Developing artificial intelligence
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU postdoc Arend Hintze. When I am asked what I do, I normally smile apologetically and say something like “Theoretical Biology” or “Computational Biology,” and with a wink of my … Continue reading
BEACON Researchers at Work: The "Mating" Game
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by MSU graduate student Emily Weigel. What would a fish say if it could talk? How about, “Hey, baby. What’s your sign?” Male threespine sticklebacks court females in a constant game … Continue reading